Igor Markevitch Tschaikovsky

Markevitch Conducts Stravinsky and Prokofiev's Ballets (EMI)
EAC 099pb4 Rip | APE+CUE, LOGs | 2 CD | 72:18 + 75:28min
557 MB | 300 dpi PDF Complete Scans
Genre: Classical - 20th Century | Label: EMI Classics

Hi again. I hope you enjoy this extraordinary recording on Stravinsky's Le sacre, one of the top range despite is 50 years old! The Prokofiev's are great too incluidng the less recorded suite of Le Pas d'acier.

The longest work on this CD is Psaume, written by the 21 year old Igor Markevitch, who stopped composing rather young in favour of a successful carreer as conductor. Next to this work Psalms by Zemlinsky, Bloch and Korngold are recorded.

Dimitry Markevitch - Bach: Six Suites For Cello Vol 1 (1992)
EAC Rip | FLAC+CUE+LOG | 282 MB | no scans
MP3 CBR 320kbps | 158 MB
Baroque Cello | Label: Gallo | 69:12

Dimitry Markevitch (1923 - 2002) was a Russian concert cellist, researcher, teacher and musicologist. He studied under Gregor Piatigorsky and founded the Institut de Hautes Etudes Musicales (IHEM) in Switzerland. His brother, Igor Markevitch, was an orchestral conductor.Markevitch rediscovered several important manuscripts, including Westphal and Kellner transcriptions of several Bach Suites, and published his own edition of the Suites, playing all six in recital at Carnegie Hall in New York in 1964. He was one of the first people to champion "authentic" instrumental techniques and played a baroque cello for pieces composed before the 19th century.

A limited-edition 55-CD set of legendary and critically acclaimed recordings celebrating the famous PHILIPS heritage. An alliance of great artistry and superb sound. Classic-status albums spanning over half a century of recording and showcasing a wealth of international talent.
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The first comprehensive edition containing the entire of Clara Haskil's recordings for the Decca, Philips, Deutsche Grammophon and Westminster labels. The 17-CD set is released to mark the 50th anniversary (6 December 1960) of the death of the great Romanian-born pianist. The accompanying booklet also includes an infrormative article on Haskil "A prodigy of nature" by piano specialist Jeremy Siepmann.

Romanian pianist Clara Haskil began her career as a child prodigy at the Bucharest Conservatory under Richard Robert at age 7, making her debut at the age of 10. Haskil ultimately graduated from Alfred Cortot's class at the Paris Conservatoire at 15 with the Prémier Prix to her credit. By the age of 18, however, Haskil was forced to endure the first of many physical setbacks that would hold back her career, in this case an attack of meningitis that kept her in a body cast for four years. Haskil did recover, making her New York debut in 1924 and her London debut in 1926.