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HORENSTEIN Mahler: 3rd Symphony & Lieder

by Andrew Rose May 24, 2019

"The London Symphony Orchestra presented and played [Mahler's Symphony No. 3] under Mr. Jascha Horenstein, who clearly knows and loves it from the ...

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Bruno Walter's Pre-War Mozart

by Andrew Rose May 17, 2019

“In the slow movement, I admire the beautiful balance the band secures in the light scoring ... This remarkably spacious movement ... has all manne...

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FURTWÄNGLER'S BRAHMS

by Andrew Rose May 10, 2019

"This is the performance I use most often to introduce Furtwängler to someone unfamiliar with his art. It has long been recognized as one of his gr...

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TOSCANINI's stunning 1940 Beethoven 'Missa Solemnis'

by Andrew Rose May 03, 2019

"If the performance of the mass surpassed that of the requiem in intensity and in grandeur, it is because, after all, there are few compositions in...

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BJÖRLING in Puccini's Manon Lescaut (Met, 1956)

by Andrew Rose April 26, 2019

"To judge from the freshness and warmth, the solidity and ring of the sound he is currently producing, this should be but a waypoint on a singing c...

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Stokowski's Brahms Cycle Completed: Symphonies 2 & 4

by Andrew Rose April 19, 2019

Thursday 18th April, was Leopold Stokowski's 137th birthday. Two years ago, to mark the conductor's 135th birthday, and the 40th anniversary of his...

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Toscanini's 1939 Beethoven Cycle Completed

by Andrew Rose April 12, 2019

"The Ninth symphony, given with the assisting quartet of Jarmila Novotna, Kerstin Thorborg, Jan Peerce and Nicola Moscona, was of course the capsto...

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KOUSSEVITZKY conducts Barber, Honegger, Sibelius

by Andrew Rose April 05, 2019

Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts were not broadcast during the 1948-9 season and all these recordings were ‘bootlegs’ made b...

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Toscanini's 1939 Beethoven Cycle, Part 5

by Andrew Rose March 29, 2019

"The fifth broadcast concert of Toscanini’s Beethoven cycle with the NBC Symphony Orchestra took place last night at Radio City. Of the master’s ph...

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Fabien Sevitzky in Indianapolis

by Andrew Rose March 22, 2019

"Fabien Sevitzky appears to have been an excellent conductor, eminently deserving of renewed attention. In these performances he imposes tight orch...

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Toscanini's 1939 Beethoven Cycle, Pt. 4

by Andrew Rose March 15, 2019

"Mr. Toscanini would probably agree with the Arabian philosopher who discovered in a small ring the reflection of the completeness of the universe....

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Giulini in Boston, 1962

by Andrew Rose March 08, 2019

This week we have something very special and unusual for you. The Italian conductor Carlo Maria Giulini only paid three visits to Boston as guest c...

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