{"product_id":"mendelssohn-dvorak-violin-concerto-in-e-minor-64","title":"Mendelssohn \/ Dvorak: Violin Concerto in E Minor 64 - COMPACT DISCS","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eViolin Concerto in E Minor 64\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eMendelssohn \/ Dvorak\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eAudite\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eCOMPACT DISCS\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e4022143956460\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eClassical\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2018-09-07\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         His vigorous, intensive tone; his unsentimental, straightforward playing; his boundless virtuosity: these are the trademarks of Nathan Milstein, a violin giant of the last century. This album features two Lucerne concert recordings from the 1950s, issued here for the first time, featuring the violin concertos of Felix Mendelssohn and Antonín Dvorák, displaying \"Nathan the Great\" at the height of his art. Milstein had a particular fondness for Dvorák's A minor concerto: in his performance of August 1955, conducted by Ernest Ansermet, the music is ablaze, everything is highly charged. The Mendelssohn concerto was another favorite which Milstein recorded several times. His Lucerne performance of August 1953 alongside kindred spirit Igor Markevitch seems unusual even today. Milstein's tone is piercingly intensive, relentless, unsentimental and yet consumed with grief: high-octane music-making. Added to that are fast tempi, a sinewy tone and razor-sharp accuracy in the realization of filigree figurations. All this seems positively modern. But for exactly that reason Milstein met with a sense of disconcertment from certain contemporaries. Although considered \"capable of magical things upon a violin\", his playing was also, at times, regarded as overly cool. Milstein performed at the Lucerne Festival from 1949 until 1966.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAudio Sample:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n                                           \u003ci\u003eAll soundclips are provided by Tidal and are for illustrative purposes only. For some releases, the tracks listed may not accurately represent the tracks on the physical release.\u003c\/i\u003e\n                                           \u003cbr\u003e\n                                           \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.tidal.com\/albums\/91826076\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width:100%;height:700px\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Mendelssohn \/ Dvorak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32781410828359,"sku":"36630066","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/3820910.jpg?v=1747798674","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/mendelssohn-dvorak-violin-concerto-in-e-minor-64","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}