Lesser-known orchestras

[jean]

Weeeeelllll ... it wasn't exactly rubbish under Pesek, either...

No, but that was a while ago...a lot happened between Pesek and Petrenko, some of which was Gerard Schwarz...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

No, but that was a while ago...a lot happened between Pesek and Petrenko, some of which was Gerard Schwarz...

Ah! I see.

[Alison]

I understand the Oxford Philharmonic are a pretty formidable band with a roster of conductors to match!

[Maclintick]

Well, there are so many fine ensembles now....
Heidelberger Sinfoniker for their Haydn and Mendelssohn with Fey, Musikkollegium Winterthur with their Mendelssohn series....I seem to listen to the the Vienna Symphony more often than the Philharmoniker these days....not to mention many wonderful Radio Orchestras.
There's the Antwerp SO and the Royal Flemish PO in Herreweghe's Schubert cycle....

I do feel you often get a fresher livelier interpretation from these more "provincial" partnerships... those French bands in Lille and Bordeaux with their Dutilleux, Venzago's Berne SO and Basle SO....
No to mention BIS in Scandinavia...!

There's a wonderful sense of discovery in all these recordings, of the orchestras as much as the music and interpretations....

Agreed. A CD rarely off my turntable, as it were, is that of the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra's recordings of CPE Bach's "Hamburg" Symphonies, under Sakari Oramo -- beautifully-turned accounts from a virtually-unknown (at least in the UK) ensemble. Many offerings from the Nordic countries who have invested heavily in music education are equally distinguished.

[BBMmk2]

I rather like that Mahler 5 that has recently been released by the orchestra that premiered Tge work, the Gurzenich Orchester Koln.

[pastoralguy]

I rather like that Mahler 5 that has recently been released by the orchestra that premiered Tge work, the Gurzenich Orchester Koln.

I wonder if they still have the original parts!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I wonder if they still have the original parts!

- I'd love to hear the work with the percussion parts that Alma reports her husband having crossed out on the basis of a catastrophic rehearsal. Given more appropriate performance, with an orchestra who knows how the work should "go", I think it might at the very least prove very interesting.

[cloughie]

No, but that was a while ago...a lot happened between Pesek and Petrenko, some of which was Gerard Schwarz...

...and there was a guy called Groves who did quite a good job years back!

[pastoralguy]

- I'd love to hear the work with the percussion parts that Alma reports her husband having crossed out on the basis of a catastrophic rehearsal. Given more appropriate performance, with an orchestra who knows how the work should "go", I think it might at the very least prove very interesting.

They may well have these original percussion parts! That would be interesting!

[BBMmk2]

I would they been destroyed!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

...and there was a guy called Groves who did quite a good job years back!

I'll say! Groves/RLPO "regular" visitors to King George's Hall in Blackburn in the 'seventies - with Atarah Ben-Tovim first flute. I heard a lot of basic (and beyond) repertoire Live for the first time thanks to them. (And Groves recordings with the RPO of Beethoven's First and Sixth Symphonies were the only ones I owned for several years.)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I would [?imagine?] they been destroyed!

I've often wondered - and about what happened to the manuscript score of the work that Mahler crossed the parts out from. (Given Alma's fondness for dramatising events, it may be that the rehearsal fiasco and consequent alterations never actually happened. But if it did ... )

[BBMmk2]

I've often wondered - and about what happened to the manuscript score of the work that Mahler crossed the parts out from. (Given Alma's fondness for dramatising events, it may be that the rehearsal fiasco and consequent alterations never actually happened. But if it did ... )

The work would sound even more dramatic and be transformed!

[LMcD]

This afternoon, Alexander Armstrong (yes, I know.....) included a movement from the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Cipriani Potter, recorded by Howard Shelley with tghe Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.

[gradus]

The Gulbenkian orchestra based in Lisbon are excellent too.