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2024-01-26 11:00:15
On this day in 1955 conductor Rudolf Kempe made his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Tannhaüser
2023-11-24 00:00:00
Bruckner, Pettersson, Prokofiev, Rawsthorne, Suk: Mainly Orchestral Works (Handley, Lloyd-Jones, Nelsons, Pešek et al)
[…] CHAN8323 [recorded November 1983; CD issued 1984][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: All Saints Church, Tooting, LondonRecording engineer: Ralph Couzens; Producer: Brian CouzensAllan Pettersson:01 Mesto for string orchestra (1960) [25'20]02 Symphony No.2 (1952-53) [41'47]Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stig WesterbergSwedish Society SCD1012 [recorded November 1961 and March 1966; CD issued 1987][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Auditorium, Swedish Academy of Music, Stockholm.Recording engineer: Karl-Otto Valentin; Producers: Hans Peter Kempe and Nils Castegren.Download from Mega.
2023-11-20 06:18:43
In March 1959 Rudolf Kempe recorded an LP of excerpts […] To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription for $5 monthly, or $49 annually.
2023-10-13 12:01:00
Gay/RSB/Jurowski - Telemann, Boismortier, Ravel, Ibert, and Strauss, 12 October 2023
[…] forward as ‘soloists’, yet acting collegially as much as highlighted leaders of their sections. The RSB’s versatility, on show throughout, was certainly evident here, immediately sounding, for want of a better word, Straussian. Jurowski’s way with the score was fascinating, more modernistic, even strangely Stravinskian, than I can recall having heard. Generally brisk and admirably clear, I could not help but feel there was loss as well as gain, but we shall always have Karajan, Kempe, and others to return to when we wish. His trademark formalism certainly paid off in delineation of the work’s variation form and sharp individual characterisation of each episode. In any case, as the mood darkened, the orchestra’s colours, especially from the RSB brass, spoke increasingly for themselves. Quite a storm was whipped up, not only via the wind-machine. In the later duet of two bassoons it was, strangely, Stravinsky who once again came to […]
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