Friday, May 21, 2021

Tcahikovsky Festival, Part Two

 

This montage from our Podcast Vault revisits a post from May 20, 2011. It can be found in our archives at 
 http://archive.org/details/TcahikovskyFestivalPartTwo


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This week’s selection from the Podcast Vault is the second of a three-part series from the earliest days of our blog (almost exactly 10 years ago!), featuring the historic DG 1960 all-Mravinsky stereo recordings made withthe Leninngrad Philharmonic of Tchaikovsky’s last three “numbered” symphonies. These recordings were made in London, and showcase a true Russian rendition of these most Russian symphonies. The Fifth featured today stands out as one of my favourites among the ones I have in my collection – Karajan, Rostropovich, Maazel and Guido Cantelli.

Two other works are part of this montage; Stokowski conducts the fantasy overture inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and as final track, a singe movement from the Manfred Symphony, which we recently featured in its entirety in a montage that is still on the roster of our Podcasting channel.

It still made sense to me, as filler, to provide the complete performance by Riccardo Muti and the New Philharmonia Orchestra, available as part of the complete Mutiu cycle (link here  ) and as a single continuous track:



I think you will (still) love this music too.

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