Nicolai Malko conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Haydn, Mussorgsky,

Haydn, Joseph, Mussorgsky, Modest, różni kompozytorzy, Shostakovich, Dmitry, Tchaikovsky, Piotr

Brannigan, Owen, Dowling, Denis, Joyce, Kathleen, London Symphony Orchestra, Malko, Nicolai, Proctor, Norma, Robertson, Duncan, Simon, Elizabeth

REAM 2120

Nicolai Malko was born in 1883 in the Ukraine. His musical studies were largely undertaken in St Petersburg. By the mid-1920s he was teaching at both Moscow and Leningrad Conservatories, and conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic where he premiered Shostakovich’s first two symphonies. Subsequently, history, circumstances and inclination led Malko into a peripatetic life. He worked at various times in Vienna, Salzburg, Prague, Copenhagen, New York, London and Sydney, and was an ambassador for Russian music throughout his life. His sporadic relationship with the BBC – he was never a staff conductor - began in 1929 and lasted until his death in 1962. In 1952 Richard Itter, the founder of Lyrita, began to make domestic recordings of BBC transmissions using state-of-the-art disc and tape recorders. He documented his collection but rarely listened to it, thus preserving a pristine archive. The Lyrita Recorded Edition Trust began a transfer programme in 2014 with the intention to release the best and rarest of these recordings to the public. The Itter collection is predominantly of British music, but it also contains some unique international repertoire. This release is the first in a planned occasional series in which Lyrita will pay tribute to those musicians who made an important contribution to musical life in the UK.

CD x 4

Lyrita

2015-11-27

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