Igor Markevitch Tschaikovsky

Felix Mendelssohn (Composer), Pyotr Tchaikovsky (Composer), Franz Schubert (Composer), Georges Auric (Composer), Igor Markevitch (Conductor), Japan Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra)

Igor Markevitch was a leading conductor, known for brilliant performances, especially of twentieth century music. He was also a composer who attracted some interest in his own day. His parents left Kiev when he was two years old. Markevitch was brought up in Vevey, Switzerland. He took piano lessons from his father and then with Paul Loyonnet and also started to compose.

Today’s personality-cult pianists could, if they chose, learn a tremendous amount from these performances. Clara Haskil’s 1960 Paris recordings of Mozart’s two minor-key piano concertos, Nos. 20 (D minor) and 24 (C minor), have patrician nobility with no scene-stealing heroics. Both performances, incidentally, have been widely circulated, appearing most recently in the “Great Pianists of the 20th Century” series. This leaves concertos 9 and 19, and some shrewdly judged Scarlatti sonatas still out in the cold, but somehow I doubt that this reissue will signal any wider rehabilitation of Haskil’s discographic legacy.

In 1936, the English composer and writer Constant Lambert described Igor Markevitch as ‘the leading figure of the Franco-Russian school’. As a composer he had been commissioned by Diaghilev and performed by the likes of Alfred Cortot and Roger Désormière, but his posthumous reputation largely rests on his prowess as a conductor, a profession he took up in the 1930s after study with Pierre Monteux.

Markevitch Conducts Stravinsky and Prokofiev's Ballets (EMI)
EAC 099pb4 Rip | APE+CUE, LOGs | 2 CD | 72:18 + 75:28min
557 MB | 300 dpi PDF Complete Scans
Genre: Classical - 20th Century | Label: EMI Classics

Hi again. I hope you enjoy this extraordinary recording on Stravinsky's Le sacre, one of the top range despite is 50 years old! The Prokofiev's are great too incluidng the less recorded suite of Le Pas d'acier.