André Previn conducts Rachmaninov & Prokofiev

Previn produces a blazing account of Rachmaninov's The Bells for its 1973 Proms premiere. A sparkling Lieutenant Kije and effervescent Candide Overture too. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Aug 2011
Catalogue No: ICAD5038
Label: ica classics
Series: Legacy

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Rachmaninoff: The Bells, Op. 35

Royal Albert Hall, London, 26 July 1973
Sheila Armstrong, Robert Tear & John Shirley-Quirk
with London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra
André Previn

Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60

London, 24 April 1977
London Symphony Orchestra
André Previn

Bernstein: Candide - Overture

Royal Festival Hall, London, 25 November 1971
London Symphony Orchestra
André Previn

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André Previn (b.1929) is often hailed as one of the world’s most versatile musicians. The recipient of ten Grammy awards for his recordings, he has conducted many of the world’s top orchestras, both in concert performances and in the studio.

All three of the performances on this DVD took place during Previn’s tenure as Principal Conductor of the LSO – the Prokofiev was filmed as part of the popular BBC television

series ‘André Previn’s Music Night’. This footage of Rachmaninov’s ‘The Bells’ documents the first Proms performance of this work in 1973, featuring three stellar British singers, Sheila Armstrong, Robert Tear and John Shirley-Quirk and a precise and energetic London Symphony Chorus.

The Penguin Guide describes Previn’s performance of ‘The Bells’ on EMI, recorded just two years after the performance on this DVD, as ‘powerful’ due to his ‘concentration on purely musical values [which] adds much as on the evocation of atmosphere’. Previn used the same three soloists.

This is the first DVD release of this material.

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Sound format: Ambient Mastering

Picture format: 4:3

Running time: 62’

Subtitles: n/a

Menu languages: English

Booklet languages: E/F/G

Region code: 0

Territory Restrictions: None

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January 2012

Previn produces a blazing account of Rachmaninov's The Bells for its 1973 Proms premiere. A sparkling Lieutenant Kije and effervescent Candide Overture too.

January 2012

a evocative piece of nostalgia...[The solo] singing is of a searing emotional intensity. The chorus sing with a passion. The LSO are on top form. Brian Large's visual direction is commendably unfussy, homing in on instruments as and when but chiefly leaving the performance to speak for itself - which it does with the utmost eloquence coupled with visceral excitement.

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