Janos Starker - Live In Paris 1983 - Bach & Beethoven
Cello - János Starker
Piano - Alain Planès
1 LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g Virgin Vinyl
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Live
Record Press : Toyokasei in Japan
Label : Analogphonic
Original Label : INA
Recorded at the Studio 104, Maison de la Radio, Paris, November 18, 1983
Originally released in 1963 (as a CD)
Reissued in December 2023 (first time on vinyl)
Tracks:
Side A: LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN - CELLO SONATA NO.3 IN A MAJOR, OP. 691
1. Allegro ma non tanto
2. Scherzo. Allego molto
3. Adagio cantabile – Allegro vivace
Side B: J.S. BACH - SUITE NO. 2 IN D MINOR FOR CELLO SOLO, BWV 1008
1. Prelude
2. Allemande
3. Courante
4. Sarabande
5. Minuet
6. Gigue
Reviews :
"Janos Starker, one of the 20th century’s most renowned cellists, whose restrained onstage elegance was amply matched by the cyclone of Scotch, cigarettes and opinion that animated his offstage life, died on Sunday at a hospice in Bloomington, Ind. He was 88.
Indiana University, where he was a distinguished professor of music, announced his death.
A Hungarian-born child prodigy who later survived internment by the Nazis during World War II, Mr. Starker appeared, in the decades after the war, on the world’s most prestigious recital stages and as a soloist with the world’s leading orchestras. He was part of a vaunted triumvirate that included Gregor Piatigorsky (1903-76) and Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007), collectively the most celebrated cellists of the day.
He was also widely known through his more than 150 recordings, including one of Bach’s six suites for solo cello for which he won a Grammy Award in 1998.
Mr. Starker played several magnificent cellos during his career — including the “Lord Aylesford” Stradivarius of 1696, a 1707 Guarnerius and a 1705 instrument by the great Venetian maker Matteo Goffriller — but he nonetheless managed to resist the seductions of the instrument to which cellists can fall prey." The New York Times review by Margalit Fox.
Ratings :
Discogs : 5 / 5