Wednesday 16 April 2008

An evening devoted, strangely enough, to Nicolai Myaskovsky. I listened first to the cello concerto (Jamie Walton) followed by the violin concerto (Vadim Repin, with Valery Gergiev). A pleasant evening, and I had half forgotten what a good violinist Vadim Repin is. Myaskovsky came over as very much a Russian contemporary of Vaughan Williams; equally rare on modern concerto programmes.

3 comments:

oisfetz said...

About Miaskovsky, strongly recommended his 2 beautiful cello sonatas, and any of his 13 SQ (of course, I've all of them) And if you don't dislike so much DFO, IMO there's no better recording of his v.c.dqjou

Harry Collier said...

I have an Oistrakh recording of the violin concerto (1939). But I much prefer the two recordings by Repin (one of them live) and the recording by Grigori Feyghin. As for the string quartets; I must investigate one or two of them (but certainly not all 13!)

oisfetz said...

OK, you can listen to the 1st. to the 12th. Not the 13th. It's bad luck.