This thread gives me an opportunity to mention the magnificent, revelatory,
towering performance of this symphony that Jansug Kakhidze gave with the
RSNO in Glasgow back in 92 or 93.  It was one of the two or three most
memorable concerts of my life, because of the sheer intensity of personal
involvement with the music that blazed out of Kakhidze.  I no longer have
a copy of the letter I sent to the management of the Glasgow Royal Concert
Hall when I got home that night, but I know I wrote something along the
lines of "the kind of experience that happens only a few times in a
lifetime, but keeps me going back in the hope of meeting another one".

Others at the same level in my memory would include:

Colin Davis conducting Mahler 8 at the Proms in the early 70's (probably
not a great performance by the standards that I would apply now, but it
was my first ever M8)

The premiere performance of James MacMillan's "Seven Last words from the
Cross" at St.Aloysius' Church in Glasgow.

Ian Crisp
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