There are many recordings of Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf read by celebrities; so many that a major scholar of recorded sound history spent two years compiling a listing of all of them. Actually, that wasn't just limited to celebrity recordings, but non-instrument playing actors, politicians, local TV show hosts, and other notables make up a large ...
On EMI Classics' Shostakovich, Prokofiev: Violin Concertos, eminent and beauteous violinist Sarah Chang is joined by Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic in the two big twentieth century Russian violin concerti. These two works are not combined on CD quite as often as one might think, and mostly appear together in collections devoted to ...
This is the "Masterworks Expanded Edition" of Leonard Bernstein's Quadrophonic 1972 London Symphony Orchestra recording of Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps. It was Bernstein's second go at the work in the studio, the first being made at the tail end of the mono era in January 1958 with the New York Philharmonic. CBS was very heavily into ...
You always knew there were a lot of notes in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3, ever since you heard the Prokofiev recording. But it's a safe bet you never thought there were as many notes as Kapell plays in his performance of the work with Antal Dorati and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra -- as many notes or as many loud notes. It's not just the ...
In reissuing its vintage stereo recordings, RCA either reproduces the original albums as they were released on LP, or combines several recordings into much fuller programs. Fortunately, the second option pertains to this SACD of Jascha Heifetz's masterful performances of violin concertos by Sibelius, Prokofiev, and Glazunov; listeners get well ...
In the pantheon of complete recordings of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, André Previn's recording with the London Symphony Orchestra is one of the earliest and one of the best. At the time, Previn was at the first peak of his career as a conductor. After years as a composer for Hollywood and as a jazz piano player, Previn had made the leap to ...
The weather outside may be frightful, but Winter: A Collection of Seasonal Classics is not especially delightful or quite the thing to take the chill off. By themselves, the selections are perfectly fine stocking-stuffers, such as Vivaldi's "Winter Concerto" from the Four Seasons, Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" and "Waltz of the ...
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 ...
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