Haha...got your attention! Who, what, where??? The Schuyler Symphony is of course the RCA Camden pseudonym for the St Louis Symphony Orchestra and its music director of a quarter century, Vladimir Golschmann. On this Camden release, Golschmann leads strong performances of Schoenberg's "Verklaerte Nacht", Milhaud's delightful "Suite Provencale", and a couple of encore Dvorak Slavonic Dances from Op. 46.
Golschmann was a fine conductor, if not at the very top tier. Well respected, and highly held by musicians and teh public alike, he was a welcome guest conductor and a favorite of a number of composers, probably due in part to his musical honesty and freedom from excess and egotism. The program here is tailor made for Golschmann as he was closely associated with both Schoenberg and even more so with Darius Milhaud. My favorite on this recording is Suite Provencale, it simply sparkles. Its really a wonderful piece of writing if you do not know of it, you need to make an acquaintance. Golschmann lets the music speak clearly and naturally and though Munch's take with the superior BSO is tremendously exciting, the latter conductor does tend to overdrive the piece. Golschmann seems so right.
Sound is so so on this Camden as it is in most Camden reissues. How technology for reissuing classics has changed! Still, it is nice to have Golschmann conducting this orchestra, one that best represents his art on record. Mono FLACs.
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