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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: eschiss1 on Saturday 17 May 2014, 23:15

Title: Potter Symphony in G minor
Post by: eschiss1 on Saturday 17 May 2014, 23:15
Thanks for reposting this. CADENSA lists three recordings of this (I may be missing some- simple-search doesn't turn up everything) in their archive. One's Hilary Davan Wetton/Milton Keynes Chamber Orchestra, 1989-09-15 to 1989-09-16 at Angel Recording Studios, London. The other is Andrew Parrot/London Mozart Players, (broadcast and/or recorded on) 1995-09-28, St Giles's Church, Cripplegate (London)  (total duration 31:45.) There's also Wetton/Ulster Orchestra (1989-03-09) from a Bristol Lunchtime Concert??...
I seem to recall it being the first of the three, though. (I seem to recall Wetton recording it commercially- may want to check the movement timings against that recording. Sym. 10 in G minor, 1989/Milton Keynes CO, on Unicorn Kanchana, a recording made in - hrm, September 1989, Angel Recording Studios, London, er... I ... see. (Timing: 28:06.) Actually, that -was- the first of the three, so hopefully whichever one we have, hopefully it's no.2 or 3 of the 3, or another still.)

28:04. Yep, that seems to be the version we have. "Hrrrrmmm." (Likewise the timing of the E-flat we used to have, 35:02, is pretty close- 10 seconds, allow for gap between tracks- to the 34:52 at the NLA(ustralia) website for the UKanchana recording of same. "Ah, well.")
Title: Re: Potter Symphony in G minor
Post by: semloh on Sunday 18 May 2014, 11:22
Thanks for trying to identify this performance, Eric.

If this is the 6th symphony, then it is one of the Hilary Davon-Wetton versions, namely the one on YouTube, where the orchestra is unidentified. I believe that I downloaded it from UC when it first appeared, and I've checked it against the YouTube version and they are identical. It's an excellent performance and a fine orchestra, but which one I really don't know.

Potter's 1st symphony was also in G minor but I don't believe that it, or the 10th, was ever available via UC.