Ludwig van Beethoven TRIPLE CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN, CELLO, & PIANO IN C, OP.56 David Oistrakh(violin), Mstislav Rostropovich(cello), Sviatoslav Richter(piano) Berliner Philharmoniker Hebert von Karajan EMI Great Recordings of The Century 1970 / 1997 Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello & Piano in C Op. 56 Notes: "Four months after taping the "Triple" in Berlin, it was to be repeated in Moscow. But having supported Solzhenitsyn in the Russian press, Rostropovich was 'replaced', and (much to official dismay) Oistrakh and Richter refused to perform with any other cellist. Finally, the authorities were forced to relent: "Those who witnessed the concert," wrote Rostropovich, "remember it to this day, for it was an occasion when music won over oppression." Allegro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVqbzl-SKLwLargo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJ3dcBJSjkRondo alla polacca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O98HHUxw1HkCheers |
Johannes Brahms DOUBLE CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN & CELLO IN A MINOR, OP.102
David Oistrakh(violin), Mstislav Rostropovich(cello) The Cleveland Orchestra George Szell EMI Great Recordings of The Century 1970 / 1998 Notes: "A feared martinet, ruthless authoritarian, brilliant chamber musician and incomparable orchestra-builder, Szell once wrote to Oistrakh, confiding that "there is no musician today that I respect more than you; nobody with whom I feel more "at home" when I play and with whom I feel so strongly that we are heart and soul." Wow!
Double Concerto for Violin & Cello in A minor Op. 102
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et1zSwsXubECheers |
Ludwig van Beethoven BEETHOVEN & MENDELSSOHN VIOLIN CONCERTOS Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Philharmonia Orchestra Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler
EMI 1953 / 1999 Mono Notes: "The two artist first performed together in August 1947, four months after Furtwängler was allowed to work again after being cleared of second world war offences by a de-Nazification court. In 1933 Furtwängler
invited Menuhin and two other Jewish musicians, Artur Schnabel and Huberman, to appear as soloists with the Berlin Philharmonic. All three refused. From then until the end of the second world war, Menuhin and Furtwängler
worked for the most part in different cultural worlds." Beethoven: Philharmonia Orchestra Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 Allegro ma non troppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5znyEn3bVILarghetto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBmKcTIZWksRondo - Allegro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Ose2TfywsCheers |
I couldn’t get into their triple, it was a bit dry and uninspired For me
have you listened triple by geza anda, schneiderhan, fournier? Another great one is szell fleisher stern
ei001h: I only have two performances of The Triple, the one I posted and another by the Eroica Trio with the Prague Chamber Orchestra. I try to only post the stuff I actually own. I have not heard the two performances you mention in your post. As far as the Oistrakh, Rostropovich and Richter being Dry, I'm afraid that sort of evaluation is way above my level of expertise and appreciation. I'm not that advanced. At my stage, I just rely on my Gurus to find the good performances. Thanks for the post Cheers |
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Johannes Brahms HANDEL VARIATIONS - RHAPSODIES - PIANO PIECES Handel Variations Op. 24 Murray Perahia (piano) Sony Classics Recorded June 19-24, 2010 Funkhaus Berlin
Händel Variations, Op. 24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcFSpeq6NAECheers |
Johannes Brahms CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA IN D, OP. 77 Itzhak Perlman (violin) Berliner Philharmoniker Daniel Barenboim EMI Classics 1992 Notes: " Originally, the work had four movements but two months before the first performance Brahms wrote to Joachim that he had thrown out the middle movements and that a "miserable Adagio" had taken their place. The first performance took place in Leipzig on 1 January 1879 with Joachim as soloist and Brahms conducting. The initial success was only moderate but now, for over one hundred years, the work has taken its place, alongside Beethoven's, among the greatest concerto's ever written for violin."
I. Allegro non troppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j_voU2NOK8&t=52s
II. Adagio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYF2_uOzKj0
III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMLrq7oABm0Cheers |
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If you want the greatest Handel Variations go for Arrau in the Phillips Brahms box
Thanks, I will look for it. Cheers |
Johannes Brahms HANDEL VARIATIONS - RHAPSODIES - PIANO PIECES Murray Perahia (piano) Six Piano Pieces Op. 118
Murray Perahia (piano) Sony Classics Recorded June 19-24, 2010 Funkhaus Berlin
Intermezzo in A Minor, Op. 118, No. 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_QFFHqo7qEIntermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, No. 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y4Iz9Y47Xo
Ballade in G Minor, Op. 118, No. 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qlrYcZQoIs
Intermezzo in F Minor, Op. 118, No. 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XrHnKRcGxA
Romance in F Major, Op. 118, No. 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvXmwNwXHK0
Intermezzo in E-flat Minor, Op. 118, No. 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gndLtJe9CqICheers |
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Johannes Brahms VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D OP. 77 Nigel Kennedy (violin) The London Philharmonic Klaus Tennstedt EMI 1991 Notes: "For the most part, composers can be divided into two groups: those who copy other composers, and those that totally disrespect the past, reject it, and write something 'totally new'. Brahms was too rare to come from either of these categories. He correctly saw himself as being responsible for the development and evolution of the mainstream of classical music. Instead of copying or rejecting the work of his great predecessor, Beethoven, he developed and expanded Beethoven's music into a kind of music we can only call Brahms." allegro non troppo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_iRiq0bzoYadagio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAnbMxdW0zkallegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0oNfOrI0ngCheers |
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Johannes Brahms PIANO QUARTET NO. 1 IN G MINOR Martha Argerich (piano) Gidon Kremer (violin) Yuri Bashmet (viola) Mischa Maisky (cello) DG 2002 Notes: "Johannes Brahms's three piano quartets, on which he worked in the late 1850s, have differing characters. The C minor is impassioned and concise, while the A major is equable and balanced. The G minor, everyone's favorite, is the most varied in content. Brahms selected it for the all-important concert on 16 November 1862 at which he appeared before the Viennese public for the first time as pianist and composer." Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
I. Allegro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsioqZ9hCEA
II. Intermezzo (Allegro ma non troppo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F22zrRwiRc
III. Andante con moto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiCDo_f2KeQ
IV. Rondo alla Zingarese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9klc5KkM8fgCheers |
Robert Schumann FANTASY PIECES
Martha Argerich (piano) Gidon Kremer (violin) Mischa Maisky (cello) DG 2002 From the Notes: Speaking Of Clara Schumann, " She was one of the foremost pianists of the romantic era--the trio here was written for her by her husband Robert, and she also owned the quartet by Brahms, in the sense that she presided at the keyboard in the first performance. To have this music played by a dynamic woman pianist of our own time, Martha Argerich, is therefore doubly appropriate." Fantasy Pieces for Piano, Violin and Cello Op. 88
I. Romanze (Nicht schnell, mit innigem Ausdruck)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuKqXcZJdPQ
II. Humoreske (Lebhaft)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBg5aXkOIlQ
III. Duett (Langsam und mit Ausdruck)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBVZltb1LPs
IV. Finale (Im Marsch-Tempo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5FlJ6I180kCheers
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Brahms / Tchaikovsky
VIOLIN CONCERTOS Jascha Heifetz (violin) Chicago Symphony Orchestra Fritz Reiner RCA / Sony 1955 -1957 / 2005 SACD Notes:"When in the spring of 1878 Tchaikovsky completed his violin concerto, he dedicated it and presented it to Leopold Auer, who was perhaps the most noted virtuoso and certainly the greatest teacher of his time. The composer must have been bitterly disappointed when the master would not undertake the concerto, declaring it unplayable --- so terrifying were its difficulties." Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto in D, op. 77 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJFJgVYFQh4&t=700s
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxGp1Ii4r8M&t=59sCheers |
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@frogman
I like your favorite Berg better than the one I posted. In any event, Berg does get a little better, to my ear, with repeated listening.
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Johann Sebastian Bach THE ART OF THE FUGUE Emerson String Quartet Philip Setzer (violin) Eugene Drucker (violin) Lawrence Dutton (viola) David Finckel (cello) DG 2003 Notes: Language that only a Musician would love, or understand. The Art of the Fugue BWV 1080 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6vF9owrxMoCheers Wiki: fugue Music - a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
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"and and of course a few by Horowitz. I think Chopin was all he played."
Really? What planet do you live on?
A thousand pardons o' watchful one.. Apparently I typed Horowitz, but was thinking Rubinstein. If you have a problem with Rubinstein, too bad. We can all be thankful that there is always an "Audiophile" ready and willing to correct all 'errors' made on this Forum. To answer your question directly: Earth. You? Cheers |
Frédéric Chopin
CHOPIN
Études
Murray Perahia (piano) Sony Classical 2001 Notes: "The word "etude" means "study" - and every one of these studies addresses a specific technical concern, the mastery of which can only benefit a pianist in any other works he or she plays. And yet the etudes are much more than mere exercises, for their Herculean physical demands are nothing compared to their musical ones. Even Artur Rubinstein, who played Chopin all over the world for three-quarters of a century, was daunted by the etudes, admitting frankly that he was "scared to death" of them. "To do the justice is a most difficult task, which I haven't yet had the courage to attempt," he wrote to an admirer in 1962." --Tim Page A sampling of Op. 10 & Op. 25. 12 Etudes, opus 10 No. 3 in E Major "Tristesse"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU7bY13EcCkNo. 5 in G-Flat Major "Black Keys"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya8Fm-1tvSY12 Etudes, opus 25 No. 10 in B Minor "Octave"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmihKi-A59sNo. 11 in A Minor "Winter Wind"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0doWiXaPfhINo. 12 in C Minor "Ocean"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDc4UpspuKQCheers |
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Aaron Copland COPLAND 100 Minnesota Orchestra Eiji Oue Reference Recordings 2000 HDCD Notes: "The special qualities of Copland's Appalachian Spring(1944), one of the composer's most popular works, owed much to choreographer Martha Graham, for whom it was written. Copland stated, "....Nobody else seems quite like Martha: she's so proud, so very much herself. And she's unquestionably very American: there's something prim and restrained, simple yet strong, about her which one tends to think of as American." Appalachian Spring Suite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3luGMG3PoY&t=131sCheers |
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Antonín Dvořák
and Max Bruch:
Notes:
"There is one rather sad difference between these marvellous concertos. Whereas Dvořák
was encouraged by his publisher Fritz Simrock to write the A minor concerto and was decently paid for it, also receiving performance royalties, Bruch unwisely sold the G minor concerto outright to a publisher for a fixed fee. A royalty contract would have given him a handsome pension at the end of his long life, when he was living in poverty. As an old man, he was even cheated out of the promised sale of the manuscript score." Tully Potter
Some things never change.
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Sir Edward Elgar VIOLIN CONCERTO Nigel Kennedy (violin) London Philharmonic Orchestra Vernon Handley EMI 1984 / 1991 Notes: "Nigel Kennedy's interests go beyond classical music into Indian music and Jazz; he has given concerts with Stephane Grappelli and played at the Chichester and Cork Festivals with American Jazz musicians. Nigel Kennedy plays a Stradivari violin loaned to him through J&A Beare LTD., at the express wish of its former owner, the late Mrs Dorothy Jeffreys of Trebetherick, Cornwall." Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61
I. Allegro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsxnWd8vafcll. Andante https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOZE7IjuLIk
III. Allegro molto - Cadenza - Allegro molto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_XreFMt0cYCheers |
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Gabriel Fauré
PIANO QUARTETS Emanuel Ax (piano), Issac Stern (violin) Jaime Laredo (viola), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Sony Classics 1992 Notes: "Perhaps no other composer has ever been so generally ignored outside of his own country, while at the same time enjoying an unquestionably eminent reputation at home." -- Aaron Copland "The first piano quartet is a work of almost incredible accomplishment. The writing, especially for the piano, is completely idiomatic, and creates a kind of intensity combined with transparency that is entirely
Fauré's own. If one of the indications of great music is that the composer has his own individual sound, certainly
Fauré's is a member of that elite ." Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello No.1 in C minor, Op.15
I. Allegro molto moderato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIgG8hJPucc
II. Scherzo. Allegro vivo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2lNyiU5gBg
III. Adagio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTTCPXIis_k
IV. Allegro molto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om9w1UkWDBwCheers |
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Thanks for posting Faure.
‘What a lovely piece!
Glad you liked it. He, and today's posting, Franck, are sort of new to me. Cheers |
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