Charles Munch & NYPO - live 1948

CHABRIER
Joyeuse Marche

PROKOFIEV
Piano Concerto N. 2 in G minor, Op. 16
Zadel Skolovsky, piano

BERLIOZ
Symphonie Fantastique

New York Philharmonic
CHARLES MUNCH

Carnegie Hall, New York
Live - 1 February 1948



In the second half of the 1940s, Charles Munch
conducted the NYPO about thirty times.
This concert, which ends with one of his great specialties,
Berlioz's Fantastique, also includes the orchestra's first performance
of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto no. 2.

FLAC - Separated files

Schumann - Der Rose Pilgerfahrt - Boulez

SCHUMANN
Der Rose Pilgerfahrt

Jill Gomes, sp (The Rose)
Alfreda Hodgson, mezzo  (The Elfs Queen/Martha/The Miller's wife)
Ian Partridge, tn (The Narrator/Max)
Gyne Howell, bs (The Gravedigger)


BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
PIERRE BOULEZ

London. St John Smith's Square,  9 April 1975

FLAC, very good sound

Schumann 3&4 - Bruno Walter

Schumann

Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat major, Opus 97 (“Rhenish”)
New York Philharmonic
February 4, 1941; Liederkranz Hall

Symphony No. 4 in D minor, op. 120
London Symphony Orchestra
April 26, 1938; Abbey Road Studio No. 1, London

FLAC with scans

Tchaikovsky 5 Furtwängler (reupload)

Reuploaded on request

(and Markevitch Le Sacre upcoming)




TCHAIKOVSKY


Symphony No.5 in E minor, op.64

Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della Rai
Wilhelm Furtwängler

June 6, 1952
Live, Torino



Serenade for Strings, op.48

Waltz (2nd movement)
Finale (4th movement)

Wiener Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

February 2, 1950
Wien, Brahmssaal, Wien (studio) 


FLAC with details

Tchaikovsky 4 BSO Koussevitzky 1949

Tchaikovsky
Symphony no. 4

plus rehearsals (24 min)

Boston Symphony Orchestra
SERGEI KOUSSEVITZKY

March 11, 1949



A passionate and fluent reading in Koussevitzky style,
preceded by a delighful rehearsal (7 March).



I have several CDs of this OOP "Koussevitzky edition" ...
So, if you are interested, I can go on.


FLAC - Scans included