March 2016 archive

The EMI Recordings 1987|Part Two

Shostakovich 5th

  The EMI Recordings 1987| Part Two     Shostakovich and Svendsen   In the previous post, The EMI recordings 1987|Part One, I wrote about how the OPO and Mariss made the transition from recording for Chandos to recording for EMI and wrote in some detail about our first EMI recording, an album of Tchaikovsky …

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My Musical Career | Part Thirty

Tromso with Rainbow

My Musical Career | Part Thirty Short Tours with the Orchestra – 1986 While most of the tours that the orchestra undertook during my fifteen years with the ensemble were of two weeks or more duration, there were several shorter ones of shorter duration that were quite notable. I’ll devote this blog post to three …

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