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Leonard Slatkin's 1st composite suite was :At a Promenade Concert on Monday, August 19th 1991 we heard Leonard Slatkin's brilliant first compilation from nine different orchestrations of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, a remarkably successful initiative, reminding us, as it did, of how many arrangements there have been of this evocative score. Then he went for extracts from Lawrence Leonard’s version for piano and orchestra, from Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lucien Cailliet, Sergey Gorchakov, Leonidas Leonardi, Sir Henry Wood, Mikhail Tushmalov, Leopold Stokowski and Maurice Ravel.
It was the indefatigable Edward Johnson, champion of Leopold Stokowski, we had to thank for getting Slatkin interested and finding some of the scores. Now Slatkin has done it again with a new – in many ways more way-out – compilation including versions by Ellison, Gorchakov, Walter Goehr, Naoumoff, Geert van Keulen, Ashkenazy, Simpson, Cailliet, Wood, Lawrence Leonard, Leo Funtek, Boyd, Ravel and the Australian composer/arranger Douglas Gamley.
Slatkin’s first compilation, although he played it round the world, has never been commercially released, which makes it all the more pleasing to welcome his second version on this CD from the 2004 Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.
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Interesting. Nice to see Lawrence Leonard after all these years - he was a friend of a late friend and we chatted over dinner one evening. I didn't know that his version was written for Katharina Wolpe, who I also knew vaguely twenty-odd years ago - fabulous house in Hampstead - great lady.Aggelos wrote:Pianist Joanna MacGregor interviewing several people, including Leonard Slatkin, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Edward Johnson (doyen of Leopold Stokowski Society) and Lawrence Leonard about the several orchestrations for "Pictures at an Exhibition".
Part1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cUg5DiGOd4
Part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-qNwq7gKvg
An excerpt (Baba-Yaga & Great Gate of Kiev) from the Mikhail Tushmalov version, with conductor Marc Andrae!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f0H3J_CSL0
Incredible , no pedaling.parag wrote:I just came upon this incredible recording of Chopin etudes by Bolesław Woytowicz...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgN7VxeLWQs
Parag