Originally posted by vinteuil
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The RR segment with David Owen Norris considering recent centenary boxes of Gilels's recordings was fascinating, I thought.
Treat of treats for me (and playing as I type - it's available separately via iTunes music) was the recording of Poulenc's Concert Champêtre, as I'd never heard it before - for piano and orchestra, billed as the Concerto in D "Pastoral". I think it really works, and the Melodiya recording is great. A new lease of life for a piece I love.
Illuminating to hear DON's comment about the other star of this recording and the Melodiya box as a whole: Kirill Kondrashin, surely one of the very greats of the 20th century, who could turn his hand to just about anything.
Prize for Best Joke to DON's comment that the 50 CD boxset is 'live recording after live recording of people coughing with fabulous music making going on in the background' (or words to that effect)...
There are a lot of 1962-vintage Soviet coughers during the Poulenc, but somehow it doesn't matter.
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