Triple/Double concertos by Beethoven and Brahms Performed by Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose and Eugene Istomin
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COMPOSERS: Beethoven,Brahms
LABELS: Do Re Mi
ALBUM TITLE: Beethoven • Brahms
WORKS: Triple/Double concertos
PERFORMER: Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose, Eugene Istomin; Cleveland Orchestra/Szell
CATALOGUE NO: DHR 8047 (1966/69)
A bronchial audience, poor tuning and crude edits marr these live Cleveland concerts. Stern is prone to wild swoons and blowsy phrasing in the Beethoven; Rose is magisterial in Brahms’s Double.
Helen Wallace
Authors
Helen Wallace is the Artistic and Executive Director of Kings Place, a concert hall in King's Cross, London, and the former editor of BBC Music Magazine and The Strad Magazine.