Nearly all of RCA's releases in its Red Seal Classic Library series have been reissues. That's fine: RCA has many superlative recordings in its vaults, and reissuing them is the appropriate means to keep them in circulation. But this particular disc of Grieg's orchestral music performed by the Royal Philharmonic under the direction of Yuri Temirkanov has never been released before and is thus new to circulation. When it was recorded is anybody's guess -- the notes fail to mention recording dates -- but the evidence suggest ...
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Nearly all of RCA's releases in its Red Seal Classic Library series have been reissues. That's fine: RCA has many superlative recordings in its vaults, and reissuing them is the appropriate means to keep them in circulation. But this particular disc of Grieg's orchestral music performed by the Royal Philharmonic under the direction of Yuri Temirkanov has never been released before and is thus new to circulation. When it was recorded is anybody's guess -- the notes fail to mention recording dates -- but the evidence suggest the early '90s, the same period in which Temirkanov recorded the Tchaikovsky with the same ensemble for the same label. Why these recordings were not released at the time is harder to guess: at the time, not only was Temirkanov's star rising, but the whole classical recording industry was experiencing an enormous increase in business. More to the point, however, these are tremendous performances: strong, sensitive, soulful, and masterful. At the time, Temirkanov was clearly one of...
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