Stravinsky Chamber
Posted by Martin Walker on May 14, 2020, 10:54 am
Edited by board administrator May 14, 2020, 12:17 pm
I was very interested to read Michael Wilkinson's review of chamber works by Stravinsky today, and of those in particular the Duo Concertante, as it has long been one of my very favourite works by the Russian master - and I can concur wholeheartedly with Michael's remark about the work's exceptional profundity. The Dushkin recording is very fine and idiomatic, I agree, and there are also eloquent recordings by Kaufman and Gitlis- but the recording that first captured my heart was that by Szigeti accompanied by Stravinsky himself in 1945. It remains one of my desert-island discs: I would recline on the sand at night and look at the stars while listening. For a long time I only had a musty tape from the radio (now gone missing), then I discovered this recording in the wonderful Szigeti 10 disc box (Intense Media - for what that's worth), probably no longer available, but who knows -happy hunting!
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