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Cello Concerto/Faure: Elegie For Cello And Orchestra

Dvorak/Walter Susskind/Starker

SKU: HIQLP045

Barcode: 5060218890454

20.00 £20.00
  • Genre: Classical
  • Label: Hi Q
  • Released Date: 17th April 2015
  • Buying Format:
    180g 1LP

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By the mid 1950s the Hungarian cellist, Janos Starker (1924-2013), was already a legend and principal cellist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Reiner. EMI producer Walter Legge arranged for Starker to record all the essential works in his repertoire and this stereo recording of the Dvorak concerto, made at London’s Kingsway Hall in 1956 has become a highly collectable LP, here freshly minted from the original stereo masters.

As the Telegraph obituary put it: ‘Starker possessed a phenomenal technique. His bow attacked the strings with both a ravishing intensity and a deep, biting edge. He was equally startling to watch, his piercing black eyes glaring out from beneath deep black eyebrows.’ But he wasn’t all scary – many a recital programme involved him performing in short sleeves, puffing on a cigarette (he smoked 60 a day) and sipping scotch, interspersed with sharing his low opinions on conductors.

Recorded in stereo on 11, 12, 16 & 17 July 1956, Kingsway Hall, London. Produced by the legendary Walter Legge and engineered by Robert Gooch & Michael Grafton-Green.

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Track Listings

Side 1
Anton Dvorak (1841-1904)
Concerto in B minor, Op. 104
1. First Movement: Allegro
2. Second Movement: Adagio ma non troppo

Side 2
Anton Dvorak (1841-1904)
Concerto in B minor, Op. 104
3. Third Movement: Finale: Allegro moderato – Andante – Allegro vivo
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
4. Elegie, Op. 24

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