To conclude this 2021, another CD from the Koussevitzky series.
See you soon and happy new year!
MUSORGSKIJ
A night on Bald Mountain
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Live - December 30, 1944
RACHMANINOFF
Piano Concerto n. 3
Vladimir Horowitz, pf
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Live - August 31, 1950
SERGEI KOUSSEVITZKY
FLAC and Scans
Not exactly one of my favorite recordings of this Symphony (ahem),
but it is certainly a rarity and it's part of the series...
MAHLER
Symphony no. 5
URSS Large Symphony Orchestra of State Radio and Television
GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
December 23, 1973
FLAC & Scans
MAHLER
Symphony no. 8
Margerita RINALDI, Radmila BAKOCEVIC
Beverly WOLFF, Lucretia WEST
Lajos KOZMA, Dan JORDACHESCU
Tugomir FRANC
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Coro di Roma della RAI
Coro di voci bianche della Rai
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI
Georges Prêtre
September 30, 1971
Roma, Teatro Olimpico
FLAC
Recording: January 8, 1968
Obviously not the famous version
with the USSR Ministry Of Culture Symphony Orchestra
on Olympia/Melodiya (1984)
Flac & Scans
Mravinsky left us perhaps the best Agon and a beautiful version of Apollon Musagete, but his Stravinsky discography, unfortunately, is rather limited: in particular, the two recordings that you can find here have not had many reprints; anyway, they deserve to be known.
FLAC and scans
Elgar's Cello Concerto and the world premiere of Britten's "Cello Symphony"
dedicated to Rostropovich, conducted by the composer in Moscow.
FLAC
Scans with details included
MAHLER
Symphony no. 4
DAVID OISTRAKH
Jan 22, 1967
Symphony no. 10 (Adagio)
GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
1963
Flac + Scans
Three rare Koussevitzky recordings.
The Symphony No. 2 was premiered in Boston on March 3, 1944:
not performed in april, so the date on the cover is wrong (probably is March 4).
Harris No. 6: first performance April 14. This should be the second (April 15).
BARBER
Symphony no. 2 (first recording)
HARRIS
Symphony no. 6 (first recording)
TOCH
Pinocchio Overture
Boston Symphony Orchestra
SERGEI KOUSSEVITZKY
FLAC + Scans
Wiener Philharmoniker
SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
LIVE - Wien, Musikverein
December 17, 1967
Well, despite everything we continue:
I will try to post more often, but at the moment I cannot guarantee.
If this is to your liking, in the next period I will proceed with some CDs out of print.
For example more AS, some Grammofono 2000, Russian Revelation, etcetera.
BRUCKNER
Symphony no. 8
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
RAFAEL KUBELIK
Live - Dec 22, 1966
FLAC - 4 Separated files
Here I am again. I won't be able to post continuously for a while, but I hope it will get better.
A very interesting live recording of "Das Klagende Lied" (3 mov),
conducted by Pierre Boulez in Cleveland.
A quite different version from the one made in studio (LSO, 1970)
less analytical but more theatrical and impetuous.
FLAC - 3 separated files
A precious CD, of course out of print.
Live recordings from three different concerts (1953, 1959, 1964)
ALBAN BERG
Violin Concerto - Yehudi Menuhin
Three Fragments from "Wozzeck" - Suzanne Danco
Three Orchestral Pieces, op. 6
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
ERNEST ANSERMET
Live - Géneve
FLAC - Scans & details included
FLAC, with details & tracklist included in the folder
W.A. MOZART
Die Zauberflöte K. 620: Overture
RICHARD STRAUSS (arr. Stokowski)
Der Rosenkavalier, suite
WERNER JOSTEN
Jungle, symphonic poem
WILLIAM MAYER
Octagon for Piano & Orchestra (1970)
William Masselos, piano (world premiere)
IGOR STRAVINSKY Petrushka, Suite
American Symphony Orchestra
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
NY, Carnegie Hall - March 21, 1971
FLAC - Separated tracks
BACH
Concerto for 2 violins BWV 1043
Edith Peinemann (Violino)
Renato Zanettovich (Violino)
Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079: nn. 2, 7 & 5 (Ricercare a 6)
SCHUBERT
Symphony n. 2
Orchestra "A. Scarlatti" di Napoli della Rai
CLAUDIO ABBADO
Napoli - April 30, 1963
Here one of the first entirely preserved Abbado concerts, in good sound:
his debut with the "Scarlatti" Rai Orchestra (april 1963).
FLAC
SCHUMAN, WILLIAM
American Festival Overture
IVES
The unanswered question
GERSHWIN
Rhapsody in blue
(Bernstein pf)
COPLAND
Symphony no. 3
"Hoe-Down" from Rodeo
BERNSTEIN
Candide, overture
New York Philharmonic
LEONARD BERNSTEIN, cond & pf
Den Haag, Hourusthallen
June 1, 1976
Holland Festival
An "All-American-Program" including Gershwin's Rhapsody in blue
conducted & performed by Lenny and two encores,
in excellent stereo sound.
FLAC separated files
MAHLER
Symphony no. 9
Boston Symphony Orchestra
LEONARD BERSTEIN
Live in Tanglewood
July 29, 1979
FLAC (4 Separated tracks)
As you well know, Ostrakh's activity as conductor was very sporadic,
as well as limited to compositions he cared a lot about and knew in depth,
such as Tchaikovsky's latest symphonies or some Shostakovich's.
This No. 10 in Cleveland is certainly one of his best achievements on the podium.
Very good recording, BTW.
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony no. 10
Cleveland Orchestra
DAVID OISTRAKH
live - december 14, 1967
FLAC (separated tracks)
Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky (Recordings 1929-1940)
Petrushka (abridged by the composer)
The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Of New York
Igor Stravinsky (Conductor) - Recorded 1940
Piano Rag-music
Igor Stravinsky (Piano) - Recorded 1930
Rag-time For 11 Instruments
Aldar Racz, Charmy & Volant, Ginot, Juste, Lavaillotte, Godeau, Foveau, Dvemy, Tudesq, Movel Recorded 1930
Pulcinella - Ballet after Pergolesi
Symphony Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky (Conductor) - Recorded 1929
Le Sacre Du Printemps
The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Of New York
Igor Stravinsky (Conductor) - Recorded 1940
FLAC & Scans
BRUCKNER
Symphony no. 7
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Live - Roma, Auditorium del Foro Italico
May 1, 1951
FLAC (separated tracks)
Another monument of choral literature that unfortunately
Szell never recorded in studio:
but, as always, the clarity of his musical conception
is captured very well in this 1969 live.
Brahms
Ein Deutsches Requiem, op. 45
Gundula Janowitz, sp
Tom Brause, bs
Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus
GEORGE SZELL
April 24, 1969
FLAC (separated tracks)
Two performances of the same work by Ormandy.
Perhaps not ideal in all the variations,
but rather convincing in the most intimate and delicate.
ELGAR
Enigma Variations
Philadelphia Orchestra
Live in Philadelphia - April 6, 1962
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Live in Tanglewood - July 19, 1964
EUGENE ORMANDY
FLAC
Two remarkable live performances in good audio quality.
The affinity with Prokofiev's Fifth, which will become "explosive"
in the fantastic Chandos album, is already very evident
and the selection from "Romeo" is no less interesting
PROKOFIEV
From "Romeo and Juliet"
Montagues and Capulets
Juliet as a Young Girl
Dance of the Five Couples
Romeo at Juliet's Grave
Death of Tybalt
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della Rai
MARISS JANSONS
November 15, 1974
Symphony n. 5, op. 100
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della Rai
MARISS JANSONS
October 26, 1974
FLAC - Separated tracks
A small "diversion" from the orchestral repertoire ... perhaps not the only one, we'll see.
Remarkable is the 1962 performance of Shostakovich's Seventh,
"created" by the Beethoven Quartet in Leningrad
less than two years earlier (May 15, 1960).
Prokofiev String Quartet no. 2, op. 92
Live - March 7, 1958
Shostakovich String Quartet n. 7, op. 108
Live, Venezia - April 14, 1962
Borodin String Quartet no. 2
Live, Venezia - February 17, 1969
Quartetto Italiano
FLAC - 3 tracks
A live performance quite different from the studio version;
considerably faster tempos (77 minutes, here) and an excellent solo quartet "led" by Sena Jurinac.
Antonín Dvorák
Stabat Mater, Op. 58
Sena Jurinac
Nan Merriman
Heinz Hoppe
Franz Crass
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk
RAFAEL KUBELIK
Live Recording
Munich, Herkulessaal
March 20, 1964
Flac - Separated tracks
Another Rodzinski rarity, "filled" with the very first Heifetz.
Beethoven
Violin Concerto op. 61
Jascha Heifetz
New York Philharmonic
ARTUR RODZINSKI
Live - jan 14, 1945
+ Heifetz: The Russian Recordings 1911
FLAC and scans
BERG
Wozzeck, drei fragmente
DALLAPICCOLA
Due pezzi per orchestra
HARTMANN
Symphony No. 6
BRSO
ERICH KLEIBER
1955
FLAC & Scans
Beethoven
Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II
Choral Fantasy op. 80
Schubert
Gesang der Geister über den Wassern
Wiener Symphoniker
CLEMENS KRAUSS
1950
FLAC
MAHLER
Symphony no. 5
BBC Symphony Orchestra
PIERRE BOULEZ
Live BBC Proms 4 august 1970
FLAC with scans
I didn't know what to choose to start this 2021... well, why not this one?
Another live recording with Kollo, Bundschum & Thomlinson is available on a LPO CD.
But here we have Jessye Norman as Sieglinde.
All the best for this New Year.
Richard Wagner
Die Walküre, Act One
Jessye Norman, Robert Schunk, Marius Rintzler
London Philharmonic
KLAUS TENNSTEDT
LIVE - October 25, 1981
FLAC
