Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante for cello and orchestra in E minor, Op. 125, makes the listener aware of the level of external and internal conflict under which the composer was laboring at the time of its composition in 1952, close to the end of his life. Prokofiev had suffered under the censure of the Soviet regime in the last decades of his ...
When these recordings were made in the early '60s, Jascha Heifetz was reaching the end of his long and successful career. And, unfortunately, it sounds that way. His once polished virtuoso technique was starting to fray -- fast passages are smudged, long lines are blurred, bow strokes are too vehement -- and his once famous tone was beginning to ...
Of all the hundreds, maybe thousands of versions of Handel's Messiah on the market, ranging from full symphonic treatments with big professional choirs to sober, earnest oratorio-society readings, to the various kinds of authentic-performance recordings, this 1959 performance by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Huddersfield Choral ...
Dutton Records does a tremendous service for listeners -- especially aficionados of historical recordings -- with their brilliant restoration of some of the most brilliant yet uncelebrated recordings of the last century. In the case of the present album, Dutton celebrates the early recording career of a living artist -- violinist Ida Haendel. ...
This disc gathers several works that had been central to Flagstad's repertoire -- orchestral songs by Grieg, and Wagner's Wesendonk Lieder and Liebestod -- in performances very late in her career. The recording of the Grieg songs, in fact, comes from her farewell concert at Royal Albert Hall, London, in 1957, when she was 62. Her voice had lost ...
Malcolm Sargent served as an accompanist for amateur productions of Gilbert & Sullivan beginning when he was 14, was musical director for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1926 to 1928, and made complete recordings of several of the operettas with the company during that period, so he clearly had the Gilbert & Sullivan tradition in his blood. ...
Iolanthe has never achieved quite the place in the popular imagination that H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado have, but musically and dramatically it's one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most musically and dramatically integrated operettas. Sullivan's score is even more than usually tuneful, and his orchestration is particularly ...
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