Dvorak / Bruch - Janos Starker : Cello Concerto in B Minor : Antal Dorati : LSO - 180g LP

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Dvorak / Bruch - Janos Starker : Cello Concerto in B Minor : Antal Dorati : LSO - 180g LP
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 Antonín Dvorák: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B Minor, op. 104

Max Bruch: Kol Nidrei, op. 47

Janos Starker and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati

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Top Recommendation and a must own recording!" - Richard Foster, Hi-Fi+   

The outstanding success of our release of Bach’s Cello Suites performed by Janos Starker has encouraged us to follow this up with a no less important interpretation of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto by the Hungarian virtuoso. Starker tackles this concerto with amazing confidence; technical difficulties encountered by others in its performance appear unknown to him. Tonal purity, even in the dreaded upper register and the cadenzas, remains unscathed, so that one can concentrate wholly on the meditative magic of the music.

Janos Starker has found worthy fellow musicians in Antal Dorati and the London Symphony Orchestra. The conductor and soloist set a benchmark in how to work together as a team in concert in that it is less the often-lamented emulation than the interpretation, which stands in the foreground in this performance. Rather, the two protagonists commit themselves to a chamber-music-like reading, which is distinguished by the dynamically moderate intonation of the orchestra and the slender tone of the soloist throughout.

An ever-welcome encore is found on side two with Bruch’s Kol Nidrei, performed with verve and a good portion of romantic, melting sweetness, which allows this evergreen to flourish.

"...Regardless of which performance you may love, nothing will come close to the sound Mercury has captured at Wembley with this recording. Originally a 35mm recording, Willem Makkee, utilizing Wilma Cozart Fine's 1960 two-track mix downs, has once again, delivered a recording we all should treasure, and in by far the best, readily available sound...Top Recommendation and a must own recording!" - Richard Foster, Hi-Fi+  www.hifiplus.com 

Musicians:
Janos Starker, cello
London Symphony Orchestra
Antal Dorati, conductor

Engineer  – Robert Fine

Selections: 

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104

1. Allegro 
2. Adagio ma non troppo 
3. Finale (Allegro moderato) 


Max Bruch (1838 - 1920)
4. Kol Nidrei, Op.47
    Adagio on Hebrew Melodies for Cello and Orchestra (Adagio ma non troppo)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
5. Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op.33

 

Dvorak - Janos Starker - Cello Concerto in B Minor : Antal Dorati - 180g LP

 

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At the beginning of the ‘90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the reissue policy was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC Compact Classics, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and others, including of course Speakers Corner, all maintained a mutual, unwritten code of ethics: we would manufacture records sourced only from analogue tapes. 
 
Vinyl’s newfound popularity has led many other companies to jump on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source from which to master: CDs, LPs, digital files and even MP3s. 
 
Even some who do use an analogue tape source employ a digital delay line, a misguided ’80s and ‘90s digital technology that replaces the analogue preview head originally used to “tell” the cutter head in advance what was about to happen musically, so it could adjust the groove “pitch” (the distance between the grooves) to make room for wide dynamic swings and large low frequency excursions. Over time analogue preview heads became more rare and thus expensive. 
 
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In addition, we admit to having one digital recording in our catalogue: Alan Parsons’ “Eye in the Sky”, which was recorded digitally but mixed to analogue tape that we used to cut lacquers. 
 
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