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Composer:
Sergei Prokofiev

Artist(s):
Eleanor Roosevelt

Conductor:
Serge Koussevitzky

Background: This disc restores to the catalogue, after an absence of more than 50 years, Koussevitzky's second recording of Peter and the Wolf, with Eleanor Roosevelt as narrator. Taped during his last recording sessions on 29th November, 1950, Koussevitzky’s performance of Sibelius’s Symphony No.2 is given with an electricity that transcends studio conditions, yet it is not without light, shade and emotional retreat. The final such example of Koussevitzky’s art, which pertinently concludes this disc, is a rapt and expressive account of Grieg’s The Last Spring, notable for the warmth and intensity of the Boston strings.

CATALOGUE NR: 8111290
RECORD LABEL: Naxos Historical
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.77 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 30-Jun-2008

COMPOSER: Sergei Prokofiev  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Great Conductors - Koussevitzky
TRACKS: Peter and the Wolf op.67 (Prokofiev). Symphony No.2 in D major op.43 (Sibelius). The Last Spring - Elegiac Melody op.34 No.2 (Grieg).
ORCHESTRA: Boston Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Serge Koussevitzky
ARTISTS: Eleanor Roosevelt      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 11-Aug-1950 in the Theatre-Concert Hall Tanglewood / 29-Nov-1950 in Symphony Hall Boston / 29-Nov-1950 in Symphony Hall Boston

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