tonight dear friends leave a CD dedicated to Michael. Sorry, dear friend, that is not as you have in your LP records, keep looking despite the Rococo Variations. For now we are left with the CD submitted, a true wonder about the quality of the work and that of the interpreters.
The beautiful, wonderful and incredible Dvořák Violin Concerto may not have reached the place in the repertoire that I think deserves its own qualities. It is of incredible beauty, a peerless musicality and finesse. The Violin Concerto was composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1879 and originally dedicated to Joachim. Fnalizaron had numerous changes to the version of 1882 and apparently the rift with Joachim. The concert was released on 14 octubre1883 by Frantissek Ondricek in Prague who also gave the premiere in Vienna and London. Today it remains an important work in the violin repertoire while less valued than their Concert for Cello and Piano and also had a lesser esteem than other parts dedicated to the same instrument. However it is a beautiful work in direct succession of the works of classical and romantic period with added traditional folk elements. A beautiful first movement, jumping, danceable, highly technical continuum refers to the second filled with gorgeous lyricism, solumne and sweet at the same time. The third movement of his Slavonic Dances mode is cool, happy, dancer, rhythmic and virtuosic at both the solo instrument and in the orchestra. In short, a work worthy of careful listening., With much musical value and a huge dose of musical beauty, sound and emotion.
In this CD we also have some truly exceptional performers. Isaac Stern is perhaps the best technique violinist who was among his contemporaries on par with the great Oistrakh. In many of his recordings, at least for my taste, is so technical that lost soul (which was always but often without giving out). In this interpretation, perhaps because of the exceptional leadership of Ormandy is achieved glimpse the soul music of the great Stern. Is superb, full of power, fine, an unsurpassed musicianship, manages to convey feeling, solemnity, tenderness, freshness, joy without leaving perfection in execution. Ormandy took the reins of a powerful Philadelphia Orchestra, wonderfully charming, perfect, blended, warm and sensational.
The second work presented is the proud and never sufficiently weighted Cello Concerto, perhaps the best page ever written for this instrument and the orchestra. The work has great references in the recording history, Szell-Fournier, Bernstein-Maisky, Celibidache, Du Pré, etc. but this approach a great Ormandy, accurate and unrestrained by the beauty and complicity of the American cellist Leonard Rose (a great musician trained at the Curtis Institute, cellist with the NBC, Cleveland and New York) is perceived as unique. Loudness shocking, rapport, rhythm, melody, a beautiful solo sound and sound fine sedated impressively orchestral perfect. The result is a wonderful interpretation, warm, emotional, soft, beautiful, rich, nuanced and colorful. A jewel, a gem.
I hope you enjoy this wonderful CD. It is a good example of how to make music of the past half century, musicians with heart and soul amen technique. Enjoy it Miguel.
Dvorák Violin Concerto and Cello * **
Ormandy, Stern, Rose
Philadelphia Orchestra
Recordings: March 22, 1965 * and 24 November 1963 **
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