| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 2 min., 10 sec.)) : sound, color |
| Playing Time |
010210 |
| Description |
digital |
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video file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Performer |
Sheila Armstrong, soprano ; Robert Tear, tenor ; John Shirley-Quirk, bass-baritone ; London Symphony Orchestra ; London Symphony Chorus ; André Previn, conductor. |
| Event |
1st work recorded 1973 July 26 Royal Albert Hall, London. |
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2nd work recorded 1977 April 24 Fairfield Hall, Croydon. |
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3rd work recorded 1971 November 25 Royal Albert Hall, London. |
| Summary |
It is hard for us to realize now how selective the western take on Rachmaninov's output was when Previn began playing the composer's works. He made it quite clear when he started recording for EMI in the early 1970s that he had to revisit the epic symphony without the cuts he had made. This was customary at the time, especially for his first London Symphony Orchestra recording of the work for RCA back in 1966. The piano concertos were already well established, of course: Previn started out by recording the less-often-played First and Fourth Concertos with Leonard Pennario some eight years before his celebrated Decca performance with Vladimir Ashkenazy. But wider audiences in Britain were certainly less familiar with the work Rachmaninov himself held dearest, the stunning choral symphony The Bells, when Previn gave its Proms premiere in July 1973. By the mid-1970s, Previn's career as a television animator for music was in full swing. André Previn's Music Night never patronized the audience, and the range of far from basic repertoire was showcased on two LPs. The Prokofiev Lieutenant Kijé suite is taken from a Music Night before and audience at Croydon's Fairfield Hall, much admired by sound engineers for the necessary 'dirt' in the sound. It also included a razor-sharp performance of the dazzling Third Piano Concerto led by its greatest interpreter after the composer himself, William Kapell and Martha Argerich. |
| Contents |
Bells, op. 35 / Sergei Rachmaninov -- Lieutenant Kijé, symphonic suite op. 60 / Sergei Prokofiev -- Candide overture / Leonard Bernstein. |
| Language |
The first work is sung in Russian. |
| Subject |
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra.
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Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra. |
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Cantatas, Sacred.
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Cantatas, Sacred. |
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Suites (Orchestra)
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Suites (Orchestra) |
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Overtures.
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Overtures. |
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Internet videos.
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Internet videos.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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| Added Author |
Armstrong, Sheila, singer.
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Tear, Robert, singer.
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Shirley-Quirk, John, singer.
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Previn, André, 1929-2019, conductor.
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Container of (work): Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943.
Kolokola.
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Container of (work): Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953.
Poruchik Kizhe. Suite.
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Container of (work): Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.
Candide. Overture.
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British Broadcasting Corporation, production company.
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International Classical Artists, Ltd., production company.
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London Symphony Orchestra, instrumentalist.
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London Symphony Chorus, singer.
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| Added Title |
Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Bernstein |
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