Editorial Product Review: :The Last Night of the Proms, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, is one of the world s most popular classical music concerts, watched and listened to by an audience of many millions around the globe.In this DVD presentation of the Last Night during the 100th season, featuring Bryn Trefel and Evelyn Glennie, the concert has its usual party atmosphere, celebrating British tradition, while encapsulating the spirit of the Proms, with its all-embracing program bringing together the themes of the season.Toccata and Fugue ...
Editorial Product Review: :The Last Night of the Proms, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, is one of the world s most popular classical music concerts, watched and listened to by an audience of many millions around the globe.In this DVD presentation of the Last Night during the 100th season, featuring Bryn Trefel and Evelyn Glennie, the concert has its usual party atmosphere, celebrating British tradition, while encapsulating the spirit of the Proms, with its all-embracing program bringing together the themes of the season.Toccata and Fugue ...
Editorial Product Review: :Sony has brought together Shostakovitch's greatest concertos in first recordings made soon after their American premieres by the artists most closely identified with them. Neither performance has been bettered, though some, such as Vengerov's Teldec Violin Concerto, come close. The Violin Concerto is in solid, detailed mono; the Cello Concerto in fine stereo. Oistrakh goes to the heart of the violin work, playing with extraordinary tonal magnificence and emotional power. He's matched by Mitropoulos, whose identification with the score is apparent. Rostropovitch is as good ...
Editorial Product Review: :Sony has brought together Shostakovitch's greatest concertos in first recordings made soon after their American premieres by the artists most closely identified with them. Neither performance has been bettered, though some, such as Vengerov's Teldec Violin Concerto, come close. The Violin Concerto is in solid, detailed mono; the Cello Concerto in fine stereo. Oistrakh goes to the heart of the violin work, playing with extraordinary tonal magnificence and emotional power. He's matched by Mitropoulos, whose identification with the score is apparent. Rostropovitch is as good ...
Editorial Product Review: :There has never been a more exciting pianist that Martha Argerich. Throughout her career, any appearance by her guarantees sellout crowds and an evening of memorable, not to say insane, music making. She has always drastically limited her repertoire--about a dozen concertos, a few more solo and chamber works--and will not perform or record solo recitals at all any more. But every single thing that she has recorded is a prime recommendation, plain and simple. She's one of the very few artists whose recordings one ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:By the time Prokoviev came to write this great ballet in 1935, Russia was the only country that still had a tradition of 'classical' ballet--that is, full-length works of several hours with a single coherent story line. Prokofiev's model was Tchaikovsky, and like his predecessor, he encountered severe problems getting the work produced. The dancers thought the music too complicated and unsuitable for dancing, and so the piece was first performed in Czechoslovakia, only later making a triumphant stage debut at the Bolshoi. ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:By the time Prokoviev came to write this great ballet in 1935, Russia was the only country that still had a tradition of 'classical' ballet--that is, full-length works of several hours with a single coherent story line. Prokofiev's model was Tchaikovsky, and like his predecessor, he encountered severe problems getting the work produced. The dancers thought the music too complicated and unsuitable for dancing, and so the piece was first performed in Czechoslovakia, only later making a triumphant stage debut at the Bolshoi. ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:By the time Prokoviev came to write this great ballet in 1935, Russia was the only country that still had a tradition of 'classical' ballet--that is, full-length works of several hours with a single coherent story line. Prokofiev's model was Tchaikovsky, and like his predecessor, he encountered severe problems getting the work produced. The dancers thought the music too complicated and unsuitable for dancing, and so the piece was first performed in Czechoslovakia, only later making a triumphant stage debut at the Bolshoi. ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:By the time Prokoviev came to write this great ballet in 1935, Russia was the only country that still had a tradition of 'classical' ballet--that is, full-length works of several hours with a single coherent story line. Prokofiev's model was Tchaikovsky, and like his predecessor, he encountered severe problems getting the work produced. The dancers thought the music too complicated and unsuitable for dancing, and so the piece was first performed in Czechoslovakia, only later making a triumphant stage debut at the Bolshoi. ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:By the time Prokoviev came to write this great ballet in 1935, Russia was the only country that still had a tradition of 'classical' ballet--that is, full-length works of several hours with a single coherent story line. Prokofiev's model was Tchaikovsky, and like his predecessor, he encountered severe problems getting the work produced. The dancers thought the music too complicated and unsuitable for dancing, and so the piece was first performed in Czechoslovakia, only later making a triumphant stage debut at the Bolshoi. ...
