Our Summer BAL no 58 Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

[visualnickmos]

I don't think I have this!

A veritable choice awaits you!

[Stanfordian]

I was really just curious as to what your pre-2016 a) and b) were - sorry if I misunderstood.
Must be all the Glazunov symphonies I've been 'getting into' over the last few days!

Glazunov symphonies. I love them! Especially the First, Seventh (Pastoral) and Ninth (unfinished).

[Barbirollians]

I don't think I have this!

Safe as houses is the 1970 coupling of the Kyung Wha Chung/LSO/Previn recording coupled with the Sibelius .There was also a Decca Ovation CD with the Bruch 1 and Scottish Fantasia recording by Kyung Wha Chung with the RPO and Rudolf Kempe also terrific performances

[visualnickmos]

Glazunov symphonies. I love them! Especially the First, Seventh (Pastoral) and Ninth (unfinished).

One thing I have discovered on acquainting myself with these magnificent works, is (to my humble ears) their 'closeness' in spirit to Elgar's orchestral voice...

[teamsaint]

One thing I have discovered on acquainting myself with these magnificent works, is (to my humble ears) their 'closeness' in spirit to Elgar's orchestral voice...

We hada bit of a discussion about this on the Glazunov composer thread a couple of months back, and particularly in regard to the 8th symphony.
There are some slight suggestions on the internet that Elgar may have been familiar with Glazunov's work.
The 8th was completed before Elgar 1, and to my ears also there are striking similarities.

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?12280-Glazunov-Symphonies/page5&highlight=Glazunov

A suggestion here of Glazunov's possible influence on Elgar, for example.

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2000/dec00/Glazunov_Naxos.htm

[Hornspieler]

A lovely story. It's one the aspects that make this forum so enthralling.
Ida Haendel (in the few recordings of hers, that I have) seems to produce something pure and potent at the same time. Magical. Unique.

I must 'investigate' her Tchaikovsky violin concerto.

I have her recording of the Sibelius with the BSO under Paavo Berglund.

The only performance that I have ever heard that makes those big leaps downward from Top of the E string to Bottom of the D string sound effortless.

I've never heard any other performance where the soloist doesn't sound insecure and at full stretch.

Back to Tchaikowsky.



I remember a very tidy performanc by Alan Loveday.

Yes, he did make those cuts in the finale and for me, the continuity of the music is much preferable.

HS

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

An interesting and very fine version in the Anne Sophie Mutter/VPO/Previn recording, coupled with the Korngold. Apparently ASM was trying to sound "less romantic" and failing miserably in this respect.

[Pulcinella]

These days my only recording is Milstein (coupled with Argerich/PC1).

I have that too, but in a 2CD issue that adds the Rococo Variations (Rostropvich/BPO/Karajan) and the Serenade for strings (BPO/Karajan) to the PC.
But I also have a Naxos release, coupled with the Mendelssohn (Nishizaki/Slovak Phil/Jean); can't remember now what prompted me to buy it, but the Penguin Guide speaks highly of it (for both concertos) and mentions that the little cuts have been opened out.

[BBMmk2]

I've been searching through on these boards, and I am thinking quite surprisingly, there is no BaL on this work?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I've been searching through on these boards, and I am thinking quite surprisingly, there is no BaL on this work?

What? Never?

[LeMartinPecheur]

What? Never?

Maybe hardly ever but certainly not never. I have a book-form version of one by Andrew Keener from 1979 or before. Winners were Milstein/ Steinberg (CBS), Fujikawa/ De Waart (Philips), Belkin/ Ashkenazy (Decca) and Oistrakh/ Rozhdestvensky (HMV Concert Classics).

[BBMmk2]

What? Never?

Alpie, I did a general search and couldn't see one! I was hoping for at least a BaL choice.

[Pulcinella]

Alpie, I did a general search and couldn't see one! I was hoping for at least a BaL choice.

Lots of recommendations on the Presto site, Bbm:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/w/32389/Piotr-Ilyich-Tchaikovsky-Violin-Concerto-in-D-major-Op-35

[gurnemanz]

I've been searching through on these boards, and I am thinking quite surprisingly, there is no BaL on this work?

We 'did' Tchaikovsky Violin fairly thoroughly a year ago. The nearest thing to a a BaL recommendation was found by an eagle-eyed Dave2002 as a coupling to the Sibelius.

[visualnickmos]

An interesting and very fine version in the Anne Sophie Mutter/VPO/Previn recording, coupled with the Korngold. Apparently ASM was trying to sound "less romantic" and failing miserably in this respect.

She's not my cup of tea, when it comes to violinists. I just don't 'feel' the music when I listen to her; I have 2 or 3 recordings of hers, none of which I can endure for very long, regardless of who the conductor and/or orchestra is.