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This series continues here with what survives of Bruno Walter's fabulous 1951 series of Brahms concerts with the New York Philharmonic, together with a later live performance of the Violin Concerto which fills the gap in the 1951 recordings left by the apparent loss of a performance with Zino Francescatti.
Preparing this release has required some major technical
innovation, both in the Symphony No. 3, previously unissued, and the
Violin Concerto. As outlined in the quoted review in our CD liner notes
of a previous issue of the latter, things went wrong during the first
movement, culminating in a momentary silence from the soloist - the
result of a broken string. Morini quickly borrowed the violin offered by
the orchestra's leader, John Corigliano and carried on playing while he
replaced her broken string.That gap here is filled by the seamless
mixing in of Morini's 1956 studio recording for Westminster at around 11
minutes to patch the gap whilst instruments were exchanged.
More challenging was the Symphony No. 3, where two source
recordings were used for several sections of the recording. One was
damaged in upper frequencies, the other in the lower frequencies.
Following digital pitch and tempo stabilisation and synchronisation I
was able to digitally copy and paste good upper frequencies over good
lower frequencies to produce a perfectly matched and utterly convincing
new whole, a technique I believe may never have been successfully
attempted before, and which restores what would otherwise have been
unusable sources to their full glory.
Andrew Rose
WALTER conducts Brahms, Volume 2 (1951/53)
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83
1. I. Allegro non troppo (17:18)
2. II. Allegro appassionato (6:57)
3. III. Andante (12:42)
4. IV. Allegretto grazioso (9:21)
BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
5. I. Allegro con brio (9:04)
6. II. Andante (7:57)
7. III. Poco allegretto (6:00)
8. IV. Allegro (7:53)
BRAHMS Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
9. I. Allegro non troppo (20:04)
10. II. Adagio (9:13)
11. III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace (7:55)
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
12. I. Allegro non troppo (11:54)
13. II. Andante moderato (11:52)
14. III. Allegro giocoso (5:54)
15. IV. Allegro energico e passionato (11:03)
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
Erica Morini, violin
Myra Hess, piano
Bruno Walter, conductor
PERFORMANCE DATES
Piano Concerto No. 2: 28 January 1951
Symphony No. 3: 28 January 1951
Violin Concerto: 20 December 1953
Symphony No. 4: 11 February 1951
All performed at Carnegie Hall, New York
