Dvorak Violoncello Concerto/Bruch Kol Nidrei /JanosStarker ( 180g HQ vinyl LP )

Release date: 2005/2016 (Originally recorded in 1962)

2016 German reissue HQ vinyl LP - 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 Fines 1960 twotrack mix downs has once again delivered a recording we all should treasure and in by far the best readily available soundTop Recommendation and a must own recording.

Stickered & sealed picture sleeve.

Tracks:
Cello Concerto In B Minor, Opus 104 Composed By – Dvorak   
A1     1. Allegro     15:00
A2     2. Adagio Ma Non Troppo     11:07

B1     3. Finale. Allegro Moderato     11:40
B2     Kol Nidrei, Opus 47--Composed By – Bruch

Credits:
    Cello – Janos Starker
    Conductor – Antal Dorati
    Design [Cover] – George Maas
    Orchestra – London Symphony Orchestra
    Photography By [Cover] – Wesley Bowman Studio, Inc.

The outstanding success of Speakers Corners release of Bach s Cello Suites performed by Janos Starker has encouraged them to follow this up with a no less important interpretation of Dvoraks 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 oftenlamented emulation than the interpretation which stands in the foreground in this performance Rather the two protagonists commit themselves to a chambermusiclike reading which is distinguished by the dynamically moderate intonation of the orchestra and the slender tone of the soloist throughout An everwelcome 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

Janos Starker and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati

Recording July 1962 at Wembley Town Hall London by CR Fine and Robert Eberenz
Production Wilma Cozart