classical music: Joel Krosnick

classical music: Joel Krosnick

classical music:

Joel Krosnick

Sibelius: Greatest Hits
Joel Krosnick, Ronald Leonard, ...

Sony, 1995

Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4 / Overture on Hebrew Themes

Sergey Prokofiev, Zubin Mehta, ...

Sony Classical, 1994

Best Prokofiev Recording Available
Yefim Bronfman & Zubin Mehta have joined forces to produce one of the best recordings of any Prokofiev work. In particular, the 2nd Piano Concerto is as fine a recording as you are ever likely to hear, of anything. Clear, clean, superbly performed and immaculately ...

Verdi/Sibelius: String Quartets

Joel Krosnick, Jean Sibelius, ...

Sony, 1992

Fine Performances of Unjustifiably Neglected Music
Verdi's quartet is his only piece of chamber music, and perhaps the only piece not featuring the human voice. Its lyricism is reminiscent of his operas, and Verdi shows no sign of discomfort with the restrictions of the quartet form. Sibelius, similarly, is known ...

Prokofiev: Greatest Hits

Joel Krosnick, Giora Feidman, ...

Sony, 1995

An excellent primer on the iconclastic Russian composer
I have to admit I was a bit disappointed there was nothing from Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3, which is what the Amy Irving character played in the film, "The Competition." I also think it is one of the iconoclastic composer's finest works. What you will find on ...

Dvorák: String Quartet No.12/Piano Quintet

Claus Adam, Joel Krosnick, ...

Sony, 1992

ravishing
One of the great works of chamber music played immaculately. Great sound given the age of the recording, and everything else about it -- the ensemble, the tempo, the dynamics -- is just right. With a piece as popular as this there is often the temptation for ...

Franz Schubert: Quintet, D. 956 (C major)

Bernard Greenhouse, Joel Krosnick, ...

Sony, 1990

From the review in Gramophone
"The performance of this great work is warm and flexible, and the ensemble with Bernard Greenhouse (until recently a member of the Beaux Arts Trio) as the extra cellist is admirable. I liked the way the long first movement's exposition repeat is observed and the ...

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor for Piano, Trumpet and Orchestra Op. 35; Concerto No. 2 in F ...

Dmitri Shostakovich

Sony, 1999

More of the Spectrum of Shostakovich
During the past two years the Los Angeles Philharmonic has been delighting audiences with a Shostakovich Festival and during that time frame the orchestra is performing all fifteen symphonies, most of the concerti and chamber works as well as the quartets by both ...

Schoenberg: Transfigured Night

Joel Krosnick, Yo-Yo Ma, ...

Sony, 1993

2 very distinct eras of Schoenberg...
This CD presents an opportunity to hear Schoenberg's justly famous and beautiful "Verklärte Nacht" in its original score for string sextet (the relatively more lush arrangement Schoenberg wrote for chamber orchestra - in 1917 and updated in 1943 - typically receives ...

Brahms: String Quartets, Opp. 51 & 67; Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115

Joel Krosnick, Charles Neidich, ...

Sony, 1995

A fabuluous recording
The Juilliard outdoes itself here. This is a measured, thoughtful rendition of Brahms' string quartets (plus a lovely clarinet/strings quintet.) From a technical point of view, the CDs shine...the sound is vivid, immediate...it sounds LIVE. If you like Brahms, ...

Elliott Carter: Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord; Sonata for Cello & Piano; Double Concerto for ...

Fred Sherry, Joel Krosnick, ...

Nonesuch, 1992

An outstanding introduction to a contemporary music giant
This disc collects three classic performances of major works from Elliott Carter's early maturity. The two sonatas date from the end of Carter's period of neo-classical writing, at a point where his music had started to achieve its trademark rhythmic complexity, though ...

Intimate Letters

Joel Krosnick, Alban Berg, ...

Sony, 1996

dramatic, fabulous 20th century chamber music
One doesn't have to know the history of Janacek's String Quartet # 1 to understand its meaning; upon the first hearing one is struck by the light/dark, man/woman tension, the violin's nervous anxiety, the cello's dark rage. It is a fascinating, brilliant piece, ...

Beethoven: String Quartet No13; String Quartet No16

Joel Krosnick, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Sony, 1997

Sublime
I still have the Julliard Quartet lp set of the Beethoven middle quartets -- and their much-acclaimed first set of the Bartok quartets among other fine lps -- but this is the first Julliard CD I have acquired. I was persuaded by the Gramophone review, which seemed to ...

Mozart: The 6 String Quintets; Clarinet Quintet

Joel Krosnick, Leslie Parnas, ...

Sony, 1991

See 3.
You don't tell us enough. I want to know who the extra viola is, and who plays the clarinet. This isn't a review of the recording, as you can see, but a review of YOU! (Read'complaint' for 'review'. And discount the stars; obviously I don't know yet.)

In The Shadow Of World War II: Cello Sonatas Composed In The Aftermath Of WWII
Joel Krosnick, Elliott Carter, ...

Arabesque Recordings, 1996

This disc is organized around the intriguing fact that during the one-year period from late 1948 to 1949, by odd coincidence, three important figures in twentieth century music just happened to compose cello sonatas. The three composers Poulenc, Prokofiev, and Carter, for their differences, were all experiencing the aftermath of World War II--and ...

Schubert: Trout Quintet, Death and the Maiden / Budapest Qt et al

Joel Krosnick, Mischa Schneider, ...

Sony, 1991

This CD contains the best Trout I know but by far!
You can find best versions of the Death and the Maiden . I mean , this performance is good but I recommend for instance two powerful and unforgettable versions . The first of one is from the fifties with the Konzerthaus of Vienna (I got the whole quartets set) and the ...