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Posted by Jeffrey Davis
on December 16, 2008, 4:27 pm
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I have just read Rob's enjoyable review of the Naxos Glazunov series. In it Rob mentions that his early liking of the fine Finnish Fantasy (1909) from an old Melodiya LP was not replicated on hearing the Naxos version. Rob wondered what had happened to the old Melodiya recording and I'm wondering if it is the one featured on Disc 2 of Brilliant's new Evgeny Svetlavov boxed set. I greatly enjoyed this very atmospheric recording from 1962. I first discovered the piece when I wrote to the BBC to ask them what was being used as the title music for their old drama serialisation of 'Anna Karenina' (the one with Nicola Paget)from the 1970s. They replied saying that they used sequences of Glazunov's Finnish Fantasy and Tchaikovsky's Manfred. This is the first time I discovered either piece and Rob interestingly mentions the possible influence of 'Manfred' on Glazunov in this work.
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