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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Nicolai Malko conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra posted by Jay Buridan on September 19, 2016 at 11:43:44:
The simple microphoning of the early EMI stereo sound is wonderful, and, as you suggest, the performance is very engaging and well played. However, I'd say that a number of subsequent performances are just as interesting and worthy. BTW, I don't agree at all with the slew of Prokofiev writers and biographers from the West who denigrate the Seventh Symphony for the composer's alleged submission to Stalin and Zhadanov by writing "less formalistic" music (whatever that might mean!). Sure, that magnificent secondary theme in the first movement might evoke vistas of Russia's vast landscape with Stalin's hydroelectric power plants dotting the rivers, but I still find it AS MUSIC very inspired. I believe ballerina Galina Ulanova once said that the Seventh was her favorite among the Prokofiev symphonies.
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