BaL 21.01.12 - Mussorgsky's Pictures from and Exhibition

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I believe the LPO/Braithwaite recording on Lyrita is of the Henry Wood version.

Yes. I've checked this out and have amended the list.

[Rolmill]

I have Chicago, Giulini (DG) and Philadelphia, Ormandy (RCA) - not sure if the Giulini is the one Barbirollians refers to above, but I like it a lot: characterful, virtuosic playing, maybe lacking an ounce of visceral excitement but very satisfying. Presumably nla, as it doesn't appear on EA's list?

I thought I heard A McG refer this morning to next week's BaL as only covering the Ravel orchestration.

[silvestrione]

Silvestri in Bournemouth used to walk on, taking the applause, and stride up to the rostrum and start the trumpet before he had stopped moving! Then would follow an amazingly colourful performance of the rest, ending with a tremendous din in The Great gate of Kiev that is still circulating in outer space somewhere!

Unfortunately he did not record it. Wonder if BBC Legends has anything up its sleeve?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Presumably nla, as it doesn't appear on EA's list?

Never make that assumption. I compile the lists as quickly as possible on Friday mornings before leaving for work...

So there are likely to be some omissions and errors.

[Brassbandmaestro]

Isn't the Elgar Howarth transcription for brass ensemble available?

[Petrushka]

There is/was a recording of the Stokowski version from the Cleveland Orchestra under the unexpected direction of Oliver Knussen.

My own favourites of the Ravel orchestration are LSO/Abbado, Chicago SO/Giulini, and BPO/Karajan all on DG interestingly. The 1966 Karajan still packe quite a punch but if you want a bass drum to blow your windows out or just to really annoy the neighbours you need to get James Levine with the MET Orchestra (on DG again).

Incidentally, I think that the Philharmonia/Ashkenazy listed above as Ravel is, in fact, Ashkenazy's own orchestration.

[MrGongGong]

Isn't the Elgar Howarth transcription for brass ensemble available?

I have the LP if you want to borrow it
I seem to remember really liking it last time I had a functional turntable

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Incidentally, I think that the Philharmonia/Ashkenazy listed above as Ravel is, in fact, Ashkenazy's own orchestration.

That does indeed appear to be the case.

[Gordon]

Isn't the Elgar Howarth transcription for brass ensemble available?

I have a double disc of Philip Jones Brass ensemble "hits" with this on it: Decca 467 746 2 recorded at Kingsway Hall October 24=26th 1977. It does seem to be available for £10.85 at MDT :

http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/pages/s...2467&x=93&y=17

A splendid feast of BB music of all sorts and periods:
PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE Greatest Hits
CD1
Byrd The Earle of Oxfords March
Susato Renaissance Suite
Scheidt Battle Suite
Bull Pavane
Bull The King’s Hunting Jig
Anonymous Traditional Greensleeves
Ewald Quintet No. 1 in Bb minor, Op. 5
Jolivet Fanfare “Narcisse”
Bozza Sonatine
Arnold Quintet, Op. 73
Walton Prelude and Fugue from Spitfire
CD2
Copland Fanfare for the Common Man
Arban Etude Characteristique No. 1
Tchaikovsky Waltz from Sleeping Beauty
Maurer Four Pieces for Brass Quintet
Mozart Serenade in G, K. 525 “Eine Kleine”
Joplin Ragtime Dance
Traditional Frere Jacques
Joplin Easy Winners
Debussy Le Petit Negre
Mendelssohn Tarentella, Op. 122
Dvorak Humouresque, Op. 101, No. 7
Hazell Borage
Traditional Tico-Tico
Dukas Fanfare from “La Peri”
Strauss R. Fanfare from “Stadt Wein”
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Decca 2cds 4677462

[Alison]

Here's another for the mix:

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDH88017