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Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor; Bruch: Kol Nidrei; Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor; Bruch: Kol Nidrei; Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme. Janos Starker, cello; Antal Dorati, London Symphony Orchestra. Mercury SACD 475 6608.
I've always thought of Starker's interpretation of Dvorak's Cello Concerto as typically masculine. Certainly, other men have essayed the work with equal poise and distinction from Wallfisch (Chandos) to Rostropovich (DG) to Ma (Sony), but none of them seem to me to convey the same strength, the same virile character. Starker's is a remarkable performance.
The downside, however, is that Starker gives up something in warmth and humanity--sensitivity, if you will. He plays the piece with a clinical precision that rather overshadows the work's romanticism, especially in the slow movement. Still, for the outright vigor of the piece, I have always favored Starker above all else.
But maybe I'm just comparing sound quality here. For ...
- Variations on a Rococo Theme
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE January 1, 1996 700+ words
Variations on a Rococo Theme. Work for vc. and orch. by Tchaikovsky. Op.33. Comp. 1876 as introduction, theme, and 8 vars. for Ger. cellist Wilhelm...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff March 28, 1996 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) January 6, 2005 700+ words
...for playing Dmitri Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra...Shostakovich piece with Antonin Dvorak's cello concerto as "one of the most fun to play...1977), Dmitri Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 (1959); and Sergei Rachmaninoff...
- Dvorak: Cello Concerto.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes NOVAK, JOHN September 1, 2000 700+ words
Dvorak: Cello Concerto. By Jan Smaczny. (Cambridge Music Handbooks.) Cambridge...instrument it isn't much good ... I have ... written a 'cello-concerto, but am sorry to this day I did so, and I never intend to write...
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- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot May 23, 1996 700+ words
Byline: Paul Sayegh Barber: Violin Concerto; Cello Concerto; Capricorn Concerto (RCA) This new Leonard Slatkin...Tchaikovsky. Steven Isserlis is also impressive in the Cello Concerto, a tougher, darker piece that deserves to be heard...
- Halle/Schiff/Elder Elgar: Falstaff, Cello Concerto (Halle CD, HLL 7505).
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) March 30, 2004 700+ words
...STEPHEN PETTITT Halle/Schiff/Elder Elgar: Falstaff, Cello Concerto (Halle CD, HLL 7505) (GOOD) MANCHESTER'S Halle Orchestra...study Falstaff is affectionately done, while in the great Cello Concerto, the orchestra and opulently toned soloist Heinrich Schiff...
