• 180 GRAM VINYL

• PURE ANALOGUE

• PRESSING FROM PALLAS - GERMANY

Janos Starker has found worthy fellow musicians in Antal Dorati and the London Symphony Orchestra. The conductor and soloist set a benchmark in how to work together as a team in concert in that it is less the often lamented emulation than the interpretation which stands in the foreground in this performance. Rather, the two protagonists commit themselves to a chamber-music-like reading which is distinguished by the dynamically moderate intonation of the orchestra and the slender tone of the soloist throughout.

An ever-welcome encore is found on side two with Bruch’s "Kol Nidrei", performed with verve and a good portion of romantic, melting sweetness which allows this evergreen to flourish.

PERSONNEL:

• Janos Starker - cello
• London Symphony Orchestra
• Antal Dorati - conductor

Recording: July 1962 at Wembley Town Hall, London

TRACKS:

• Antonín Dvorák (1841 - 1904)
• Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104
• 01. Allegro
• 02. Adagio ma non troppo
• 03. Finale (Allegro moderato)

• Max Bruch (1838 - 1920)
• 04. Kol Nidrei, Op.47 - Adagio on Hebrew Melodies for Cello and Orchestra (Adagio ma non troppo)

• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
• 05. Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op.33
• János Starker, London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorát