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"The eminent conductor Kurt Sanderling has decided to lay down his baton….. Musicians are rueing his departure…. he can enjoy his nineties in the glow of a reading lamp, knowing that his work is done, his status secure.” Norman Lebrecht | | | (also available to download from $21.75) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“The partnership of Julia Fischer and Yakov Kreizberg… really comes into its own in the symphonic proportions of Brahms's Violin Concerto. From Fischer's opening imposing entry, it's clear that Kreizberg and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra are at one with her every nuance and tempo fluctuation - dramatic, fiery and impetuous at first but then beautifully lyrical and introverted in the second idea. ...the Double Concerto... Fischer and her partner Daniel Müller-Schott are absolutely on the same musical wavelength delivering a blisteringly intense performance supported by outstandingly responsive playing from the Netherlands Philharmonic.” BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2007 ***** “…Julia Fischer offers this ideal Brahms coupling in strong and sympathetic readings, joined in the Double Concerto by her brilliant young compatriot cellist, Daniel Müller-Schott. Her performance never feels self-conscious or too studied and her range of tone and dynamic is extreme, bringing pianissimi of breathtaking delicacy. ...in the finale she lets the tempo relax just enough to allow a persuasive spring in the rhythms, bringing out the Hungarian dance flavour.” Gramophone Magazine, August 2007 “..the Double Concerto one of the most beautiful and idiomatic readings on disc in recent years.” Sunday Times **** “
Others offer tauter and brisker accounts of the first movement but Fischer amply justifies her spacious and flexible speeds in the feeling of spontaneity. Her performance never feels selfconscious or too studied and her range of tone and dynamic is extreme, bringing pianissimi of breathtaking delicacy. Fischer's slow movement, too, is expansive while in the finale she lets the tempo relax just enough to allow a persuasive spring in the rhythms, bringing out the Hungarian dance flavour.
The Double Concerto is not nearly as expansive: no doubt the influence of Müller-Schott was important here as the cello takes the lead in introducing each theme, with the cellist matching his partner in warmth and brilliance. Fischer and Müller-Schott are relaxed and easily lyrical in the slow movement, brilliant and thrusting in the finale. An outstanding disc which stands high on the list of this perfect coupling.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Jascha Heifetz In PerformanceConcert Recordings, 1945-1951
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| |  | Jascha Heifetz, Vol. 41936, 1939
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| |  | Zino Francescatti plays Brahms
Francescattii made his concert debut in Paris in 1952 and became a renowned soloist after the war. The Brahms Violin Concerto highlights the special qualities of his playing better than any other work. | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
This live recording of a performance of Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D major, given by the exceptionally gifted violinist Ginette Neveu - on 3rd May 1948 in the Hamburg Musikhalle - is a unique document, if only because it is almost certainly the only live recording of a Neveu concert (a year later she died in an air-crash at the early age of only 30). “Neveu displays once again her arc-like surety in this work. Her trills are of tight though not electric velocity, her portamenti quickly flecked, finger position changes finely honed and judged...this is a truly memorable souvenir - much more, in truth, a living document - of Neveu’s art in collaboration with a distinctive and musically elevated conductor and orchestra.” MusicWeb International, January 2013 | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Brahms: Violin Concerto - Academic Festival Overture
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| |  | Gioconda De Vito plays Mozart & Brahms
Gioconda de Vito (violin) Producer and Audio Restoration Producer: Mark Obert-Thorn “[De Vito] is a stylist to the backbone; and technical accomplishment is unfailingly put to the service of the music instead of being allowed to become an end in itself.” Gramophone | | | (also available to download from $9.25) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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