Wagner NYPO Mitropoulos Live 1955

Reupload on request

WAGNER

Forest Murmurs 

and Götterdämmerung act III

New York Philharmonic

DIMITRI MITROPOULOS

live 30 october 1955

FLAC and scans

 

Berg, Dallapiccola, Hartmann - BRSO Erich Kleiber

 

BERG

Wozzeck, drei fragmente

DALLAPICCOLA

Due pezzi per orchestra

HARTMANN

Symphony No. 6

BRSO

ERICH KLEIBER

1955

FLAC & Scans

Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini etc - Zemlinsky

A selection of short orchestral works

conducted by Alexander von Zemlinsky

MOZART

Don Giovanni, Overture

Polydor 1928  

Così fan tutte, Overture

Polydor 1928  

The Abduction from the Seraglio, Overture

Polydor 1928  

BEETHOVEN

Fidelio, Overture 

Polydor 1929 

ROSSINI

The Thieving Magpie, Overture

Polydor 1929

FLOTOW

Alessandro Stradella, Overture

Polydor 1928

MAILLART

Das Glöckchen des Eremiten, Overture

Polydor 1928  

SMETANA

The Moldau

Ultraphon E-465/6, 1930 

WEINBERGER

Schwanda the Bagpiper, Polka

Ultraphon E-466, 1930

FLAC & scans

 

Beethoven and Schubert - Krauss

Here's the first of some Krauss posts upcoming.

Beethoven

Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II

Choral Fantasy op. 80

Schubert

Gesang der Geister über den Wassern

Wiener Symphoniker

CLEMENS KRAUSS

1950

FLAC

 

Mahler 5 Boulez live 1970

 

MAHLER

Symphony no. 5

BBC Symphony Orchestra

PIERRE BOULEZ

Live BBC Proms 4 august 1970

FLAC with scans

Wagner LPO Tennstedt - live 1981

 

I didn't know what to choose to start this 2021... well, why not this one?

Another live recording with Kollo, Bundschum & Thomlinson is available on a LPO CD.

But here we have Jessye Norman as Sieglinde.

All the best for this New Year.

Richard Wagner 

Die Walküre, Act One 

Jessye Norman, Robert Schunk, Marius Rintzler 

London Philharmonic 

KLAUS TENNSTEDT 

LIVE - October 25, 1981

FLAC

Reiner conducts Bartók - 1957 & 1946

Still a bit in trouble, but just to show that I'm still here, 

I propose the last post of the year.

Greetings to all!

See you in 2021

Béla Bartók

Violin Concerto n.2

Yehudi Menuhin, vl

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

FRITZ REINER

Chicago, Symphony Hall 24 october 1957

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Concerto per Orchestra

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Pittsburgh, 4&5 Februrary 1946

Alban Berg - Hermann Scherchen live

 

Hello everyone, I'm back.

For two months I was busy renovating an apartment and moving house. 

Never do it, if you can! 

It's all messed up, but I'll slowly start over with a few posts 

over the next weeks, then pick up next year...

ALBAN BERG

Lulu Suite

BRSO 20 feb 1953

Der Wein

BRSO 8 mar 1957

Lyrische Suite, 3 stücke (string orchestra)

NDR SO 1959

HERMANN SCHERCHEN

FLAC 

scans & info included

Karajan and Czech PO Live 1971

A complete concert from the 1971 Salzburg Festival,

and a rare opportunity to listen to Karajan on the piano... 

as long as you spot him :) 

Seriously, I don't know if he has conducted this orchestra on other occasions 

and if this document has already been published on some phantom CD. 

Anyway, tell me your opinion.

BTW, In those days the orchestra was also conducted in Salzburg 

by Böhm, Abbado and Neumann.

BACH  Konzert für vier Klaviere und Streicher a-Moll BWV 1065

DVORÁK  Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 – “From the New World”

Walter Klien, Piano

Justus Frantz, Piano

Jean Bernard Pommier, Piano

Herbert von Karajan, Piano

Czech Philharmonic 

HERBERT VON KARAJAN

15 August 1971

Salzburg, Grosses Festspielhaus

FLAC (5 files)

Karel Ancerl & Czech PO Live 1958

 

Smetana, Dvorák & Musorgkskij/Ravel

Czech Philharmonic

KAREL ANCERL

Live recording

Ascona, Switzerland - 10 october 1958

FLAC

Shostakovich BSO Koussevitzky - live

 

SHOSTAKOVICH

Symphony no. 9 (First american performance)

August 10, 1946

Symphony no. 5

March 16, 1948

Boston Symphony Orchestra

SERGEI KOUSSEVITZKY

FLAC (scans included)

Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev - NBC, Stokowski

 

TCHAIKOVSKY

The Tempest, op. 18

PROKOFIEV

Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78

Jennie Tourel, contralto

Westminster Choir

NBC Symphony Orchestra

LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI 

NY, 7 march 1943

First performance in America

(sung in english)

FLAC (separated tracks)

Bartók PC2 & Britten PC - Richter

It is difficult to imagine a discography as rich and important 

and at the same time as disordered as that of Sviatoslav Richter, 

scattered on dozens of labels, 

moreover with frequent mistakes in the dates :/

 

As in this case.

Misdated on the cover, Bartók PC2 is the same (may 6, 1967)

published on Brilliant, Russian Revelation and Yedang.

The true rarity is Britten, live in Aldeburgh (june 18, 1967)

with the composer on the podium:

this should be the only CD release.

FLAC (with scans)

 

Strauss BSO Koussevitzky

STRAUSS

Don Juan
Till Eulenspiegel
Also Sprach Zarathustra

Boston Symphony Orchestra
SERGEI KOUSSEVITZKY

Live 1946/1947


FLAC (3 separated tracks)

Scan & details included

Mozart Piano Concertos 21&27 Gulda, Swarowsky

MOZART

Piano Concerto No 21 in C-dur, KV 467
Piano Concerto No 27 in B-dur, KV 595


FRIEDRICH GULDA,  Klavier
Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper
HANS SWAROWSKY


Recording 1963, from LP Concert Hall M-2319

Reupload on request.

FLAC (separated tracks)

Fritz Reiner conducts Richard Strauss - BSO 1945

STRAUSS

Salomes Tanz
Symphonia Domestica

Boston Symphony Orchestra
FRITZ REINER

Live, Boston - 22 december 1945

FLAC



IMPORTANT NOTE:
On request, a new upload of Musorgskij/Ravel Pictures
by Dorati (RCO) & Reiner (live NYPO)
is available here:

https://laureateconductor.blogspot.com/2011/09/pictures-at-exhibition-2-rare-versions.html


(If you have reup requests, please write them in a comment on the most recent post!)

Berlioz Fantastique BSO Koussevitzky

BERLIOZ

Symphonie Fantastique

Boston Symphony Orchestra

SERGEI KOUSSEVITZKY

Live 16 october 1943

FLAC (scans included)

Scherchen conducts Berg, Skalkottas, Schönberg

ALBAN BERG
Kammerkonzert
(Paul Jacobs, pf - Wolfgang Marschner, vl)

NIKOS SKALKOTTAS
Piano Concerto n. 2
(Georg Hadjinikos, pf)

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Piano Concerto
(Eduard Steuermann, pf)


HERMANN SCHERCHEN, conductor

(live 1953-1959)


FLAC (Scans & details included)

Bloch, Schoenberg, Shostakovich 5 Piatigorsky NYPO Rodzinski

Bloch
Schelomo, Hebraic rhapsody for cello & orchestra
(26 November 1944)

Schoenberg
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op 41
Mack Harrell, voice;
Edward Steuermann, piano;
New York Philharmonic;
Artur Rodzinsky, conductor
(First recording - 26 November 1944) *

Shostakovich
Symphony No 5 in D Minor, Op 47
(24 February 1946)


New York Philharmonic
Artur Rodzinsky, conductor


* The first performance, with the same interpreters, dates back to 23 november.


FLAC (cover & tracklist included)

Rachmaninoff BSO Koussevitzky

Rachmaninoff

Symphony no. 3

Vocalise (orchestral version)

The Isle of the Dead, op. 29

Boston Symphony Orchestra

SERGEI KOUSSEVITZKY

Live 1945-47

FLAC (Scans & details included)

Mahler 1 - LSO, Kubelik - live 1975

MAHLER
Symphony no. 1

London Symphony Orchestra
RAFAEL KUBELIK

Live - 16 october 1975



Although we have many Mahlerian studio and live recordings made by Kubelik
(those published by Audite were a wonderful surprise),
the LSO is definitely not an orchestra
strictly associated with the name of the czech conductor.
So, many reasons to be curious.

Apart from a little tape hiss, the quality of the source is quite good.

FLAC (separated tracks)

Orff - Carmina Burana - Stokowski 1954

Leopold Stokowski's words:

"I believe that Orff's genius – combining as it does so magnificently all the resources of traditional occidental music with vigourous new conceptions of lyricism, romantic intensity, gigantic architectonics, rhythmic audacity, an extraordinarily personal blending of pagan and modern feeling, and the mature simplicity achieved only by a master – will be recognised by future generations as a major departure in the development of the art of music."


Third performance in USA.
The creation of this work was in Frankfurt in 1937, but the published score was not available in the United States until 1953. The USA premiere took place in a San Francisco concert (University of San Francisco's Schola Cantorum under Giovanni Camajani). Then, Thor Johnson conducted the second  at the Cincinnati May Festival (5 May 1954).


Stokoswki's "extremist" dynamics are also evident in the Houston recording (Capitol, EMI and so on); perhaps here we have a problem (yes: in Boston, not in Houston) with the microphones or with the distances.

However, since the sharp, powerful break after "O Fortuna", it is clear that Stoky has a lot to say about this score.
Also in this case I don't know "official" publications on CD or other format.



ORFF
Carmina Burana

Student soloists:

Ruth Ann Tobin sp
Gwendolyn Belle ms
Elmer Dickey tn
John Colleary br
Kenneth Shelton br

Newton Boys' Choir
Boston University Chorus,
Boston University Symphony
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI

Boston, Symphony Hall
Live - 19 november 1954

FLAC

All Mozart Concert - BSO Jochum 1974

W.A. MOZART

Masonic Funeral Music, K. 477

Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466
Veronica Jochum, pf

Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551, "Jupiter"

Boston Symphony Orchestra
EUGEN JOCHUM


Live July 13, 1974
Tanglewood - Shed
Lenox, MA, U.S.A.

FLAC (broadcast with announcements)

Cantelli Centenary 12 - Rarities

Well, here's the "special one".


Rienzi's rehearsals has been published,
but I don't know if the CD is still available;
anyway this alternative source is very good.

Beethoven's First Symphony was released
only on old LPs now unobtainable (MDP and ATS),
but never on commercial CDs, if I'm not wrong.
I had the LP MDP 037 many years ago on loan
from a collector to make a digital copy of it.

The conversation was captured in Milan (1954).
I've included in the folder an english translation.

Mitropoulos, Cantelli's close friend,
performed Strauss's tone poem in his memory,
a few days after the plane crash.

Among the many testimonials of their friendship,
one is very nice (reported by Cantelli himself).

After a performance of Berg's Wozzeck at La Scala,
Mitropoulos was invited
to Cantelli's little apartment in Milan to have dinner.
Then Dimitri went to the piano, playing,
explaining and singing loudly Wozzeck until late at night.
At one point the protests of the neighbors arose
and forced them to quit
(may the gods forgive them).




FLAC - Details, translation and some photos included.

Cantelli Centenary 11 - Debussy, Ravel, Respighi

Here a very personal and accurate selection:
so, the term "highlights" does not mean "useless jumble"
as in some... well, MOST terrible CDs and LPs.

Three of my favorite Cantelli live recordings
(collected from the most varied sources over the years)
not only for their artistic value,
but also in terms of sound quality.

Indeed, these are particularly "vivid" and "present" performances:
of course as far as possible with sources from the early/mid 50s.

Therefore I strongly recommend this download,
even more than the previous ones...

FLAC (3 separated tracks)

NOTE:
About the AS, unfortunately some Cantelli CDs are completely bronzed & "gone":
Liszt Piano Concertos, a Respighi-Pizzetti-Ghedini selection, Mozart's Requiem...
The latter, in any case, had a terrible sound;
moreover, is still available a restoration
that "does everything possible" with a very bad source.

I've the same problem with some rare Bruno Walter CDs,
which I would have gladly uploaded otherwise.

Anyway, the next "chapter" will be the final one.
But if you liked this "Centenary series",
I could go on in the next months with some additions.
So, let me know...

Cantelli Centenary 10 - Dvorak, Dukas, Roussel

Among all the soloists who worked with Cantelli,
Rudolf Firkusny was the most assiduous.
After their first meeting in Brussels (Grieg's Piano Concerto, 1949),
they gave several concerts in USA
(Menotti, Beethoven 3, Brahms 1, Grieg again and of course Dvořák) until 1956.


FLAC & Scans

Cantelli Centenary 9 - Verdi

Here's the ninth post.

FLAC & Scans as always.

Cantelli Centenary 8 - Beethoven, Brahms

Cantelli performed with Backhaus
also the "Emperor" Concerto at La Scala (june 1955).

Not recorded, of course.

Anyway, one of the most famous collaborations with great soloists: 

a list including Rubinstein, Heifetz, Serkin, Casadesus...

Many unfortunately not documented at all: 

Michelangeli, Fournier, Janis, Milstein, Stern and others.

The Tragic Overture is compelling and well profiled,
perhaps too much in Toscanini's footsteps,

but the Alto Rhapsody is really a gem:
a very concentrated and mature reading.

FLAC (scans included)

Cantelli Centenary 7 - Monteverdi, Verdi, Britten

Cantelli's interest in the "Sinfonia da Requiem" is remarkable,
especially since in Italy Britten was a composer still almost unknown. 

GC conducted this work for the first time at La Scala in 1952,
then several times in the United States.

Listening to Monteverdi's music - although "modified" -
in the concert hall was also rare at the time.
One of the many proofs of independence from Toscanini's tastes and repertoire,
whose only trace here is Verdi's "Te Deum".

As usual, FLAC with scans included

Cantelli Centenary 6 - Schubert

Here's the sixth CD!

FLAC (separated files & scans)