Tchaikovsky Concerto - Finale
live at the Hollywood Bowl
| Wicks’s few commercial recordings were long the stuff of legends but till recently unavailable on CD. | |
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Wicks's most famous recording, that of the Sibelius Concerto, was released on the Biddulph label in 2005, along with a fabulous collection of short pieces ranging from Sarasate to Shostakovich, and the Berg-inspired miniature concerto by the Norwegian composer Fartein Valen. |
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In 2008, to commemorate Wicks’s 80th birthday, Simax released a collection of broadcast performances spanning over four decades: Glazunov Concerto, Vaughan Williams “The Lark Ascending”, Brahms G Major Sonata (1st movement), Brustad Solo Suite, Sarasate Malaguena. |
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Music & Arts released “The Art of Camilla Wicks”: a famous 1953 Carnegie Hall performance of the Beethoven Concerto with Bruno Walter, movements of the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos and Bloch “Nigun”. |
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In 2000, in collaboration with Norwegian Radio, Simax released live performances of the Norwegian composer Bjarne Brustad’s 4th Concerto (1968) and the Walton Concerto (1985). |
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There is much more on the way. Doremi is planning in 2009-2010 a series of releases from Wicks’s private collection which will cover a vast range of music, from an electrifying Tchaikovsky Concerto at the Hollywood Bowl to rarely played works such as Germaine Tailleferre’s haunting Sonata, as well as many short pieces. |
