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Constantin Silvestri: Artist Profile
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Constantin Silvestri: Artist Profile
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by Alexander Borodin, Antonin Dvorak, Edward Elgar, Mikhail Glinka, and Maurice Ravel
Sales Rank: 144305
Price:$31.99
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Listener Reviews & Comments
I only call your attention to this disc, which is currently out of print, because it contains the finest-ever account of Elgar's overture "In the South." This is one of Elgar's most brilliant and happiest works, written when the composer was touring around Italy (1903). I think the music sounds quite a bit like Richard Strauss in terms of its orchestration. Silvestri's virtuoso performance with the Bournemouth Symphony has been the benchmark reading ever since it was recorded. Everything on this CD also appeared on EMI's "Artist Profile" series, which was a better group of compilations than IMG's "Great Conductors" series (in which Silvestri was disgracefully not included). All the items on this set (Dvorak's 8th, Rimsky's May Night overture, and the items by Ravel/Glinka/Borodin, save two, were also in "Silvestri: The Collection," a 10-disc Disky box set (now out of print). The two exceptions: THIS Elgar, and THIS Philharmonia account of the Tchaikovsky 5th Symphony. The latter was also on a deleted 2-disc Disky set (see my review) with Silvestri's equally wonderful readings of the 4th & 6th Symphonies. So the real appeal of this set is the Elgar, which hopefully will be re-issued. And, just perhaps, somebody might get around to re-issuing some of the great Silvestri LPs that have yet to show up on CD, such as the fire & ice account of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" (Electrecord LP), the brilliant Falla "El Amor Brujo" (Hungaroton LP), the Shostakovich 10th (Parliament LP), Haydn's 27th Symphony (Supraphon LP), or Silvestri's wonderful Berlioz "Symphonie Fantastique" (Trianon LP). I keep hoping for that to happen so I can retire my aging LPs.
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Constantin Silvestri: Artist Profile
by Alexander Borodin, Antonin Dvorak, Edward Elgar, Mikhail Glinka, and Maurice Ravel
Price:$31.99
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