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2024-04-08 14:26:23
Sol Hurok, 2024
[…] Hurok’s clients read as Who-is-Who in American Music: he worked with the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, violinists Nathan Milstein and Efrem Zimbalist, and later represented the younger stars, Van Cliburn, Jacqueline du Pré, Itzhak Perlman, and Pinchas Zukerman. For many years Hurok tried to bring Soviet artists to America. It became possible only after Stalin’s death. The pianists Emil Gilels and violinist David Oistrakh came first, in 1955, then, later, such luminaries as Sviatoslav Richter, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Leonid Kogan and Mstislav Rostropovich. Hurok also represented the singers Galina Vishnevskaya and Irina Arkhipova and conductors Kiril Kondrashin and Yevgeny Svetlanov. Some of Hurok’s greatest coups were achieved with the ballet companies: the Bolshoi tour in 1959 was a sensational success, and so was Kirov’s, which Hurok brought in 1961. Sol Hurok died in New York on March 5th of 1974.
2024-03-31 06:44:35
Yoav Levanon’s debut recital for Warner Classics left the impression of an immensely gifted yet musically capricious youngster. This follow-up, digital-only EP release finds the young pianist more at home in Rachmaninov’s Etudes-Tableaux Op. 39. The lyrical flexibility with which he shapes the opening C minor salvo’s swirling passagework differs from Vladimir Ashkenazy’s firm and […]
2024-03-21 04:00:00
Decca Eloquence 6
[…] DohnányiLorin MaazelBrucknerSymphony No. 5Wiener PhilharmonikerLorin MaazelJeanine MicheauBritten Les Illuminations, Op. 18Ravel ShéhérazadeOrchestre des Concerts Lamoureux Paul SacherDebussy La Damoiselle élueChabrier Ode à la musique - Le Roi malgré luiSextuor des serves - Chanson tziganeOrchestre de la Société des Concerts du ConservatoireJean FournetJean FournetWorks by Mussorgsky, Chabrier,Dukas, Debussy,Borodin& GriegConcertgebouworkest Amsterdam SchumannAndante and Variations for two pianos, two cellos and hornStudy in Canon form in A flat majorAdagio and Allegro in A flat majorDrei RomanzenFantasiestückeFünf Stücke im VolkstonVladimir Ashkenazy pianoMstislav Rostropovich celloHeinz Holliger oboeMussorgskyPictures at an ExhibitionRavella ValseRespighiRossinianaErnest AnsermetFranckPsychéVariations SymphoniquesRavelBoleroLa ValseRapsodie EspagnoleGeza Anda pianoConcertgebouworkestEduard van BeinumSchubertSymphony No. 3Symphony No. 4Symphony No. 5Symphony No. 6Symphony No. 8Congertgebouworkest AmsterdamEduard van BeinumBeethovenSymohony No. 7Symphony No. 8Overture The Creatures of PrometheusWiener PhilharmonikerClaudio AbbadoSchubertSymphony No. 1Symphony No. 2Symphony No. 3Symphony No. 4Symphony No. 8Israel POZubin MehtaSchubertSymphony No. 5Symphony No. 6Symphony No. 9Rosamunde sel.Israel POZubin MehtaHaydnDie SchöpfungElly Ameling sopranoWerner Krenn tenorTom Krause bassErna Spoorenberg sopranoRobin Fairhurst bassMissa brevis Sancti […]
2023-10-26 03:30:00
Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos and Paganini Rhapsody (CD Review)
[…] they harbor a certain metronomical core. It’s as if someone coached her on how to be expressive, and she’s imitating their example more than really exemplifying it. This is less of a problem in the more ostentatious works and moments; her First and ThirdConcerti are better than the rest. Her other performances here aren’t even really bad. It’s just that in such a saturated field, nothing quite measures up. When one can choose rapt, heartrending interpretations by Pennario, Richter, Horowitz, Ashkenazy, Graffman (her teacher!), and others (not to mention the composer’s own), why should one shell out full price for hers? Maybe she equals or outdoes most of them in terms of sheer technique, but if the tears, tenderness, colors, and beauty of this repertoire are important, the buyer has many better options. Much as I am cool on Wang’s pianism beyond technique, she gets little help here from Dudamel and the LA Phil. I don’t […]
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