30 September 2011

Pictures at an Exhibition - Dorati & Reiner



How many orchestral versions of "Pictures at an Exhibition" do you have in your collection?
The answer is "Too many", I suppose :)

But here you can find 2 very rare recordings - never on CD (?) - by two great virtuoso conductors (and orchestras).

Dorati: studio recording on Philips (1953)
Reiner: live broadcast - NY (1960)


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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous30 September 2011 at 07:06

    Good contrasting performances, Guido - in 'comparison' I prefer the Reiner performance - a bit more up & down within the gallery of pictures (Dorati seems almost hurried and off-hand by comparison). But both are great finds - YET AGAIN!

    Reiner's Great Gate is truly stupendous - I think he was urging his tam-tam player to give it some welly as pay-back time for the very bronchial audience in Carneige Hall that March (must have been a long Winter!). I wouldn't have wanted them looking around the gallery let alone at a musical performance.

    All the Best.

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  2. Guido1 October 2011 at 04:17

    Thanks for your appreciation!
    And I agree, Reiner version is far better...

    Apart from the cough :)

    About Dorati: I like the Minneapolis stereo recording more than this, but certainly he's not one of my fav "Pictures" conductors.

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  3. nvc3653 October 2011 at 07:05

    Hi Guido,
    What a great post! Dorati is also one of my favorite conductors. I also post his Mahler 6th with Israel PO recently at carloskleiber.blogspot.com. (http://carloskleiber.blogspot.com/2011/08/dorati-conducts-mahler-symphony-no-6.html) You are welcomed to take a look. I will appreciate if you would also add my blog to your blog list.

    Thanks,

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  4. gabor5 October 2011 at 03:36

    Dear Guido,

    Thank You very much. Gabor

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  5. Guido8 October 2011 at 10:00

    @NVC
    Thanks a lot and...
    WOW, WHAT A BLOG!
    Just Added!

    And "from now to eternity" I'm a follower...

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  6. Guido25 January 2019 at 08:09

    https://www15.zippyshare.com/v/Oi5EXC7n/file.html

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  7. José Beltrán25 March 2019 at 16:13

    Hola Guido:
    Desde Lima-Perú recibe un cordial saludo y mi agradecimiento por las extraordinarias grabaciones de los "Cuadros".

    Atentamente:
    José Beltrán
    cuasar136@gmail.com
    25/Mar/2019

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  8. Mravinskian30 October 2019 at 19:15

    Hi!

    Could you please re-upload this amazing recording?

    Thank you so much !


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  9. Guido26 July 2020 at 04:50

    REUPLOADED

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QX5hEUx5rfs12D-Rov9ttSo8ezecPrnr/view?usp=sharing

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