Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, op. 34
Maurice Ravel: Rhapsodie espagnole
Emmanuel Chabrier: España
Claude Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Paul Dukas: L’Apprenti-Sorcier
Budapest Symphony Orchestra
György Lehel, conductor
for the Chabrier:
Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra
Rouslan Raichev, conductor
Some of the greatest values in orchestral recordings during the 1970s and ’80s came out of Eastern Europe, which had yet to be contaminated by Madison Avenue. Every city in the Communist Bloc had an orchestra of first-rate musicians and their conductors spent more time in rehearsal than they did with publicity agents. Their performances, as a result, tended to be polished and tasteful even while their Free World counterparts were at pains to see just how quirky and individualistic they could make theirs after a bare minimum of rehearsals.
Because the Eastern European orchestras did not use advertising departments, their reputations did not travel very far and they did not command high performance fees. The most cost-conscious marketers in Los Angeles and New York City would buy the rights to Eastern European recordings very cheaply and sell them in the United States usually without liner notes or other amenities.
How this particular compilation came to be is a mystery. It includes four pieces recorded in Hungary and one in Bulgaria. The sound and ensemble are excellent throughout; the program of apparently disparate pieces is unified by the similarity of their instrumental textures.
Rhapsodie Espagnole and four other pieces
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