Fritz Reiner's friendship with Béla Bartók must be considered an important factor in the creation of these legendary recordings. Koussevitsky's famous commission for the Concerto for orchestra was due in large part to Reiner's advocacy, and he was among the first conductors to both perform and record this masterpiece. Beyond this, Reiner's great ...
Among the top performers of Béla Bartók's six string quartets, the Emerson String Quartet has had few rivals, and it is perhaps only matched in technical prowess and expressive clarity by the Takács String Quartet in its 1998 recordings on London, and historically, by the Juilliard String Quartet in its legendary 1963 cycle for Columbia. While the ...
As if the title -- The #1 Piano Album -- wasn't enough of a claim, the subtitle goes even further: "The best-loved piano works of all time." Of course it seems impossible to deliver on that statement even with two 75-minute-plus compact discs. But as the discs go rolling by -- as Uchida's elegantly turned interpretation of the opening Allegro of ...
Béla Bartók's Sonatas (2) for violin and piano (1921-1922) reflect the influences of Schoenberg, Debussy, and Hungarian folk music, though not necessarily in that order and not always in a distinguishable way. Lusty and austere by turns, the Violin Sonata No. 1 has many violent, expressionist episodes, though these are ameliorated somewhat by ...
The good news -- no, make that the great news -- is that this two-disc set brings together the two best Russian pianists of the second half of the twentieth century in performances of some of the best works in the piano concerto repertoire. With the Olympian Emil Gilels barnstorming his way through Tchaikovsky's fabulously difficult First Concerto ...
Daring in virtuosity, vigorous in interpretation, and spellbinding in effect, the Takács Quartet has recorded one of the truly great sets of Bartók's monumental String Quartets (6), seldom matched and surely never surpassed. In hearing this stellar ensemble play, one is struck not so much by Bartók's unusual musical details or his myriad technical ...
What a brilliant idea: having Pierre Boulez record Bartók's Piano Concertos (3) with three different soloists and three different orchestra. That way, each work has its own sound and identity with the only constants being the composer and the conductor. In Bartók's Concerto No. 1, Boulez welds Krystian Zimerman's graceful intensity and the Chicago ...
Compiled from recordings dating from 1965 to 1974, this EMI/Gemini double-disc of Bartók's string concertos and other works features Yehudi Menuhin at the peak of his powers, with support from two important Bartók specialists and their sympathetic orchestras. Menuhin is admirably backed in all the concertos by Antal Dorati and the New Philharmonia ...
Making its debut with this 2007 Harmonia Mundi release, the Arcanto Quartett shows considerable ambition in performing Béla Bartók's String Quartets No. 5 and No. 6, two complicated and demanding works that many mature ensembles would approach with caution. But this young German group obviously has the chops to bring off these virtuoso quartets ...
Fans of Eugene Ormandy and his Philadelphia Orchestra will embrace this reissue of recordings of Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber and Concert Music for Strings and Brass and Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin Suite. Made late in his career, Ormandy's Symphonic Metamorphosis is brilliantly colorful and brightly ...
Like many of Decca's extraordinary offerings in The Originals series, this 2006 reissue of Georg Solti's recordings with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra of Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, Dance Suite, and Music for strings, percussion, and celesta is much more than a fresh repackaging of historic recordings from the vaults. Indeed, it is a ...
This Deutsche Grammophon disc, Le Sacre du Printemps -- Los Angeles Philharmonic, is issued to celebrate the opening of L.A.'s new concert venue, the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Disney is one of the most controversial structures to go into in the ground in the twenty first century, a twisted, semi-abstract edifice made of polished stainless ...
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