From Foyles in London (where I’m on a short business trip):
This will be my first serious exposure to
Elisabeth Lutyens music.
For the
Malipiero and the
Ghedini concerti, but also for the orchestral version (I know the version with piano accompaniment) of
Casella’s
Notturno e tarantella, which is not even mentioned on the front cover.
And used (Foyles has a small section of secondhand CDs):
There’s some superb recordings of Ravel’s “second” (in terms of popularity, that is) opera, with
Maderna (on Testament) and
Rosenthal (on INA Mémoire Vive) standing out IMHO, but
Cluytens is a favourite conductor of mine, and somehow I expect
Denise Duval to excel as Concepción (plus the presence of that great tenor is
Jean Giraudeau is an additional bonus).
And ordered from Amazon Spain yesterday:
The correspondence between Argentine aristocrat, publisher and patron of the arts
Victoria Ocampo and
Ernest Ansermet. The conductor was
Ocampo’s protégé in Argentina, she performed
Honegger’s
Le Roi David under his baton in Buenos Aires, and they remained lifelong friends.
