Edward Johnson writes…
As you know, I’m very interested in English music from abroad. The Mexican performance of RVW9 [see below] was new to me, so thanks for that. Here’s another ‘foreign’ RVW9, this time its Belgian Premiere under Richard Egarr. He’s a big Stokowski fan and because Stokey had given the US Premiere of the work in 1958, RE followed suit 50 years later with this Flemish Radio Orchestra performance …
Here’s the Stokowski US Premiere. His saxophonists and the percussion section completely outshone their British counterparts, especially in the Scherzo. It was an ‘ad hoc’ Symphony Orchestra drawn from various New York orchestras and freelance players for some special occasion, I forget which! …
And yet more RVW9 from abroad, this time its Portugeuse Premiere under Pedro de Freitas Branco, thanks to YouTube …
Oh, yet another Ninth on YouTube! … This time from Japan, with the Osaka Pastoral Symphony Orchestra (sic) under Kenjiro Matsunaga …