The Young Glenn Gould (1947-53)

 

Berg - Sonata op, 1

Bach - Concerto Italiano

Mozart - Fantasy In F Minor, K.594 

etc.

Material published for the first time in the second half of the '80s and reprinted in the early '90.

Detailed tracklist & recording infos included

FLAC + Scans

Mahler 8 - Georges Sébastian ORTF 1964

MAHLER

Symphony No. 8 

Liane Synek, soprano drammatico

Colette Herzog, soprano

Ruth Hesse, mezzosoprano

Helga Jenckel, mezzosoprano

William Blankenship, tenore

Hans Otto Kloose, baritono 

Gerd Nienstedt, basso

Maîtrise de l'ORTF, Orchestre National de l'ORTF, Choeurs de l'ORTF

Georges Sébastian

November 26, 1964

First Performance in France

FLAC

Bruckner 7 - Böhm, BP Live 77

BRUCKNER

Symphony no. 7

Berliner Philharmoniker

Karl Böhm

March 24, 1977

FLAC

I don't know if it's the same for you ... anyway, Böhm for me is sometimes the most boring, other times the most sensational. In particular with Mozart and Bruckner. 

For example, the 4th Decca is one of my ten favorite studio symphonic recordings ever (and maybe number 1 for recording quality). At the same time, listening to his Bruckner 7&8 DG I almost fall asleep. 

BUT in my humble opinion this Berlin 7th is REALLY good :)

Let me know, if you like. :)

Mozart - Requiem - Celibidache 1972

 

MOZART

Requiem KV. 626

Margareta Hallin, sopran.

Gurli Plesner, alt.

Claes-Hakan Ahnsjö, tenor. 

Ulrik Cold, bass.

DR Symphony Orchestra & Concert Choir

Sergiu Celibidache 

Copenhagen - Radiohusets Concert Hall, 9 novembre 1972)

What?

 

A little digression.

I'm not going to stop. I hope you enjoy the news.

But I have several commitments.

Also I try not to put "anything", "something"... "thing", here. I am lazy, I am limited, idiosyncratic, but I also have flaws.

Sometimes I make a mistake in understanding what you may like, what is "rare" or not.

We're all dinosaurs here, in a way, so I trust you will understand.

I would just like to tell that you are rightly disappointed when I'm not present enough, but consider that I think and I care a lot about you and what to do here. Sometimes I try to surprise you, other times just to give you something just discovered right away.

As you well know, the pleasure of appreciating together things of which just "the last human beings" know the value is truly the only reason to go on.

All this to say that I may be absent for weeks, but always expect a new post at any moment. ;)

Barbirolli conducts Two WP in New York (1939-41)

 

MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO

Piano Concerto n.2

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, pf

Live - November 2, 1939 - World Premiere

MISCHA PORTNOFF

Piano Concerto

Nadia Reisenberg, pf

Live - February 23, 1941 - World Premiere

NYPO - John Barbirolli

FLAC

Berlioz - Harold en Italie - Barshai, Oistrakh cond

 

BERLIOZ

Harold en Italie, op. 16

Rudolf Barshai, vla

URSS State Sympnony Orchestra

David Oistrakh

Recording 1969

FLAC - Cover & Back 

Bruckner 8 (II-IV) Karajan 1944

 

FLAC and Scans

Ansermet & OSR Live 1960

 

BRAHMS Violin Concerto in D major, op. 77 

Arthur Grumiaux, violin

STRAVINSKY Symphony in Three Movements

DEBUSSY Ibéria

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

ERNEST ANSERMET

LIVE - 27 January 1960

Victoria Hall, Genève

FLAC

Vaughan Williams conducts Bach

 

BACH 

St. Matthew Passion BWV 244 

Tenor [Evangelist]: Eric Greene; Bass [Jesus]: Gordon Clinton; Soprano: Pauline Brockless; Contralto: Nancy Evans; Tenor: Wilfred Brown; Bass-Baritone: John Carol Case

Eric Gritton, piano - Dr. William Cole, organ (electric).

Leith Hill Music Festival Chorus & Orchestra

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Mar 5, 1958 - Recorded at Dorking Halls, Leith Hill, England.

Many numbers omitted, sung in english, a famous and admired composer but not a "great" conductor in the sense commonly given to this appellation, "old fashioned" and anti-philological (piano and electric organ for the continuo!), an obscure orchestra and singers certainly not as famous as many who recorded Bach's masterpiece... everything seems to suggest that we are in front of something "avoidable": a curiosity, at best, due to the prestige of RVW. It is just the opposite. Like the older Mengelberg recording, this one has something magnetic, absolutely unique and unrepeatable. Published on 4 LPs, then on 2 CD Pearl out of print. 

FLAC - Scans with tracklist & infos

Quartetto Italiano - Live 1951-1970

 

Following the Quartetto Italiano rarities previoulsly uploaded,

here you can find 4 unpublished live recordings:

TARTINI Sonata a Quattro in Sol Maggiore

(January 29, 1951)

BOCCHERINI Quartetto op. 6 n. 1

(March 23, 1966)

CHERUBINI Quartetto in Fa Maggiore op. posth

(April 15, 1959)

HAYDN  Streichquartett op. 76 n. 2

(March 18, 1970)

QUARTETTO ITALIANO

Paolo Borciani vl I, Elisa Pegreffi vl II

Piero Farulli vla, Franco Rossi vc

FLAC

Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Strauss - Krauss

SCHUBERT

Sinfonie No. 5 B-Dur, D.458

1. Allegro

2. Andante con moto

3. Menuetto. Allegro molto

4. Allegro vivace

Berliner Philharmoniker / Clemens Krauss

Berlin, 24 November 1944

TCHAIKOVSKY

Sinfonie No. 5 e-moll op. 64

1. Announcements

2. Andante - Allegro con anima

3. Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza (incomplete)

4. Valse. Allegro moderato

5. Finale. Andante maestoso - Allegro vivace (incomplete)

Berliner Philharmoniker / Clemens Krauss

Berlin, 3 October 1939

STRAUSS

Drei Lieder

1. Einkehr op. 47/2

2. Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten op. 19/4

3. Zueignung op. 10/1

Viorica Ursuleac, Sopran

Clemens Krauss, pf

June 1940

FLAC

 

Oistrakh conducts DSCH and Strauss

 

I continue with some recordings by Oistrakh as conductor... 

SHOSTAKOVICH

Symphony no. 9

STRAUSS

Till Eulenspiegel

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

DAVID OISTRAKH

Live 1970

FLAC  + Cover and back

 

Mitropoulos & NYPO in Athens 1955

 

Two complete concerts

FLAC & infos

Schoenberg - String Quartets - Kolisch Quartet

 

A truly "historical" collection, realized under the supervision of the composer. 

The 2 disc set includes, in the appendix, 

interventions by Schoenberg and the members of the quartet.

FLAC - Complete scans included

Koussevitzky - The HMV Recordings

As you know, Koussevitzky made most of his studio recordings for RCA / Victor: 

in this double CD out of print are collected all those realized for HMV in the '30s.
 

2 CD - FLAC - Scans & infos

Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - Bernstein live 1968

An exciting performance in very good sound.

 

BERLIOZ

Symphonie Fantastique

New York Philharmonic

LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Live in Montreux - September 13, 1968

FLAC

Knappertsbusch - Wien 1962

 

HAYDN

Symphony no. 88 in G

STRAUSS

Tod und Verklärung

SCHUMANN

Symphony no. 4 

Wiener Philharmoniker

HANS KNAPPERTSBUSCH

Live - Wien, Musikverein

16 december 1962

FLAC

Bruckner 5 Rozhdestvensky

BRUCKNER

Symphony no. 5

URSS Ministry of Culture Orchestra

GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY

FLAC - Scans & infos

 

Prokofiev 5 (1963), Semyon Kotko suite - Rozhdestvensky

 

PROKOFIEV

Symphony No. 5

Semyon Kotko, suite op. 81 bis 

GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY

FLAC + scans & infos