David Harbin ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Watch out for the Mravinsky/Leningrad Phil Tchaikovsky 6 on the mid price
>Warner Elatus label.  The 6 is a late recording from the mid eighties and
>is live.  It is coupled with Francesca da Rimini.  The Mravinsky 6 is the
>most searing version I've heard, with a ferocity in the first movement and
>flexibility of strings they defies belief.  If the Francesca (if it is the
>same as the one I heard on a cheap label) has wide ranging string dynamics
>and a storm & closing pages that put the famous Stkowski version well in the
>shade.

I don't know the Francesca, but have had the Tchaik 6 since it first appeared
and agree 100%. You should also mention the brass section which could "kill
at 100 paces" (forget who said that).

And people raved about the Pletnev. Hah!

deryk barker
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