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Misha Elman & Zara Nelsova, Violin & Cello Concertos



Cat.No.:93651EAN Code:5028421936512Format:2 CDLabel:Brilliant Classics

Composer: Bruch, Wienawski, Lalo & Saint-SaensGenre:Classical

Performed by:
Mischa Elman (violin) and Zara Nelsova (cello)

Additional information:
This month’s other Retrospective release also derives from superb-sounding Decca tapes of the early 1950s.

The musical sense and sensitivity of Sir Adrian Boult made him a renowned accompanist, one who could accommodate the caprice and fantasy of soloists while maintaining a strong, forthright orchestral texture. Here he partners two brilliant but often-overlooked musicians in virtuosic Romantic concertos.

Mischa Elman was a pupil of the great pedagogue Leopold Auer, prized for his rich, sensuous and infinitely expressive tone; in his day he was a superstar of the violin, selling over two million records.

Zara Nelsova latterly became better-known as a teacher (she died in 2002), but her personality and command as an interpreter were considerable; she was especially renowned as a sympathetic performer of new music, working closely with composers such as Bloch, Barber and Hugh Wood.

* Unique coupling of these popular Romantic works
* Newly remastered for this issue
* Superb Decca recordings

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Other information

- Recording in 1988

- Booklet notes

- 'Mintz plays the piece with fine panache: his treatment of the gorgeous, lilting secondary theme of the first movement is tenderly seductive, while the Scherzo dances with a delicious feathery weightlessness, its lyrical strain enticingly Carmenesque. The habanera rhythms of the Intermezzo are certainly touched with G string voluptuousness but, again, there is an element of restraint, which shows the true artist not overplaying his hand' Gramophone March 1992