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Mar 30
My Musical Career – Part Fifty-One
The Year 1996 Well, I have come to the year 1996, and I am happy to say that I will have much less trouble in giving a more detailed account of this year as I have it fairly well documented. 1996 was a very busy year for the orchestra and myself musically, even it was …
Mar 08
My Musical Career – Part Fifty
The Year 1995 – Part Two In the previous blog post, I intimated that the year 1995 was a good, but not exceptional year, and that the post would be relatively brief. Boy, was I wrong! Not that it was a particularly long post, but it turned out that 1995 was more interesting than I …
Feb 25
My Musical Career – Part Forty-Nine
The Year 1995 – Part One It has been some time since I finished the previous post in this series which dealt with the events of the last part of 1994. That was a very busy period for both the orchestra and myself musically – two recording sessions, several tours and the orchestra’s seventy-fifth anniversary …
Feb 23
Jansons – The Oslo Years – A Personal Reassessment – Part Seven
Warner Classics release of all twenty one EMI Jansons/Oslo recordings plus five DVDS of selected NRK TV concert broadcast concerts Sibelius: Symphonies No. 3 & 5 The year 1994 saw the Oslo Philharmonic and Mariss Jansons make two recordings for EMI. The first was devoted to the music of Camille Saint-Saens and was discussed in …
Feb 17
Jansons – The Oslo Years – A Personal Reassessment – Part Six
Warner Classics release of all twenty one EMI Jansons/Oslo recordings plus five DVDS of selected NRK TV concert broadcast concerts Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps/Petrushka (1947 version) This recording was the last in a busy recording year for us. The year 1992 saw Jansons and the Oslo Philharmonic record the Dvorak Seventh and Eighth Symphonies, …
Feb 08
Jansons – The Oslo Years – A Personal Reassessment – Part Five
Warner Classics release of all twenty one EMI Jansons/Oslo recordings plus five DVDS of selected NRK TV concert broadcast concerts Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 After taking a break on this personal reassessment of the Jansons/Oslo/EMI recordings as re-released on Warner, I’m ready to dive in with these next three recordings. The first of …
Jan 26
The Chandos Recordings – A Personal Reassessment – Part Three
A personal reassessment of the Oslo Philharmonic’s Chandos recordings – 1984 -1989 Tchaikovsky: Symphony in B minor, Op. 58 , “Manfred” On August of 1986, Mariss Jansons and the Oslo Philharmonic played the Sixth Symphony of Tchaikovsky in concerts and on a quick tour to Edinburgh. Upon returning to Oslo, the orchestra recorded it for …
Jan 25
The Chandos Recordings – A Personal Reassessment – Part Two
A personal reassessment of the Oslo Philharmonic’s Chandos recordings – 1984 -1989 Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor Thought that the second part of this Chandos recording reassessment would continue with Tchaikovsky, didn’t you? Well, as I noted earlier, I am going through each recording in the order that we recorded them, and the …
Jan 22
The Chandos Recordings – A Personal Reassessment Part One
A personal reassessment of the Oslo Philharmonic’s Chandos recordings – 1984 -1989 I am in the midst of an assessment of Warner’s release of all of Mariss Jansons’ EMI recordings with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra – or should I say – re-release – in a boxed set called Jansons – The Oslo Years. I have …
Jan 14
Jansons – The Oslo Years – A Personal Assessment – Part Four
Warner Classics release of all twenty one EMI Jansons/Oslo recordings plus five DVDS of selected NRK TV concert broadcast concerts Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 – Karelia Suite – Finlandia This recording is the tenth in the Jansons/OPO recordings made originally for EMI and re-released as a box set by EMI’s successor, Warner Classics. Recording sessions …
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