soloist Archive
LALO: Violin Concerto in F Major; Cello Concerto in D Minor; Piano Concerto – Yuzuko Horigome, violin/ Viviane Spanoghe, cello/ Philippe Bianconi, p./ Orch. Philharmonique de Nice/ Marco Guidarini – Talent
Three of Edouard Lalo’s concertos receive conscientious treatment (rec. 5-8 September 2011) from ardent and gifted soloists.
Otto Klemperer = BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D Major; BERLIOZ: Symphonie Fantastique; MOZART: Le Nozzi di Figaro Ov. – Yehudi Menuhin, v./ New Philharmonia Orch./ Otto Klemperer – Testament (2 CDs)
The concert from Royal Albert Hall finds Klemperer and Menuhin in sweet collaboration in Beethoven, and Klemperer himself in monumental form in the wild Berlioz symphony.
“Vivaldi Con Moto” = VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in E Minor; Violin Concerto in C Major; Concerto in D Major; Concerto in F Major; Concerto in E-flat Major; Concerto in D Minor – Giuliano Carmignola, v. /Accademia Bizantina /Ottavio Dantone – DGG
Ah, late Vivaldi. The Four Seasons is wonderful music, but these late concertos show that Vivaldi’s innovative tendencies continued till the end.
MOZART: The Prussian Quartets – Emerson String Quartet – Sony
Recorded 20-27 January 2011, the late Mozart quartets find peerless expression in the performances rendered by the Emerson Quartet, their first Mozart in twenty years.