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Silvestri conducts Reznicek, Tchaikovsky & Elgar | BBC Legends BBCL42582

Silvestri conducts Reznicek, Tchaikovsky & Elgar

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Label: BBC Legends

Cat No: BBCL42582

Barcode: 0684911425826

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 27th April 2009

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This is the fourth release on BBC Legends of the Rumanian conductor Constantin Silvestri (1913-1969) who spent his last years as Music Director of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, raising it to the international level which it enjoys today.

The composer Emil von Reznicek was Silvestri's uncle (on his mother's side). This early and very high spirited performance with the BSO from 1962 of Reznicek's popular Donna Diana Overture confirms Silvestri's wonderful rapport with the orchestra.

Silvestri made his name on EMI with his exciting but sometimes controversial recordings of Tchaikovsky's Symphonies Nos 4, 5 and 6. BBC Legends has issued his November 1966 broadcast of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.2 'Little Russian' and now we have Symphony No.3 'Polish' from a July 1967 broadcast in warm and immediate sound.

Finally, we hear probably Elgar's most popular work, the 'Enigma Variations' (from July 1967) in a performance of deep understanding with a touch of non traditionalist about it.

Recorded: Town Hall, Bournemouth, 25 September 1962 (Reznicek), Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, 3 July 1967 (Tchaikovsky, Elgar).

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