Nos anos 50 o violoncelista Húngaro Janos Starker (1924-2013) era já uma lenda e principal violoncelista da Chicago Symphony Orchestra conduzida por Reiner. O produtor Walter Legge da EMI tornou possível a Starker gravar as suas obras essenciais entre elas esta gravação do concerto de Dvorak, realizada no Kingsway Hall de Londres em 1956, quese tornou um LP extremamente coleccionável.

• Hi-Q Records Supercuts
• Vinil Audiófilo 180 Gramas
• Corte a partir das Master Tapes Originais Analógicas da EMI
• Masterizado nos Estúdios Abbey Road
• Arte e grafismo da capa original

"Corte nos Estúdios Abbey Road a partir das Master Tapes Originais Analógicas num lathe Neumann VMS82 alimentado com um sinal prévio através de um deck Studer A80 especialmente modificado com uma cabeça de avanço especial, permitindo realizar um corte num processo completamente analógico. Prensagem realizada com as máquinas originais da EMI pela The Vinyl Factory em Hayes, Inglaterra."

As the Telegraph obituary put it: 'Starker possessed a phenomenal technique. His bow attacked the strings with both a ravishing intensity and a deep, biting edge. He was equally startling to watch, his piercing black eyes glaring out from beneath deep black eyebrows.' But he wasn't all scary – many a recital programme involved him performing in short sleeves, puffing on a cigarette (he smoked 60 a day) and sipping scotch, interspersed with sharing his low opinions on conductors.

In the original October 1957 mono review in GRAMOPHONE: Lionel Salter somewhat grudgingly conceded that Starker's Dvořák was "undeniably a great performance..." but by the time the stereo version was reviewed in January 1959, he seemed more enthusiastic: "Starker's playing is of great virtuosity and often of great poetry..." and concluded the LP was "certainly among the leading recorded performances of this wonderful concerto."

Lista de Faixas:

Lado A
Dvořák: Concerto in B Minor, Op.104
1. First Movement: Allegro
2. Second Movement: Adagio ma non troppo

Lado B
Dvořák: Concerto in B Minor, Op.104 (contd)
1. Third Movement: Finale: Allegro moderato – Andante – Allegro vivo

Fauré
2. Élégie, Op.24

Janos Starker ('cello)

Philharmonia Orchestra
Walter Susskind

Recorded in stereo on 11, 12, 16 & 17 July 1956, Kingsway Hall, London. Produced by the legendary Walter Legge and engineered by Robert Gooch & Michael Grafton-Green.

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