Review: Marvelous Markevitch Part 2: The DG Recordings
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2025
- The companion to the Philips/Decca box, this splendid Australian Eloquence release collects all of the maestro's recordings for Deutsche Grammophon on 21 CDs. It's completely self-recommending. Here you will find all of Markevitch's Berlioz, choral works by Cherubini, Gounod, Mozart and Haydn, the best Beethoven overture disc ever, a spectacular Brahms Fourth, a classic Debussy La Mer, plus pioneering versions of music by Gluck, Milhaud, Honegger, Roussel, Berwald...in short, a glorious testament to a conductor whose musicality and versatility was only equalled by his enthusiasm and questing spirit. A treasure-trove for collectors, no doubt about it.
Dave, I love your giddiness about the Markevitch boxes. Thank you for introducing me to his brilliance.
I just discovered your videos, and already addicted. I love your commentary, critiques, and have gone back and found some older videos, and give a thumbs up, and ordered some on Amazon.....I will continue to watch, and may not comment, but give you a thumbs up....I grew up on classical music, played piano(from my mother, and grandmother teaching), also two brothers listen, already recommended one to watch....Thanks so much for your inciteful and important views on CDs. By the way, CDs, are now at the acme of technology(not streaming). They are of the highest quality, and lasting longer.....It is important to recognize we have about 30 years of technological advances in this medium, while data streaming is quite new, and lacking.....
Thank you, and welcome aboard!
His rendering of La Symphonie fantastique by Berlioz is so unbelievably stand-alone in its clarity and genius... the sound quality has not been bettered even in today's world... I could not live without it.
Add to the Symphonique Fantastique his recording of La Damnation de Faust. Maybe not the ideal cast of singers but overall extremely good, however his interpretation of the score is a revelation and remains the finest on record, even after 60 years.
I’ve long held Markevitch in high regard, however thanks to Dave’s enthusiasm I’ve listened to his recording of Beethoven’s great Consecration of the House Overture and it’s a stunner, the playing of the Lamoureux Orchestra is incredible, equal to the very finest. The more I hear this conductor the more I’m inclined to believe he is possibly in the top 10 league of finest conductors of the recorded era.
His recording of Schubert's 3rd symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1954 is one of my favourites. It beats any other version I can think of.
This is really a great box. I feel it necessary to shout out to the people who remastered the mono material in this set. It sounds really good, and falls mellifluously on the ear.
You’ve done it again sir! I clicked on this video to learn about Igor Markevitch, of whom I know nothing, not intending to purchase any more boxes. Then the combination of your enthusiastic praise, the Beethoven overtures, and several composers that are familiar to me only in name, led me to order it. At least I didn’t pay for expedited shipping. While I’m at it your revelation, to me at least, that C.P.E. Bach was far more than just one of J.S’s sons is one of the best things to come from finding your excellent channel last fall.
Thank you!
And his Sacré du Printemps with the Philharmonia is GREAT HEAVENS ... it is worth having come into this life to experience. I do not exaggerate.
I love Schubert s 3rd Symphony! Especially the first movement with that brilliant clarinet solo at the beginning of the allegro part!!!
Hi Dave - another awesome and enlightening video. I first discovered Markevitch at my local record shop here in Buffalo when I was like 19, and it was his, for me, miraculous recording of Symphonie Fantastique with Lamoureaux. I was hooked forever and over the years i sought out every recording of his that I could find on CD. I was like a little kid on my birthday watching your review, what a marvelous conductor he was. I probably won't get the box because I already have the first cd editions of all these recordings, most of them under my pillow lol. Thank you again for highlighting this magnificent musician.
Great commentary. And that's one bumpy night's sleep you have in store, there!😊
Dave and our community. Hope you all are having a wonderful Friday. What a great video to turn on and just listen and learn! My set arrived a couple of days ago and I have been sampling pieces. I am listening to his Berlin classics Pictures right now and then the Beethoven overtures disc is coming next. Enjoy everybody!! What a set. What a label. What a conductor!
Looking forward to this one, thanks for the recommendation. I had it in my cart at Amazon and the price just dropped to $85 in case anybody else is looking. Best price I've encountered.
Dave...thank you for your wonderful review and your inspired MACA tshirt! Btw, any way you can bring yourself to do a talk recommending each of the individual Beethoven overtures?
I've done Coriolan and will do others, for sure.
Have you covered the EMI Markevitch Icon box with his complete HMV/EMI recordings? It would be great to have the trifecta from you with Philips, DG, EMI though win, place and show has to be a virtual photo finish.
I agree completely. Dave?😊
Yes! The St. Cecilia Credo does have a kinda Beatles anthem feel about it. I listened to the Markevitch on RUclips and I just love it! I could listen to the Credo over and over. I have a few times already.
I have an earlier DG set "un veritable artiste" shamefully stuck in a cupboard so I dug it out and went straight for the consecration, Die Weihe des Hauses that is. This Beethoven overture naturally has Beethoven in its DNA but throughout it is in the style of Handel. What genius! A terrific performance too: and the Leonora III, yikes!
One minor problem.....neither Markevitch box is available on any sites I checked in USA or Europe or Britain. .....One of the boxes is listed "out of stock" on several sites. Any idea when it will be avialable for purchase ....oh yeah, one site offers it for double the list price.
I got mine from Amazon. I guess you have to be quick.
TOO LATE ALREADY! Seems to be sold out everywhere in the EU, Amazon inclusive... Getting it from the UK or US is a Big No-Go, these days...
This and the DGG set are really wonderful. Only one thing continues to disappoint me. So many of the “original jacket” editions fail to reproduce the liner notes on the revers side of the original cover. Of course the text is too small to read but simply by scanning them and then blowing them up to a decent size make them quite readable. I suspect the DGG Eloquence box which I have on order will be the same.
Only Sony reproduces album back covers.
Why aren't all his Beethoven symphonies on DG in this box?
Because they weren't all on DG originally. Some were on Philips, and they got amalgamated when Universal took over all three labels. So the Beethovens got re-split up.
Does anyone know when this will be released? It isn't available on any of my usual buying sites.
David: Although it has been out quite a while, would you review Eloquence’s Van Kempen box sometime? Thanks!
I don't think so. He's kind of a cult conductor--decent, but there's little there I would miss if it vanished forever.
His Tchaik 5 is one of the best (I have it on the two-disc Tchaikovsky set by Van Kempen that Eloquence released), so I was wondering about the rest of his output. I guess I have the answer! Thanks!
@@GastonBulbous It's cut in the finale. It's not one of the best of anything.
I never said it was the reference recording. hahaha. But it’s still a very lively interpretation that I like a lot, and I’ve always been willing to forgive cuts in these historical recordings, when they were more commonplace. The rest of the stuff on the Van Kempen Tchaikovsky set is no great shakes though, so I’ll take that and your reply as the indication not to pursue Van Kempen further. Meanwhile, I love how you refuse to brook any ill-considered nonsense from us, your RUclips followers. You are the Professor Kingsfield of classical music. I learn things from you every day - and get a lot of laughs in the process. Thanks for your great channel and teaching!
I share your enthusiasm with Markevitch's performance of the Beethoven overtures. However, I do not think that Jochum's versions in the early 60s with the Concertgebouw are less.
Actually I do, and I like Jochum very much.
If you don't mind my asking, where did you get yours? It isn't due out till the 15th.
Tell to the guys at DG that the lack of the other Beethoven's symphonies is unforgivable!
The others are in the Philips box. He didn’t complete a cycle, because the relationship between Markevitch and the Lamoureux started well but ended badly.
@@cartologist thank you Richard!
These videos are costing me a lot of $$$. This one set me back 82 bucks.
And worth every penny.
@@DavesClassicalGuide Amen. I'm savoring it like a rich dessert. Your descriptions have been right on the mark, especially "The Damnation of Faust," which is as good any I've heard and maybe better. It's just too bad you didn't show the individual CDs in your presentation. That vintage cover art is the best.
You skipped over the Haydn Die Schöpfung