Prokofiev Violin Concertos Mintz

Serge Prokofiev - The Violin Concertos
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Shlomo Mintz / Claudio Abbado
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Label/Cat#: Deutsche Grammophon 410 524-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1984
Genre: Classical | Style: Modern

Claudio Abbado has a highly-developed feeling for Prokofiev's sound world. (…) it is Abbado that casts the strongest spell. Throughout both concertos textures are more delicately coloured, dynamic nuances scrupulously observed and there are feather-light string Sonorities. (…) the engineers produce a beautifully refined and homogeneous balance and (save for the fact that the soloist is a shade larger than life, albeit not so much as Perlman for HMV), it is very impressive indeed. There is plenty of space round the instruments and the sound is truthful.

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