{"title":"Artur Rodzinski","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"pasc421","title":"HUBERMAN Beethoven \u0026 Brahms: Violin Concertos (1934\/44) - PASC421","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBEETHOVEN\u003c\/b\u003e  Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBRAHMS\u003c\/b\u003e  Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770D90\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770EC0\" style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770FF0\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D771840\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D772E90\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003eStudio and live recordings · 1934 \u0026amp; 1944\u003cbr\u003eTotal duration: 76:23 \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003eBronislaw Huberman, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003eviolin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eVienna Philharmonic Orchestra \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Szell, \u003c\/b\u003econductor\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArtur Rodzinski, \u003c\/b\u003econductor\n\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFanfare Review578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fThis is essential listening for anyone interested in performance style history, the violin, or these great concertos578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp class=\"B\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eThese classic performances have been reviewed before in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMESi\"\u003eFanfare\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003e,\n with those reviews ranging from positive to enthusiastic. The Beethoven\n is a 1934 British Columbia studio recording, and the Brahms is a New \nYork Philharmonic live broadcast from January 23, 1944. One particularly\n unusual feature of the Brahms is a cadenza I have never encountered \nbefore, credited to one Hugo Heerman. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"B\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eThat, however, is not the most unusual \naspect of these performances. It is the playing itself that is unusual. \nHuberman was never a universally accepted violinist, but to those of us \nwho loved his playing the flaws were insignificant. What were those \nflaws? A tone that can at times turn thin or coarse, occasional \nroughness in fingerwork, and occasional intonation trouble. \nInterestingly, though, when one listens to his mid-1920s acoustical \nrecordings such as the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMESi\"\u003eCarmen Fantasy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003e one marvels at the technical ability and accuracy at blazing speeds. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"B\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eBut what Huberman had was an \nextraordinary musical imagination, and he applied it to every phrase. \nThere is a well-known story of his performance of the Brahms when the \nviolinist was 14, that reduced Brahms to tears. The legend is that \nafterwards, when Brahms wrote a touching inscription in Huberman’s \nmusic, the young violinist complained that the audience applauded after \nthe cadenza, to which Brahms replied, “Then you should not have played \nit so beautifully.” (One presumes Huberman performed the Joachim cadenza\n in 1895). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"B\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eThis is clearly violin playing from \nanother age, an age when performers were willing to risk a level of \nindividuality that would be frowned upon today. It would take any \nlistener with even middling experience and knowledge only a few minutes \nto distinguish between performances by Heifetz, Kreisler, Szigeti, \nHuberman, and Milstein. That would be far less likely in today’s music \nworld. Huberman’s performances are deeply personal, with turns of phrase\n and touches of dynamic shadings that no one else might think of. He \nuses a liberal amount of portamento (sliding from one note to the next),\n a performance tool that was more common in his time than it is in ours,\n and he uses less vibrato than did his colleagues. His phrasing is \nhighly individualistic, and the playing is so alive and in-the-moment \nthat it is impossible for you not to be fully engaged by the \nperformances. Not one phrase is tossed off without a clear sense of \nwhere it fits in the overall scheme of the piece. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"B\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eIt must also be noted that both \nperformances gain from remarkable conducting. Szell and Rodzinski were \nnot conductors who saw their roles as simple accompanists, but rather as\n full-fledged musical partners, attentive to both detail and overall \nsweep. If I were ordered to use a single word as a descriptor of these \nperformances, that word would be “urgency.” They have about them an \nurgency that communicates a sense that “we must play these pieces right \nnow, and in this way, because we believe so passionately in what the \nmusic has to say and we simply \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMESi\"\u003emust \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003esay it.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"B\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eIf you want more detail descriptions, you can go to the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMESi\"\u003eFanfare \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eArchive\n and read reviews of the Beethoven by John Bauman (16:5), John W. N. \nFrancis (7:5), and Mortimer Frank (13:5), and of the Brahms by Mortimer \nFrank (7:2) and Lynn René Bayley (37:2). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"Br\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eThis new Pristine remastering \nsurpasses all prior versions of both recordings, in fullness of \norchestral sound particularly. The EMI LP transfers of the Beethoven \nhave always sounded remarkably good for a 1934 recording, and there is a\n good Naxos edition as well, but Andrew Rose has somehow managed to find\n a new level of richness of color for both Huberman and the Vienna \nPhilharmonic. The Brahms has undergone an even more major improvement \nover its Music \u0026amp; Arts incarnation. The original source is probably \nan off-the-air recording, rather than a master, and a number of labels \nhave issued it, but never with as little distortion and as wide a \nfrequency range as it has here. The XR ambient stereo version simply \ngives the recording a sense of space that the pure mono version lacks. \nThis is essential listening for anyone interested in performance style \nhistory, the violin, or these great concertos. (That should cover just \nabout everyone)! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"TIMESb\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Fogel\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis article originally appeared in Issue 38:3 (Jan\/Feb 2015) of Fanfare Magazine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC421.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBronislaw Huberman's legendary Beethoven and Brahms concerto recordings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"As\n soon as Brahms heard the sound of the violin, he pricked up his ears, \nduring the Andante he wiped his eyes...\" Max Kalbeck, 1896\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was Mark Obert-Thorn who introduced me to the violinist Bronislaw \nHuberman with his transfers for Pristine of the complete Mozart and Bach\n recordings (PASC397) that we issued in 2013. So when I was browsing \nthrough a large collection of LPs donated to Pristine and discovered a \ncouple of discs dedicated to Huberman I resolved to see what I might be \nable to do with them.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot for the first time I've found that working from EMI's excellent \nanalogue LP transfers has produced excellent results I would struggle to\n match from their shellac discs, and here the Beethoven has come up \nmagnificently - bar the occasional intrusion of slight peak distortion \nat the very top end you might easily think this a recording from the \n1950s rather than the first half of the 1930s. Huberman's playing and \ntone truly shines, and the Vienna Philharmonic's playing is fully \nrounded and truly magnificent. This is one of the great recordings of \nthe Beethoven Concerto, and in this XR remastered version has surely \nnever sounded this fabulous before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Brahms hails from a live recording made in 1944, some 48 years \nafter Huberman's playing of the work had won praise and tears from its \ncomposer. Once again I've been able to make major and significant \nimprovements to the sound quality - again battling against high end peak\n distortion whilst trying to preserve and highlight as much of \nHuberman's tone as possible. This is a masterful performance indeed - \nand here once again it is available in unprecedented sound quality that \ndoes full justice to the playing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003eAndrew Rose\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBEETHOVEN  \u003c\/b\u003eViolin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVienna Philharmonic Orchestra  -  George Szell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded 18-20 June, 1934\u003cbr\u003eColumbia 78s LX.509-512\u003cbr\u003eMatrix Nos. WHAX.30-38\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBRAHMS  \u003c\/b\u003eViolin Concerto in D major, Op. 77\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York  -  Artur Rodzinski\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded 23 January 1944\u003cbr\u003eLive at Carnegie Hall, New York\u003cbr\u003eBroadcast recording\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBronislaw Huberman\u003c\/b\u003e - violin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fCover Art578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcover_art578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcovers\/thumbs\/PASC421.jpg578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcovers\/PASC421.pdf578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fAdditional Notes578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e1896 - playing for Brahms\u003c\/b\u003e: Max Kalbeck tells of Brahms’s response to the young Huberman's performance of the Violin Concerto: ‘\u003cem\u003eAs\n soon as Brahms heard the sound of the violin, he pricked up his ears, \nduring the Andante he wiped his eyes, and after the finale he went into \nthe green room, embraced the young fellow, and stroked his cheeks.\u003c\/em\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a 14-year-old he played Brahms’s Violin Concerto to the composer, \nwho was stunned and allegedly wanted to write a rhapsody especially for \nhim. For his Viennese concerts at around the same time (1896), the \naudience included the likes of Dvorák, Mahler, Bruckner and Johann \nStrauss. Two years earlier the legendary diva Adelina Patti had invited \nhim to take part in her farewell gala in London, which he did, to great \nacclaim. When Europe was in turmoil in the 1930s and with Hitler’s \nGermany out of bounds he would regularly, and passionately, promote the \nideal of a ‘Pan-Europa’ movement. Even Furtwängler’s heartfelt pleas for\n him to return fell on deaf ears. With Europe’s Jews being thrown into \nexile, or worse, he founded what was eventually to become the Israel \nPhilharmonic, Arturo Toscanini conducting the first concerts (without \nfee). Polish-born Bronisław Huberman (1882-1947) constituted a model \ncombination of nobility, impulse and intellect. He was a musical \nmaverick who brooked no compromise and whose few recordings prove the \npoint with a vengeance... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1937, just before the Anschluss, Huberman left Vienna and took \nrefuge in Switzerland. A year later his career nearly ended when the \naircraft he was travelling in crashed in Sumatra: his wrist and two \nfingers of his left hand were broken. Miraculously, after intensive and \npainful retraining he was able to resume performing. His surviving \noff-air recordings date from this later period, including \nthe Tchaikovsky Concerto under Eugene Ormandy – identical in all but \nsmall details to the 1929 version under William Steinberg – and, most \nvaluably, the Brahms Concerto with Artur Rodzinski on the rostrum (Music\n \u0026amp; Arts, A\/03). To hear Huberman quietly glide back into the main \nbody of the first movement after the cadenza is to understand why Brahms\n reacted the way he did. How sad that he died before writing that \nrhapsody. 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Two of those concerts are presented\n    here, the other, a 1940 Lewishon Stadium concert in 1940, does not appear\n    to have been recorded. Both Rodziński and Serkin were born into the\n    multi-national and multi-ethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire. Rodziński was born\n    in Split, Croatia in 1892, though he grew up in the Polish city of Lwów\n    while Serkin was born in Bohemia in 1903.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    Rodziński came to the US in the 1920s under the patronage of Leopold\n    Stokowski. He assumed the successive directorships of the Los Angeles\n    Philharmonic (1929-33), the Cleveland Orchestra (1933-43), and the New York\n    Philharmonic (1943-47) and helped to recruit and train the members of the\n    NBC Symphony Orchestra for Toscanini in 1937. Although he had tempestuous\n    relationships with managements throughout his career, on the podium he was\n    renowned as a gifted technician. One of Rodziński’s significant innovations\n    was his willingness to present performances of operas to his concert\n    audiences, including an abbreviated Elektra in New York in 1937 with Rosa\n    Pauly and the final act of Die Walküre in 1945 with Helen Traubel. He made\n    some commercial recordings, but those from the 1940s are not very well\n    known and have not remained as consistently in the catalogue as those of\n    some of his contemporaries. Live recordings offer us a much deeper\n    appreciation of his conducting talents and not only were there regular\n    broadcasts throughout his tenure in New York, the Carnegie Hall recording\n    company also made in-house recordings of many live performances in the\n    1940s. 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In 1936 he made his New York debut creating, according\n    to Olin Downes, that ‘very rare’ occurrence of a soloist who could ‘match\n    an orchestral interpretation directed by Arturo Toscanini.’ His first New\n    York solo recital in 1937 was described as ‘sensational’ with the New York\n    Times praising his ‘magnificent control, and … sovereign sense of form.’\n    Given his long life (he died in 1991) Serkin unsurprisingly made a vast\n    number of commercial recordings, many in stereo in ideal studio conditions.\n    His live recordings, particularly from his early years, have received far\n    less circulation but they capture his complete mastery of style, and the\n    ‘tonal subtlety’ he was famous for, with the added excitement of being\n    captured exactly as the audience heard it. And for Serkin the audience was\n    key. He once remarked ‘I don’t believe too much in style. 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Rodziński led their first concert\n    on 2 November 1937 as well as ten more before making the two recordings\n    which begin our program.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    The “World’s Greatest Music” label was begun by the New York \u003cem\u003ePost\u003c\/em\u003e\n    to market recordings of standard Classical repertoire at prices which\n    substantially undercut the majors. Neither the conductors nor the\n    orchestras were named on the labels; but subsequent research has identified\n    albums recorded by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra and Fritz\n    Reiner and the New York Philharmonic, among others. The recordings were\n    made by RCA Victor and were pressed by them as well, using cheaper and\n    noisier shellac than their Red Seal releases.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    Although Rodziński had conducted on some operatic aria recordings in Poland\n    (as well as being Stokowski’s piano accompanist on two of his album “talk\n    sides”), these 1939 NBC Symphony discs were his first as a symphonic\n    conductor. He had led neither work previously with the ensemble; and while\n    the orchestra had played the Franck once under Monteux in their first\n    season, they were new to the Tchaikovsky. Perhaps due to this, each side of\n    the Franck was able to be done in a single take, while two takes were\n    required for three of the Tchaikovsky sides. Rodziński turns in solid\n    performances which generate particular excitement at the ends of the first\n    and last movements of each work.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    Simultaneously with his work at NBC, Rodziński continued to lead the\n    Cleveland Orchestra; and by the end of the year in which he made the NBC\n    discs, he and the Cleveland were under contract to the Columbia label,\n    where they made an extensive series of recordings over the next three\n    seasons. The three works on the second half of our program date from that\n    period. They were recorded directly onto wide-frequency range lacquer\n    discs, from which the 78s and, later, LPs were dubbed.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    Although George Szell is usually credited for the developing the Cleveland\n    Orchestra into a virtuoso ensemble, one can hear from these recordings that\n    Rodziński had already honed it into a formidable instrument. In the\n    Tchaikovsky works, Rodziński presses forward with a Toscanini-like focus;\n    yet, when the music calls for it, he slows down to make rhetorical emphases\n    like Stokowski or Mengelberg, but without employing string portamenti,\n    which was already fading from fashion by this time. The Sibelius Fifth,\n    like his later recording of the Fourth with the New York Philharmonic,\n    blazes with intensity, and makes one regret that he recorded no more of\n    that composer’s symphonies.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    Rodziński would leave Cleveland for the New York Philharmonic in 1943, and\n    subsequently move on to the Chicago Symphony in 1947 (Pristine \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pristineclassical.com\/products\/pasc569\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePASC 569\u003c\/a\u003e).\n    After that last one-season appointment, he would no longer command an\n    ensemble, and spent his remaining decade guest-conducting and recording\n    primarily in Europe. He died in Boston in 1958, shortly after leading a\n    triumphant production of \u003cem\u003eTristan\u003c\/em\u003e at the Chicago Lyric Opera with\n    Birgit Nilsson.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    \u003cstrong\u003eMark Obert-Thorn\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\n    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eARTUR RODZIŃSKI\u003c\/b\u003e Early Recordings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCD 1 (79:44)\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003eTCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 1st Mvt. – Andante sostenuto – Moderato con anima (16:08)\u003cbr\u003e2. 2nd Mvt. – Andantino in modo di canzona (8:39)\u003cbr\u003e3. 3rd Mvt. – Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato (Allegro) (5:26)\u003cbr\u003e4. 4th Mvt. – Finale (Allegro con fuoco) (9:19)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 2 January 1939 in Carnegie Hall, New York City ∙ Matrices: CS\n    030868-1, 030869-2, 030870-2, 030871-1, 030872-1, 030873-1, 030874-2,\n    030875-1, 030876-1 \u0026amp; 030877-1 ∙ First issued on World’s Greatest Music\n    SR-23\/27\n\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003eFRANCK Symphony in D minor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 1st Mvt. – Lento (18:25)\u003cbr\u003e2. 2nd Mvt. – Allegretto (10:45)\u003cbr\u003e3. 3rd Mvt. – Allegro non troppo (11:03)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 2 January 1939 in Carnegie Hall, New York City ∙ Matrices: CS\n    030878\/89 (All Take 1) ∙ First issued on World’s Greatest Music SR-33\/38\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\n        \u003c\/span\u003eArtur \u003ca name=\"OLE_LINK4\"\u003eRodziński \u003c\/a\u003e∙ NBC Symphony Orchestra\n    \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCD 2 (60:49)\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    1. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003eTCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet – Fantasy Overture\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e(18:16)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 14 December 1940 in Severance Hall, Cleveland ∙ Matrices: XCO\n    29305\/9 ∙ First issued on Columbia 11655\/57-D in album M-478\n\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n    2. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003eTCHAIKOVSKY Ouverture solennelle “1812”, Op. 49\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e(14:23)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 14 April 1941 in Severance Hall, Cleveland ∙ Matrices: XCO\n    30559\/62 ∙ First issued on Columbia 11630\/31-D in album X-205\n\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n    \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003eSIBELIUS Symphony No. 5 in E-flat, Op 82\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. 1st Mvt. – Tempo molto moderato – Largamento – Allegro moderato (12:03)\u003cbr\u003e4. 2nd Mvt. – Andante mosso quasi allegretto (8:02)\u003cbr\u003e5. 3rd. 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Toscanini, who was enraged at the New York Philharmonic's board for not following his advice and engaging Barbirolli to succeed him at the Philharmonic instead of Rodziński, insisted that David Sarnoff, president of RCA, hire Rodziński to recruit and train the new NBC orchestra. Toscanini was a great admirer of Rodziński, speaking of him on several occasions as his successor. Furthermore, he recognized that Rodziński had already acquired a reputation as an outstanding orchestra builder with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra and later with the New York Philharmonic. A long article in the Herald Tribune under the title \"Tuning up the Band\" described Artur's five weeks of training the new NBC orchestra:\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eEagerly awaiting the arrival of Maestro Arturo Toscanini, 92 musicians have turned the largest studio in Radio City into a beehive of activity as they rehearse under the baton of drill master Artur Rodziński. The assignment to organize the orchestra… is to Mr. Rodziński \"the answer to a conductors dream… to me this commission brought nothing but pleasure. It is the answer to a lifelong dream.\" During the five weeks’ intensive rehearsal Mr. Rodziński will put the musicians through their musical paces, molding the distinguished individual talent into a unit he hopes will become recognized as one of the finest symphonic bodies of its kind. The orchestra is unique in this respect, the conductor added, insofar as it came into being in full bloom rather than through the process of various stages of growth that usually mark the development of many other symphonic groups. \"I am more than elated with the progress up to now. When I heard the strings after the first rehearsal I wept for pure joy\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn November 2, 1937 Rodziński conducted the debut broadcast which had been tagged a \"dress rehearsal\" followed by 10 concerts during the first two seasons, sharing the podium with Pierre Monteux and Arturo Toscanini. This release is drawn entirely from the first full concert given by Rodziński and the orchestra on 4 December 1937. It was the orchestra's fifth broadcast, following the short Rodziński 'dress rehearsal' of 2 November and three full concerts given under Monteux. Toscanini's first NBC concert took place on 25 December 1937.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Rodzinski\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e(with additional material from Halina Rodziński, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eOur Two Lives\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e, 1976)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRODZIŃSKI \u003c\/b\u003eat the NBC Vol. 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. \u003cb\u003eRADIO \u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction  (1:24)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eHANDEL-HARTY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWater Music Suite\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. I. Allegro  (2:30)\u003cbr\u003e3. II. Air  (5:32)\u003cbr\u003e4. III. Bourée  (0:42)\u003cbr\u003e5. IV. Hornpipe  (0:57)\u003cbr\u003e6. V. Andante espressivo  (3:57)\u003cbr\u003e7. VI. Allegero deciso  (3:11)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. \u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSIBELIUS \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003ePohjola's Daughter\u003c\/span\u003e, Op. 49  (16:00)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDEBUSSY \u003c\/b\u003eNocturnes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. I. Nuages  (9:31)\u003cbr\u003e10. II. Fêtes  (6:04)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBEETHOVEN \u003c\/b\u003eSymphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11. 1st mvt. - Allegro con brio  (6:02)\u003cbr\u003e12. 2nd mvt. - Andante con moto  (10:12)\u003cbr\u003e13. 3rd mvt. - Scherzo. Allegro - Trio  (5:06)\u003cbr\u003e14. 4th mvt. - Allegro  (8:21)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNBC Symphony Orchestra  \u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003econducted by \u003cb\u003eArtur Rodziński\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXR Remastered in Ambient Stereo by Andrew Rose\u003cbr\u003eCover artwork based on a photograph of Artur Rodziński and Arturo Toscanini\u003cbr\u003eBroadcast of 4 December, 1937\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpecial thanks to Richard Rodzinski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTotal duration:  79:29  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fCover Art578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcover_art578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcovers\/thumbs\/PASC633.jpg578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcovers\/PASC633.pdf578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\"My Father Recalled\"578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003eArtur Rodziński: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003eMy Father Recalled\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur relationship could not have been closer and more loving but beyond that, given the choice of going out to play with my friends or remaining with my father to go for a stroll I always chose to remain with him to enjoy that energy which, despite his being very ill after having suffered multiple heart attacks, still created an excitement that drew you in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was that same excitement that audiences, critics, and orchestra musicians alike so frequently spoke of. Members of the orchestra said that during recording sessions as the studio red light would go on and when generally players and conductors would concentrate on cautiously getting everything right, my father instead would opt for making the recording with all the intensity of a live performance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven rehearsals were highly charged and though often quite stressful they remained exhilarating. My father was well-known for rehearsing with lightning speed, efficiently, using limited precise words, and could accomplish more and in fewer rehearsals than most of his colleagues. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough occasionally referred to as a martinet he was profoundly human and respectful in his relationship with the players. I remember once during a rehearsal he repeatedly demanded that the horn section play a very long phrase in one breath. A young fourth horn player, unable to execute the phrase finally broke down in tears. My father called a break, went up to sit with the young man, and calmly spent time going over and over the passage until the player, now beaming, found that he was able to do it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy father was an uncompromising perfectionist and suffered for it. He restlessly was looking for better be it in musical matters or even in human relations. He was invariably unsatisfied with his performances. This inability to compromise spilled over into his conflicts with management concerning his demand for artistic conditions that allowed him the freedom to achieve the highest standards be it in terms of the choice of repertoire and soloists, rehearsals, the number of string players and so forth. His unflinching integrity, for instance, prevented Westminster Records which was pioneering stereo recordings from releasing some of his discs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring a playback session the producer tried to convince my father to accept the technology. He adamantly refused saying he could hear the sound coming from left and right but there was no depth and refused to lend his name to these records if they were issued in stereo. He then turned to me and said \"you see, we could have  sold more records if I had agreed to release them but I've always insisted on what I feel is right and honest. This ‘stereo’ is still an artifice.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI will best remember what my father was all about for what he said on his deathbed. Following his triumphant and now legendary performances of \u003ci\u003eTristan \u003c\/i\u003ethat he conducted in Chicago and which he knew his ailing health would not allow him to survive, among his final words were \"\"perhaps there are others who might conduct \u003ci\u003eTristan \u003c\/i\u003ebetter than I but I can promise you that nobody could love it more.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eRichard Rodzinski, 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab5_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fNY Times Review578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab5_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab5_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 22px;\"\u003eRODZINSKI LEADS RADIO ORCHESTRA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eBrilliant Performance Given by New Organization in the NBC Studios\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eSIBELIUS WORK PLAYED\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eIs Performed in Honor of His 72d Birthday—Other Scores by Classics and Moderns\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eBy OLIN DOWNES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eTo hear the NBC Symphony Orchestra last night in the great studio in Radio City, one month after its public debut as a new symphonic organization, was to realize what has been accomplished in an amazingly short space of time by this magnificent body of players, and also what has been achieved, in the same interval, in improving acoustical conditions in the concert room and radio transmission of the performances.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eLast night the man who selected the personnel of the orchestra and directed its preliminary rehearsals, Dr. Artur Rodzinski, was on the conductor's podium. He had been heard at a public rehearsal, so-called, of this orchestra, before Pierre Monteux came to direct the first three Saturday night performances. The results of Mr. Monteux's first concert were significant enough. The concert last night was still more remarkable.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis orchestra is already a virtuoso body of musicians which performs with astonishing sensitiveness, brilliancy and precision. It is already—or would be already, if that were its purpose—a formidable rival of the most celebrated organizations. It is axiomatic that a symphony orchestra, however accomplished the players, does not become a really perfected instrument, with blended tone and unanimity of impulse until the men have played together for years.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA Feast to the Ear\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn view of what has been done at Radio City, one is disposed to question this venerable dictum. No doubt an orchestra with players of various grades of proficiency and experience does need seasons to become unified, but when an orchestra of the best players obtainable, and these men of symphonic experience, is assembled, you have something to work with. Today the playing of this orchestra is a feast to the ear and a delight to the understanding.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis also is noticeable: the men who play in Radio City are not only experts of a very high degree of efficiency in their artistic task, but they are also on the qui vive when they play, to do the very best of which they are capable. So far, at least, there has been no suggestion of players sinking lazily or indifferently into routine, or a few leading players of the body carrying less competent and less conscientious performers on their shoulders. The players in the symphony orchestra of the National Broadcasting Company face a very special test. They know it, and appear to glory in meeting it as they do.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe studio, which now gives the orchestra more resonance by a good deal than the tone had at the initial concert, is still by no means as vibrant as a big concert hall. The slightest inaccuracy of intonation or execution shows as in a magnifying glass, or a microscope, if you will.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eThe Audience Is Critical\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThese mistakes, also, can be carried, very clearly and conscientiously, over the air. In responding to these conditions the players of the NBC orchestra have geared their own standards the higher. Orchestra and conductor, heard by a few hundred listeners in the concert room—very critical and informed listeners for the major part—and by the world outside, dare only to give of their very best. This tension is beneficial. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eMr. Rodzinski's program of last night consisted of the Hamilton Harty's suite from the Handel \"Water-Music,\" “Pohjola’s Daughter,\" the symphonic poem of Sibelius, played in honor of the Finnish composer’s approaching seventy-second birthday; Debussy's two Nocturnes, “Fetes\" and “Nuages\"; Albeniz’s “Triana\" and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The Water Music and the first movement of the symphony were heard as transmitted from the listening room glassed off from the concert studio. In the studio were heard the pieces of Debussy and Albeniz.   \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe interpretations of Handel, Debussy, Albeniz were remarkable for their finish, poetry, and brilliancy; in the fire and the subtlelty brought to play in the music of Debussy and Albeniz, and in the glorious tone qualities evoked from the orchestra. In that studio some of the most beautiful pianissimi heard by the writer in seasons were achieved, and without loss of precision and definiteness of contour. The men responded to the slightest wish of the leader and he was absolute master of the situation.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eHeight of Interpretation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eInstabilities of temperament and style which used to accompany the performances of a singularly gifted and temperamental musician were last night under the strictest control. Fire, poetry, these were intensified by strength held in reserve, and balanced thinking. These things were reflected in the manner of the conductor on the platform and they were responsible for the profound attention and interest that the audience showed in the performances.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eOnly the first movement of Beethoven's symphony was heard by this deponent. That much of it was given a straight and dignified reading. It was in the earlier compositions that Mr. Rodzinski reached his height as an interpreter. The countless audience which listened over the radio had its pleasures.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThose who sat and listened in the presence of the leader and the men had another sort of experience, and a memorable one. 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But Wagner enthusiasts could piece together a very nearly complete recorded version of the opera nearly a decade earlier by combining Act 1 and parts of Act 2 recorded in Vienna in 1935 with Bruno Walter, the rest of Act 2 (with some small cuts) recorded in Berlin in 1938 with Bruno Seidler-Winkler, and this version of Act 3 conducted by Artur Rodziński. Sizeable chunks of Act 3 had been recorded as part of the ‘Potted Ring’ in 1927 [\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pristineclassical.com\/products\/paco107\"\u003ePACO107\u003c\/a\u003e] but this was the first time that the complete Act 3 had been recorded without the usual cuts. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRodziński gathered an exceptionally experienced cast drawn from the roster of the Metropolitan Opera. Helen Traubel (1899-1972) dominated the heaviest Wagnerian soprano roles at the Met for more than a decade between 1941 and 1953. The St. Louis-born soprano had a bright voice with a core of steel that soared effortlessly over the largest Wagnerian orchestra and all but 14 of her 176 Met performances were as Isolde, Elsa, Elisabeth, or one of the three Brünnhildes. She was heard many times by the radio audience in each of those roles, most frequently as Isolde (on 10 broadcasts) and as Brünnhilde in \u003ci\u003eDie Walküre\u003c\/i\u003e (on 7 broadcasts). Traubel made many commercial recordings, including some lengthy extracts from all the Wagnerian roles she was famous for, but this complete recording of Act 3 of \u003ci\u003eDie Walküre\u003c\/i\u003e is by far the most substantial item in her discography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGerman baritone Herbert Janssen (1892-1965) sings Wotan. Janssen made his Met debut in 1939 after a distinguished and varied career in Europe. 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As soon as Artur understood that this was NBC's thinking, he sat down and wrote a long memorandum to David Sarnoff, president of Radio Corporation of America, NBC's parent company. In it he carefully detailed all the reasons why an orchestra so composed would never satisfy Toscanini. Such a conductor should not be asked \"to perform with a second-rate fiddle,\" Artur reasoned, and NBC's management agreed, but only after long detailed conversations was my husband given the carte blanche he required to fashion a first-rate instrument for his beloved Maestro.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarnoff himself authorized Artur to build a new ensemble that would work on a permanent, year-round basis. He told my husband, finally, to engage the best musicians he could find anywhere, to offer whatever was wanted to tempt them to leave their permanent positions. Not much temptation was often required, however, since most players were then not only anxious to live in New York but also willing to play under Toscanini's direction even at going rates of pay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArtur was, of course, in his element. Probably due to a strain inherited from his father, Artur was a born Chief of Staff, a methodical organizer. In no time at all he was auditioning. Since he had led most of the orchestras in the United States, he knew precisely where to look. Also, Hitler had put a number of first-class players at Artur's disposal. 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After an absence of nearly two years, Mr. Toscanini accepted an invitation of the National Broadcasting Company to return to this country for the express purpose of directing a series of weekly concerts to be presented by the NBC Symphony Orchestra. We have the added privilege of Mr. Toscanini’s presence with us tonight – he is sitting in the audience with friends…”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis announcement, heard midway through Artur Rodziński’s third broadcast concert, reminds the listener what this was all about: the preparation of an orchestra for Toscanini’s personal pleasure and use. Inspired by the BBC’s Symphony Orchestra – paid for out of the public licence fee – NBC’s decision to create a commercially-funded full symphony orchestra for radio must have been an enormously bold move financially. By the time Rodziński’s final pre-Toscanini concert took place, the radio network’s publicity machine was in full swing, hyping the new orchestra and its conductor in a way highly untypical in the world of classical music, with breathless articles published in magazines designed to attract a new audience from the educated and affluent readers of these publications. If this raised eyebrows at the time – and happily the hype did not extend to the broadcasts themselves – it was almost certainly seen as necessary in order to raise the advertising funding needed to maintain such a prodigiously expensive endeavour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd so to the present broadcast. As has been noted in reviews of the previous two volumes, even at this early stage Artur Rodziński has a fine orchestra under his baton – one he has crafted (and recruited) himself, even if on the behalf of Toscanini, and one he makes full use of here. The sound quality is relatively good for its age – barring a short section of about a minute and a half during the Brahms where the source material was somewhat damaged. Once again I have had to trim announcements in order to fit the music onto a single CD – in this case cutting out some rather lengthy preambles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003e“The more recordings led by Artur Rodzinski that I hear, the more apparent his skills become. It was Rodziński who recruited and trained the NBC Symphony Orchestra for Arturo Toscanini, and Rodziński led three of its concerts before Toscanini’s first appearance two weeks after this one, on Christmas Day, 1937. Pristine’s transfer includes Milton Cross’s announcements, which brings back fond memories for anyone who goes back far enough to NBC Radio and Metropolitan Opera broadcasts. We owe a continued debt of gratitude to Pristine for the high quality that goes into restoring such invaluable historical material. 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Although he had conducted a\n    ‘pilot’ broadcast on 2 November 1937, the first official broadcasts were\n    taken by Pierre Monteux, beginning 13 November 1937. Thereafter Rodziński\n    conducted a further three broadcasts immediately prior to Toscanini’s debut\n    on Christmas Day, 1937.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    After Toscanini’s NBC first concert season was completed, on 5 March 1938,\n    the orchestral concerts continued to be broadcast with a series of guest\n    conductors, including Monteux, Boult, Mitropoulos, Molinari, Howard Hanson\n    and, for three further engagements, Rodziński. In total, Rodziński conducted\n    the orchestra for seven concerts in 1938 – four more were scheduled in\n    December of that year during the orchestra’s second season, culminating in\n    his final performance of the year on New Year’s Eve.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    This release brings you the first two Rodziński NBC concerts of 1938,\n    broadcast live on 2 and 9 April 1938 from NBC’s Studio 8H, each scheduled to\n    run for 90 minutes, and each offering a pretty packed programme – so much so\n    that you may just make out the words of Milton Cross at the beginning of the\n    final item on disc two, excerpts from Wagner’s Die Meistersinger, which were\n    still being announced when the orchestra began playing, no doubt starting to\n    a carefully worked-out timing schedule.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    Rodziński’s second broadcast of the year brought with it a real coup – for\n    the conductor, the orchestra, the NBC and indeed the nation: Shostakovich’s\n    Fifth Symphony. Premièred in Leningrad in November 1937 and played elsewhere\n    within the Soviet Union, and after the debacle of the composer’s Fourth\n    Symphony, withdrawn at the last minute under intense political pressure,\n    there was no shortage of orchestras and conductors wishing to take up and\n    première the new work outside of the country.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    As Halina Rodziński, the conductor’s wife, would later recall in her\n    memoirs: “Artur, thanks to his good connections with the composer, was\n    awarded the prize. NBC's John Royal, through the American ambassador in\n    Moscow, made the arrangements - at a huge price. The Soviet government\n    demanded the then unheard of sum of $5,000 for the premiere. Since\n    introducing the piece would be as much of a coup for the radio network as\n    for Artur, NBC's management did not object to the cost.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    After all the expense and effort in acquiring the score and parts, Artur was\n    a bit concerned the piece might not be all that was expected of it. His\n    reactions when he first examined it were far from favorable. There was a\n    coarseness to the sound of the scoring. The piece seemed overlong. Indeed,\n    Artur was not altogether sure he cared for it. In discussion with NBC, it\n    was decided to perform the work just as it had been delivered - without\n    cuts, without reservations. If the critics did not care for it, no one could\n    blame Rodziński.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    Gradually, in rehearsals, the work began to take Artur's imagination, and\n    soon enough he even was in love with it. 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The Columbia Broadcasting System, which reportedly paid $10,000\n    for the privilege, broadcast the performance to an estimated 15,000,000\n    listeners. Other CBS broadcasts by transcription will carry the music to\n    Latin America, Europe and the Pacific in the near future.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe symphony, which lasted an hour and three minutes, was greeted by the\n    capacity audience with an ovation. There was an intermission speech … and a\n    message from Shostakovich to Dr. Rodzinski was read. The message said in\n    part:\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003e\n    \u003ci\u003e“In these days of ordeal and hardship—days of decisive battles —music, the\n    art we all love, is a means of friendship and understanding between our\n    great peoples, inspiring them in their heroic struggle against Nazi\n    barbarians for civilization and democracy. With a friendly handshake, I wish\n    you all luck and success.”\n\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the basis of a reading of the score made possible through the courtesy of\n    Am-Rus, also of the final rehearsals and the performance yesterday afternoon\n    by Dr. Rodzinski and the Philharmonic- Symphony Orchestra, it can be said\n    that Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony, on the occasion of its American\n    première, received a superb presentation. This interpretation neglected no\n    technical or expressive detail, and appeared to reveal every facet of the\n    composer’s thought. It is conceivable that the composer himself, had he been\n    present, might not have agreed to every tempo and nuance. This we cannot\n    know. 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Today Russia\n    lives and fights her heroic and exterminating battle against evil on her\n    borders, and Mr, Shostakovich’s latest symphony is as timely and as\n    synchronous with events as the one that preceded.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThus it is said that this Eighth is the second part of a prospective\n    symphonic trilogy; that the Seventh was the symphony of the invasion period;\n    that the Eighth is part retrospect of the catastrophic past, but also\n    foresight of a happier ¡land, healing its wounds and planning the future. A\n    third symphony, yet to be composed, is envisioned as a “Victory” symphony,\n    and there is little more doubt of that symphony taking form than there is of\n    the sure triumph of Russian arms.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe question is now not the purport, fairly evident, of the Eighth Symphony,\n    but the actual character of the music. 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Aside from its interpretive merits, it may be said that a presentation of this music which displays so much certainty and such high technical quality is rare. Add to this the authority and the fire of the reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Zarathustra” is anything but a simple score to interpret. The conductor’s handicap from the aspect of concert effect is the faint and enigmatical conclusion. This can so easily become anti-climax, to say nothing of the mystifying effect of the strange harmonic scheme. But the audience responded last night to a work which formerly baffled the public with unstinted enthusiasm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd this is noteworthy: the music triumphed in the complete absence of any programmatic explanation. Explanatory paragraphs would have been wholly in order. Strauss himself affixed lines from Nietzsche's poem to his score. The audience deserves a program note when this work is played.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis does not lessen the music, but it can greatly conduce to a listener’s appreciation of the composer’s intention, if he knows, for example, that the magnificent introduction, which made Philip Hale think of “the portals of eternity swinging slowly asunder,” is Strauss’s evocation of the sunrise; that the pathetic and mystical passages immediately following, and the great hymn passionately intoned by organ and orchestra, is reference to religion upon which man pinned his faith; that the climax of frantic rejoicing while the great bell tolls in the orchestra is the song of Nietzsche’s victorious Over-man; and that the ending, in two keys, with the theme of Nature heard in the plucked basses, and the theme of the Ideal, like receding stars, soaring aloft, is Strauss’s comment upon the unsolvable riddle of the universe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the music made its mark and greatly moved the audience. It would have been still more imposing for those personally present if the performance had taken place in an auditorium with better acoustics than those of Studio H-8, which deadens sound and lessens the sonority of an orchestra. The effect of breadth as well as sheer body and brilliancy of sound in this place is thus modified, and blazing sonorities are part of the very conception of this score. But the effect was on the whole so adequate and eloquent that it would be captious to fuss over details. “Zarathustra” has waited longest of all Strauss’s tone-poems to come into its own. The sum of this occasion was a performances which carried it convincingly and in a very exciting way to the public.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe concert opened with the excellent Wertheim’s version of the Bach D minor Toccata and Fugue, a sonorous and effective performance of a masterpiece of universal meaning. After Strauss came the charming concert suite that Schrecker arranged from his ballet, “The Birthday of the Infanta.” It is not wildly modern music, nor highly original, but it is pleasing and admirably orchestrated material, put together with skill and taste by an expert craftsman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther delightful music, more original than Schrecker’s, and destined to live much longer, completed the program and delighted the audience. The reference is to the overture to “Fledermaus” and the waltz “Tales From the Vienna Woods,” by Johann Strauss. 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With the Glinka overture too short to make the difference, after much thought we decided that a forgotten work by a pretty much forgotten composer, \u003cb\u003eStarokadomsky’s Concerto for Orchestra\u003c\/b\u003e, would be cut from the CD release. This work is present in all download versions of this release, and all CD buyers receive a download link to the recording in MP3 versions should they wish to hear the missing concerto.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn December 1938 Artur Rodziński and the NBC Symphony Orchestra offered American radio audiences two exceptional programmes from Studio 8H in Radio City, separated by a single week but strikingly different in their musical terrain. Still early in the orchestra’s life, these broadcasts reveal an ensemble of formidable discipline and tonal punch, and a conductor whose flair for programming was matched by his ability to coax high-voltage playing from musicians already performing at the top of their game. Preserved on remarkably fine acetate discs and newly restored in Pristine’s XR and Ambient Stereo process, these concerts now emerge with a clarity, warmth and spatial naturalness that Studio 8H’s famously desiccated acoustic rarely allowed at the time.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    The 10 December 1938 broadcast opened with Glinka’s evergreen \u003cem\u003eRuslan and Lyudmila\u003c\/em\u003e Overture. Contemporary reviews singled out its sparkling character and the orchestra’s brilliance, noting that despite the modest studio acoustics the execution was consistently impressive. Under Rodziński the overture becomes a showcase of tensile rhythmic drive and peerless ensemble precision. The NBC strings, already one of the most agile sections in the country, dispatch Glinka’s perpetual-motion writing with an ease that belies the difficulty of the music.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    The centrepiece of that first broadcast was Tchaikovsky’s \u003cem\u003eSymphony No. 5\u003c\/em\u003e, a Rodziński speciality. Critics at the time praised his command of Tchaikovsky’s long spans and the orchestra’s powerful response, particularly in the sweeping finale. Rodziński shapes the symphony without indulgence: the opening motto is sombre yet flexible, the slow movement’s horn solo emerges with poised lyricism, the waltz glides without heaviness, and the finale surges with tightly controlled energy. These players may have been assembled for Toscanini, but in Rodziński they found a conductor who drew from them a comparable mixture of discipline and white-hot emotional commitment.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    That programme also included the American broadcast premiere of Mikhail Starokadomsky’s \u003cem\u003eConcerto for Orchestra\u003c\/em\u003e, a 1933 work by a now little-known pupil of Myaskovsky. The score was described at the time as competently crafted and orchestrated with skill, even if its idiom owed more to Germanic symphonic practice than to the more modernistic Russian school. While the work’s historical footprint is small, its presence in this broadcast testifies to Rodziński’s willingness to present new Soviet repertoire to American listeners at a moment when few conductors were venturing far beyond the established Russian canon. Although too long to fit our CD programme, it is included complete in the download edition.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    The concert closed with Stravinsky’s \u003cem\u003eFirebird\u003c\/em\u003e Suite, which listeners reported as having considerably enlivened the atmosphere despite the dryness of the broadcast studio. Rodziński’s performance is taut, colourful and intensely dramatic, the NBC brass and percussion delivering Stravinsky’s climaxes with thrilling impact. Even in the early years of high-fidelity broadcasting, the sheer blaze of this performance must have made a vivid impression on listeners.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    A week later, on 17 December 1938, Rodziński returned to Studio 8H with an entirely new programme, later reviewed in the New York Times’ “Other Music” column. The broadcast opened with Dvořák’s Symphony No. 4 — the work now recognised as his Eighth — already a favourite in the concert hall by that time. The critic praised the NBC Symphony’s “strong, clear and brilliant” playing, noting especially the finely balanced winds and the orchestra’s rhythmic vitality in a score whose pastoral lyricism can so easily turn heavy-handed. Rodziński gives the symphony a firm architectural profile, shaping its buoyant themes with affection but without sentimentality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    Hindemith’s \u003cem\u003eMathis der Maler\u003c\/em\u003e Symphony followed, a bold choice in 1938 when the composer was at the centre of cultural controversy in Europe. Reviews highlighted the NBC Symphony’s splendid discipline and the work’s vivid colour and firm structure under Rodziński, whose affinity for Hindemith’s muscular counterpoint is audible throughout. 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Although he had conducted a\n    ‘pilot’ broadcast on 2 November 1937, the first official broadcasts were\n    taken by Pierre Monteux, beginning 13 November 1937. Thereafter Rodziński\n    conducted a further three broadcasts immediately prior to Toscanini’s debut\n    on Christmas Day, 1937.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    After Toscanini’s NBC first concert season was completed, on 5 March 1938,\n    the orchestral concerts continued to be broadcast with a series of guest\n    conductors, including Monteux, Boult, Mitropoulos, Molinari, Howard Hanson\n    and, for three further engagements, Rodziński. In total, Rodziński conducted\n    the orchestra for seven concerts in 1938 – four more were scheduled in\n    December of that year during the orchestra’s second season, culminating in\n    his final performance of the year on New Year’s Eve.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    This release brings you the first two Rodziński NBC concerts of 1938,\n    broadcast live on 2 and 9 April 1938 from NBC’s Studio 8H, each scheduled to\n    run for 90 minutes, and each offering a pretty packed programme – so much so\n    that you may just make out the words of Milton Cross at the beginning of the\n    final item on disc two, excerpts from Wagner’s Die Meistersinger, which were\n    still being announced when the orchestra began playing, no doubt starting to\n    a carefully worked-out timing schedule.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    Rodziński’s second broadcast of the year brought with it a real coup – for\n    the conductor, the orchestra, the NBC and indeed the nation: Shostakovich’s\n    Fifth Symphony. Premièred in Leningrad in November 1937 and played elsewhere\n    within the Soviet Union, and after the debacle of the composer’s Fourth\n    Symphony, withdrawn at the last minute under intense political pressure,\n    there was no shortage of orchestras and conductors wishing to take up and\n    première the new work outside of the country.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    As Halina Rodziński, the conductor’s wife, would later recall in her\n    memoirs: “Artur, thanks to his good connections with the composer, was\n    awarded the prize. NBC's John Royal, through the American ambassador in\n    Moscow, made the arrangements - at a huge price. The Soviet government\n    demanded the then unheard of sum of $5,000 for the premiere. Since\n    introducing the piece would be as much of a coup for the radio network as\n    for Artur, NBC's management did not object to the cost.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    After all the expense and effort in acquiring the score and parts, Artur was\n    a bit concerned the piece might not be all that was expected of it. His\n    reactions when he first examined it were far from favorable. There was a\n    coarseness to the sound of the scoring. The piece seemed overlong. Indeed,\n    Artur was not altogether sure he cared for it. In discussion with NBC, it\n    was decided to perform the work just as it had been delivered - without\n    cuts, without reservations. If the critics did not care for it, no one could\n    blame Rodziński.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    Gradually, in rehearsals, the work began to take Artur's imagination, and\n    soon enough he even was in love with it. The piece entered his repertoire\n    and became one of his specialties.”\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    Mrs. Rodziński’s memory here fails her somewhat. The version heard on 9\n    April, 1938, as revealed in this recording, was far from the complete work,\n    with substantial cuts that  reduced the symphony from about fifty minutes in\n    duration to a little over thirty. Nevertheless, the new work made a\n    favourable impression, and would go on to become one of Shostakovich’s most\n    played symphonies.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    Whilst the present Shostakovich performance has been referred to in various\n    texts and discussions over the years, we believe this is the first time any\n    of these recordings have been made publicly available (it is interesting to\n    note that the recordings reveal several errors in Mortimer H. Frank’s\n    reference work charting the Toscanini’s career with the NBC orchestra,\n    suggesting he had not had access to them). Because of the length of the\n    broadcasts, once again I have been forced to cut announcements and other\n    speech content in order to fit each one onto a single Compact Disc. Sound\n    quality of these exceptionally rare discs, although generally good for their\n    age, is not uniformly perfect; at times the listener will have to make some\n    accommodations for slightly damaged sections, though I’m relieved to report\n    that the concerts themselves survive intact.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Rose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item--heading\"\u003eRODZINSKI NBC 1938, Volume 2 (1938) - PASC741\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item--content\"\u003eArtur Rodzinski, one of the best program makers who has conducted this season at the symphony concerts in Radio City, led the NBC Symphony Orchestra last night in a program of which the principal feature was the tone poem of Richard Strauss, after Nietzsche, “Also sprach Zarathustra”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe performance was one of exceptional brilliancy and one that displayed to very marked advantage the virtuosity of the orchestra. Aside from its interpretive merits, it may be said that a presentation of this music which displays so much certainty and such high technical quality is rare. Add to this the authority and the fire of the reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Zarathustra” is anything but a simple score to interpret. The conductor’s handicap from the aspect of concert effect is the faint and enigmatical conclusion. This can so easily become anti-climax, to say nothing of the mystifying effect of the strange harmonic scheme. But the audience responded last night to a work which formerly baffled the public with unstinted enthusiasm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd this is noteworthy: the music triumphed in the complete absence of any programmatic explanation. Explanatory paragraphs would have been wholly in order. Strauss himself affixed lines from Nietzsche's poem to his score. The audience deserves a program note when this work is played.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis does not lessen the music, but it can greatly conduce to a listener’s appreciation of the composer’s intention, if he knows, for example, that the magnificent introduction, which made Philip Hale think of “the portals of eternity swinging slowly asunder,” is Strauss’s evocation of the sunrise; that the pathetic and mystical passages immediately following, and the great hymn passionately intoned by organ and orchestra, is reference to religion upon which man pinned his faith; that the climax of frantic rejoicing while the great bell tolls in the orchestra is the song of Nietzsche’s victorious Over-man; and that the ending, in two keys, with the theme of Nature heard in the plucked basses, and the theme of the Ideal, like receding stars, soaring aloft, is Strauss’s comment upon the unsolvable riddle of the universe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the music made its mark and greatly moved the audience. It would have been still more imposing for those personally present if the performance had taken place in an auditorium with better acoustics than those of Studio H-8, which deadens sound and lessens the sonority of an orchestra. The effect of breadth as well as sheer body and brilliancy of sound in this place is thus modified, and blazing sonorities are part of the very conception of this score. But the effect was on the whole so adequate and eloquent that it would be captious to fuss over details. “Zarathustra” has waited longest of all Strauss’s tone-poems to come into its own. The sum of this occasion was a performances which carried it convincingly and in a very exciting way to the public.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe concert opened with the excellent Wertheim’s version of the Bach D minor Toccata and Fugue, a sonorous and effective performance of a masterpiece of universal meaning. After Strauss came the charming concert suite that Schrecker arranged from his ballet, “The Birthday of the Infanta.” It is not wildly modern music, nor highly original, but it is pleasing and admirably orchestrated material, put together with skill and taste by an expert craftsman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther delightful music, more original than Schrecker’s, and destined to live much longer, completed the program and delighted the audience. The reference is to the overture to “Fledermaus” and the waltz “Tales From the Vienna Woods,” by Johann Strauss. He also could write music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlin Downes\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, 17 April 1938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item--heading\"\u003eRODZINSKI NBC 1938, Volume 3 (1938) - PASC760\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item--content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sleevenotes\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n    \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#731842\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eN.B. \u003c\/b\u003eThe first of these two concert broadcasts was longer than usual, and the only way to fit it onto a CD was to lose one of the pieces. With the Glinka overture too short to make the difference, after much thought we decided that a forgotten work by a pretty much forgotten composer, \u003cb\u003eStarokadomsky’s Concerto for Orchestra\u003c\/b\u003e, would be cut from the CD release. This work is present in all download versions of this release, and all CD buyers receive a download link to the recording in MP3 versions should they wish to hear the missing concerto.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn December 1938 Artur Rodziński and the NBC Symphony Orchestra offered American radio audiences two exceptional programmes from Studio 8H in Radio City, separated by a single week but strikingly different in their musical terrain. Still early in the orchestra’s life, these broadcasts reveal an ensemble of formidable discipline and tonal punch, and a conductor whose flair for programming was matched by his ability to coax high-voltage playing from musicians already performing at the top of their game. Preserved on remarkably fine acetate discs and newly restored in Pristine’s XR and Ambient Stereo process, these concerts now emerge with a clarity, warmth and spatial naturalness that Studio 8H’s famously desiccated acoustic rarely allowed at the time.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    The 10 December 1938 broadcast opened with Glinka’s evergreen \u003cem\u003eRuslan and Lyudmila\u003c\/em\u003e Overture. Contemporary reviews singled out its sparkling character and the orchestra’s brilliance, noting that despite the modest studio acoustics the execution was consistently impressive. Under Rodziński the overture becomes a showcase of tensile rhythmic drive and peerless ensemble precision. The NBC strings, already one of the most agile sections in the country, dispatch Glinka’s perpetual-motion writing with an ease that belies the difficulty of the music.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    The centrepiece of that first broadcast was Tchaikovsky’s \u003cem\u003eSymphony No. 5\u003c\/em\u003e, a Rodziński speciality. Critics at the time praised his command of Tchaikovsky’s long spans and the orchestra’s powerful response, particularly in the sweeping finale. Rodziński shapes the symphony without indulgence: the opening motto is sombre yet flexible, the slow movement’s horn solo emerges with poised lyricism, the waltz glides without heaviness, and the finale surges with tightly controlled energy. These players may have been assembled for Toscanini, but in Rodziński they found a conductor who drew from them a comparable mixture of discipline and white-hot emotional commitment.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    That programme also included the American broadcast premiere of Mikhail Starokadomsky’s \u003cem\u003eConcerto for Orchestra\u003c\/em\u003e, a 1933 work by a now little-known pupil of Myaskovsky. The score was described at the time as competently crafted and orchestrated with skill, even if its idiom owed more to Germanic symphonic practice than to the more modernistic Russian school. While the work’s historical footprint is small, its presence in this broadcast testifies to Rodziński’s willingness to present new Soviet repertoire to American listeners at a moment when few conductors were venturing far beyond the established Russian canon. Although too long to fit our CD programme, it is included complete in the download edition.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    The concert closed with Stravinsky’s \u003cem\u003eFirebird\u003c\/em\u003e Suite, which listeners reported as having considerably enlivened the atmosphere despite the dryness of the broadcast studio. Rodziński’s performance is taut, colourful and intensely dramatic, the NBC brass and percussion delivering Stravinsky’s climaxes with thrilling impact. Even in the early years of high-fidelity broadcasting, the sheer blaze of this performance must have made a vivid impression on listeners.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    A week later, on 17 December 1938, Rodziński returned to Studio 8H with an entirely new programme, later reviewed in the New York Times’ “Other Music” column. The broadcast opened with Dvořák’s Symphony No. 4 — the work now recognised as his Eighth — already a favourite in the concert hall by that time. The critic praised the NBC Symphony’s “strong, clear and brilliant” playing, noting especially the finely balanced winds and the orchestra’s rhythmic vitality in a score whose pastoral lyricism can so easily turn heavy-handed. Rodziński gives the symphony a firm architectural profile, shaping its buoyant themes with affection but without sentimentality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    Hindemith’s \u003cem\u003eMathis der Maler\u003c\/em\u003e Symphony followed, a bold choice in 1938 when the composer was at the centre of cultural controversy in Europe. Reviews highlighted the NBC Symphony’s splendid discipline and the work’s vivid colour and firm structure under Rodziński, whose affinity for Hindemith’s muscular counterpoint is audible throughout. Far from the austerity sometimes associated with the composer, Rodziński finds warmth and expressive breadth in the score, especially in the luminous “Engelkonzert” movement.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    The second broadcast concluded with Richard Strauss’s \u003cem\u003eTill Eulenspiegel\u003c\/em\u003e, played with élan, razor-sharp precision and a wicked sense of humour. Contemporary accounts praised the performance’s personality and momentum, noting the orchestra’s quick responsiveness to Rodziński’s characterisation of Strauss’s mercurial antihero.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    For these restorations Pristine has employed its XR remastering and Ambient Stereo techniques to address the inherent limitations of Studio 8H’s bone-dry acoustics. Wow and flutter have been eliminated, tonal edges softened, and a sympathetic convolution reverb drawn from one of the world’s finest symphonic halls has been added to restore a sense of breadth and natural resonance. The result is a pair of broadcasts that emerge with new presence and musical richness, preserving the sound of a great orchestra under an electrifying conductor at a pivotal moment in American radio history.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item--heading\"\u003eRODZINSKI NBC 1938, Volume 4 (1938) - PASC767\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item--content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the late 1930s the National Broadcasting Company had created something unprecedented in American musical life: a full-time symphony orchestra assembled specifically for radio. The NBC Symphony Orchestra was formed in 1937 primarily for the broadcasts of Arturo Toscanini, but before Toscanini’s first appearance on Christmas Day of that year the orchestra needed to be tested, disciplined and moulded into a working ensemble. That crucial preparatory work fell largely to the Polish conductor Artur Rodziński.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRodziński had already established a formidable reputation in the United States through his transformative leadership of the Cleveland Orchestra. NBC engaged him first for a trial broadcast in November 1937, followed by three concerts in December that effectively served as the orchestra’s public dress rehearsal before Toscanini assumed the podium. Rodziński returned to conduct further NBC Symphony broadcasts in April 1938 and again in December of the same year. The present recordings preserve the last two of four concerts he conducted on consecutive weekends that December.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese broadcasts therefore represent the closing chapter of Rodziński’s brief but significant association with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The New Year’s Eve programme heard here would prove to be the final concert he conducted with the ensemble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Christmas Eve broadcast opens atmospherically with the Prelude to Humperdinck’s \u003cem\u003eHänsel und Gretel\u003c\/em\u003e, music whose luminous orchestral writing made it a favourite seasonal curtain-raiser. From there Rodziński turns to Johann Sebastian Bach as orchestrated by Ottorino Respighi. Respighi’s Bach transcriptions were widely admired in the early twentieth century for their rich orchestral palette, and here two chorales from the set of \u003cem\u003eThree Chorales\u003c\/em\u003e were performed: \u003cem\u003eNun komm, der Heiden Heiland\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe central work of the programme is Beethoven’s First Symphony, music that bridges the Classical world of Haydn and Mozart with the emerging individuality that would soon transform the symphonic form. Rodziński follows it with one of the most striking orchestral transformations of the twentieth century: Arnold Schoenberg’s orchestration of Brahms’s Piano Quartet in G minor. Schoenberg explained that one reason for making the arrangement was that he wanted to hear everything in Brahms’s densely written score more clearly than was possible in the original chamber version. The result is a dazzling re-imagining of the work in which Brahmsian architecture is expanded into a vibrant orchestral showpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe New Year’s Eve broadcast presents an equally colourful programme. It begins with Alexander Siloti’s orchestral arrangement of a concerto from Antonio Vivaldi’s \u003cem\u003eL’estro armonico\u003c\/em\u003e. Siloti’s late-Romantic treatment of the Baroque original reflects the era’s fascination with adapting earlier music to the modern symphony orchestra.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom there Rodziński launches into Alexander Scriabin’s Third Symphony, \u003cem\u003eLe Divin Poème\u003c\/em\u003e, a vast mystical canvas whose ecstatic climaxes and shimmering orchestration stand at the threshold of musical modernism. Scriabin’s ecstatic vision is followed by a sequence of orchestral miniatures: Ravel’s nostalgic \u003cem\u003ePavane pour une infante défunte\u003c\/em\u003e and two movements from Debussy’s \u003cem\u003eNocturnes\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNuages\u003c\/em\u003e and the exuberant \u003cem\u003eFêtes\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe concert concludes in celebratory fashion with the first waltz sequence from Richard Strauss’s \u003cem\u003eDer Rosenkavalier\u003c\/em\u003e, music whose swirling Viennese rhythms provided a fitting close to a New Year’s Eve broadcast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe original transmissions were introduced by NBC announcer Gene Hamilton. His commentary survives in full on the source recordings, but because the complete broadcasts run slightly longer than a standard compact disc allows, much of this material has been edited here in order to accommodate the music within a single CD. Short excerpts of Hamilton’s introductions to the Christmas Eve concert and his closing remarks at the end of the New Year’s Eve broadcast have been retained.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDespite their broadcast origins the surviving recordings are remarkable for their warmth, dynamic range and clarity. In these new XR remasterings the sound reveals impressive orchestral colour, with quiet surfaces and extended frequency range that allow Rodziński’s incisive conducting and the NBC Symphony Orchestra’s brilliance to emerge with striking immediacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese final NBC broadcasts not only complete Rodziński’s recorded association with the orchestra but also offer a vivid glimpse of American orchestral broadcasting at the end of the 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--heading\"\u003eClick below to expand track listing:\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item--heading\"\u003eRODZINSKI NBC 1938, Volume 1 (1938) - PASC731\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item--content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRODZINSKI \u003c\/b\u003eNBC 1938, Volume 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003edisc one\u003c\/b\u003e (77:09)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. \u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBEETHOVEN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eCoriolan Overture, Op. 62\u003c\/span\u003e  (7:45)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. \u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBARBER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony in One Movement, Op. 9\u003c\/span\u003e  (20:13)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003ePROKOFIEV \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 , \"Classical\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. 1st mvt. - Allegro  (3:14)\u003cbr\u003e4. 2nd mvt. - Larghetto  (3:39)\u003cbr\u003e5. 3rd mvt. - Gavotta  (1:26)\u003cbr\u003e6. 4th mvt. - Molto vivace  (2:58)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDEBUSSY \u003c\/b\u003ePrélude à l'après-midi d'un faune\u003c\/span\u003e  (10:40)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDOHNÁNYI \u003c\/b\u003eSuite for Orchestra, Op. 19\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. 1. Andante con variazioni  (10:06)\u003cbr\u003e9. 2. Scherzo  (4:06)\u003cbr\u003e10. 3. Romance  (4:54)\u003cbr\u003e11. 4. Rondo  (8:08)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003edisc two\u003c\/b\u003e (78:48)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWEBER \u003c\/b\u003eOberon - Overture\u003c\/span\u003e  (8:52)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHOSTAKOVICH \u003c\/b\u003eSymphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst performance outside the Soviet Union\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. 1st mvt. - Moderato  (10:53)\u003cbr\u003e3. 2nd mvt. - Allegretto  (5:22)\u003cbr\u003e4. 3rd mvt. - Largo  (9:58)\u003cbr\u003e5. 4th mvt. - Allegro non troppo  (6:52)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eRESPIGHI \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eAncient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. 1. Balletto detto 'Il Conte Orlando' (Molinaro)  (2:40)\u003cbr\u003e7. 2. Gagliarga (Galilei)  (3:57)\u003cbr\u003e8. 3. Villanella (Ignoto)  (5:38)\u003cbr\u003e9. 4. Passo mezzo e Mascherada (Ignoto)  (3:44)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. \u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eALBÉNIZ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eIbéria - 3. El Corpus en Sevilla\u003c\/span\u003e  (8:46)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11. \u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWAGNER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg\u003c\/span\u003e: Prelude to Act III - Dance of the Apprentices - Finale  (12:07)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px;\"\u003eNBC Symphony Orchestra    \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px;\"\u003eArtur Rodziński\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXR remastering by: Andrew Rose\u003cbr\u003eLive broadcast recordings, 2 \u0026amp; 9 April 1938\u003cbr\u003eStudio 8H, NBC Radio City, New York\u003cbr\u003eCover artwork based on a photograph of Artur Rodziński\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTotal duration:  2hr 35:56\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item--heading\"\u003eRODZINSKI NBC 1938, Volume 2 (1938) - PASC741\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item--content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRODZINSKI \u003c\/b\u003eNBC 1938, Volume 2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. RADIO Introduction  (1:25)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. S. BACH\u003c\/b\u003e (arr. Wertheim) Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Toccata  (2:57)\u003cbr\u003e3. Fugue  (6:05)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eR. STRAUSS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Einleitung  (2:10)\u003cbr\u003e5. Von den Hinterweltlern  (3:38)\u003cbr\u003e6. Von der grossen Sehnsucht  (1:58)\u003cbr\u003e7. Von den Freuden-und Leidenschaften  (1:56)\u003cbr\u003e8. Das Grablied  (2:12)\u003cbr\u003e9. Von der Wissenschaft  (4:34)\u003cbr\u003e10. Der Genesende  (5:38)\u003cbr\u003e11. Das Tanzlied  (5:46)\u003cbr\u003e12. Nachtwandlerlied  (6:52)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSCHREKER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eDer Geburtstag der Infantin - Suite\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13. 1. Reigen  (1:47)\u003cbr\u003e14. 2. Aufzug und kampfspiel  (2:11)\u003cbr\u003e15. 3. Die Marionetten  (2:49)\u003cbr\u003e16. 4. Minuett der Tanzerknaken  (2:11)\u003cbr\u003e17. 5. Die Tanze der Zwerges  (0:15)\u003cbr\u003e18. 6. Mit der Wind im Fruhling  (0:53)\u003cbr\u003e19. 7. In blauen Sandalen uber das korn  (1:52)\u003cbr\u003e20. 8. Im roten Gewand im herbst  (1:23)\u003cbr\u003e21. 9. Die Rose der Infatin  (3:41)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e22. \u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eJ STRAUSS II \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eDie Fledermaus - Overture\u003c\/span\u003e  (8:14)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e23. \u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eJ STRAUSS II\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e Tales from the Vienna Woods\u003c\/span\u003e  (7:05)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eNBC Symphony Orchestra   \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003econducted by \u003cb\u003eArtur Rodziński\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXR remastering by: Andrew Rose\u003cbr\u003eLive broadcast recording, 16 April 1938, Studio 8H, NBC Radio City, New York\u003cbr\u003eCover artwork based on a photograph of Artur Rodziński\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTotal duration:  77:31\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item--heading\"\u003eRODZINSKI NBC 1938, Volume 3 (1938) - PASC760\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pristine-boxset-track-listing--item--content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRODZINSKI \u003c\/b\u003eNBC 1938, Volume 3\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003edisc one\u003c\/b\u003e (75:27)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. \u003cb\u003eRADIO \u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction  (1:52)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGLINKA \u003c\/b\u003eRuslan and Lyudmila - Overture\u003c\/span\u003e  (5:44)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTCHAIKOVSKY \u003c\/b\u003eSymphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. 1st mvt. - Andante - Allegro con anima  (14:10)\u003cbr\u003e4. 2nd mvt. - Andante cantabile con alcuna licenza  (13:05)\u003cbr\u003e5. 3rd  mvt. - Valse. 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