This collection is billed as "a collection of the most popular works for cello performed by the greatest cellists of our time" and while one could quibble about the inclusion of, say, the Intermezzo from Granados' Goyescas and the exclusion of, say, any Brahms, or about the inclusion of Christina Walewska and the exclusion of Anner Bylsma, one ...
Originally released by BMG Germany in 1993, Gerhard Oppitz's recordings of Edvard Grieg's complete works for solo piano are reissued in this impressive 2004 collection, an important compendium for serious collectors and music libraries, but not necessarily required for casual listeners. For most, this seven-disc box set might seem like an ...
Over the past 100 years, there have been recordings of the complete Brahms' symphonies that rank with the greatest recordings of anything ever made. There are wonderful Weingartners, the fabulous Furtwänglers, the monumental Klemperers, the amazing Abbados...the list goes on and on. Of course, over the past 100 years, there have been recordings of ...
When shopping for a good recording of Also Sprach Zarathustra, one might look around for a reliable conductor, famous orchestra, or major label before making a decision, and probably bypass any discs that have unfamiliar names in small print on their covers -- these couldn't possibly be any good, right? Well, think again. Even though John Fiore is ...
German pianist Gerhard Oppitz continues his Beethoven sonata cycle with two pieces that are almost sonatinas, combined with the giant of the Beethoven sonatas, the Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major ("Hammerklavier"). As has been the case throughout most of the cycle, Oppitz's interpretations are fresh and intriguing without being either ...
This is German piano music and German piano playing at its best. Taking as their template the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, later composer-pianists Franz Liszt, Max Reger, and Wilhelm Kempff wrote transcriptions of and variations on the master's works, thereby granting the music the full range of a modern concert grand plus the full benefit of a ...
This is Beethoven playing: lucid but passionate, strong but sensitive, restrained but soulful, and always and everywhere immensely profound. Although this is not Gerhard Oppitz's first disc of Beethoven's sonatas -- when he had a contract with RCA back in the '90s, Oppitz released a disc of the Pastoral, Tempest, and Les Adieux -- but it is far ...
If someone hold told you in 1965 that Colin Davis, the vigorous and vital young English conductor who championed Mozart with the same verve and vivacity as he did Stravinsky, would one day become the venerable music director of the voluptuous Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with a contract from RCA to record the most grand and glorious works in ...
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