Praga
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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…
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Shostakovich: Three Last Works
Sergei Kopcak (bass)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Radio-TV USSR Symphony, Eduard Serov, Frantisek Vajnar, Arvid Jansons
you can hear the wonderful chamber sound of this late symphony where Shostakovich reinvents himself … a very decent recording. — More…
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Furtwangler conducts Romantic Poems and Viennese Dances
Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwangler
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William Primrose: A 20th Century violist
William Primrose (viola), with Jascha Heifetz (violin)
RCA Victor Orchestra, Charles Munch, Tibor Serly, William Walton
Primrose produces great depth of tone and combines will with Serly in a fearsome finale. The sample from his final Harold is beautifully played by him and the BSO soloists. — More…
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Šejna injects much freshness into this very attractive coupling. The Czech Philharmonic’s distinctive timbres are evident even through the recording’s compressed dynamic levels. — More…
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Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Yevgeny Mravinsky & Ilya Shpilberg
This is Mravinsky at his peak. The playing of the Leningrad Philharmonic in these three twentieth century works is quite astonishingly good. — More…
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Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1, Variations on a theme by Handel
Claudio Arrau (piano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik
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Stravinsky: Works for Two pianos
on Bösendorfers (2-3, 8-15) Bernard Job, John-Patrick Millow, on Steinways (1, 4-7, 19) Vitya Vronsky & Viktor Babin (16-18) Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky, Vitya Vronsky & Viktor Babin
Stravinsky’s shrill, rhythmic energies are cast in new colours, with piano as glittering percussion instrument...This is a fascinating disc, full of riches. The sound is clear and vivid. — More…
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