Advantages: Mutter's eloquence and sensitivity in older recording are enhanced here. Disadvantages: None at all!
...As a fantastically talented eighteen-year-old, Anne-Sophie Mutter already awed me with her sensitive and thoughtful eloquence in her 1981 recording of the Brahms violinconcerto (with Herbert von Karajan directing the Berlin Philharmonic). However, there’s an even deeper understanding in Mutter’s reading of the Brahms piece on this newer disc.
This performance was taped live at the Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, New York City, in 1997. Kurt Masur conducts the New York Philharmonic in particularly inspired fashion. A difference of fifteen years separates the two recordings. In the time between, she married, had children, and then was widowed at a very young age.
When Mutter returned to her instrument, she would bring a greater strength, emotional depth and insight to her playing, lending a maturity and assuredness to her...
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Advantages: It is simply one of the finest pieces of music ever written Disadvantages: How dare you ask of any disadvantges!?!
...this his reputation was upholstered even more with his openly patriotic and pompous music of the "Cockaigne (In London Town) Overture," "In the South (Alassio) Overture", and the first of his five "Pomp and Circumstance Marches", the middle part of the first march becoming somewhat of an unofficial national anthem. He was even knighted in 1904. In this vein the composer continued until 1914 (his two symphonies, ViolinConcerto, and numerous choral works being in roughly the same style) when suddenly thunder struck.
TONSILS, TO BRINKWELLS AND CREATIVITY
The First World War put an end to the militaristic and pompous music of Elgar of the past as inappropriate and he did little composing during the war years, with only a few songs, the rarely performed symphonic prelude "Polonia" and the cantata "The Spirit of England" consisting his...
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Advantages: A definite easy listen Disadvantages: Maybe too easy
...Jesu
Shostakovich - Romance
VaughanWilliams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Elgar - Chanson de matin
Beethoven - Pastoral Symphony
CD 2
Mozart - 'Elvira Madigan' Piano Concerto
JS Bach - Sheep may safely graze
JS Bach - Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor
Handel - Water Music
Vivaldi - Concerto for lute and two violins
JS Bach - Aria
Grieg - Piano Concerto
JS Bach - Double ViolinConcerto
Monteverdi - Beatus vir
Chopin - Etude in E 'Tristesse'
Elgar - Serenade in E minor
VaughanWilliams - The LarkAscending
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No 2
Barber - Adagio for String
Faure - In paradisum - Schubert - String Quintet
Faure - Berceuse
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