Subject: | |
From: | |
Date: | Fri, 8 Jan 1999 00:22:16 -0500 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Ed Zubrow wrote:
>As to the 9th.:
>
>When the "Going Home" theme was playing my wife even got up from her
>reading to walk over and check out the CD cover--which is virtually
>unprecedented for her!
When *my* wife heard that movement she said that the composer must have
been saying, "The new country is good; the old country is better."
>The background information in Steve's review was very helpful. Now I'm
>eager to know: what are other great Szell recordings? And are there
>dissenters on the list?
I can't imagine your not getting a wealth of replies to this and I won't
attempt any anticipatory duplication, but I'll risk it to make sure you're
aware of the pre-WWII recording of the Dvorak Cello Concerto, played by
Casals, w/ Szell conducting the Czech Philharmonic. The first entry of
the cello after an extended orchestral introduction is simply electric.
Walter Meyer
|
|
|