Dorati- Tchaikovsky

[Dave2002]

I really like the balletic treatment that he gives the Tchaikovsky Symphonies.

Another conductor who also did the Tchaikovsky Symphonies well was Igor Markevitch - also familiar with ballet I think. Colin Davis was a conductor who might have done well, but I've only found one Prom concert which features him doing Tchaikovsky 4 on Youtube. I wonder what Fedoseyev and Simonov's box set of Tchakovsky is like - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tchaikovsky-...sky+symphonies though I'm less sure about the balletic credentials of those conductors.

[cloughie]

Another conductor who also did the Tchaikovsky Symphonies well was Igor Markevitch - also familiar with ballet I think. Colin Davis was a conductor who might have done well, but I've only found one Prom concert which features him doing Tchaikovsky 4 on Youtube. I wonder what Fedoseyev and Simonov's box set of Tchakovsky is like - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tchaikovsky-...sky+symphonies though I'm less sure about the balletic credentials of those conductors.

C Davis with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra Proms 2011 - I guess a Sym 6 from him might have bee good!

[cloughie]

Cloughie

Do you have the complete Daphnis ? There is of course the 2nd Suite with Paray, but I don't remember a complete version on Mercury, not even in the days of LP.

I've had another search online, but have not found it. Incidentally there's a splendid Paray Wagner disc which Fanfare incorrectly states has only become available recently as a download, but it is on CD and is terrific.

It was on an imported Universo or equivalent
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[Ferretfancy]

It was on an imported Universo or equivalent
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Thanks for that cloughie, obviously the original Mercury never made it onto CD. Philips took over the catalogue for a while, but the LPs were not quite as good as the originals, although that is being finicky, I'll go on looking just in case.

[pastoralguy]

I have these Double Deccas (DD) and I have noted that Berkshire Record Outlet here in the states is selling them very cheaply. The whole set is quite enjoyable, but the 6th has always held a special spot in my affection.

[clive heath]

I've recently uploaded Dorati's Firebird with the London Symphony Orchestra and amazingly, or not, you can buy three LPs on 180g vinyl, Petrushka and Rite making up the three as recorded on Mercury. I have the Minneapolis Rite but it needs serious cleaning so that's on hold, but I have enjoyed processing Peter Katin's Rach 1 which has come up pretty well but I imagine all boarders already have it in their collection and I wouldn't want to deprive our hero of his Pristine royalties so that one stays in the vaults!! Unless....?

http://www.cliveheathmusic.co.uk/vinyl.php

[cloughie]

I've recently uploaded Dorati's Firebird with the London Symphony Orchestra and amazingly, or not, you can buy three LPs on 180g vinyl, Petrushka and Rite making up the three as recorded on Mercury. I have the Minneapolis Rite but it needs serious cleaning so that's on hold, but I have enjoyed processing Peter Katin's Rach 1 which has come up pretty well but I imagine all boarders already have it in their collection and I wouldn't want to deprive our hero of his Pristine royalties so that one stays in the vaults!! Unless....?

http://www.cliveheathmusic.co.uk/vinyl.php

Which Minneapolis Rite - the mono MMA original which appeared as electronic stereo on SFL14009 or the later AMS one which appeared with Petrouchka on CD 4343312.

[clive heath]

The former.....that's why it sounded a little weird!.. of course I hadn't read the very fine print on the cover and had just noted "Stereo" in big print on the disc. The Firebird, by the way, has a Rosette in my "up-to-date" 1999 Penguin Guide.

[cloughie]

The former.....that's why it sounded a little weird!.. of course I hadn't read the very fine print on the cover and had just noted "Stereo" in big print on the disc. The Firebird, by the way, has a Rosette in my "up-to-date" 1999 Penguin Guide.

It still tops my pile!