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DISCID=4110ba06
DTITLE=Boston Symphony Orchestra - Conducted by Charles Munch / Antonin Dvorak & William Walton: Cello Concertos (Hybrid SACD)
DYEAR=1960
DGENRE=Classical
TTITLE0=Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104 - Allegro
TTITLE1=Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104 - Adagio ma non troppo
TTITLE2=Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104 - Allegro moderato
TTITLE3=William Walton: Cello concerto - Moderato
TTITLE4=William Walton: Cello concerto - Allegro appassionato
TTITLE5=William Walton: Cello concerto - Tema ed improvvisazioni: Lento; Allegro moderato
EXTD=Antonin Dvork & William Walton: Cello Concertos (Hybrid SACD)\nBoston Symphony Orchestra - Charles Munch Conducting\nGregor Piatigorsky, Cellist\n2005 BMG Classics\n\nRCA Living Stereo LP Originally Released 1960\nCD Edition Released July 30, 2002\
EXTD=nHybrid SACD Released January 25, 2005\n\nAmazon.com Editorial Review\nGregor Piatigorsky was a superb cellist, best remembered today for this partnership with Daniel Heifetz in a brilliant series of chamber music recordings for RCA. This brilliant 
EXTD=recording eloquently attests both to his talent and his capacity for self-renewal (the Walton was new music when this recording was made). A large part of the disc's attractions comes from Charles Munch's exciting accompaniments, and the fabulous pl
EXTD=aying of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A fine memento of a great artist. --David Hurwitz \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nA Great Recording plus Overwhelming Music, November 30, 2003 \nReviewer: BLee "bpslee" (HK)\nDefinitely the best Dvorak availab
EXTD=le. Not only is the cello a wonder, the support from the orchestra under Munch is a wonder too, and so is the recorded sound. The whole piece is as dramatic and poetic as any great symphony, and it's overwhelmingly exciting, and the credits should b
EXTD=e shared by both the cello and the orchestra. So is his Walton. A great treasure indeed. \n\nSure Feuermann was a miracle. Toscanini ( a cellist before becoming a conductor) amongst others saw him as the greatest cellist of the century; Heifetz was 
EXTD=patient enough to have waited for him during a recording session while the latter played pingpong with his pupil, and even Casals opined that Feuremann was the greatest artist of the time. BUT, the recording is rather primitive: even a few years ear
EXTD=lier than Casals'. As to Casals himself, there were so many causes for his greatness, which didn't have to come from this piece or any other pieces at all.\n\nI haven't had a chance to hear Totelier play this piece, but I have heard Rostrospovich an
EXTD=d Starker. Readers have to hear for themselves to see if they agree that Piatigorsky have outshone them, albeit that technically, in the narrow sense, they have might have an even greater command of the instrument. Horowitz ranked him the greatest c
EXTD=ellist after Casals, whereas Furtwangler handpicked him to chair the principal cellist of Berlin Philharmonic. I have heard Gutman play this piece in the flesh supported by the St Petersburg Orchestra: she has come close to him, but not quite, even 
EXTD=though she was supported by a better orchestra. The difference might have partly come from the conductor after all.\n\nFans of Ma Yo-yo or De Pru should perhaps lend their ears to this Maestro or else they don't know what they have missed. \n\nAmazo
EXTD=n.com Customer Review\nA major recording, August 29, 2000 \nReviewer: A music fan (Paris)  \nDvorak's cello concerto is an oft- performed and recorded work, but few are the artists who literally transfigure the score. Piatigorsky was probably one of
EXTD= the greatest cellists ever and he can be compared only to the best : Mainardi, Feuermann, Tortelier to name but a few. His interpretation is close to definitive and the BSO under Charles Munch is in its heyday.\n\nEven more interesting is Walton's 
EXTD=concerto : the recording here is the first ever, made a few days after the world premiere by the same interpreters. If you had to have only one interpretation of this work, it would be this one. YEAR: 1960
EXTT0=Allegro\n
EXTT1=Adagio ma non troppo\n
EXTT2=Finale - Allegro moderato\n
EXTT3=Moderato\n
EXTT4=Allegro appassionato\n
EXTT5=Terma ed improvvisazioni: lento, \nallegro, moderato\n
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