Concertos Cello & Orchestra
) | Label: MELODIYA Catalog: MELCD1002380 Format: CD GUTMAN KAGAN USSR STATE ACADEMIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAOne of the world’s best cellists, a USSR People’s Artist, and an owner of the State Prize of Russia, Natalia Gutman’s brightest artistic alliance was with her husband, the remarkable violinist Oleg Kagan (1946–90), a fine interpreter of classical and contemporary music. These 1981 Moscow recordings of Prokofiev’s E minor Cello Concerto, op. 125 and Johannes Brahms’ A minor Double Concerto, op. 102 feature Ms. Gutman individually and partnered with her late husband. Evgeny Svetlanov (Brahms) and Alexander Lazarev (Prokofiev) conduct the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra.  Price: $27.98 |