Praga
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Serkin is at his delectable best, Casals’s rhythmic energy is as great as ever: remember the cello’s prodigious first entry in the 1938 Dvorak concerto. — More…
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Goldmark & Brahms: Violin Concertos
Nathan Milstein (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Harry Blech & Anatole Fistoulari
Intense performances, although the Brahms catches fire only when Milstein appears. He makes the Goldmark seem a more substantial work than it is. — More…
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David Oistrakh plays Beethoven
David Oistrakh (violin), Frida Bauer (piano), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 & The Bells
Elizaveta Shumskaya (soprano), Mikhail Dovenmann (tenor) & Alexei Bolshakov (bass), Van Cliburn (piano)
Moscow Philharmonic & Russian Republic Capella, Symphony of the Air, New York, Kirill Kondrashin
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String Idylls: Wagner, Mahler, Schoenberg & Berg
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Bruno Walter, George Sebastian, Robert Craft
the sound [is] close set and spatially well defined, with vivid strings in the Schoenberg. — More…
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Mravinsky in Prague
Prague Live recording 3/6/1955 Smetana Hall
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Yevgeny Mravinsky
Live radio recordings, in an erratically balanced mono, of a legendary team of orchestra and conductor: spick-and-span Beethoven and blisteringly thrilling Shostakovich. — More…
