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| Great Recordings Of The Century - Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Brahms: Double Concerto / Oistrakh, Rostropovich, Richter | 
 enlarge | Artists: David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich, Sviatoslav Richter, Herbert Von Karajan, George Szell
Creators: Mstislav Rostropovich, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, George Szell, Herbert Von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Cleveland Orchestra, Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh
Label: EMI Classics
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (25 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3974
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 66954
UPC: 724356695429
EAN: 0724356695429
ASIN: B00000I7VO
Release Date: March 9, 1999
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| Customer Reviews:
 Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Brahms: Double Concerto / Oistrakh, Rostropovich, Richter January 18, 2007
0 out of 14 found this review helpful
I knew this recording and I received what I was expecting. Delivery and condition was great. Thanks.
Beethoven? Brahms? Karajan? Oistrakh? Richter? Rostropovich? Szell? On One CD? Talk About Star Power! September 9, 2006
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
All those big names wouldn't mean a thing if the performances themselves were throw aways or showed little commitment, but that's hardly the case, this is probably the finest recordings of both works. Karajan and Richter for one had some rocky interpretative relations in their recording of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto on DG. That was not a great record, where both musical giants pull and push to try and get their way. So yes, in some ways this Beethoven Triple Concerto presents even more challenges because there are four minds, four egos pitted together in one piece of music and that's not counting the greatest ego, Beethoven himself! Luckily everyone melds beautifully together, the three Russian masters are at their best, with Rostropovich a stand out and shining brightly. Meanwhile Karajan, the Austrian master conductor gives them his usual, grand, lush orchestral backdrop via the Berlin Philharmonic. This is warm-hearted, generous music-making between four fearsomely talented musicians.
The Brahms Double Concerto is just as fine, now we have the two string instrumentalists side by side. Oistrakh and Rostropovich communicate wonderfully together in this major Brahms piece. Szell backs them up every step of the way with his precise yet passionate conducting of the Cleveland Orchestra. The EMI recording sounds very good too in both works and the price is quite nice. An outstanding bargain.
Glorious January 30, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The unbroken tradition of Russian string playing is well-represented on this disc. The Double Concerto is especially wonderful, even rapturous. The two players are beautifully meshed, and Szell and the Cleveland sound warm and emotive, which they sometimes did not, on records and "live". The sessions they recorded for EMI (including a wonderful Dvorak Eighth, far surpassing their recoridng for Masterworks), captured something that often was not well projected.
The remastering captures this warmth, with more brightness than my LP copy of the Brahms ever had, at least after the initial playings.
Brahms - Double Concerto October 28, 2005
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
It's interesting that there are quite a number of negative comments about this performance of the Beethoven here. I didn't dislike it, but it is true that I almost always jump straight to the Brahms' Double Concerto. The piece and the performance are beyond praise, quite frankly.
The same could be said of David Oistrakh. I know of nobody who can play Brahms and Beethoven as this Russian genius does: his performances of the violin concertos are -- adjective defying...
Do have a look at Oistrakh's performaces of Beethoven's violin concerto, either with Cluytens (perhaps not available now) or in the easily got hold of disc on Testament (Erhling). For the Brahms violin concerto there is also the other CD from EMI with Otto Klemperer from 1960, which is also great (but not a patch on this one. It does, howver an amazing performance of the Sinfonia Concertante, with Igor Oistrakh which is the stand-out performance on the CD.)
A blazing Triple Concerto, and that's saying something September 5, 2005
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
The Beethoven on this CD is a one-off, featuring three titans of Russian music. Richter hated Karajan and had lots of nasty things to say about playing under him on this occasion. You'd never know it. The Triple Concerto, thanks to its three solo parts, can sound ungainly and a bit of a throwback to concertante style in Haydn's day, but here there is a magical blending of fiery virtuosos, each out to prove to us that his part belongs to a masterpiece. Karajan's initial tmpo is a bit slow, but this pays off in the astonishing detail and interplay among the soloists. Bravos all around!
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