Praga
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The Prazak Quartet is good at the sad and intimate nature of these works… They can be ferocious, with unrelenting intensity, and as the work becomes increasingly a succession of solos the playing... — More…
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Janacek: Amarus
Live performances from Czech Radio, Smetana Hall, Prague
Vera Soukupová & Vilém Pribyl
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Václav Neumann, František Jílek
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Igor Stravinsky in 4 Deals
David Oistrakh (violin), Margrit Weber (piano)
Concerto Lamoureux, Philharmonia Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Otto Klemperer, Igor Stravinsky, Ferenc Fricsay
an all-Stravinsky programme that opens to a rhythmically chipper and urbanely phrased account of the Violin Concerto with David Oistrakh and the Concerts Lamoureaux under Bernard Haitink … If... — More…
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an unusually urgent New World and an affectionate Eighth, beautifully played. — More…
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 22
Annie Fischer (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Hungarian Radio SO, Sir Adrian Boult, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Ervin Lukacs
a reminder of the Hungarian pianist’s exceptional Mozart playing — it’s tempting to say that Fischer combines Serkin’s elan and Clara Haskil’s subtlety. The music has momentum and space to work... — More…
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Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 8 & 24
Recorded in Bamberg, April 1960 [K491] Berlin, Ufa Tonstudio, Jan.1961 [K331, 397] Jan 1962 [K246]
Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
Bamberg Symphoniker, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Ferdinand Leitner
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Mozart & Bartók: Piano Concertos
Rudolf Serkin plays Austro-Hungarian Piano Concertos
Rudolf Serkin (piano)
Philadelphia Orchestra, Marlboro Festival, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Alexander Schneider, Georg Szell
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Victoria de los Angeles in Paris
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Henriette Puig-Roget (organ), Carole Smith (contralto), Claude Monteux (flute)
Choeurs Elisabeth Brasseur, Orchestre des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Radcliffe Choral Society, Boston Symphony, Charles Munch,...