On Saturday, May 27, 2006 at 8:20:16 AM UTC-7, M forever wrote:
> I have been "rediscovering" Igor Markevitch and his fairly rich
> recorded legacy recently. In the sense that I always knew he was there
> and heard some very interesting recordings from him, but somehow it
> never occurred to me to investigate further until in a recent
> discussion, his Schubert recordings with the BP were mentioned. I
> looked it up and saw how much there is actually available from him, so
> I ordered some of the discs - the DG set "un veritable artiste", EMI
> GCOC, individual discs like PAAE and Rimsky-Korsakov works with the BP
> and Orchestre Lamoureux, and a fantastic recording of Symphonie
> fantastique with Lamoureux which for me was also a sort of rediscovery
> - I have never been too fond of the piece, but Markevitch' extremely
> lively and musically alert performance made me see it in a new light.
> I already knew his great recording of Beethoven 5 and 8 with Lamoureux,
> but even that I hadn't listened to for a long time before it was
> brought back to my attention by an online discussion.
> Amrkevitch combination of slender transparency with attention to
> lyrical lines and fine detail makes for a lot of great listening, so
> right now, I am ploughing my way through that DG box.

(Recent Y. upload):

Igor Markevitch – Una Noche De Ballet

On Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 7:14:29 AM UTC+1, gggg gggg wrote:
> On Saturday, May 27, 2006 at 8:20:16 AM UTC-7, M forever wrote:
> > I have been "rediscovering" Igor Markevitch and his fairly rich
> > recorded legacy recently. In the sense that I always knew he was there
> > and heard some very interesting recordings from him, but somehow it
> > never occurred to me to investigate further until in a recent
> > discussion, his Schubert recordings with the BP were mentioned. I
> > looked it up and saw how much there is actually available from him, so
> > I ordered some of the discs - the DG set "un veritable artiste", EMI
> > GCOC, individual discs like PAAE and Rimsky-Korsakov works with the BP
> > and Orchestre Lamoureux, and a fantastic recording of Symphonie
> > fantastique with Lamoureux which for me was also a sort of rediscovery
> > - I have never been too fond of the piece, but Markevitch' extremely
> > lively and musically alert performance made me see it in a new light.
> > I already knew his great recording of Beethoven 5 and 8 with Lamoureux,
> > but even that I hadn't listened to for a long time before it was
> > brought back to my attention by an online discussion.
> > Amrkevitch combination of slender transparency with attention to
> > lyrical lines and fine detail makes for a lot of great listening, so
> > right now, I am ploughing my way through that DG box.
> (Recent Y. upload):
>
> Igor Markevitch – Una Noche De Ballet

Has Markevitch's 1946 'Cetra' 78rpm recording of his own own "Le Bleu Danube - Valse de Concert d'apres les Themes Celebres de Johann Strauss" ever been reissued on CD? ... Better still, has anyone re-recorded it in stereo? .... For starters, the opening notes, usually played on the French horn, are here played on the kettle-drums! ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNKSPd_SbRo