Del monaco
Del Monaco
Have they lost yet?I've just saved the Markevitch into my Qobuz playlist and will listen to it soon.
Your favourite performance of Tchaikovsky's Sixth symphony
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Barrymagrec
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Play starts at 11.00 - they`ll lose about 12.30.
Del monaco
Del Monaco
I think that's optimistic.
Just been listening to the 1956 Mravinsky mono on DGM 18334, from a British lp pressing. Like the 1960 Wembley Town Hall stereo sessions, an enormously impressive performance, totally unsentimental, and somehow unfolding with a kind of natural inevitability than can only be the product of a conductor exercising absolute control.
Well worth hearing, though I'd say my preference is for the 1960 version, in part because the sound's just a tad distant. Mikes at one end of the Musikverein, orchestra at the other – possibly because the engineers needed to accommodate the sheer ferocity of the brass section. There's a dark profundity here which reminds you it was only a decade since WWII, and here in essentially enemy territory the orchestra is representing its country's sufferings.
For that reason, other performances get more colour out of the music (I've a soft spot for the Sinopoli, notwithstanding all his pushing and pulling at the score), but for me Mravinsky is absolutely the starting point to get to grips with this symphony.
Well worth hearing, though I'd say my preference is for the 1960 version, in part because the sound's just a tad distant. Mikes at one end of the Musikverein, orchestra at the other – possibly because the engineers needed to accommodate the sheer ferocity of the brass section. There's a dark profundity here which reminds you it was only a decade since WWII, and here in essentially enemy territory the orchestra is representing its country's sufferings.
For that reason, other performances get more colour out of the music (I've a soft spot for the Sinopoli, notwithstanding all his pushing and pulling at the score), but for me Mravinsky is absolutely the starting point to get to grips with this symphony.
Del monaco
Del Monaco
I understand your soft spot for Sinopoli. Though he did mess with the line he did have heart. He often reminded me of Barbirolli. Shame about his passing.