BEETHOVEN
Symphony no. 9
Dorothy Kirsten
Nan Merriman
Donald Dame
Todd Duncan
Westminster Choir
(John Finley Williamson, chorus master)
New York Philharmonic
ARTUR RODZINSKI
Live - NY, Carnegie Hall
April 14, 1946
An important addition to Rodzinski's discography,
with particular reference to his "golden age" with the NYPO.
Here you can listen an extremely fast (60min)
and "clean" reading of the Ninth Symphony;
perhaps not particularly inspired,
although not "violent" like the last Toscanini performances.
In particular, sometimes it's refreshing to listen to the Adagio
in delicate and flowing versions like this
rather than in the more usual "very-slow-and-over-expressive" ones.
The sound is very good for a mid 40s live and the orchestra is at its best.
FLAC
5 comments:
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How nice, thank you!
Thank you for what I hope will be an INVALUABLE offering of Rodzinsky in a work he did not commercially record.
A small demur: having owned all of the extant broadcasts of Toscanini's Beethoven Ninth, I'd like to suggest that the last performances, a live radio presentation on NBC on March 29, 1952, and the subsequent RCA Victor commercial Red Seal record, would not -- purely IMO, of course -- be commonly described by all Beethoven lovers as being "violent"; though opinions might vary. I watched just two nights ago, some of Furtwaengler's concert of the Ninth for Hitler's Birthday, with Goebbels' intro. The 'frenzy' that resulted, in many passages of the finale, were MUCH more exaggerated and extreme in tempo, phrasing distentions, and dynamics than what is represented on either the aircheck or the Victor performances by Toscanini. Nor is the live 1948 televised b'cast "violent" (which I take it to mean excessively fierce, intense, pronouncedly 'angry' or 'forceful'.) Toscanini is much slower in the final coda than Furtwaengler USUALLY is. Sadly, the first movement in 1952's live broadcast has an ensemble slip, effectively ruining the performance to the extent that it is RARELY offered even to private collectors. But, otherwise, it's merely a consciencious, slightly terse, and well-controlled concept: 'chaste' compared to the ferocity and devil-may-care passion of Furtwaengler. I suspect that Rodzinsky will not be too far from Toscanini...
8H Haggis
Sadly, once again I cannot make your cue file work with ANY of the modern Windows programs on my Win 7 and Win 10 computers. The FLAC file will play.
I studied the cue file and FIRST tried to rename the FLAC file with underscores instead of blank spaces, wondering if there were some problem with the character set. No go.
Then I changed this line; the original says:
FILE "Beethoven 9 NYPO Rodzinsky (Carngie Hall, 14apr1946).flac" FLAC
I made a very small change:
FILE "Beethoven 9 NYPO Rodzinsky (Carngie Hall, 14apr1946).flac" WAVE
...and now ALL of my various software programs that use cue files will work: VLC, other media players; my burning programs, etc.
I would love to know WHAT program you use creates the Cue files: Magix? What programs such as media players, running in what OS, renders your original cue file? Thanks for any info you can offer.
8H Haggis
Yes, I generally use Magix to extract CDs, convert to flac, record radio broadcasts and so on. it is simple and very "user friendly" and has never given me problems ...
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