Monteux in Copenhagen 1962

BERLIOZ
Benvenuto Cellini, overture

TCHAIKOVSKY
Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33
Erling Bløndal Bengtsson, cello

BRAHMS
Symphony no. 3 in F, Op. 90

DR SymfoniOrkestret
PIERRE MONTEUX

Copenhagen, Radiohusets Koncertsal
Live recording - 7 october 1962

+ Bonus - Radio interview 1959

 Very good sound.

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BACH-STOKOWSKI Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 (1946)

BACH-STOKOWSKI
Matthäus-Passion BWV 244
(Abridged - Sung in English)


Olive Mae Beach, soprano
Clemence Gifford, contralto
Joseph Sullivan, tenor
Leopold Wintner, baritone
Tudor Williams, bass


Los Angeles Chorus (Chorus Master: J. Arthur Lewis)
Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI

Live, Hollywood Bowl
August 29, 1946


I couldn't post it in time for Good Friday, but it was laborious.

Never "officially" published, a concert broadcasted for the U.S. Army.

This "collage" includes all the other Stokowski known excerpts
from Bach's Johannes & Matthaus Passions (details in the folder)
and his transcription of the Chorale from Oster-Oratorium BWV 249.

Flac, cover & back with details

Mahler 5 Houston Symphony, Barbirolli Live in NY 1966

MAHLER

Symphony no. 5

Houston Symphony

SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI

Live in New York, Carnegie Hall

March 24, 1966

Like the previous "Titan" conducted by Krips,
this unpublished Fifth is also very "adventurous",
outside the box and completely different from the 1969 studio version.

Contrarily to the "routine Mahler" which unfortunately is often heard today,
this is a visionary and suffered performance rich of surprises and contrasts.


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Beethoven 9 WP Szell - Live 1969

BEETHOVEN
Symphony No.9 in D minor, op.125

Gundula Janowitz
Meriel Dickinson
Ernst Haefliger
Walter Berry

Chor der Wiener Singakademie
Wiener Philharmoniker
GEORGE SZELL

Live - Musikverein, Wien
June 22, 1969


Apart from the famous studio Recording in Severance Hall (1961),
another performance by Szell (live in London, 1968) is available on a BBC Legends double CD:
here is the only other known recording of this symphony by Szell.

Ok, maybe it's not essential to have another version of the Ninth,
but I like it for many reasons.
It is meticulous in a very "Szellian way"
(1st mov: extremely well shaped and not too fast;
on the contrary the adagio is not too slow)
and everything is "merged" with the inimitable WP timbre.


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