Barber: Concertos in RCA Red Seal's "Classics Library" series is a combination of selections drawn from two full-price discs taken from RCA's 1990s back catalog of St. Louis Symphony Orchestra recordings. Leonard Slatkin is an ace commander of the orchestra when it comes to the specialized business of supporting soloists. Although he has since ...
This budget set includes a performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 that won raves from British reviewers and a Gramophone Award in the late '80s, just a few years after pianist Peter Donohoe won the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Here it is united with Tchaikovsky's other major works for piano and orchestra, the Concerto No. 1, the ...
Virgin has reissued its 1991 world-premiere recording of Tavener's The Protecting Veil, for cello and strings, along with his Thrinos for solo cello and Britten's Cello Suite No. 3, Op. 87. All are superbly performed by Steven Isserlis, accompanied in The Protecting Veil by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The ...
No matter how many recordings of Brahms' cello sonatas you have -- indeed, the more recordings you have, the better -- this recording by Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough deserves to be heard. Certainly, there have been great recordings of the works in the past -- the expressive Piatgorsky, the elegant Fournier, the burly Rostropovich, the list ...
Sometimes, not often but sometimes, a little Saint-Saëns is just the thing. When you're in the right mood, his attractive melodies, piquant harmonies, brilliant colors, graceful tempos, and reserved emotionalism can be rather appealing. When you find yourself in that mood, this disc of Saint-Saëns' works for cello and orchestra will be the ideal ...
One could, as cellist Steven Isserlis evidently does, consider Bach's six suites for solo cello to possess a hidden "inner" program following the Joyful, the Sorrowful, and the Glorious Mysteries of the Christian faith. One could thus hear the First Suite as the Nativity, the Fifth Suite as the Crucifixion, and the Sixth Suite as the Resurrection ...
There's a lot to be said for this album as an actual pedagogical device -- buy one for the young cellist in your life. In a world where the musical tuition of young people is too often standardized and dull, this disc has a touch of the eccentric, of the personal, of the kind of music teacher you tell stories about years after the fact. It offers ...
This three-disc EMI set of Tchaikovsky's complete music for piano and orchestra as well as the Violin Concerto and Rococo Variations is somewhat of a hit-and-miss compilation. Let's start with the hit. The second disc of the three contains the second and third piano concertos, performed by Peter Donohoe and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. The ...
Since the composition of The Protecting Veil in 1987, the cello has played an important role in John Tavener's music. Even when he was writing for instruments during the 1989-1995 period when the music on Svyati originated, Tavener's works carried strong overtones of Russian Orthodox church services, and the cello here, as Tavener himself points ...
These are very fine performances of very fine repertoire. Cellist Steven Isserlis plays with glowing warmth, great strength, and complete commitment. Pianist Peter Evans plays with restrained power, beautiful tone, and complete sympathy. Composer Bohuslav Martinu writes with tremendous facility, deep lyricism, and complete musicality. In everyway ...
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