24 July 2019

Verdi - Requiem - Szell, Cleveland 1968



GIUSEPPE VERDI
Messa di Requiem

Gabriella Tucci, soprano
Janet Baker, alto
Pierre Duval, tenor
Martti Talvela, bass

Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus
GEORGE SZELL


Live, Severance Hall
Cleveland - february 5, 1968


Like Mozart's Requiem and Bruckner Te Deum,
another great choral work never "officially" recorded by Szell;
available for a short period in the 90s only on a Melodram CD (OOP, of course).

FLAC






12 July 2019

Mitropoulos conducts Copland, Barber etc NYPO 1952-58





AARON COPLAND
Appalachian Spring, suite

ROBERT SHERWOOD
Introduction and Allegro

ALBERTO GINASTERA
Creole Dance

MOZART CAMARGO GUARNIERI
Prologo y Fuga

SAMUEL BARBER
Medea's Meditadion
and Dance of Vengeance, op. 23a

New York Philharmonic
DIMITRI MITROPOULOS



Some Mitropoulos rarities: live recordings 1952-1958


Flac & scans with details

7 July 2019

Schoenberg, Webern, Hindemith NYPO Mitropoulos




SCHOENBERG
Erwartung, op. 17  (Dorothy Dow, soprano)


WEBERN
Passacaglia, op. 1


HINDEMITH
"Die Harmone der Welt", Symphony


New York Philharmonic
DIMITRI MITROPOULOS

nov 18, 1951
jan 1, 1960
oct 25, 1953

FLAC (complete scans & details included)