Mind you, if there's "reams of this kind of material", I wouldn't mind being pointed to more - if it's anywhere near as good as that Muradeli example. But perhaps it's his best piece?
The motor is running in 4th gear throughout most of Prokofiev's THE FIERY ANGEL :)) Performances in Dusseldorf throughout May and June, and a
throughout the autumn :)
Speaking of Prokofiev, I've recently discovered that the 1960s recording of
Cantata for the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution op 74, conducted by Kondrashin, is on Youtube. It's incomplete of course (no musical settings of Stalin) but is a notably more vigorous and admirable performance than the complete version conducted by Rozhdestvensky in the 1990s.
Here's the opening -
I don't know much about Kondrashin, but I'd previously noted that his recording of
Prefatory Action (Scriabin/Nemtin) is much more striking than that of Ashkenazy. Are there other Kondrashin recordings which could be considered top-of-the-pile? His opening of Mahler 6 must be one of the fastest . . .
