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). 

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