Classics for Pleasure? Absolutely: it would be a hard case indeed that didn't -- that couldn't -- take pleasure from these classic 1955 stereo recordings by Nicolai Malko and the Philharmonia Orchestra of Tchaikovsky's Suite from his fairytale ballet The Nutcracker and Prokofiev's Suite from his fairytale opera The Love for Three Oranges coupled with their recordings of Prokofiev's First and Seventh symphonies. The Ukrainian-born Malko had been a big hit in the U.S.S.R. -- he'd given the premieres of Shostakovich's First ...
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Classics for Pleasure? Absolutely: it would be a hard case indeed that didn't -- that couldn't -- take pleasure from these classic 1955 stereo recordings by Nicolai Malko and the Philharmonia Orchestra of Tchaikovsky's Suite from his fairytale ballet The Nutcracker and Prokofiev's Suite from his fairytale opera The Love for Three Oranges coupled with their recordings of Prokofiev's First and Seventh symphonies. The Ukrainian-born Malko had been a big hit in the U.S.S.R. -- he'd given the premieres of Shostakovich's First and Second symphonies and suggested that the composer might try his hand at orchestrating "Tea for Two" -- but he later emigrated and ended up dying in Sydney at the helm of that city's symphony orchestra. On this EMI recording -- the company's first stereo release back in the '50s -- Malko's conducting is light, colorful, and evocative in the Nutcracker Suite; dry, biting, and brilliant in the Three Oranges Suite; and lean, clean, and driven in the Classical Symphony. But best of all,...
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