BERLIOZ
Harold en Italie, op. 16
Rudolf Barshai, vla
URSS State Sympnony Orchestra
David Oistrakh
Recording 1969
FLAC - Cover & Back
25 April 2022
Ansermet & OSR Live 1960
BRAHMS Violin Concerto in D major, op. 77
Arthur Grumiaux, violin
STRAVINSKY Symphony in Three Movements
DEBUSSY Ibéria
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
ERNEST ANSERMET
LIVE - 27 January 1960
Victoria Hall, Genève
FLAC
15 April 2022
Vaughan Williams conducts Bach
BACH
St. Matthew Passion BWV 244
Tenor [Evangelist]: Eric Greene; Bass [Jesus]: Gordon Clinton; Soprano: Pauline Brockless; Contralto: Nancy Evans; Tenor: Wilfred Brown; Bass-Baritone: John Carol Case
Eric Gritton, piano - Dr. William Cole, organ (electric).
Leith Hill Music Festival Chorus & Orchestra
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Mar 5, 1958 - Recorded at Dorking Halls, Leith Hill, England.
Many numbers omitted, sung in english, a famous and admired composer but not a "great" conductor in the sense commonly given to this appellation, "old fashioned" and anti-philological (piano and electric organ for the continuo!), an obscure orchestra and singers certainly not as famous as many who recorded Bach's masterpiece... everything seems to suggest that we are in front of something "avoidable": a curiosity, at best, due to the prestige of RVW. It is just the opposite. Like the older Mengelberg recording, this one has something magnetic, absolutely unique and unrepeatable. Published on 4 LPs, then on 2 CD Pearl out of print.
FLAC - Scans with tracklist & infos
8 April 2022
Quartetto Italiano - Live 1951-1970
Following the Quartetto Italiano rarities previoulsly uploaded,
here you can find 4 unpublished live recordings:
TARTINI Sonata a Quattro in Sol Maggiore
(January 29, 1951)
BOCCHERINI Quartetto op. 6 n. 1
(March 23, 1966)
CHERUBINI Quartetto in Fa Maggiore op. posth
(April 15, 1959)
HAYDN Streichquartett op. 76 n. 2
(March 18, 1970)
QUARTETTO ITALIANO
Paolo Borciani vl I, Elisa Pegreffi vl II
Piero Farulli vla, Franco Rossi vc
FLAC
1 April 2022
Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Strauss - Krauss
SCHUBERT
Sinfonie No. 5 B-Dur, D.458
1. Allegro
2. Andante con moto
3. Menuetto. Allegro molto
4. Allegro vivace
Berliner Philharmoniker / Clemens Krauss
Berlin, 24 November 1944
TCHAIKOVSKY
Sinfonie No. 5 e-moll op. 64
1. Announcements
2. Andante - Allegro con anima
3. Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza (incomplete)
4. Valse. Allegro moderato
5. Finale. Andante maestoso - Allegro vivace (incomplete)
Berliner Philharmoniker / Clemens Krauss
Berlin, 3 October 1939
STRAUSS
Drei Lieder
1. Einkehr op. 47/2
2. Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten op. 19/4
3. Zueignung op. 10/1
Viorica Ursuleac, Sopran
Clemens Krauss, pf
June 1940
FLAC
31 March 2022
Oistrakh conducts DSCH and Strauss
I continue with some recordings by Oistrakh as conductor...
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony no. 9
STRAUSS
Till Eulenspiegel
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
DAVID OISTRAKH
Live 1970
FLAC + Cover and back
26 March 2022
27 February 2022
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - Bernstein live 1968
An exciting performance in very good sound.
BERLIOZ
Symphonie Fantastique
New York Philharmonic
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Live in Montreux - September 13, 1968
FLAC
18 February 2022
Knappertsbusch - Wien 1962
HAYDN
Symphony no. 88 in G
STRAUSS
Tod und Verklärung
SCHUMANN
Symphony no. 4
Wiener Philharmoniker
HANS KNAPPERTSBUSCH
Live - Wien, Musikverein
16 december 1962
FLAC
29 January 2022
Scherchen & ORTF Live 1964
BEETHOVEN
Symphony no. 6
SCHOENBERG
Variations for Orchestra, op. 31
Orchestre National de l'ORTF
HERMANN SCHERCHEN
Live - Paris, January 20, 1964
Flac & scans
22 January 2022
Prokofiev 6, Romeo - Mravinsky in Wien
An unpublished concert by Mravinsky in Vienna:
no news regarding the repertoire, but extraordinary performances.
PROKOFIEV
Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 2, Op. 64c
(Contains: The Montagues and the Capulets; Juliet-the litle girl; Friar Laurence; Dance; Romeo and Juliet before parting; Dance of the maids from the Antilles; Romeo at the Juliet's grave)
Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor, Op. 111
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
YEVGENY MRAVINSKY
LIVE - Wien, Musikverein
June 3, 1982
16 January 2022
Brahms 3 & 4 - Bruno Walter
Early studio recordings in great sound for the period.
BRAHMS
Symphony no. 3
Wiener Philharmoniker
May 18-19, 1936
Symphony no. 4
BBC Symphony Orchestra
May 21, 1934
BRUNO WALTER
FLAC + Scans
11 January 2022
Beethoven 9 WP Walter (live 1955)
BEETHOVEN
Symphony no. 9
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Wiener Philharmoniker
BRUNO WALTER
Wien - November 13, 1955
FLAC + Scans with details
29 December 2021
Musorgskij, Rachmaninoff - Horowitz, Koussevitzky
To conclude this 2021, another CD from the Koussevitzky series.
See you soon and happy new year!
MUSORGSKIJ
A night on Bald Mountain
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Live - December 30, 1944
RACHMANINOFF
Piano Concerto n. 3
Vladimir Horowitz, pf
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Live - August 31, 1950
SERGEI KOUSSEVITZKY
FLAC and Scans
23 December 2021
Mahler Symphony no. 8 - Prêtre 1971
MAHLER
Symphony no. 8
Margerita RINALDI, Radmila BAKOCEVIC
Beverly WOLFF, Lucretia WEST
Lajos KOZMA, Dan JORDACHESCU
Tugomir FRANC
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Coro di Roma della RAI
Coro di voci bianche della Rai
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI
Georges Prêtre
September 30, 1971
Roma, Teatro Olimpico
FLAC
9 December 2021
Stravinsky - Leningrad Philharmonic, Mravinsky
Mravinsky left us perhaps the best Agon and a beautiful version of Apollon Musagete, but his Stravinsky discography, unfortunately, is rather limited: in particular, the two recordings that you can find here have not had many reprints; anyway, they deserve to be known.
FLAC and scans
3 December 2021
Elgar, Britten - Rostropovich
Elgar's Cello Concerto and the world premiere of Britten's "Cello Symphony"
dedicated to Rostropovich, conducted by the composer in Moscow.
FLAC
Scans with details included
28 November 2021
Barber, Harris, Toch BSO Koussevitzky
Three rare Koussevitzky recordings.
The Symphony No. 2 was premiered in Boston on March 3, 1944:
not performed in april, so the date on the cover is wrong (probably is March 4).
Harris No. 6: first performance April 14. This should be the second (April 15).
BARBER
Symphony no. 2 (first recording)
HARRIS
Symphony no. 6 (first recording)
TOCH
Pinocchio Overture
Boston Symphony Orchestra
SERGEI KOUSSEVITZKY
FLAC + Scans
22 November 2021
Barbirolli live in Wien 1967
MOZART
Symphony no. 36 "Linz"
DEBUSSY
La Mer
BRAHMS
Symphony no. 4
Wiener Philharmoniker
SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
LIVE - Wien, Musikverein
December 17, 1967
FLAC + cover
Well, despite everything we continue:
I will try to post more often, but at the moment I cannot guarantee.
If this is to your liking, in the next period I will proceed with some CDs out of print.
For example more AS, some Grammofono 2000, Russian Revelation, etcetera.
20 September 2021
Bruckner 8 CSO, Kubelik - live 1966
BRUCKNER
Symphony no. 8
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
RAFAEL KUBELIK
Live - Dec 22, 1966
FLAC - 4 Separated files
4 September 2021
Mahler - Das Klagende Lied - Boulez
Here I am again. I won't be able to post continuously for a while, but I hope it will get better.
A very interesting live recording of "Das Klagende Lied" (3 mov),
conducted by Pierre Boulez in Cleveland.
A quite different version from the one made in studio (LSO, 1970)
less analytical but more theatrical and impetuous.
FLAC - 3 separated files
28 May 2021
Ansermet conducts Berg - OSR (Live)
A precious CD, of course out of print.
Live recordings from three different concerts (1953, 1959, 1964)
ALBAN BERG
Violin Concerto - Yehudi Menuhin
Three Fragments from "Wozzeck" - Suzanne Danco
Three Orchestral Pieces, op. 6
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
ERNEST ANSERMET
Live - Géneve
FLAC - Scans & details included
15 May 2021
Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Schumann - Quartetto Italiano 1977
FLAC, with details & tracklist included in the folder
9 May 2021
Leopold Stokowski & ASO live 1971
W.A. MOZART
Die Zauberflöte K. 620: Overture
RICHARD STRAUSS (arr. Stokowski)
Der Rosenkavalier, suite
WERNER JOSTEN
Jungle, symphonic poem
WILLIAM MAYER
Octagon for Piano & Orchestra (1970)
William Masselos, piano (world premiere)
IGOR STRAVINSKY Petrushka, Suite
American Symphony Orchestra
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
NY, Carnegie Hall - March 21, 1971
FLAC - Separated tracks
5 May 2021
Bach, Schubert - Abbado live 1963
BACH
Concerto for 2 violins BWV 1043
Edith Peinemann (Violino)
Renato Zanettovich (Violino)
Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079: nn. 2, 7 & 5 (Ricercare a 6)
SCHUBERT
Symphony n. 2
Orchestra "A. Scarlatti" di Napoli della Rai
CLAUDIO ABBADO
Napoli - April 30, 1963
Here one of the first entirely preserved Abbado concerts, in good sound:
his debut with the "Scarlatti" Rai Orchestra (april 1963).
FLAC
25 April 2021
Bernstein & NYPO live 1976
SCHUMAN, WILLIAM
American Festival Overture
IVES
The unanswered question
GERSHWIN
Rhapsody in blue
(Bernstein pf)
COPLAND
Symphony no. 3
"Hoe-Down" from Rodeo
BERNSTEIN
Candide, overture
New York Philharmonic
LEONARD BERNSTEIN, cond & pf
Den Haag, Hourusthallen
June 1, 1976
Holland Festival
An "All-American-Program" including Gershwin's Rhapsody in blue
conducted & performed by Lenny and two encores,
in excellent stereo sound.
FLAC separated files
7 April 2021
Mahler 9 BSO Bernstein 1979
MAHLER
Symphony no. 9
Boston Symphony Orchestra
LEONARD BERSTEIN
Live in Tanglewood
July 29, 1979
FLAC (4 Separated tracks)
29 March 2021
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