Concerto for Cello and Orchestra

by Antonín Dvořák

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1962
  • Label: Deutsche Grammophon
  • Country: Czechoslovakia
  • Community rating: 4.19/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This highly regarded 1962 pressing typically features Pierre Fournier accompanied by George Szell and the Berlin Philharmonic, tackling Dvořák's monumental cello showpiece. The recording is famed for its sweeping romantic intensity and profound structural discipline, elevating the complex Bohemian folk melodies within a massive orchestral framework. It is widely considered one of the definitive interpretations of the romantic cello repertoire.

Genres

Descriptors: orchestral, symphonic, strings, melodic, virtuosic

Tracklist

  1. 1st Movement: Allegro (3:18)
  2. 2nd Movement: Adagio Ma Non Troppo
  3. 2nd Movement: Adagio Ma Non Troppo (concluded)
  4. 3rd Movement: Finale (Allegro Moderato)

Credits

  • Antonín Dvořák - primary artist, composed by
  • Tibor De Machula - primary artist, cello
  • Rudolf Moralt - primary artist, conductor
  • Gary Karr - Primary Artist

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