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  • seabright
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    • Jan 2013
    • 625

    Yuri Temirkanov has just died at the age of 88 and the Guardian obituary of 19th November refers to his "idiosyncratic baton-less conducting style" and his "astonishing repertory of gestures." You get the full gamut of those in this encore from his St. Petersburg Philharmonic Prom in 1992, when he gave the Prommers a reading of Elgar's "Nimrod" in which he barely took his eyes off the score. The camera didn't cut away once and I think we can safely say that you've never seen conducting like it! ...

    Yuri Temirkanov became the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in 1988. Four years later the great Russian orchestra made i...


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    • smittims
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      • Aug 2022
      • 4167

      I wonder what Sir Adrian would have said! I can't help thinking they'd have played it just the same if he'd merely beaten time with one hand.

      It reminded me of a Prom two or three years ago when a chappie conducted a Mozart Symphony (543 I think) prancing about like a marionette. I wonder how helpful the orchestra find this sort of thing. Maybe they would say, as WH Reed said to RVW, 'my dear fellow, we shan't be looking at you'.

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      • seabright
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        • Jan 2013
        • 625

        And here's another Russian maestro conducting English music ... Vasily Petrenko with RVW's "Wasps" Overture splendidly played by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ...

        Vasily Petrenko conducted an enterprising concert last year with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra which concluded with what is evidently a favourite work of ...


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        • smittims
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          • Aug 2022
          • 4167

          I've admired Petrenko's Elgar symphonies on Onyx CDs , and he has conducted the Delius violin concerto (at the Proms I think) with Tasmin Little. His interpretations may rank with those of his English contemporaries. Vasily Sinaisky and Juanjo Mena have also given fine Elgar performances.

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          • Serial_Apologist
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            • Dec 2010
            • 37699

            Originally posted by smittims View Post
            I've admired Petrenko's Elgar symphonies on Onyx CDs , and he has conducted the Delius violin concerto (at the Proms I think) with Tasmin Little. His interpretations may rank with those of his English contemporaries. Vasily Sinaisky and Juanjo Mena have also given fine Elgar performances.
            Any link?

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            • seabright
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              • Jan 2013
              • 625

              If you'd like to see Petrenko conducting Elgar 2 at the 2014 Proms, click the link below. I've not heard all that many performances of the work but this one must be up there with the best of them. Clearly the ending moved him and he certainly deserved the comments under the video ... "I doubt if you could ever hear a finer performance" ... "Absolutely beautiful" ... "A reading full of warmth, dignity and humanity" ... "A very fine performance indeed" ... and more besides ...

              This splendid performance, under the baton of the immensely talented Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko, was given by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchest...


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              • smittims
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                • Aug 2022
                • 4167

                It was the detail I most apprecated in that Prom performance: every woodwind solo carefullly and lovingly crafted, for instance. The dear old Liverpool Phil were at their best that evening. I've just watched the scherzo again on my DVD-R. Utterly superb and thrilling.
                Last edited by smittims; 23-11-23, 15:14.

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                • Serial_Apologist
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                  • Dec 2010
                  • 37699

                  Originally posted by seabright View Post
                  If you'd like to see Petrenko conducting Elgar 2 at the 2014 Proms, click the link below. I've not heard all that many performances of the work but this one must be up there with the best of them. Clearly the ending moved him and he certainly deserved the comments under the video ... "I doubt if you could ever hear a finer performance" ... "Absolutely beautiful" ... "A reading full of warmth, dignity and humanity" ... "A very fine performance indeed" ... and more besides ...

                  This splendid performance, under the baton of the immensely talented Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko, was given by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchest...

                  Thanks!

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                  • seabright
                    Full Member
                    • Jan 2013
                    • 625

                    Here's another encore from the Temirkanov / St. Petersburg 1992 Prom and a real curiosity it is too. It's the 'Pas de deux' from Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" but for some inscrutable reason, the BBC TV director decided to turn it into a Harp Concerto! ... Not only do you get close-ups of the lady harpist and her instrument, you also hear its audio level being magnified concerto-style throughout. All very strange, just like Yuri's astonishing conducting mannerisms! ...

                    Yuri Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic made two appearances at the BBC Proms during the 1992 season and the second of their concerts ended with ...


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                    • smittims
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                      • Aug 2022
                      • 4167

                      Ralph Vaughan Williams used to complain that BBC balance engineers tried to turn everything into a harp conccerto (or was it a xylophone concerto?), but this was after his hearing deteriorated.

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                      • seabright
                        Full Member
                        • Jan 2013
                        • 625

                        Could this well-known Christmas ditty also be called "The Figgy Pudding Song"? ...

                        'We Wish You a Merry Christmas' is heard here in an arrangement by Daryl Runswick for choir and cellos, plus a few supporting instruments, on a special CD of...


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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26539

                          What a delight this performance of the Schubert D.929 piano trio is:

                          "...the isle is full of noises,
                          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                          • AuntDaisy
                            Host
                            • Jun 2018
                            • 1661

                            Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post
                            What a delight this performance of the Schubert D.929 piano trio is:
                            https://youtu.be/yFyv7c1XyYU?si=iFh-aBr7mGf9fWJ6
                            Thanks Nick, very enjoyable and fascinating to watch the performers.

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                            • seabright
                              Full Member
                              • Jan 2013
                              • 625

                              For any Fritz Reiner admirers, here he is conducting the "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" in 1954 with the Chicago Symphony ...



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                              • smittims
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                                • Aug 2022
                                • 4167

                                Thanks for that. Dear old Fritz; how I treasure that anecdote of Richard Mohr, having asked him to do a retakeof some pasage to 'schmalz it up a bit?

                                Reiner: No.

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