Accentus Music
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The Nobel Prize Concert 2010
Joshua Bell (violin)
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
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Daniel Barenboim plays Liszt Piano Concertos
On the Occasion of Franz Liszt's 200th Birthday
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Pierre Boulez
Barenboim's approach to both concertos deals in the monumental rather than in quicksilver Romantic scintillation. The Second Concerto's broader idiom duly comes off best, with moments of impressive... — More…
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Claudio Abbado conducts Brahms, Schoenberg & Beethoven
Mihoko Fujimura (alto)
The Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
This programme...was Claudio Abbado's final filmed recording. It shows him as fragile as he always was during his final years, and economical with gestures, but as wholly in command as ever...It's... — More…
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the Berlin Staatskapelle rises to the challenge magnificently. Quite simply the playing is awesome, not just in terms of its technical excellence, but also in the great subtlety of nuance and... — More…
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Daniel Barenboim: The Warsaw Recital
Celebrating Frédéric Chopin’s 200th birthday. Live from the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Not especially celebrated for his Chopin...Barenboim is - it goes without saying - a towering musician who is worth hearing here...Opening with the F minor Fantasia, Barenboim is on magisterial... — More…
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The Philharmonics
Waltzes By Johann Strauss. Aarranged by Schoenberg, Berg & Webern
The Philharmonics
the DVD itself is a colourful evocation of old Vienna that admirably demonstrates the power of DVD to add positively to what one merely hears on CD...The five Strauss waltzes are proficiently... — More…
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The concert’s torso makes sense on its own terms – a pair of late and tragic symphonies – and so do the cultivated polish of the Gewandhaus players and the fluent phrase-making of their maestro.... — More…
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The concert’s torso makes sense on its own terms – a pair of late and tragic symphonies – and so do the cultivated polish of the Gewandhaus players and the fluent phrase-making of their maestro.... — More…
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Martha Argerich & Mischa Maisky
Martha Argerich (piano) & Mischa Maisky (violoncello)
Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Neeme Järvi
There's plenty of contrast [in the Shchedrin]: the misalliance of the two soloists, who only really come together in the climbing apotheosis; the cello in extreme registers; the piano's toccata... — More…
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The Mumbai Concerts
Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Denis Matsuev (piano), Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
Mehta is ageing in fine style: the control and precision of his conducting remain phenomenal, yet there is none of the sports car gear-changing which, in earlier vintages, he often seemed unable... — More…
