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In Reply to: question or two, or three....... posted by marc g. on June 14, 2000 at 08:25:07:

Yeah, in Russian music you need a particular kind of phrasing, although the Philadelphia Orchestra also has a very Russian sound - last recording I heard from them was Shostakovich 10 under Jansons on EMI, a student of Mravinsky, not to mention the work Stokowski did in that city, but it surely makes sense to consider the Kirov-Gergiev recording on a double Philips CD: catalogue number 432 166-2. Gergiev has great affinity with Prokofiev, recorded already a lot of his operas and the pianoconcerti as well and he's got profound love for the composer and Gergiev is the descendant of the proud people of Scyths, a sort of ancient Russian tribe living close to the Oeral mountains and Prokofiev also wrote a Scythian Suite, also with barbaric rhythms and the best interpretation, even better than Kondrashin comes from Gergiev of course. Russian bowing in the strings is different from European/American bowing, it's more phrased and usually the first and second violins are divided, although Gergiev uses the western orchestral positioning, but the playing is very Russian. I've got the 'White Nights' for the Dutch market with just mentioning the compositions.
I don't know who the Pink Dots are, but I'm from Zaandam, 8 kilometres above the smoke of Amsterdam and a town which hosted Czar Pjotr the Great when he wanted to learn the craft of shipbuilding and it contains lots of green wooden houses and windmills with the touristic place called 'De Zaanse Schans'. Zaandam was the first industrial area in the world, but we couldn't keep up with the steam-revolution; we kept on working with windpower.
Rob

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Topic - Sheffield Labs - Prokofiev "Excerpts from the ballet Romeo & Juliet" - anyone know it? - marc g. 02:34:08 06/14/00 (7)

Re: Sheffield Labs - Prokofiev "Excerpts from the ballet Romeo & Juliet" - anyone know it? - Jim Treanor 06:50:05 06/14/00 (6)

Thanks! can't wait to get it.......... - marc g. 07:42:02 06/14/00 (5)

Wait until you hear the Gergiev - Rob 07:51:47 06/14/00 (4)

question or two, or three....... - marc g. 08:25:07 06/14/00 (3)

A lot of questions! - Rob 06/14/0008:40:37 06/14/00 (2)

Thanks Rob! - marc g. 09:53:33 06/14/00 (1)

Welcome - Rob 10:02:45 06/14/00 (0)

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A lot of questions! - Rob 06/14/0008:40:37 06/14/00 (2)

Thanks Rob! - marc g. 09:53:33 06/14/00 (1)

Welcome - Rob 10:02:45 06/14/00 (0)

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