Strauss, Mendelssohn - Mitropoulos

 

Here another long time out of print CD in a new rip. The mid-price "Virtuoso" label didn't have a long life, but in the late 1980s recovered several interesting unreleased historical recordings, even if more or less everything later reappeared in other reissues. These, in particular, are available also on two different Medici Masters CDs. Anyway, the source is enough good. As you'll see from the scans, it was the period when the durations of the tracks were sometimes not reported. This thing annoyed me a lot and I took care to mark them (ruining the booklets in a completely unnecessary way). 

NOTE: As announced, I'll delete the Russia Revelation CDs to reclaim storage space (I chose this series because I see that after the first period those posts are no longer very popular). If you're interested, please download the files this week. From next Monday they will no longer be available.

STRAUSS

Also Sprach Zarathustra

(September 7, 1959)

MENDELSSOHN

Symphony no. 3 "Scottish"

(October 24, 1960 - misdated on the booklet)

Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester

DIMITRI MITROPOULOS

FLAC & Complete Scans

Munch conducts Roussel - Live 1964-66

 

Another superb Munch CD "brought to safety". As in the previous case, new rip with full scans.

But in THIS case, since it's a much less popular repertoire (and for which there are not so many recordings of high artistic level), it is of course an even more precious document. Very nice and vivid sound for live material of the period.

ROUSSEL

Symphony No. 3

Symphony No. 4

Bacchus et Ariane, Suite no. 2

CHARLES MUNCH, conductor

Live Recordings

N.3 Edinburgh Festival, August 19, 1964.

N'4 19th Festival international de musique, Besançon, France, September 13, 1966.

Bacchus recorded at Théâtre des Champs Elysées, November 22, 1966.

FLAC & Complete scans

IMPORTANT NOTE: I need to restore some storage space, so I'm going to delete some posts. I will remove the entire Russia Revelation series, but I will leave a month for those who haven't yet the opportunity to download those CDs. I'll send another notice a few days before proceeding.

Mahler 3 - Erich Leinsdorf - live 1990

I really enjoyed this 1990 Leinsdorf live recording: but above all the SOBR offers a particular lush, opulent, really fantastic sound; from this point of view it is one of the most gorgeous versions of the Third I know. 

As always I checked and there is an upload on YT, but - sound quality aside - in that source the introduction of the IV movement is missing.

MAHLER 

Symphony no. 3

  

Marjana Lipovšek, ms

Tölzer Knabenchor   

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

ERICH LEINSDORF

    

Live recording - Herkulessaal - October 10, 1990

FLAC

Note: It was a very old post, so at the moment I don't know where is my original Gershwin CD and where is the digital copy. I'll try to find it and I hope to prepare a reupload.

 

Munch conducts Berlioz - live 1963-67

 

I don't think I've seen this wonderful CD around, at least not recently: so I propose it to you a new rip, complete with scans. Like other French Munch live recordings of this period, it has a very special nervousness and electricity, which are particularly suitable for this repertoire.

Fortunately, everything is well picked up by a sound quality that is up to the situation. 

BERLIOZ

Symphonie Fantastique (Live june 23, 1963)

Le Corsaire, ov (Live september 25, 1967)

Benvenuto Cellini, ov (Live september 13, 1966) 

CHARLES MUNCH

FLAC & Complete Scans