Composer of Next Week

[Roehre]

Popov really is an impressive composer, he and Vainberg/Weinberg seem to be far and away the best among Shostakovich's contemporaries within the Soviet Union IMO.

For the years following Prokofiev's death I fully agree.

[StephenO]

I've been looking for CDs of Mosolov but they seem to be few and far between. Haven't yet been able to track down a recording of the Piano Concerto online. Does anyone know of one? Amazon have The Iron Foundry on a disc of Prokofiev but at £29.99!

[Roehre]

Following the broadcast of DSCH's Columbus-finale this afternoon, there were two weird inaccuracies.
The piece is said to have been emerged in 1981, through Roshdestvensky's intervention.

That date must be incorrect, as I bought a Melodya LP in March 1980 (recorded the previous year), on which among other things music of Columbus can be found (conducted by Roshdestvensky).

Secondly, the opus-number of this work is 23, not 29 as we were told. the piece dates from 1929, hence probably the confusion.

Quite unusual, this type of errors in CotW.

[Quarky]

Following the broadcast of DSCH's Columbus-finale this afternoon, .

.....................I came to the conclusion that this was one of the very best COTWs I have heard for many a year. This is the type of programme I hope to hear from R3 - informative, challenging and enjoyable music. I do not wish to be bombarded with every note Mozart, Handel, Haydn, etc. wrote.