Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Archives

Podcast: The VOX Elite Recordings: Susskind and Semkow conduct Rimsky-Korsakov and Smetana

Posted on11 October, 20242 October, 2024AuthorNaxosLeave a comment

Raymond Bisha’s podcast spotlights two classic recordings in the Vox Audiophile Edition that were first released in the mid-1970s and feature two former music directors of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in their prime – Walter Susskind, who directs orchestral extracts from Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride, and Jerzy Semkow, who leads a performance of Read More …

Lost in translation?

Posted on15 January, 201631 August, 2016AuthorNaxosLeave a comment

Music must be the leader among the arts when it comes to what one might call high-quality spin-offs. By that I mean many compositions exist not only in their original version, but also in what might be called…well, what does one call them? We have different words for our industry of remoulding originals—transcriptions, orchestrations, paraphrases, Read More …