When Pierre Fournier's recordings of Bach's Cello Suites were released on Archiv in 1961, they were viewed as the most polished, passionate, and persuasive since Pablo Casals' epoch-making late-'30s recordings. Re-released many times since then, including this 2007 issue, Fournier's performances have lost little of their luster over the years. ...
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 ...
It is hard to remember back to a time when this cover photograph -- three geezers in ties and dark suits, two of them bald and one with thick, horn-rimmed glasses -- could have been considered hip. But, even then, of course, the last thing Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft wanted in a recording of Brahms' Double Concerto was hip. What DGG wanted ...
A must-have for collectors of sublime historical recordings, this re-release of Fournier and Gulda's 1960 recording is equally appropriate for listeners seeking their first recording of Beethoven's works for cello and piano. Fournier's commitment to the exploration of the Beethoven sonatas and variations is clear; he made three complete recordings ...
Almost without exception, these performances by pianist Wilhelm Kempff, violinist Henryk Szeryng, and cellist Pierre Fournier are the most magnificent, the most magisterial, the most monumental, and the most fun of any ever recorded of Beethoven's piano trios. Separately, Kempff, Szeryng, and Fournier were among the best Beethoven players of the ...
As a précis of everything that was great about violinist David Oistrakh, this two-disc set of four concertos recorded for EMI in 1956 with the Philharmonia Orchestra can't be bettered. Start at the end with his Prokofiev Second Violin Concerto with Alceo Galliera on the podium and attend Oistrakh's long, lyrical lines and infallible intonation. ...
This all-Schumann disc is for Richter specialists only -- those who already have his other recordings of the Piano Concerto (1954, 1958, and 1974) and who can't wait to hear this version from April 17, 1958, with George Georgescu and the USSR State Orchestra, and those who have Richter's 1986 recording of the fourth, fifth, and sixth Etudes on ...
In the '60s, Deutsche Grammophon had not one but two of the best recordings of Dvorák's Cello Concerto available: the Rostropovich/Karajan and the Fournier/Szell. The Rostropovich/Karajan matched an immensely subjective soloist with a smoothly polished conductor. The Fournier/Szell, this one recorded in 1962, matched a smoothly passionate soloist ...
They were not weak, the Europeans of the post-War years. As these strong-willed, clear-eyed and warm-hearted performances from 1954 and 1956 by the Russian David Oistrakh, the French Pierre Fournier, the Italian Alceo Galliera, the Slovene Lovro von Matacic and the eminently British Philharmonia and London Symphony orchestras show, they had more ...
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