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 ...
In the '80s there were those listeners who thought that Heinrich Schiff might redeem cello performance practice from fatal beauty and lethal elegance. Aside from the burly and brawny Rostropovich, more and more cellists were advocating a performance style whose ideals were perfect intonation and graceful phrasing. In some repertoire, say, Fauré, ...
While it's important to point out that nothing in this collection will be new to Shostakovich fans, this is nevertheless one of the most impressive compilations of the composer's works to be released in recent memory. Many of the performances featured in this nine-disc set have long been accepted as the authoritative interpretations of their ...
For the price, Decca's five-disc collection entitled Ultimate Cello Classics does a fairly nice job of introducing listeners to some of the instrument's great literature. It includes the concertos of Dvorák, Saint-Saëns, Elgar, and Tchaikovsky (Rococo Variations), as well as the complete Bach solo suites. There are definite holes in the ...
When you want bread, go to the bakerWhen you want fish, go to the seaWhen you want the real thingDon't look no furtherJust bring it on back home to Maxie.That's right, Dmitry Shostakovich's son Maxim was the conductor with the genetic connection to the source of the music of the greatest composer of the Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics. ...
Matching the magnificent achievement of their earlier Elgar recordings, the Hallé and music director Mark Elder have turned in another glorious disc, this one featuring the composer's Symphonic Study Falstaff and Cello Concerto, along with his rarely recorded Romance for bassoon and orchestra plus the world-premiere recording of his Smoking ...
Supple and muscular, but perhaps too sinewy and sometimes even a bit stiff, Heinrich Schiff and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie's performances of Beethoven's Second and Third symphonies come close to greatness, but ultimately fall short. Schiff, himself a supple and muscular cellist, has become an accomplished conductor, and he clearly knows how to ...
This Farao Classics disc features the Swiss Musikollegium Winterthur Orchestra under cellist-turned-conductor Heinrich Schiff in two major, but rarely recorded works of the early twentieth century, Franz Schreker's Chamber Symphony (1916) and Ernst Krenek's Violin Concerto (1924) featuring Hanna Weinmeister as soloist. Schreker's Chamber Symphony ...
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