Antonin Dvorák's Cello Concerto is for its instrument the equivalent of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (i.e., the most popularly performed and recorded). Therefore, almost every cello soloist will record it at least once, usually relatively early, in their career. Zuill Bailey's recording of the concerto comes from a 2011 concert performance with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Although one might immediately be tempted to dismiss this orchestra as provincial, it actually stands up well under conductor Jun Märkl as ...
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Antonin Dvorák's Cello Concerto is for its instrument the equivalent of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (i.e., the most popularly performed and recorded). Therefore, almost every cello soloist will record it at least once, usually relatively early, in their career. Zuill Bailey's recording of the concerto comes from a 2011 concert performance with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Although one might immediately be tempted to dismiss this orchestra as provincial, it actually stands up well under conductor Jun Märkl as accompanist to Bailey's playing. It has a clean sound, and its ensemble work is precise. Its level of expression in the more exciting passages is almost on a par with Bailey's, although in the more lyrical, quiet passages, Märkl seems to keep closer control over it. Bailey is first-rate throughout the concerto, making the virtuosic ending of the first movement and the last movement compelling, and making his instrument sing in the second movement. In the finale, the cello notes head for...
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