Mar 08
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
Jan 06
Warner Classics release of all twenty one EMI Jansons/Oslo recordings plus five DVDS of selected NRK TV concert broadcast concerts Music of Respighi, Ravel and Dukas We are now up to recording number seven in this personal assessment of “Mariss Jansons – The Oslo Years.” This next recording is one which I call a “hodge-podge” …
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