Dukelsky-Zephyr et Flore

* * * * * 5 Stars - BBC Music Magazine (March 2000)
Dukelsky wrote Broadway shows under the alias Vernon Duke. "Thanks to these powerful premiere recordings, he should be forgotten no longer (whatever his name was).


The Residentie Orchestra The Hague was founded in 1904 by musicians who left the Concertgebouw orchestra to play with their colleagues in The Hague. Under guest conductors such as Richard Strauss, Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein, Otto Klemperer, Claudio Abbado, Bruno Maderna, Pierre Boulez, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and its chief conductors including Willem van Otterloo, Jean Maritnon, Hans Vonk and since 1992 Evgenii Svetlanov, the orchestra has become famous for its original and progressive programmes. The Orchestra's several festivals and concert series such as those based on the works of Schoenberg, Reger, Scriabin and Messiaen have enhanced this reputation. The Orchestra has received standing ovations for its recent tours of Switzerland and France.

Gennady Rozhdestvensky received his musical education at the Moscow Conservatoire. He was appointed Staff Conductor and then Principal Conductor at the Bolshoi, where he gave the Russian premieres of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Khachaturian's Spartacus.

In 1961 he was made Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Symphony Orchestra of All-Union Radio and Television, and in 1974 he became Chief Conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1978-1982 he was Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and subsequently Chief Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.

He was the founder conductor of the celebrated Moscow Chamber Opera, and has toured extensively with them. He appears regularly as guest conductor at the major European concert venues.