Your Country in a Classical Music Nutshell

[Roasted Swan]

Perhaps this thread could be "flipped" - so a great/insightful performance of an orchestral work NOT by conductors or performers of that country...... possibly more interesting than the idea that you must be of that country to get that music (which is nonsense as far as I can tell....)  Off the top of my head;

Ian Hobson/Sinfonia Varsovia/Don Gillis



or

Maazel/VPO/Sibelius

[Biffo]

Perhaps this thread could be "flipped" - so a great/insightful performance of an orchestral work NOT by conductors or performers of that country...... possibly more interesting than the idea that you must be of that country to get that music (which is nonsense as far as I can tell....)  Off the top of my head;

Ian Hobson/Sinfonia Varsovia/Don Gillis



or

Maazel/VPO/Sibelius

I chose RVW Tallis Fantasia as my work - there is an excellent performance of it from Constantin Silvestri though with a British orchestra. Bernstein/NYPO have recorded it, also Ormandy/Philadelphia, probably others.

Slightly at a tangent, my most memorable performance of the UK National Anthem was conducted by Eugen Jochum (with the LPO?) at a Royal Philharmonic Society Concert.

[Florestan]

Perhaps this thread could be "flipped" - so a great/insightful performance of an orchestral work NOT by conductors or performers of that country......

By all means, flip it that way. It's really an interesting idea.

you must be of that country to get that music (which is nonsense as far as I can tell....) 

I have never implied that and I agree it's nonsense. I do hope that's not what you really inferred from my OP --- but if you did, it's all my fault, not yours.

[pjme]

This search brought me to regions unknown...! And allow me to expand the topic.... : classical music from my country performed by ..."unexpected" performers.

Marcel Poot  - premiere in the US!

https://www.youtube.com/v/s-Bdl-fu0k4

In Berlin, 1943, with Karl Schuricht and the  Stadtisches Orchester Berlin: Allegro symphonique!

https://www.youtube.com/v/NQgfTe0bU_c

Poot's Octet was recorded for DECCA, in 1957, by the Wiener Oktett.

[Roasted Swan]

By all means, flip it that way. It's really an interesting idea.

I have never implied that and I agree it's nonsense. I do hope that's not what you really inferred from my OP --- but if you did, it's all my fault, not yours.

No absolutely - there was no implication you did - it was a wider comment (probably aimed at record companies who seem to believe that "only" French conductors conduct French Music etc etc!)