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Joshua Bell – Barber, Walton: Violin Concertos, Bloch: Baal Shem (1997)

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Joshua Bell – Barber, Walton: Violin Concertos, Bloch: Baal Shem (1997)

Joshua Bell – Barber, Walton: Violin Concertos, Bloch: Baal Shem (1997)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:07:59 | 305 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 000797002

A very light but very lovely disc of mid-twentieth century violin concertos, this 1996 recording by Joshua Bell with David Zinman directing the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra coupling the concertos of Samuel Barber and William Walton along with Baal Shem, the concerto-in-all-but-in-name by Ernest Bloch, may be for younger listeners a first choice among digital recordings.

Brodsky Quartet - New World Quartets: Dvořák, Barber, Gershwin, Copland, Brubeck (2014)

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Brodsky Quartet - New World Quartets: Dvořák, Barber, Gershwin, Copland, Brubeck (2014)

Brodsky Quartet - New World Quartets: Dvořák, Barber, Gershwin, Copland, Brubeck (2014)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:17:08 | 350 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog: CHAN 10801

There are enough new performances of American music by British and continental European groups to constitute a vogue, and this superb release by Britain's Brodsky Quartet makes a fine place to start with the trend in several respects. First there's a reading of the Dvorák String Quartet No. 12, Op. 96 ("American"), that could stand on its own as a reason for purchase. The Brodsky runs counter to type with this performance, which offers a relaxed, singing version of the music that accords well with the great performances of the Cello Concerto in B minor. Many quartets push the music and thus bring out its rhythmic structure, but that doesn't suffer in this version emphasizing the African-American-influenced melodic content that the composer himself pointed to in the work.

Anne Gastinel - Elgar, Barber: Cello Concertos (2003)

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Anne Gastinel - Elgar, Barber: Cello Concertos (2003)

Anne Gastinel - Elgar, Barber: Cello Concertos (2003)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 256 MB | 53:46
Genre: Classical | Label: Naive

Not since Yo-yo made his recording back in 1990 has there been such power and precision displayed in a recording of the Barber Cello Concerto, and she practically glides through phrases where other famous soloists (I'm looking at you, Kirschbaum) struggle to stay afloat. My favorite and, dare I say, the definitive performance of my favorite cello concerto.

Yo-Yo Ma - Barber: Cello Concerto, Britten: Symphony For Cello (1989)

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Yo-Yo Ma - Barber: Cello Concerto, Britten: Symphony For Cello (1989)

Yo-Yo Ma - Barber: Cello Concerto, Britten: Symphony For Cello (1989)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 62:02 | 245 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CBS Records | Catalog: 44900

Samuel Barber's cello concerto has long been considered the weak sister among his three concertos for solo instrument; this release may alter that perception. It was written in 1945, when he was thirty-five, a time in his life when he was still brimming with confidence about his music, not yet on the defensive against attacks received from many quarters, and not yet attempting to bring contemporary elements into his work. Some of the brouhaha was well-intentioned: Americans in the musical world naturally wanted our first internationally successful composer to represent us at our best, our newest and freshest; others decried his conservative romanticism out of personal jealousy at his wide acceptance.

Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, London Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Shostakovich - Barber, Shostakovich: Violin Concertos (1992)

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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, London Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Shostakovich - Barber, Shostakovich: Violin Concertos (1992)

Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, London Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Shostakovich - Barber, Shostakovich: Violin Concertos (1992)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 64:33 | 300 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 0777 7 54314 2 1

This EMI Angel release Barber & Shostakovich: Violin Concertos places a new package on a time-honored item, the Barber and Dmitry Shostakovich violin concerti as interpreted by violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg with the London Symphony Orchestra led by Maxim Shostakovich. It originally came out in 1992, and the original release, while it was no "Chant," proved a dependable seller. By reducing the price and putting it into a new package, EMI Angel might seem to be hoping to attract buyers who missed it the first time around, but this is a special case in that it is making available again what may have been the finest recording made by Salerno-Sonnenberg under the terms of her EMI contract.

Alexander Gilman - Barber, Korngold, Waxman, Williams: Works for Violin and Orchestra (2012)

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Alexander Gilman - Barber, Korngold, Waxman, Williams: Works for Violin and Orchestra (2012)

Alexander Gilman - Barber, Korngold, Waxman, Williams: Works for Violin and Orchestra (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 68:09 | 384 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Oehms Classics | Catalog: 799

Except for John Williams’s theme from Schindler’s List , the compositions on violinist Alexander Gilman’s program with Perry So conducting the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra all suffered a certain amount of neglect after their first performances and recordings. Isaac Stern (and Louis Kaufman and Robert Gerle) brought Samuel Barber’s concerto to the attention of listeners, and now it has just about entered the repertoire, and students adopt it for competitions. Alexander Gilman produces a glowing tone from his Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin, but the engineers don’t set him so far forward as Columbia’s did Isaac Stern; if Gilman plays with less ruddy energy, he more than compensates for it in subtlety and refinement.