classical music: Paul Tortelier

classical music: Paul Tortelier

classical music:

Paul Tortelier

Paul Tortelier Plays Bach: Complete Cello Suites
Paul Tortelier

Video Artists Int'l, 2008

Paul Tortelier

Paul Tortelier

EMI Classics, 2006

Hark & Hear the Angel Sing
Casals once remarked: " When Tortelier is playing, his cello speaks". After seeing this film, you will see why Tortelier is fairly and squarely is one of the greatest cellists of the century and why De Pru went all the way to Paris to study with him even after she ...

Classical Dreams: Music to Inspire

Samuel Barber, Gregorian Chant, ...

EMI Classics, 2001

If stranded on an island and had one disc...
I'd be tempted to make this the one, and I own over 2,000. I agree with what has been said above, but have a few thoughts of my own. I live near a major city with a known orchestra. Why are classical audienced declining? Maybe they're overplaying hackneyed works, ...

Best Classics 100 Volume 2

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jacqueline du Pré, ...

Angel Records, 2006

Excellent listening
I purchased Volume 1 and 2 at the same time and in the short time I have had them I have listened to all selections at least once and some twice or more and my conclusion is that this is an excellet buy and addition to your music library. Selections in Vol 2 are less ...

Sarabande: Baroque Favorites

Yehudi Menuhin, Andrei Gavrilov, ...

EMI Classics, 2004

Real music!
In the era of hip-hop, it's a pleasure to listen to sophisticated, romantic music... and with no lyrics. I play the entire disk over and over at a low volume... all night long.

Bach: Cello Suites

Paul Tortelier, Johann Sebastian Bach

EMI Classics, 2004

A top tier interpretation
I would like to clear up a confusion that may exist with regard to this recording. Tortelier made two recordings of the Bach Cello Suites: one in 1961 and one in 1983. The one that appears on this recording is the latter. The album liner notes make this perfectly ...

Dvorak: Cello Concerto/Brahms: Double Concerto - Paul Tortelier, Yehudi Menuhin, Andre Previn, Paavo Berglund

Dvorak, Brahms, ...

EMI Classics, 2003

Yet Another Brilliant Budget Buy
Don't you just love it when classic recordings get reissued on CD at a budget price! Such is the case with this title in EMI's "Encore" series featuring Dvorak's Cello Concerto and Brahms' Double Concerto. I had previously owned this account of the Dvorak via the old ...

100 Best Adagios
Gautier Capuçon, Paul Tortelier, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

Pablo Casals: Festivals at Prades Vol. 1

de Los Angeles, Horszowski, ...

Music & Arts Program, 2003

Treasure!
When I first heard this set, I thought to myself: now I know how Howard Carter felt when he looked for the first time into Tutankhamen's newly-excavated tomb. Maybe you know the story: As his colleagues broke the seal on the long-undiscovered tomb's final door, Carter ...

Funeral Music

Elisabeth Graf, Marcos Fink, ...

EMI Classics, 2005

Beautiful
I know, you think funeral music, what? But, these are beautiful classical pieces with a more somber tone. I can listen to it all day. It's a two disc set, and even includes Agnus Dei, which is AKA the vocal rendition of Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber.

Unforgettable Classics: Cello

Jacqueline du Pré, Mstislav Rostropovich, ...

Classics for Pleasur, 1999

Noisy orchestras smothering the cello
I am utterly mystified at the apparent popularity of this item. In many of the pieces the sound of the cello is utterly overwhelmed by its accompaniment. If you want pure cello, look elsewhere. If you want generic orchestral music which happens to include a cello or ...

Walton: Symphonies 1 & 2, Cello Concerto, etc

William Walton, André Previn, ...

EMI Classics, 1999

FEW ALTONIAN ALTERNATIVES TO THIS RELEASE!
Yet another gem in the budget firmament: A riveting "two-fer" from the EMI Double Forte catalogue, completely cost efficient, fully-packed with absolutely prime Walton--- no, make that essential Walton--- top-notch performances of each and every work, and excellent ...

Strauss: Don Quixote; Till Eulenspiegel

Paul Tortelier, Richard Strauss, ...

Testament UK, 2003

Great Strauss!
I was happy to find this performance available on CD. My LP copy was getting a bit scratchy, and although I managed to transfer it to CD and deleted the serious clicks and pops, I wanted a REALLY clean copy, so I was willing to pay the premium price of a Testament ...

The Recorded Cello: The History of the cello on record, Vol. 2
Adolphe Frezin, Alfred Newberry, ...

Pearl, 1993

Franz Schubert: Quintet/Symphony No.5

Pablo Casals, Paul Tortelier, ...

Sony, 1994

Unmatched excellence
I became familiar with this extraordinary piece of music--very possibly the single best work ever written for a string quintet--when I was 12 or so, and have loved it ever since. While my introduction came through a live performance, I was soon listening to this ...