Pergolesi - Stabat Mater BP Abbado 1968

PERGOLESI
Stabat Mater

Janowitz, Forrester
Berliner Philharmoniker
CLAUDIO ABBADO


Live recording
Salzburg - august 6, 1968




Published in 1992, attached to the italian magazine "Il sabato".

A very rare live recording
not released later on commercial CDs.


"Philharmonica di Berlino"
and "44.96" (you'll read after downloading)
leave a bit perplexed,
but the quality of the recording is more than acceptable
and the two singers are exceptional.

BTW, the real duration is 45.04.


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Bruckner Te Deum & Mozart Requiem - Szell live 1968

BRUCKNER Te Deum
MOZART Requiem

Judith Raskin
Florence Kopleff
Ernst Haefliger
Thomas Paul


Cleveland Chorus & Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell

Live, Cleveland
Severance Hall - may 9, 1968



A particularly interesting concert, especially because
both works are not included in Szell's "official" discography.


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Bruckner - Symphony in D minor "Die Nullte" - Van Beinum

ANTON BRUCKNER
Symphony in D minor "Die Nullte"
1869 Ed. Woess. published by Universal Edition [1924]

RUDOLF ESCHER
Musique pour l'esprit en deuil


Congertebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
EDUARD VAN BEINUM

March 13, 1955 (Bruckner)
September 1, 1951 (Escher)


Apart from a Nixa LP (Henk Spruit, 1952),
should be the oldest surviving recording of this symphony.

"Musique pour l'esprit en deuil" (1941-1943)
was first performed in 1947 by the COA under van Beinum.
A work well known in the Netherlands
and reproposed with the same orchestra by Bernard Haitink and Riccardo Chailly.


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RT 032 Rossini, Mozart, Brahms BBC SO Toscanini 1938

ROSSINI
La Scala di Seta, Overture

MOZART
Symphony No.41 in C, K. 551

BRAHMS
Liebeslieder-Waltzer Op. 52 (*)

(Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, pf)

BBC Singers (Chorusmaster Leslie Woodgate) (*)

BBC Symphony Orchestra
ARTURO TOSCANINI

Live - Queen's Hall, London
June 3, 1938

(In the second part was performed Schubert's "Great", but someone thought it well not to record it.)


WARNING: some little gaps in Mozart & Brahms

These are the last toscanini recordings with the BBC Symphony in my possession,
with a final surprise: the "Jupiter" Symphony.

A pinnacle of Toscanini's Mozart
together with the "Haffner" Symphony (NYPO & BBC)
and the complete Magic Flute (WP 1937):
one of the best "Jupiter" ever recorded.

Unfortunately the flaws make the listening a bit frustrating, but as in the case of Don Quixote with Feuermann is better so that give up altogether. BTW I recently learned that a better source is preserved: I hope that sooner or later it will be published.

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