Collector’s Items on The Final Five

Posted on Jan 23, 2013

Russell Brandon dedicates his 295th to 300th programs to a short series called THE FINAL FIVE (Wed 2000, Sat 1400) — Collector’s Items performances of major works in the repertoire, including Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, Liszt’s Piano Sonata, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Schumann’s Piano Concerto, Brahms and Bruckner Symphonies and more. Artists include pianists Shura Cherkassky, Vladimir Horowitz, Rudolf Firkušný; conductors Igor Markevitch, Jascha Horeinstein, Evgeny Svetlanov; singers Regine Crespin, Lisa Della Casa.