Editorial Product Review: :Mstislav Rostropovich is one of the few musicians who can create a larger-than-life experience through the combined forces of exceptional music, a beautiful instrument, and uncommonly facile communicative skills. In his performances of Bach's transcendent masterpieces for solo cello, Rostropovich finds a perfect balance between a romantic, rhapsodic interpretation and one that emphasizes the purely formal 'aridity' of Bach's structures. Although it's nearly impossible to isolate one or two highlights, the Sarabande and Prelude from Suite No. 5 are among the most profoundly moving cello ...
Editorial Product Review: :Mstislav Rostropovich is one of the few musicians who can create a larger-than-life experience through the combined forces of exceptional music, a beautiful instrument, and uncommonly facile communicative skills. In his performances of Bach's transcendent masterpieces for solo cello, Rostropovich finds a perfect balance between a romantic, rhapsodic interpretation and one that emphasizes the purely formal 'aridity' of Bach's structures. Although it's nearly impossible to isolate one or two highlights, the Sarabande and Prelude from Suite No. 5 are among the most profoundly moving cello ...
Editorial Product Review: :Emil Gilels' personal selection of favorite lyric pieces is one of his most praised and best recordings. The pianist obviously selected the pieces with which he felt the strongest identification, and he plays them lovingly, with sprightly rhythms and a rich, singing tone. Gilels was the one who identified himself as second to Sviatoslav Richter--'If you think I'm something, wait until you hear Richter,' he supposedly said. But this collection is just as beautiful in its way as Richter's lyric collections. Along with some of ...
Editorial Product Review: :Emil Gilels' personal selection of favorite lyric pieces is one of his most praised and best recordings. The pianist obviously selected the pieces with which he felt the strongest identification, and he plays them lovingly, with sprightly rhythms and a rich, singing tone. Gilels was the one who identified himself as second to Sviatoslav Richter--'If you think I'm something, wait until you hear Richter,' he supposedly said. But this collection is just as beautiful in its way as Richter's lyric collections. Along with some of ...
Editorial Product Review: :Sàndor, still active at 90 as this reissue appears, was a student of Bartók and a preferred interpreter of his music. Since this set appeared on nine LPs in the early 1960s, it has been the standard for Bartók's piano music; in this fine-sounding reissue, it still is. Sàndor can hit hard enough for such virtuoso pieces as the Piano Sonata and 'Out of Doors,' but he also retains the romantic element heard in the composer's own playing which tempers the harsher qualities of the ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:'Recordings don't get any better than this ... Astounding!' -- ClassicsToday [CED 68] World premiere recording of a major classical work: the 1805 violin concerto by Franz Clement, the violinist for whom Beethoven wrote his Violin Concerto in 1806. First recording to put the Beethoven Violin Concerto into historical context features major artists putting their interpretive stamp on these important works.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:'Recordings don't get any better than this ... Astounding!' -- ClassicsToday [CED 68] World premiere recording of a major classical work: the 1805 violin concerto by Franz Clement, the violinist for whom Beethoven wrote his Violin Concerto in 1806. First recording to put the Beethoven Violin Concerto into historical context features major artists putting their interpretive stamp on these important works.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:'Recordings don't get any better than this ... Astounding!' -- ClassicsToday [CED 68] World premiere recording of a major classical work: the 1805 violin concerto by Franz Clement, the violinist for whom Beethoven wrote his Violin Concerto in 1806. First recording to put the Beethoven Violin Concerto into historical context features major artists putting their interpretive stamp on these important works.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:'In the late 1920's and early 1930's, the Depression gripped the Nation. It was a time when songs were tools for living. A whole community would turn out to mourn the loss of a member and to sow their songs like seeds. This collection is a wild garden grown from those seeds.' - Tom Waits, from the Introduction Songs of death, destruction and disaster, recorded by black and white performers from the dawn of American roots recording are here, assembled together for the first ...
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