SACD, Praga (label)
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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 3
Svjatoslav Richter (piano)
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Yevgeny Mravinsky
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Saint-Saëns: Concertos
Emil Gilels (piano), Isaac Stern (violin), Msistlav Rostropovitch (cello), Arthur Grumiaux (violin)
Societe des concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Concerts Lamoureux, André Clutyens, Eugene Ormandy, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Jean Fournet
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Süsskind & Boult conduct Dohnanyi
Janos Starker (cello), Ernö Dohnanyi (piano)
RPO, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Walter Süsskind
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Dinu Lipatti: The definitive programme
Dinu Lipatti (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra & Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
This collection includes two concertos, his 1948 studio Schumann (brilliant, though not ideally balanced, with timpani far too distant) and a fine Mozart K467, live from the 1950 Lucerne Festival. — More…
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Falla: El sombrero de tres picos & other works
Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Clara Haskil (piano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Concerts Lamoureux, Ernest Ansermet, Igor Markevitch
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Goldmark & Brahms: Violin Concertos
Nathan Milstein (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Harry Blech & Anatole Fistoulari
Intense performances, although the Brahms catches fire only when Milstein appears. He makes the Goldmark seem a more substantial work than it is. — More…
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 & The Bells
Elizaveta Shumskaya (soprano), Mikhail Dovenmann (tenor) & Alexei Bolshakov (bass), Van Cliburn (piano)
Moscow Philharmonic & Russian Republic Capella, Symphony of the Air, New York, Kirill Kondrashin
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Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1, Variations on a theme by Handel
Claudio Arrau (piano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik
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Mstislav Rostropovich: A Romantic Portrait
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
two of Mstislav Rostropovich’s best concerto recordings … his control of dynamics is supreme. — More…
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Symphony No. 6
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Yevgeny Mravinsky
