Tag: Antonín Dvořák
-
Michael Rabin on the Bell Telephone Hour, Vol. 2: 1954-62 Broadcasts
Michael Rabin’s short life and career are one of the saddest stories in the history of classical music. Fortunately, he left behind enough splendid recordings – for Columbia Masterworks and Capitol/Angel/EMI – that document the extravagant praise his playing received during his all-too-brief life. Rabin made frequent appearances on the radio, in particular on a…
-
Michael Rabin on The Bell Telephone Hour – The Complete Broadcasts, Vol. 1: 1950-1954
Michael Rabin’s short life and career are one of the saddest stories in the history of classical music. Fortunately, he left behind enough splendid recordings – for Columbia Masterworks and Capitol/Angel/EMI – that document the extravagant praise his playing received during his all-too-brief life. Rabin made frequent appearances on the radio, in particular on a…
-
Václav Talich Conducts Dvořák Symphony No. 8 and Suk Serenade For Strings gets a 5 Star Review from Gary Lemco in Audiophile Audition
Audiophile Audition’s Gary Lemco gives Václav Talich Conducts Dvořák Symphony No. 8 and Suk Serenade For Strings 5 Stars “The Dvorak G Major Symphony, composed for the composer’s reception in England, has long enjoyed happy readings, from the likes of Talich and Bruno Walter. The authority of the Czech Philharmonic woodwinds proves especially luminous, both…
-
Emanuel Feuermann in Concert
Few musicians had been so respected by their peers. Pianist Artur Rubinstein thought him “the greatest cellist of all times.” For fellow cellist Janos Starker, he was “the most important figure for 20th century cello playing…” Conductor Eugene Ormandy said his playing “was something which led me on to what music really means, what it…
-
Václav Talich Conducts Dvořák Symphony No. 8 and Suk Serenade For Strings
Parnassus returns to international availability these extraordinary recordings by the Czech Philharmonic and the founding father of the modern Czech orchestral sound, Václav Talich. Drawing on Mark Obert-Thorn’s superb transfers and using Urlicht AudioVisual’s state-of-the-art restoration system to abate shellac surface noise and improve frequency response without impeding the unique orchestral sound, these essential recordings…
-
Amadeus Quartet
The Amadeus Quartet was a top ensemble of the 1960s and 70s which featured three Viennese-Jewish émigrés and a British cellist. This Alto release brings together their legendary recordings of Brahms’ String Quartets, Dvořák’s “American” Quartet, and Haydn’s “Emperor” Quartet. From the May 2023 issue of BBC Music Magazine: “there is a songful quality to…
-
Ida Haendel & Josef Hassid – Their HMV Encores
Two great virtuosos of the mid-twentieth century – Ida Haendel and Josef Hassid – came to prominence at the height of the 78rpm era. Their recordings for HMV with legendary accompanist Gerald Moore have achieved cult status among fans of violin music. This new release from Parnassus brings together their great recordings of short works,…
-
Joan Sutherland: Personal Choices
“The death of Dame Joan Sutherland and the subsequent outpourings of affection, not least in these pages, reminded the world that La Stupenda was one of those rare operatic creatures who brought her music to the wider world, touching the hearts and thrilling the ears of millions who usually wouldn’t have visited an opera house.”…
-
Dvořák: Piano Concerto, Piano Quintet
Antonín Dvořák, though best known for his Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” and Cello Concerto, wrote a large body of masterful and tuneful music combining traditional forms with Czech color and melody. The unrevised version of his Piano Concerto is one of the most challenging such works in the repertoire, yet Sviatoslav Richter,…
-
David Oistrakh – Violin Masterclass
10CD deluxe clamshell box including 24 Concertos, two Sonatas (Devil’s Trill etc), Scottish Fantasia, and many short Encores
-
Amar-Hindemith Quartet – Complete Recordings, 1926-1928
-
Dvorák: Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8 – Davis, LSO
“This beautiful performance deserves to win many new friends for Dvořák’s most Brahmsian symphony. Davis’s love of this music shines out of every bar.” (Gramophone) “culminating in a towering account of the finale, which unlike many, here emerges as a fully satisfying conclusion” “More successfully than any other recording, Davis captures the slow movement’s elusive…
