{"id":463,"date":"2011-09-03T07:53:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T12:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2011-09-03T07:53:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T12:53:18","slug":"russian-orchestral-masterpieces-performed-by-french-orchestras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"Russian Orchestral Masterpieces performed by French Orchestras"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>KHCD-2011-075 (STEREO) – Russian Orchestral Masterpieces played by French Orchestras – Glinka: Ruslan and Lumilla Overture; Liadov: Fragment de l’Apocalypse Op. 66; Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini Op. 32 ; Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia – Igor Markevitch\/Lamoureux Orchestra; Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol – Andre Vandernoot\/L’ Orchestre De La Societe Des Concerts Du Conservatoire; Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien – Pierre Dervaux\/L’ Orchestre Des Concerts Colonne<\/a> – <\/strong>Three French orchestras are featured in this overview of well-know works by 19th<\/sup> century Russian masters. Igor Markevitch\u2019s white-hot interpretation of Tchaikovsky\u2019s \u201cFrancesca da Rimini\u201d from a1959 DGG recording clearly trounces his later 1967 version with the New Philharmonia. The other Markevitch-led selections receive admirable performances by the Lamoureux Orchestra. The Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol and the Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien were transcribed from a Command gold-label disc recorded in 1961, in wide-range 35mm-tape sonics. A great demo disc.<\/p>\n

I had always admired Igor Markevitch’s 1967 taping of Tchaikovsky’s “Francesca da Rimini”, first on a domestically released Philips PHP-series LP, then issued with of Philips’ CD set of Markevitch’s traversal of Tchaikovsky’s 6 Symphonies with the London Symphony from the early-mid 60s. I had not heard his 1959 DGG recording until this year, when I was fortunate to find a near-mint DGG LP. What a exhilarating performance! The Lamoureux Orchestra plays “Francesca” as I have never heard it before; it has become my favorite version. The other pieces on this CD reissue are just as exciting.<\/p>\n

Thanks for visting! – Cheers – Curt Timmons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KHCD-2011-075 (STEREO) – Russian Orchestral Masterpieces played by French Orchestras – Glinka: Ruslan and Lumilla Overture; Liadov: Fragment de l’Apocalypse Op. 66; Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini Op. 32 ; Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia – Igor Markevitch\/Lamoureux Orchestra; Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol – Andre Vandernoot\/L’ Orchestre De La Societe Des Concerts Du Conservatoire; Tchaikovsky: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}