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Gregm wrote:

...I'll have a chance to listen to Tchai-6 & Mozart. Never knew there was so much Golovanov available (OK, it;s not really that much -- but more than one Mussorgski I had). Now all I need is money to buy and availability of the titles

Be careful with Golovanov'd CDs. First of all he is notoriously bad pressed. The famous “Great Conductors of the Century series” has few CDs dedicated to Golovanov and all of them insultingly horrible. German company Gebhardt master and press Golovanov’s CD then they also very-very bad. The only company that does Golovanov’s recording very well, at least to the best of my knowledge, is Ester European Boheme Music. You might try them and you would have the wider Golovanov’s repertoire and the best quality you might get on CDs

I am not a big fun of the Golovanov’s Mozart; in fact I do not like it quite a lot. With the Golovanov’s Tchaikovsky Sixth is more complicated. I would suggest listening it only if you are well familiar with a classic interpretation of the Pathetique. In a way the Golovanov’s Pathetique is an insult of sense as what Golovanov’s does with this symphony is quite brutal. However, Golovanov’s has his reasons and his methods to do certain things and those certain things he very much does in his Tchaikovsky Sixth. Hey, where else you have heard Tchaikovsky without any sentimentalism or without any hysteria? I would say that Golovanov’s Pathetique is one of the most outrages interpretations I even heard, both in positive and in negative sense. However it is a phenomenal example how slightly altering the timing marks and holdoing the weepy stringsit is possible completely alter the meaning of the composition…

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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