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Dvorak: Cello Concerto; Strauss: Don Quixote.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
Dvorak: Cello Concerto; Strauss: Don Quixote. Mischa Maisky, cello; Zubin Mehta, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. DG B00002054-02.
This live recording of Dvorak and Strauss with Maisky, Mehta, and the Berlin Philharmonic from 2002 strikes me as remarkably unremarkable.
Despite a brisk tempo, the performance of the Dvorak never seems to come alive; it hasn't the moody distinction of Rostropovich's old recording with Karajan, also with the Berlin Phil (DG), or the masculine power of Starker's version with Dorati and the LSO (Mercury). Instead, Maisky, a pupil of Rostropovich and Piatogorsky, plays the score letter-perfect, even excising what he says are some of the traditional distortions piled up in it over the years, and winds up with a bloodless rendition. Go figure. Richard Strauss's Don Quixote comes off better, but only because the music ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Dvorak: Cello Concerto; Strauss: Don Quixote.(Brief Article)(Sound...