Shostakovich Violin Concerto n. 2 Oistrakh (Ormandy and Martinon)

SHOSTAKOVICH
Violin Concerto n. 2, op. 129

DAVID OISTRAKH, violin

(two live performances)


London Symphony Orchestra
EUGENE ORMANDY (november 17, 1967)


Orchestre National de l'ORTF
JEAN MARTINON (october 10, 1971)


Two little known live performances starring "King David",
the first and the greatest performer of this Concerto.
Composed in spring 1967, it is also the last concert for soloist and orchestra written by Shostakovich, as 60th birthday gift for its dedicatee, David Oistrakh. Premiered unofficially in Bolshevo, near Moscow (13 September 1967) and officially on 26 September in Moscow, of course by Oistrakh himself (with the Moscow Philharmonic under Kirill Kondrashin).


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Stokowski live in Turin 1955

JACQUES IBERT
Féerique
   

MORTON GOULD
Latin-American Symphonette
     

MANUEL DE FALLA
El amor brujo (*)
(Oralia Dominguez, contralto)
         

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Symphony no. 5



Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI

Live - 6 & 8 (*) may 1955


Stokowski conducted other works during the two evenings (details in the folder),
but the recordings apparently did not survive.




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Shostakovich 11 - BBCSO Sargent 1958

SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 11 in G minor, op. 103 "The Year 1905"

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent

London, Royal Festival Hall
January 22, 1958


The Symphony was premiered on 30 October 1957,
by the USSR Symphony Orchestra (conductor Natan Rakhlin).
This is the 1st performance outside USSR: the US Premiere was given
by Stokowski and the Houston SO a few months later, on 7 April 1958.


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Bruno Walter plays and conducts Mozart - NBC Symphony (1939-1940)

On request, here's three rare NBC recordings by Bruno Walter.

Like in the previous Wagner post, we have the opportunity to listen Walter as a pianist
(as in the old EMI version of the same Concerto).

Nice sound quality for 1939 / 1940.


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Beethoven - Missa Solemnis - Szell, live 1967

After Mozart's Requiem / Bruckner's Te Deum
and Verdi's Requiem
this Missa Solemnis concludes an ideal CD triptych
dedicated to great choral works
never recorded in studio by Szell.

As in the previous cases,
a very personal reading of absolute importance.
The fast tempos (tt 76 minutes) give the Gloria and the Credo
a bump and a momentum of great impact,
but also the Sanctus succeeds magnificently
(with a very good violin solo in the Benedictus).

Last but not least,
Robert Shaw's imprint on the choir is crystal clear.
Fortunately, the sound quality is also very good.




BEETHOVEN

Missa Solemnis in D major, op.123

Sara Mae Endich, sopran
Florence Kopleff, alto
Ernst Haefliger, tenor
Ezio Flagello, bass

Robert Shaw, Chorus Master
Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus
GEORGE SZELL


February 2-4, 1967
Severance Hall, Cleveland (live)


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