In celebration of Gidon Kremer's 60th birthday, Deutsche Grammophon released a substantial double-disc compilation in 2007, The Many Musics of Gidon Kremer, a highly rewarding retrospective that pays tribute to this versatile violinist's phenomenal talent, wide range of interests, and depth of experience. A seasoned virtuoso who has been active ...
There have been few violinists who have recorded any of Schubert's violin music and far fewer violinists who recorded all of Schubert's violin music. Thankfully, Gidon Kremer is one of the few who have recorded it all. Although Kremer is best known for his virtuoso performances of an eclectic repertoire from Shostakovich to Piazolla, he is both a ...
With this superlative 1999 recording by violinist Isabelle van Keulen with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard, the Swedish modernist Allan Pettersson's late Second Violin Concerto receives its first digital recording. The only previous recording on Capriccio from 1980 had been performed by the forces that gave the work its ...
Packaged in bright USSR crimson, this 27-disc set contains the nearly all the great instrumental works by Dmitry Shostakovich: his 15 symphonies, 15 string quartets, and 6 concertos, plus his sonatas for violin, viola, cello, and piano, plus suites from his two best-known film scores and from all three of his ballet scores, plus both his jazz ...
Try not to think of it as a miscellaneous collection of performances of random chamber music works by Shostakovich; try to think of it as a set of almost all of Shostakovich's chamber works for piano and strings coupled with his two piano sonatas. Don't mind that there are different pianists for each disc, with the strong-backed Edward Auer taking ...
The violin and viola sonatas of Shostakovich were both composed quite late in the composer's life. The viola sonata, in fact, was his last composition that he did not survive to hear performed. Both compositions show a great deal of introspection and solidarity, not surprising for an embattled composer like Shostakovich late in life. They also ...
Isabelle Van Keulen & Ronald Brautigam: Music for Violin and Piano -- Grieg, Elgar and Sibelius is based on a rather hokey premise; that 2007 is the 100th anniversary of Grieg's death and the 50th of Sibelius' death and that it is the sesquicentennial of Elgar's birth. "This is generally a good reason for bestowing extra attention," remarks ...
Clarinetist Michael Collins' name is virtually synonymous with performances at Wigmore Hall, so this live performance at the famed London concert venue is natural. Although the literature chosen for this album demonstrates Collins' penchant for chamber music collaboration, he is most certainly the star of the two works, and rightfully so. The ...
Caveat emptor...while the vast majority of SACDs released nowadays are two-layer hybrid versions that are playable on all CD players, this little oddity on the BIS label is SACD only. The reason for this is simple enough; with a single-layer SACD, BIS is able to put the complete concertos of Mendelssohn (more than four hours of recorded music) on ...
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