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the sense of joyous homecoming in the closing pages is truly overwhelming in its cumulative impact and rightly accorded a thunderous ovation. There's much that is cherishable, too, in the performance... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Re-issue of the Month
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Wilhelm Backhaus plays Schubert & Beethoven
Beethovenhalle, Bonn, 24 September 1959
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
His concert begins with Schubert’s Impromptu No.3 in B flat major from the D.935 set. There is such facility and tonal lustre here, and a dappled, songful lightness propelled by the deftest... — More…
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what treasure-trove it comprises...Not only do the BBC SO play with heartfelt commitment...but the 88-year-old Boult directs with unerring grip and thrusting vigour...So where's the rub? Well,... — More…
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The music benefits from that all-important sense of live engagement...the only reason I was reminded that these are 'old' recordings was through the quality of the performances: love then or... — More…
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Claudio Arrau plays Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Swedish Radio Studios, Stockholm, 5 April 1960
Claudio Arrau (piano)
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Verdi: La Traviata
Maria Callas (Violetta), Cesare Valletti (Alfredo), Mario Zanasi (Giorgio Germont), Marie Collier (Flora), Forbes Robinson (Barone Douphol), Ronald Lewis (Marchese d'Obigny), Leah Roberts (Annina), Dermot Troy (Gastone), David Kelly (Dottore Grenvil)
Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus,...
though it has been issued on various labels, this ICA Classics recording is the best I have heard...after Act 1, in which [Callas] still does many wonderful things, her performance is on a level... — More…
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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
Arthur Rubinstein (piano)
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Christoph von Dohnányi
The Chopin items are chaste and tender perfection, every phrase caressed and yet totally without self-indulgence; and the Falla Ritual Fire Dance is a thrillingly unbridled encore. — More…
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Géza Anda plays Tchaikovsky & Brahms
Géza Anda (piano)
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Otto Klemperer, Sir Georg Solti
Although almost sixty years old these two works are heard in reasonably good sound with the Brahms having the slight edge. They will be required listening for those who, like myself, are Anda... — More…
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Shura Cherkassky plays Chopin Piano Concertos
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
BBC Scottish SO, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Adey, Richard Hickox
Maddening or enchanting - Cherkassky could veer from one to the other...And here, in performances dating from 1981 and 1983, when Cherkassky was in his seventies, there is a characteristic if... — More…
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Herbert von Karajan conducts Bruckner & Mozart
Royal Festival Hall, London, 6 April 1962
Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
These mono tapes from the Music Preserved collection held at the University of York still fizz with the excitement of that evening 50 years on, the last movement of Mozart's "Jupiter" breathtaking... — More…
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