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Posted by Jeffrey Davis
on August 6, 2008, 7:03 pm
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I'll be very interested to read your reviewers views of the new CPO set of Kabalevsky's symphonies which I've just received from Germany. Certainly the Miaskovskian opening movement of No 1 has a much greater depth than either the old Olympia or ASV recordings and like Symphony No 4, which has needed a modern recording for decades, it emerges, in my view, as a much greater work. Symphony No 4 was written off (mistakenly in my view) by the Penguin CD guide as "conventional...commonplace", but in Eiji Oue's fine new recording with the NDR RSO, it emerges as a great work, which together with the moving Cello Concero No 2, deserves much more attention.
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