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...could not deny the tradition, authority and musical might that radiated from the stage. Yuri Simonov, 34, the Bolshoi's principal conductor, led a performance that had true epic range and that, in its bounce and snappy tempos, was refreshingly free of sanctification. Would that the Met had a chorus of such power and, rarity of rarities, group acting ability. The sets were eye-catching tableaux embodying a sturdy Russian medievalism overlaid with Byzantine splendor...
...difficult even in a metropolis like New York or Los Angeles, let alone a second-tier city like San Francisco (pop. 675,000). In addition, Coppola has drawn up a list of "guest editors" he plans to invite to put out entire issues. Among them: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Conductor Seiji Ozawa, Rock Singer Sly Stone, Patty Hearst's ex-fiancé Stephen Weed and "an Italian fisherman...
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G (Judith Blegen, soprano; Chicago Symphony; James Levine, conductor; RCA, $6.98). There appears to be little that James Levine, 31, cannot do, except perhaps play Scott Joplin on the tuba. The remarkable new music director of the Metropolitan Opera already has several superlative operatic recordings to his credit (notably / Vespri Siciliani on RCA and Joan of Arc on Angel). This version of Mahler's Fourth, a genial pastoral masterpiece, has a flowing line rarely matched in current interpretations and an intimacy that, comes close to Bruno Walter's incomparable recording of the 1940s...
Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 29, 31, 34, 35, 36, 38-41, Overtures to Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro (London Philharmonic; Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor; Turnabout/Vox; 5 LPs; $19.95). In his later years, the doughty Sir Thomas sometimes conducted Mozart in a cantankerous, self-indulgent way. But during the 1930s, when most of these London Philharmonic recordings were made, he displayed superb poise, control and mastery of the peculiar blend of fire and ice that lie at the heart of Mozart's music. Beecham's recording then of the euphoniously ethereal No. 39 in E-Flat Major...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor (Moscow Radio Symphony; Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor; Melodi-ya/Angel, $6.98). Who needs another recording of the Tchaikovsky Fifth? Listen and discover how exciting this music can be without the excessive retards and breakneck tempos that often pass for authentic Russian interpretation. Rozhdestvensky, a principal conductor of the Bolshoi Opera, plays the work straight. Yet in the way he builds his performance from the inside out, making sure that the smallest phrases are in place, he gives the impression of blissful discovery. Part of the conductor's complete cycle of the Tchaikovsky symphonies...