Balakirev Islamey // Gianandrea Noseda & London Symphony Orchestra 

The only piece that can make the lso sound like a youth orchestra! Insanely hard piece!

Alfredo Casella's orchestration for Islamey is phenomenal, stellar, evocative, and an orchestral tour de force. Gianandrea Noseda should have recorded it for Chandos when he was doing Orchestral Works Series, along with Casella's orchestral transcription for J.S. Bach's Chaconne (from BWV 1004).

Balakirev should be played more often!

brilliant orchestration!

It would be lovely if Gianandrea Noseda and the LSO recorded Alfredo Casella's orchestrations for Balakirev's Islamey and J.S. Bach's Chaconne BWV1004 on the LSO Label. Casella's orchestration for Mily Balakirev's Islamey, is an orchestral tour de force - it will surely stretch the orchestra to the limit. There is astonishing volume per page, at least one page requires 30 staves, there is textural complexity, divisi strings, tutti passages that demand considerable instrumentation, but there are also passages full of colour and delicacy with subtle and fine instrumental soli emitting mesmerising melodic writing. On the other hand, Casella brought a lot of inventiveness and boldness to bear, when doing his orchestral transcription for J.S Bach's famous Chaconne from Violin Partita BWV 1004. He kept Bach's original violin, but simultaneously, he brought to the fore all the polyphonic and contrapuntal substratum that exists in latent form (in the original violin work).

I love the theme at 2:22, based on a Tatar love song.

da italiano vorrei sottolineare il felice apporto di un giovanissimo Alfredo Casella come orchestratore,un compositore che solo ora sta per essere valutato come merita,soprattutto per merito di Noseda

Моё любимое произведение в такой прекрасной оркестровке!

Okay next, orchestra version of Gaspard de la Nuit please.

A question for people in general - which orchestration do you like more, this or Lyapunov’s?

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Did balakiev ever write a orchestral version of this or was it done by somebody else

I prefer the piano arrangement over orchestra. Listening to the piano audio without visual, you can imagine the intricacy, but seeing what the pianist is doing leaves a greater understanding of the technical difficulty of the piece.

Whose orchestration is better? Lyapunov or Casella?

lol what's a "down beat"?! Wonderful orchestration...but that conductor is beating upside down. Just...why? It even throws off the orchestra's timing, which takes talent to do that to arguably one of the best orchestras in the world. Where they keep finding these eccentric conductors always bewilders me.

In Ravel's pieces I usually prefer the piano version, but this is great too. Definitely worth hearing more often

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The Barbican just sounds terrible-awful match for one of the best orchestras in the world.

what a horrible arrangement