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Also sprach Deryk Barker, concerning Igor Markevitch's version of The Rite
of Spring:
>Doesn't the Testament reissue contain both his mono and stereo recordings?
Indeed it does, from 1951 and 1959. I only know the 1959 version. That's
fabulous IMHO and probably in Deryk's as well.
He also asked:
>Anyone else heard the Marco Polo discs of Markevitch's own music BTW?
Only some of them. I own one which contains Cantique d'amour, L'envol
d'Icare and Concerto Grosso, and have heard on the radio Rebus and another
work whose name I can't remember. I find it very difficult music to listen
to and yet at the same time, it has a strange attraction. It sounds like
no-one else's, at least, that I've heard.
Some of my favourite records are conducted by Markevitch - Verdi's Requiem,
Mozart's Coronation Mass (latterly on Belart), two Berwald symphonies
(rereleased by DG), a badly-recorded but powerful Brahms 4, a Nielsen 4
I've yet to hear bettered, an incomplete but wonderful Berlioz Faust. I've
heard him conduct Gesualdo, Haydn, Honegger, even zarzuela overtures. I
can't think of anyone who recorded such a wide variety of music, and I have
no doubt he should be regarded as a great conductor.
Richard Pennycuick
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