I have some works by Hummel, Chevalier d'Saint-George and CPE Bach, the rest will have to wait until I see how much money I have left after my holiday
Perhaps the days of great Russian conductors is (at least, temporarily) passed, along with the Soviet state educational system that produced outstanding artists and scientists.
That's what I fear
Let's hope there can be some revival of that tradition...
I anyway look forward to hear you review of the Metropolitan concert, I am myself going to the Baltic Sea Festival here in Stockholm in the end of August, when Giergiev/Gergiev (transcription seems to differ) and the Kirov performs Lady Mcbeth from Mtensk. It is the first time ever it is played in Sweden. Apart from the Marinsky theatre, Gideon Kramer and Maxim Vengerov is performing...I don't remember what, though. A nice surprise what that Lygeti's Lux Aeterna is going to be performed...it's not something you hear often in Sweden. Living here, one would think that except Scandinavian composers, the Vienna classisists and Bel Canto were all that ever existed
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