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Chailly

Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2014-06-22 21:42

I just saw that the London Sinfonietta recording of Stravinsky's 'The Fairy's Kiss' with Riccardo Chailly is up (probably illicitly) on Youtube.

In 1979 the Sinfonietta played 'The Rake's Progress' with Chailly in Milan, production by David Hockney and La Scala. It was a wonderful experience, even though initially Ricardo thought he had to WHIP us to get results. Well, he was young, and he quickly changed tack.

But early on, I remember that at one point he shouted, "F*** you, horns!"

They got their own back later, though; at the end of the patch the double bass player/composer/graphic artist Barry Guy did a big thank-you drawing of Chailly which we all signed; the horns wrote, "Thank you, and f*** you too!"

We did several Stravinsky recordings with Chailly soon afterwards. We thought he was vivid, stylish and inspirational.

The 'Fairy's Kiss' record I lost track of – perhaps I gave it away – and I hadn't heard it for some 30 years. I think it's not in the catalogue any more.

It's interesting to me because it's one of the last recordings to have been made in the legendary Kingsway Hall in London, where Furtwangler recorded Tristan. The experience of recording there was very different from what it often is now: when you went into the box to hear the playback you heard something that sounded quite like...well...what you thought you'd sounded like:-)

Anyway, here it is. It's one of the few recordings on which I appear that I think is relatively OK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBscpkemviw
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C0JuzR2aWqE

Tony

Post Edited (2014-06-23 13:18)

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