Fricsay Archive
Home Page for April 1, 2014
Our drawing/giveaway for April is for a dozen of the new Universal/DGG Pure Audio Blu-ray albums of classic symphonic recordings by Karajan, Kleiber and Fricsay. Two Pure Audio Blu-rays each will go out in early May to three AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers who register on our simple form this month, and two others each will go […]
BARTOK: Violin Con.; Deux Portraits; Cantata Profana; Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta; 3 Piano Concertos; Tanzsuite; Divertimento – Var. soloists/RIAS Sym. Orch./Ferenc Fricsay – Audite (3 CDs)
A splendid assemblage of conductor Ferenc Fricsay’s homage to Bartok, a project to inscribe an integral Bartok legacy but frustrated by the conductor’s untimely demise.
MOZART: Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K. 543; Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550; DEBUSSY: Danses sacree et profane – Nicanor Zabaleta, harp/Vienna Symphony Orch./ RIAS Symphony Orch., Berlin (Debussy) /Ferenc Fricsay – Archipel
Despite their being a second-best source for Fricsay’s Mozart, these performances convey a tragic intensity, and the Zabaleta collaboration scintillates.
Edition Fricsay Vol. XII = J. STRAUSS Waltzes – RIAS Symphonie-Orchester/Ferenc Fricsay – Audite
Tales of Old Vienna by way of Johann Strauss and his fervent acolyte Ferenc Fricsay.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
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