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In the Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony!
Post Subject: Wow, what a Serenade for Strings!Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/2/2009
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Today, as usably, before the Live from Tanglewood Broadcast WGBH played recording from BSO past. I heard that Koussevitzky recoded it but I do not have this record and I think I never heard it. It was Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings. Well, it is famous work but my mind it did not have the posture of being a great work. The Tchaikovsky settings do not have in the Serenade the drama that I would love to see…
Well, look what Koussevitzky did with it. It was a recording from August 16th, 1949. What BSO does with the serenade is just astonishing. Then play it with the same style as BSO played Tchaikovsky IV at the same year. It is truly would be hard to find an orchestra equal to BSO with last Koussevitzky years….
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