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Offer,Schumann & Dvořák: Cello Concertos

Richard Itter Collection

Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, 7 cellos from the London Symphony Orchestra, Jean Martinon, Carlo Maria Giulini

If not every note is in place, [Du Pré] displays that electrifying rhythmic instinct that characterises her best performances, and long-breathed melodies are sung with utter naturalness…This... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Mar 2018
Catalogue No: ICAC5149
Label: ica classics
Length: 74 minutes

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Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129

Work length27:08

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$9.00

Jacqueline du Pré (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jean Martinon
Recorded: 12 December 1962
Recording Venue: Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom

I. Nicht zu schnell (Live)

Track length12:16

$3.00

$3.85

II. Langsam (Live)

Track length4:41

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$1.30

III. Sehr lebhaft (Live)

Track length10:11

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$3.85

Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104

Work length40:45

$10.00

$12.85

Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini
Recorded: 6 September 1962
Recording Venue: Usher Hall, Edinburgh Festival, United Kingdom

I. Allegro (Live)

Track length15:30

$4.00

$5.15

II. Adagio ma non troppo (Live)

Track length12:12

$3.00

$3.85

III. Finale. Allegro moderato (Live)

Track length13:03

$3.00

$3.85

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Aria (Cantilena)

Work length6:23

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$1.30

Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra

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This release has been sourced from the Richard Itter archive. The collection is very important for collectors because it has never been released before onto the market. This important live recording of Jacqueline du Pre playing the Schumann Cello Concerto is her first public performance of the work, given in the Royal Festival Hall on 12th December 1962 with Jean Martinon conducting the BBCSO. She worked intensively on the concerto with Paul Tortelier in Paris prior to this concert and learnt his virtuosic cadenza for her earlier performances of the Schumann. When du Pre studied the Schumann intensively with Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1966, he exclaimed 'This is the most perfect Schumann I have ever heard'. The 1962 live performance of the Dvorak Cello Concerto by Mstislav Rostropovich has not been released before and is interesting because here he is partnered by Carlo Maria Giulini, who went onto to make a studio recording of the same concerto some 15 years later. The bonus comes from a song recital given in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh on 23 August 1962, where Rostropovich is heard with his wife Galina Vishnevskaya and seven cellos from the LSO in the Aria from Villa Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras, one of her warhorses and a great hit on this occasion. This performance has never been released before.

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August 2018

If not every note is in place, [Du Pré] displays that electrifying rhythmic instinct that characterises her best performances, and long-breathed melodies are sung with utter naturalness…This 1962 Dvorak Concerto with Giulini and the Philharmonia has all the hallmarks of Mstislav (‘Slava’) Rostropovich at his height: exceptional muscularity and irresistible idiomatic assurance.

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