Advantages: One of the most Romantic concertos around, full of beautiful melodies and passion Disadvantages: over-recorded
INTRODUCTION
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov was one of the most promising composers emerging from Russia after Tchaikovsky. His early works included the youthfully energetic PianoConcerto in F sharp minor, Op.1, an orchestral fantasia The Rock, the opera Aleko, several songs, piano pieces (including the famous Prelude in C sharp minor, a work that would plague Rachmaninov with its popularity throughout his life) and the First Symphony in D minor, Op.13. Rachmaninov had high hopes for the latter; it was his magnum opus up until that time. However the symphony proved to be the biggest disappointment of his career, causing a tremendous crisis in his creative life. All the critics jumped on the work, most notably César Cui who compared it with the Seven Plagues of Egypt and condemned the work as modernist trash. The effect ...
Advantages: A new way to hear Beethoven Disadvantages: Surpassed by some later period cycles
INTRODUCTION
Beethoven's nine symphonies cover one of the major cornerstones of symphonic literature along with the likes of Haydn, Brahms and Sibelius. Beethoven was born in turbulent times when the common people's dissatisfaction toward the ruling monarchs in Europe was reaching new heights which finally culminated in the French Revolution in 1789. Against this came Beethoven, who was born into a family of musicians in Bonn in 1770. His father wanted to coin in on the child prodigy market created by Mozart whose father had exploited his genius in a similar way. But Beethoven was no Mozart. He wasn't born a child progidy and his performing skills were nowhere near as natural as they were with Mozart. Still he made rapid progress as a piano virtuoso and an amateur composer. He was even supposed to take some lessons with Mozart in Wien ...
Advantages: Mutter's eloquence and sensitivity in older recording are enhanced here. Disadvantages: None at all!
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CD Notes:
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833 - 1897)
Konzert für Violine und Orchester D-dur op. 77
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major
1 1. Allegro non troppo (22' 55)
Cadenza: Joseph Joachim, rev. Ossip Schnirlin
22. Adagio (9' 20)
33. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace - Poco piů presto (7' 55)
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810 - 1856)
Fantasie für Violine und Orchester C-dur op. 131
Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra in C major
Transcription: Fritz Kreisler
4 Moderato semplice ma espressivo - Allegro marcato - Molto tranquillo - Tempo primo - Cadenza - Molto tranquillo (13' 12)
ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER, Violine
New York Philharmonic
KURT MASUR ...
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