Ron S Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 Haydn, String Quartets, Op. 55, Nos. 1-3 Auryn Quartet (Tacet) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 Dezso Ranki plays Liszt @ Budapest in 1990 .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 Recorded in 1994 .... a candidate for the best performance of this Schubert euvre .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 Earlier .... : Recorded @ Rudolfinum Praha on June 18th June 1959 .... one of the last great recordings by Karel Šejna, who - after the departure of Vaclav Kubelik - was co-leading the CPO with Václav Neumann .... when the orchestra’s players were asked to elect Kubelik’s successor, the vast majority of votes was given to Karel Šejna, but the Czech regime installed Karel Ančerl .... going into the 1960`s Šejna remained as deputy but his recording activity decreased sharply .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Friedman Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 K.458 & K.499 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Friedman Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 Violin Sonatas No.5 and No.6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron S Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 Martinu, Symphonies Nos. 3 and 5 Arthur Fagen, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (Naxos) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 (edited) Disc 1 - Tragic Overture; Symphony No. 1 11 hours ago, soulpope said: Recorded @ Rudolfinum Praha on June 18th June 1959 .... one of the last great recordings by Karel Šejna, who - after the departure of Vaclav Kubelik - was co-leading the CPO with Václav Neumann .... when the orchestra’s players were asked to elect Kubelik’s successor, the vast majority of votes was given to Karel Šejna, but the Czech regime installed Karel Ančerl .... going into the 1960`s Šejna remained as deputy but his recording activity decreased sharply .... Do we have any insight into why the decision-makers preferred Ančerl? Was it for extra-musical reasons? Or was it a musical thing? Just curious. Edited February 6 by HutchFan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 First listen. Started with El amor brujo -- with mezzo-soprano Marina de Gabaráin. Loving it, so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 4 hours ago, HutchFan said: Do we have any insight into why the decision-makers preferred Ančerl? Was it for extra-musical reasons? Or was it a musical thing? Just curious. It is said that more than 80% of the CPO members voted for Sejna .... but the Czech Communistic regime aimed to spread discord within the orchestra and installed Ancerl .... it's a sort of destiny, that Ancerl + CPO managed a fruitful co-operation nevertheless .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 Recorded @ Praha on June 8th 28 & August 31 and October 26th, 1972 .... at said year Václav Neumann was heading the CPO again, seemingly being "politically inconspicuous" enough at his tough times Czechoslovakia .... puting these aspects aside these are outstanding perfromaces .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 2 hours ago, soulpope said: It is said that more than 80% of the CPO members voted for Sejna .... but the Czech Communistic regime aimed to spread discord within the orchestra and installed Ancerl .... it's a sort of destiny, that Ancerl + CPO managed a fruitful co-operation nevertheless .... Well, Ancerl could not have been a purely political communist party appointee, right? He defected to Canada after 1968 Prague spring after all... Coincidentally, I just listened to Ancerl / CPO Shostakovich Symphony 10 yesterday - the energy and precision (and speed!) are just scary. Is this the greatest recorded version of this work or what?! And I don't even like Shostakovich... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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soulpope Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 48 minutes ago, Д.Д. said: Well, Ancerl could not have been a purely political communist party appointee, right? He defected to Canada after 1968 Prague spring after all... Coincidentally, I just listened to Ancerl / CPO Shostakovich Symphony 10 yesterday - the energy and precision (and speed!) are just scary. Is this the greatest recorded version of this work or what?! And I don't even like Shostakovich... As mentioned the Czech Communistic regime aimed to spread discord within society, as distrust and envy makes people better controllable for absolustic systems .... and just to mention : a lot of Communists defected in 1968 - but those were people, who supported/lived with the bit loose(r) form of Communism from the mid60`s onwards (the time of Dubcek/Novotny) until the end of the "Prague Spring" but didn`t want to stay under hardcore communistic opression .... Was Ancerl a communist/sympathizer ? Well we (or at least I) don`t know for sure .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 Recorded @ Christuskirche Berlin in January 1990 .... illuminating peformance led by Austria born Otmar Suitner .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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soulpope Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 Before .... : Recorded @ Supraphon Studio, Praha in February 1976 .... btw until 1946 Václav Neumann played viola in this to become legendary ensemble .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 Now spinning: Música Española: Albeniz, Granados, De Falla, Turina / Narciso Yepes (DG, 1971) ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 Another wonderful guitarist: Duets with the Spanish Guitar, Album 2 / Laurindo Almeida, Sally Terri, and others (Angel) Originally released as Conversations with the Guitar (Capitol, 1960) Sally Terri sings on half of the album's 12 cuts. Her voice is so ravishing that I wish she appeared on every track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron S Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 (edited) 9 hours ago, soulpope said: It is said that more than 80% of the CPO members voted for Sejna .... but the Czech Communistic regime aimed to spread discord within the orchestra and installed Ancerl .... it's a sort of destiny, that Ancerl + CPO managed a fruitful co-operation nevertheless .... For what it's worth, Ancerl's Wikipedia bio states the following: Quote Later he conducted for Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra until he was appointed artistic director of the Czech Philharmonic on the recommendation of David Oistrakh in 1950. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Ančerl There doesn't appear to be any specific source cited for that statement, but perhaps you can provide some context? It DOES appear that throughout his life, Oistrakh always stayed in the good graces of the Soviet regime, again for what it's worth. Edited February 6 by Ron S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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soulpope Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 2 hours ago, Ron S said: For what it's worth, Ancerl's Wikipedia bio states the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Ančerl There doesn't appear to be any specific source cited for that statement, but perhaps you can provide some context? It DOES appear that throughout his life, Oistrakh always stayed in the good graces of the Soviet regime, again for what it's worth. The 1950's were likely the bleakest years in Czechoslovakia's history .... Stalin urged Communistic parties in Eastern Europe to execute full liquidation of democratic principles .... political trials and judicial murder were the order of the day .... these were dangerous times for individuals and Oistrakh was no exception .... never heard about him championing for Ancerl, but who knows .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 Listening to this again: Aaron Copland: Music for Theatre; Music for Movies; Quiet City; Clarinet Concerto* / Dennis Russell Davies, Orchestra of St. Luke's, William Blount (cl)* Davies is a persuasive conductor of Copland's music, imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 4 hours ago, Ron S said: It DOES appear that throughout his life, Oistrakh always stayed in the good graces of the Soviet regime, again for what it's worth. Yes, this is true. Unlike his friends, Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya, David Oistrakh was always a "dutiful citizen" of the USSR. I'm not sure whether Oistrakh was a true believer or just appreciated the perks of being "politically reliable" (or, perhaps most likely, some combination of both). One certainty: Regardless of his political calculations, Oistrakh was undeniably a magnificent musician. And the same could be said of Ancerl. All this discussion is making me think of David Remnick's book Lenin's Tomb and the film "The Lives of Others." Living in that sort of totalitarian state was . . . incredibly complicated. And nearly unimaginable for someone who hasn't lived through it (like me). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron S Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 1 minute ago, HutchFan said: One certainty: Regardless of his political calculations, Oistrakh was undeniably a magnificent musician. And the same could be said of Ancerl. Absolutely! 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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