Tag: Antonín Dvořák
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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…
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Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, Brahms: Haydn Variations – Davis, Gergiev, London Symphony Orchestra
(Symphony 9) “’Davis offers a story and a sense of conviction that place his performance in a wholly different league.’ (BBC Music Magazine 5 stars) “Unmissable … Superb in all respects. Sound quality doesn’t come any better than this whatever the price. Don’t hesitate!” (Classic CD)
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The Bohemian Quartet Play Smetana, Antonín Dvorák, & Suk
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Opera for Everyone
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25 Piano Favorites
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Dvorák: String Sextet; String Quintet; Intermezzo in B Major
“enjoyable Dvořák coupling worthy of joining the list of recommendations” “The Sextet, one of Dvořák’s finest chamber works, makes an excellent pairing with the double-bass Quintet … a striking contrast to the Sextet’s expansive richness. The Nash Ensemble are well recorded and play with refined expression while attacking the brilliant, quasi-orchestral music in the two…
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A Portrait of Mischa Elman
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Dvorak & Schumann Cello Concertos
(Dvořák) “No praise can be too high for Rostropovich’s performance; not only for its actual playing, technically, but for the poetry, the true inwardness of his expressiveness … I may perhaps be allowed now to say that no performance I have ever heard has given me deeper enjoyment.” (Schumann) “nothing detached or remote about Rostropovich’s…
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Orient Express – 20 Light Classics
“The Iain Sutherland Concert Orchestra conducted by Iain himself, proving that ‘light’ music can be taken seriously”. Classic FM, 2012). The previous albums, both also in superb modern sound are: ALC1192- The Merrymakers – 20 British Light Classics, and ALC1206 Manhattan Playboys-20 American Light Classics
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Dvorak: Theme & Variations; Poetic Tone Poems
“Kvapil plays with great understanding. He cherishes these curious, reflective tonal sideslips, but also charges vigorously into the more energetic variations. His ability to characterize swiftly and surely is very necessary, as it is in a different manner in the Poetic Tone Pictures…he is deft and sensitive with them, and the recording is no less…
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Brahms: A German Requiem (Ein Deutsches Requiem)
“Klemperer’s reading …measured and monumental, the performance defies preconceived doubts. …with dynamic contrasts underlined, the result is uniquely powerful…. Solo singing is superb and the Chorus at the peak of their form.
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The Best of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
“Elisabeth Schwarzkopf possessed one of the most distinctive voices of the post-war era….her range of vocal colouring was quite staggering, and few sopranos before or since have possessed a similar ability to act with their voices.” (J. Murray)
