Vikram Seth's novel An Equal Music, an elegant classical-music romance, naturally invited the release of an accompanying CD with performances of the music so nicely woven into its story of a pushing-midlife London violinist who encounters a woman, a concert pianist, whom he had loved years before while both were music students in Vienna. Decca's ...
Deutsche Grammophon has another excellent Schumann Concerto in its catalog, the Pollini/Abbado, with the Berlin Philharmonic, coupled with a good but not great Schoenberg Piano Concerto. Not surprisingly, Pollini is more muscular and evenly balanced in the Schumann, even if he is, as usual, a bit straitlaced. Pires is always the sensitive and ...
Terrific as far as it goes, this two-disc set of Schubert's music for piano trio goes no further than the Rhein. That is not to say that the quintessentially French ensemble of pianist Jean-Philippe Collard, violinist Augustin Dumay, and cellist Frédéric Lodéon is not absolutely first-rate in every way. Each is a strongly characterful and ...
This collection of works by Cesar Franck succeeds in presenting listeners with a good selection of the composer's more popular works, including the D minor Symphony and Franck's two most popular chamber works: the F minor Piano Quintet and the Violin Sonata. While all of the performances on the album are certainly competent and acceptable, none of ...
This CD of Mozart works used in hit films, presumably released in conjunction with the Mozart 250th birthday hoopla, actually stands out from among EMI's reduce-reuse-and-recycle CD releases as a compilation that's both enjoyable and useful. The value of the collection lies in its scope and in its quality of being current -- all the films whose ...
This is a perfectly lovely disc of French Romantic virtuoso pieces for violin orchestra played with extraordinary sympathy and virtuosity by Augustin Dumay. Even with competition from just about every first-rank violinist since Ysaÿe, Dumay more than holds his own with the best players in terms of tone and technique, and he surpasses most of the ...
With a three-disc set entitled "Romantic Violin Concertos," EMI Classics has achieved something of a rarity -- a truly worthwhile compilation. The ingredients for such a success seem so simple, yet are frequently missed when putting together previous recordings in such a fashion. First, the concertos chosen generally fit the title quite well and ...
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