The amazing thing isn't that violinist Arthur Grumiaux was such a splendid technician, although his technique was as flawless as Heifetz's. Nor is the amazing thing that Grumiaux was such a distinctive stylist, although one could always tell his performances by the cool intensity of his tone and the passionate restraint of his interpretations. No, ...
Decca released this two-disc collection called The Art of Barry Tuckwell in 2006 to honor the legendary English horn virtuoso's 75th birthday. For those who followed Tuckwell's career, the collection was a trip down memory lane with his awe-inspiring 1961 recording of Mozart's Fourth Horn Concerto with Peter Maag and his breathtaking 1966 ...
The Jane Austen Companion, a compilation from Nimbus, consists of music from the era of Jane Austen, composed between roughly 1760 and 1820. Some of it may have been what Austen heard at concerts attended during visits to her brothers in London or when her family lived in Bath. The mixture of composers on the album is made up of those who lived or ...
Recorded in 1987, Wynton Marsalis' brilliant Baroque Music for Trumpets is given a new lease on shelf-life in this 2005 Sony reissue. On the positive side, the label recognizes the tremendous artistic and commercial value of Marsalis' virtuosic forays into Baroque music with Raymond Leppard and the English Chamber Orchestra, and seems to ...
To celebrate Maurice André's 70th birthday, Deutsche Grammophon has combined all four of the recordings he made with the label in the 1960s and 1970s into a two-CD package. What's memorable about the discs are those pieces most familiar to listeners: the Franz Josef Haydn Concerto for trumpet in E flat major and the Vivaldi Concerto for two ...
The classical career of celebrated jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis began with major fanfare with his 1984 recording of the Haydn and Hummel trumpet concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra. The momentum carried Marsalis through some high-profile concertizing and through the three albums included in this box set. One might say things fizzled out ...
Known as much for his concerto recordings as for chamber music performances with his namesake Grumiaux Trio, violinist Arthur Grumiaux made a mark on the music industry by giving performances characterized by extreme technical precision, deep musical understanding of the score, and a magnificently warm and supple tone. More remarkable still was ...
"When the ci-hitty gets into a bu-hoys sy-hist-em, he loses his a-hankerin' for the cou-huntry." So intones W.C. Fields in his Yukon-based Victorian absurdist two-reeler The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933). However, if the city you lived in was Salzburg, Austria, the idea of "a-hankerin' for the cou-huntry" was a popular one, and Salzburg's court ...
Bright and snappy performances of repertoire that ranges from the relatively rare to the exceedingly rare, this 2006 Hänssler disc features violinist Lukas Hagen in three different works for violin and orchestra from the high classical period: Joseph Haydn's Violin Concerto in G major, Michael Haydn's Violin Concerto in B flat major, and Mozart's ...
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