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Van Cliburn: Brahms, Barber, Beethoven & Chopin
3rd August 1964 Salzburg Mozarteum
Van Cliburn (piano)
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Historic Archive
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'
RecommendedBayerisches Staatsorchester, Carlos Kleiber
If you are a connoisseur of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony...then this reissue is imperative. There is a caveat: the recording has been saved from an audio cassette version, the original master... —
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Building a Library, November 2011, First Choice
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Schumann: Violin Concertos & Phantasie
Baiba Skride (violin)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, John Storgårds
[the Concerto] has a slow movement of otherworldly beauty… Baiba Skride negotiates it admirably… her silky pianissimo playing in the Violin Concerto is a decided asset. It’s a valuable and enterprising... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Editor's Choice
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A splendid recital from a young soprano who rises with skill and flair to the music's varied challenges. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
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Dvořák: The King and the Charcoal Burner (Král a Uhlír)
Dalibor Jenis (King Matyáš), Peter Mikuláš (Matěj), Michelle Breedt (Anna), Lívia Aghová (Liduška), Michal Lehotsky (Jenik), Markus Schäfer (Jindřich)
Prague Chamber Choir, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln & WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Gerd Albrecht
Dvorák's delightful The King and the CharcoalBurner was the second opera that he wrote and the first to be staged. In its first form it was abandoned during rehearsal as being too complex and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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In only a few of the 25 separate titles here does the Israeli pianist Amir Katz (b.1973) fall short of the very best...On the second disc are the 12 Transcendental Studies, deftly executed with... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2020, Editor's Choice
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Shostakovich - Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Yakov Kreizberg
From the very outset, there's a real sense of urgency about the performance, Müller-Schott's razor-sharp articulation in the outer movements managing to combine rhythmic incisiveness with highly... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, Disc of the month
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 & Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons and the CBSO respond to the Pathétique symphony's mood of fate-shrouded tragedy in a way that's lyrical rather than melodramatic...Even among the formidable recorded competition, the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2011, Editor's Choice
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Grieg’s Second Sonata sounds gorgeously, openly melancholic. —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, Chamber Choice
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