performed by the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra under Gennady Provatorov (cover image by Johannes Plenio) (this piece is featured on a list of pieces I heartily recommend to music directors for inclusion on their season programs. Check out the article … Continue reading Gavriil Popov: Symphony no. 1, op. 7
performed by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Neeme Järvi, or below by the Orchestra of the USSR Ministry of Culture and the Russian State Academic Choir Cappella under Gennady Rozhdestvensky (cover image by Paul Morris) …whereas in October, the … Continue reading Shostakovich Symphony no. 3 in E flat, op. 20, ‘The First of May’
performed by the Orchestre National de France under Charles Dutoit (cover image by Soroush Karimi) Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was born on April 5, 1869, and turned to music only as an adult, after seven years as a midshipman. … Continue reading Albert Roussel: Symphony no. 3 in Gm, op. 42
performed by the St. Louis Symphony under Leonard Slatkin …a popular concert work which is the epitome of the twentieth-century symphony that could have been written by an American. (cover photo by Les Anderson) Howard Harold Hanson is not a … Continue reading Howard Hanson: Symphony no. 2 in D-flat, op. 30, ‘Romantic’
performed by the Ulster Orchestra under Bryden Thomson As mentioned in Monday’s revisit article, I was so taken with Bax’s first symphony that I felt we would benefit from one more of his symphonies, but which? Well, of his seven, the … Continue reading Bax Symphony no. 4
performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, or in a version below with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra Here we are again at another revisit, from the days when I (still) didn’t know how to talk about music, but more importantly … Continue reading Revisit: Prokofiev Symphony no. 4, op. 47