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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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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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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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Richter's piano is clangorous in Op. 90, yet every bar is filled with personality and ideas. He is reflective yet explosive in Op. 101, though there's some technical insecurity. — 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…
