Toru Kawakami, Iku Miwa Brahms & Franck

Between the two great responsibilities of an artist, renewal and continuity, this recording certainly offers well-known pages, but under a lighting probably unprecedented: to our knowledge, these chorales of C. Franck and J. Brahms had indeed never found themselves side by side interlaced on the same album. Yet, even if many aspects oppose them, the common points between these two works are not lacking. Although it refers to very different realities, the similar title of "chorale" is the most obvious link.

A total of 63 tracks, over 11 hours of recording. Recordings with such renowned conductors as Brahms: No. 3 (Rattle), Schumann: No. 4 (Harnoncourt), Saint-Saëns: No. 3 (Mehta), Dvorak: From the New World (Kempe), Brahms: No. 2 (Keilbert), Schumann: No. 3 (Tenstedt), Mendelssohn: No. 2 (Sawallisch), Bruckner: No. 7 (Barenboim), etc. Recorded between 1951 and 2008.

A total of 63 tracks, over 11 hours of recording. Recordings with such renowned conductors as Brahms: No. 3 (Rattle), Schumann: No. 4 (Harnoncourt), Saint-Saëns: No. 3 (Mehta), Dvorak: From the New World (Kempe), Brahms: No. 2 (Keilbert), Schumann: No. 3 (Tenstedt), Mendelssohn: No. 2 (Sawallisch), Bruckner: No. 7 (Barenboim), etc. Recorded between 1951 and 2008.

Jacqueline Du Pre - The Complete Warner Recordings [23CDs Box Set] (2022)
MP3 320 Kbps | Run Time: 22:00:42 | 2.95 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Jacqueline du Pré was recognized during her brief prime as one of the supreme cellists of the 20th century, with an intense commitment and a well-honed technical mastery to back up her heaven-sent talents. She seemed to inhabit every piece she played and the public responded joyfully to her interpretations of such concertos as the Elgar and the Schumann, as well as the sonatas of Beethoven, Brahms, Franck et al. She was also at the centre of an extraordinary group of young friends who set the classical musical agenda for the 1960s. The way her career was snatched away from her by a remorseless illness, leading to her early death, has inevitably cast a romantic glow over her life story. So it is salutary to visit or revisit this treasury of her recordings - almost all of them painstakingly remastered from the original tapes, and including previously unissued performances - and remind ourselves just how great she was.