Orchestral, String Orchestras, Barber (composer)
-
Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 & Barber: Adagio for Strings
RecommendedPittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Honeck’s Shostakovich sounds magnificent. From intense pianissimos to the shrieking upper register and full bass thwack of a grand peroration – which Honeck takes surprisingly at face value... —
Awards:
-
Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Orchestral Performance
-
Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Engineered Album, Classical
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
The organ has a really gutsy, symphonic core... Jan Kraybill... plays with considerable verve and a feeling both for colour and for the grand gesture. —
Awards:
-
Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
-
-
Barber - Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto & Adagio For Strings
RecommendedIsaac Stern & John Browning
Leonard Bernstein, George Szell & Eugene Ormandy
Classic accounts of the lyrical Violin Concerto and the brilliant Piano Concerto - plus Eugene Ormandy's purposeful Adagio and Thomas Schippers's strong Second Essay for Orchestra. —
Awards:
-
Grammy Awards, 7th Awards (1964), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
-
-
Barber: Orchestral Works
RecommendedJohn Browning (piano), Kyoto Takezawa (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello), Leonard Slatkin (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch, Leonard Slatkin
Awards:
-
Building a Library, June 2006, Budget Choice
-
Grammy Awards, 7th Awards (1964), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
-
Grammy Awards, 34th Awards (1991), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Barber: Orchestral Works Volume 3
RecommendedJames Buswell (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Marin Alsop
James Buswell is a refined, sensitive soloist in the Concerto, warm without being soupy —
Awards:
-
Building a Library, January 2002, Budget Choice
-
-
Special offer. Barber: Symphony No. 1, Op. 9, etc.
RecommendedDetroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Awards:
-
Building a Library, June 2006, First Choice
-
-
Excellent performances of Barber's earlier orchestral works, including Adagio for strings. —
Awards:
-
Building a Library, June 2006, First Choice
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Special offer. Fireworks & Fanfares
stuart Nicholson, harry Meehan, victoria Green, Áine Balfe, richard O’donnell, bernard Rielly, dylan Quinn, david Leigh
-
Special offer. Barber: Cello Concerto & Sonata
Christian Poltéra (cello), Christian Poltéra (cello) & Kathryn Stott (piano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Poltera meets [the Concerto's] technical demands with almost complete ease, and projects the more lyrical moments with subtle inflections of line and beautifully centred tone...Poltera and pianist... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, February 2013, Editor's Choice
-
-
Hallgato
Ferenc Snétberger (guitar), Keller Quartet (string quartet), Gyula Lázár (double bass), László Fenyő (cello)
The guitar’s intimate sound seduces the listener from the start. The rasp of fingers on strings and frets is so close, it’s as though the listener is leaning against guitarist Ferenc Snétberger’s... —
