Szell tchaikovsky biography

Szell's Tchaikovsky 4 has hardly ever been out of the catalogue such was its success. For years it reigned almost unchallenged at the SPA bargain-basement of the Decca catalogue.

Szell tchaikovsky biography

Szell recorded it with the LSO at the end of his life continuing the same London connection that also gave birth to the famed EMI recording of Brahms' Double Concerto with Oistrakh and Rostropovich. Szell was predominantly a CBS (now Sony) artist but inhis final years he migrated from company to company.

This is a rollicking and yet seriously emphatic performance and the closing two minutes of the Moderato con anima are just one of many instances of undeniable evidence of a architecturally and dramatically logical approach.

My latest encounter with the work was via the new Serebrier with the Bamberg Symphony (Bis).

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The Bis version fails to find quite the flame and thunder Szell achieves.

All of this is, of course, to the positive. The negative is that the sound does not open out in quite the wa