Prokofiev, Schnittke, Brahms - Kondrashin live 1969

PROKOFIEV
Liutenant Kijé, suite

SCHNITTKE
Violin Concerto n. 2 (1966)

BRAHMS
Symphony no. 3

Mark Lubotskij, violin
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
KIRILL KONDRASHIN

Live - February 1, 1969

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Weber, Schumann and Brahms Fourth Eugen Jochum, live 1978

WEBER
Euryanthe, Overture

SCHUMANN
Cello Concerto

BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4



Lorne Munroe, cello

New York Philharmonic
Eugen Jochum, conductor


New York, Avery Fisher Hall
Live - April 8, 1978


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A wonderful "all Romantic" concerto conducted by Eugen Jochum in New York.

Schumann's Concerto is performed by Lorne Munroe, principal cellist for the Philadelphia Orchestra between 1951 and 1964 and principal cellist for the New York Philharmonic from 1964 through 1996: he was a featured soloist more than 150 times during the thirty-two seasons he played for the NYPO.

The solemn phrasing, the sense of continuous flow and the warm, deep calm interrupted by majestic ignitions in Brahms
it's something very special: not achieved at this level (IMHO) in the studio recordings that Jochum left us (DG & EMI),
despite his fleeting relationship with the NYPO: regrettably, he was a guest of the orchestra
only in march/april 1978, conducting three programs.

Mahler 2 - Stokowski, Philadelphia 1967

Not an "extreme" rarity,
but not so widespread either.

Available for a short time only in Japan (LSCD, 1990),
then on CD Arkadia (1991); both OOP, obviously.

Perhaps you have already heard the much more famous - and amazing - recordings
available on BBC Legends (live 1963) and RCA (studio 1974):
"Stoky's touch", of course, is perfectly recognizable even in this case.
Here you will especially appreciate the urgency of the Finale,
"condensed" in less than 30 minutes;
and to all this is added the charm of listening
the sound of his beloved Philadelphians.



MAHLER
Symphony No. 2

Maria Lucia Godoy, soprano
Veronica Tyler, mezzo

Singing City Choir
Philadelphia Orchestra
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI

Live, Philadelphia - 9 november 1967
(78 min)

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Rare Toscanini 35 - Dvorak, Strauss, Wagner rehearsals (1945-46)

As you well know, the series dedicated to Toscanini
has already reached a certain number of "releases":
many additions can still be made,
but you will have to be veeery patient. :)

Meanwhile we open the year with this vol. 35. Wow, not so few.


If you love "Toscanini's wrath"
listen to Strauss rehearsals and all the outbursts you knew before
will seem to be caresses and compliments.

But to come to more serious things,
the extracts are fortunately long enough
to allow a proper "immersion" in the atmosphere of those sessions.

You can already imagine it,
but the real pearl is the Wagnerian extract.
More than half an hour, that is enough to make us understand
how the annoyance for the "mythization" of Toscanini
can be counterbalanced by the joy of appreciating
the profound values of an art that can (and must) be questioned in various ways,
but that remains an art without compromises.




REHEARSALS:


DVORAK
Scherzo Capriccioso
NBC Symphony Orchestra
NY, Studio 8H - January 1945
(Concert January 28, 1945)


STRAUSS
Tod und Verklärung
NBC Symphony Orchestra
NY, Studio 8H - November 1946
(Concert November 17, 1946)


WAGNER
Tannhauser,
overture and Bacchanale, Rehearsal

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Kunsthaus, Lucerne - July 1946
(Concert July 7, 1946)

ARTURO TOSCANINI


tt 75 min ca.

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