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2024-04-12 10:29:00
Turkey's leading orchestra, the German national youth orchestra plus ensembles from Tokyo, Prague, Vienna, Buenos Aires: 2024/25 Zurich International Orchestra Series at Cadogan Hall
[…] Darlington; Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Rachmaninov, Beethoven and Liszt.Moving to 2025, however, and we get some real highlights. First off, the German National Orchestra which, rather confusingly, is actually a youth orchestra, founded in 1969 and with players aged 14 to 19. Wayne Marshall conducts and plays the piano in Gershwin, Britten and Holst. The Prague Symphony Orchestra is next. The orchestra was founded in 1934 and originally played for Czech films but Václav Smetáček was chief conductor for 30 years, and later Jiří Bělohlávek was. Now that role is taken by Tomáš Brauner and he conducts a programme of Dvorak and Prokofiev. The visit from Turkey's leading the orchestra, the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra must be regarded as a real highlight [I heard them live in Istanbul in 2015, see my review, and look forward to hearing them again]. Their newly appointed artistic director, Carlo Tenan conducts them in […]
2020-12-16 01:00:00
The BNF Collection Part 3 (Stereo)
H, Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique F. Schubert: Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" L. van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 L. van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral" P. I. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique" A. Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" Orchestre des Concerts Colonne Pierre Dervaux Recorded/Published 1962 Maurice Ravel Daphnis et Chloe Alborada del Gracioso La Valse Orchestre des Concerts Colonne Pierre Dervaux Recorded/Published 1961 Giuseppe Verdi Preludes and Overtures La Traviata Acts I and III Les Vespres Siciliennes La Forza del Destino Nabucco London Symphony Orchestra Antal Dorati Recorded 1958 Johannes Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 Cello Sonata No. 2 Ludwig Hoelscher cello Jorg Demus piano Recorded 1972 Robert Schumann Piano Concerto Eugene Istomin piano Columbia Symphony Orchestra Bruno Walter Recorded 1961 […]
2020-12-12 00:00:00
The BNF Collection part 2
Ludwig van Beethoven 10 Piano Sonatas Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke Toccata Arabesque Etudes Symphoniques Yves Nat piano Recorded (mostly) 1955 Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3 Hildegard Rossel-Majdan contralto Vienna Festival Orchestra Charles Adler Recorded 1952 Robert Schumann Symphony No. 3 "Renish" Orchestre de la Societé des Concerts du Conservatoire Carl Schuricht Recorded 1952 J. S. Bach Goldberg Variations Jorg Demus piano Recorded 1953 P. I. Tchaikovsky Symphony No, 1 "Winter Daydreams" Prague Symphony Orchestra Vaclav Smetacek Recorded/Published 1962 Florent Schmitt String Quartet op, 112 Quatuor Champeil Recorded/Published 1958 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings Mozart, Strauss Mendelssohn, Bach, etc Herbert von Karajan Walter Susskind Gerald Moore Recorded aprox.1948-1960 […]
2018-01-29 02:49:56
Recently I have had many occasions to remark on the differences between a pickup orchestra full of excellent players (such as the Lucerne Festival Orchestra), and an excellent orchestra. The Prague Symphony Orchestra in the 1950s was certainly not one of the world’s great aggregations, but it played like a true, regularly constituted ensemble–and so […]
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