Dvorak - Cello Concerto [Fournier/Szell-Berliner Philharmoniker]Here's a lovely coupling of probably the two most popular Cello Concertos, played by the Frenchman Pierre Fournier, who died in 1986, these recording were made in the early [Dvorak] and late [Elgar] sixties, and yet the sound is tremendously good, even though they're analogue recordings, they could easily pass for more recently recorded.
In my mind the booklet artwork is wonderful, called 'Pastoral Landscape' by Mick Durrant, a nice symmetric painting, nice and stark, with lovely colours, enhances this re-issue of these Concertos.
The central Adagio movement is truly bittersweet, lovely and gorgeous sounding one moment, but melancholy and sad another,
Here's Pierre Fournier playing the second movement on YouTube, with Celibidache conducting.
