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Posted by Rob Linder on February 6, 2007, 3:40 am
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In the section relating to the Sinfonia Elegiaca Paul Conway states "In January 1957, the symphony was premiered by Stokowski and the Houston Symphony Orchestra. The same orchestra recorded the work under Robert Whitney on a now-deleted Louisville LP (LS 671). This performance captures some of the emotional intensity of the work but this symphony sorely needs a modern recording by an orchestra and conductor of international stature to do it full justice." I happen to own a copy of Louisville LS 671. It does indeed contain a work by Panufnik conducted by Robert Whitney, though the orchestra is of course the Louisville Orchestra, not the Houston Symphony. Much more importantly, the Panufnik work is not the Sinfonia Elegiaca but is instead the Rhapsody. I thought that perhaps the Louisville record might be using an alternate title but listening confirms that the work on the record does not match Conway's detailed description of the Sinfonia Elegiaca. So, I am baffled. How can Conway refernce the quality of the recording without noticing that it is a different work? Conway's article is otherwise admirable and quite valuable so I think that surely his misinformation on the Louisville recording must have been second-hand, that he never heard the record for himself.
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