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 ...
This is the ninth recording of Josef Suk's second symphony in C minor, the "Asrael" Symphony, the angel of death symphony, Suk's symphonic masterpiece and his heart-wrenching requiem for his beloved young wife Otilka. The first and still the best was Vaclav Talich's 1952 recording, a performance so close to the tragic spirit to the work as to be ...
It's wonderful to be able to write a review about Czech composer Josef Suk and not have to mention that his wife died of a heart attack in her twenties. So much of Suk's greatest and most profound music was inspired by his tragedy but, to paraphrase his teacher Dvorŕk, how many times can you listen to minor-keyed monumentalities? The works on this ...
This disc is not for everyone: the early-'50s monaural sound, the too-lush-by-half portementi of the Czech strings, and Václav Talich's oddly emotional conducting may seem somehow out of place in a program of serenades. But since there are plenty of clear-eyed, strong-armed, and much more recent recordings in the catalog, listeners who value these ...
While not quite in same league as his Asrael Symphony, Josef Suk's A Summer's Tale is the next best thing -- if one can use such lighthearted locutions to describe works of such immense tragedy. But where the Asrael is a funeral monument to Suk's young, dead wife, A Summers' Tale is a testimony to the healing powers of nature. In his 2002 ...
A wonderful program of Czech classics for violin and piano, this coupling of Dvorák's Sonata and Nocturne with his star pupil Josef Suk's Four Pieces is a substantial contribution to the repertoire. Violinist Pavel Sporcl is a powerful advocate for both composers. He finds a depth and a lyrical mastery in Dvorák's Sonata that rank it with Brahms' ...
Joseph Suk's Ripening is one of the most amazing of all post-Romantic orchestral works. It is immensely complex in its structure: a celestial introduction is followed by a cogent progress of scherzos and slow movements, of funeral marches and fugues, all concluded by a serene coda. Yet the work is immediately comprehensible as a musical drama, ...
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