John Barbirolli & New York Philharmonic - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection (6 CDs)

With works by: Henry Purcell (1659-1695) , Claude Debussy (1862-1918) , Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893) , Franz Schubert (1797-1828) , Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) , Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) , Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) , Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) , Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff (1844-1908) , Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) , Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) , Max Bruch (1838-1920) und weitere

Contributors: Benny Goodman, Robert Casadesus, Nathan Milstein, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, John Barbirolli

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Purcell / Barbirolli: Suite für Streicher, Holzbläser & Hörner

+Debussy: Images; Ballet aus Petite Suite; Premiere Rhapsodie

+Tschaikowsky: Francesca da Rimini op. 32; Suite Nr. 3 G-Dur op. 55 (4. Satz)

+Respighi: Fontane di Roma; Arie di corte aus Antiche danze et arie per liuto

+Schubert: Symphonie Nr. 4; Deutsche Tänze D. 89

+Brahms: Symphonie Nr. 2; Akademische Festouvertüre op. 80

+Sibelius: Symphonien Nr. 1 & 2

+Smetana: Die verkaufte Braut-Ouvertüre

+Rimsky-Korssakoff: Capriccio espagnol op. 34

+Ravel: La Valse

+Berlioz: Römischer Karneval-Ouvertüre op. 9

+Bach / Barbirolli: Schafe mögen sicher weiden aus Kantate BWV 208

+Mozart: Klarinettenkonzert KV 622; Klavierkonzert Nr. 27; Symphonie Nr. 25

+Bruch: Violinkonzert Nr. 1

+An Elizabethan Suite (arrangiert von John Barbirolli)

Artists:: Benny Goodman, Robert Casadesus, Nathan Milstein, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, John Barbirolli
Label:: Sony
Year of recording ca.:: 1938-1942
UPC/EAN:: 0190759883822
Release date:: 21.2.2020

Wer den großen britischen Dirigenten John Barbirolli nur aus seinen späteren, bisweilen knorrigen Aufnahmen, vor allem mit seinem Hallè-Orchester, kennt, wird von diesen erstmals komplett vorgelegten RCA- und Columbia-Einspielungen (auf 6 CDs) des Enddreißigers mit dem New York Philharmonic, das er fünf Jahre (1936-41) als Nachfolger von Arturo Toscanini leitete, überrascht sein. Zeigen sie doch durchweg einen muskulären, dabei überaus flexiblen Stil, der weniger auf minutiöse Genauigkeit, sondern eher auf poetisches Glühen abzielte. Aber dabei Klangfarbenzauber und dynamische Expressivität keineswegs vernachlässigte. Beispielhaft in der feurigen Ouvertüre zur Verkauften Braut zu hören. Aber auch in den Sinfonien Nr. 1 und 2 von Jean Sibelius, schon damals (1940) offenbar Signaturstücke des Dirigenten. Hinzuweisen ist auch auf eine dramatische Vierte von Schubert, eine tiefschürfende, dabei fließende Zweite von Brahms, agile Kollaborationen mit berühmten Solisten, wie beim Klarinettenkonzert von Mozart und der Ersten Rhapsodie von Debussy (jeweils mit Benny Goodman!) oder beim Violinkonzert Nr. 1 von Bruch mit Nathan Milstein. Unbedingt erwähnenswert – Iberia von Debussy, Francesca da Rimini und Tema con Variazioni von Tschaikowsky und die Ouvertüren zu Römischer Karneval von Berlioz oder Capriccio espagnol von Rimsky-Korsakov. Allein 17 Aufnahmen erscheinen hier erstmals auf CD.

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The young John Barbirolli was hardly known in America when the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra chose him to be Arturo Toscanini’s successor starting in 1937. The 36-year-old Londoner’s first season was a triumph with both players and audiences, and although his years in New York would be increasingly marred by unfair rivalry with Toscanini – lured back to lead a specially created NBC Symphony – and by partisan hostility from two influential critics, Barbirolli’s tenure can now be looked back on as a real success. From 1938 until 1943 Sir John made a series of recordings in New York for American Columbia and RCA Victor which are still essential for a full appreciation of this revered conductor’s career, “performances that are as competitive today as they were when initially released” (Fanfare). Sony Classical is pleased to reissue them in a newly remastered six-CD set.

Among the treasures here are Debussy’s Iberia and Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini and the first-ever recording of Schubert’s Fourth (“Tragic”) Symphony, together cited by Gramophone as “a demonstration that the Philharmonic-Symphony had few rivals in the world at the time as a recording orchestra … A forceful, high-powered reading [of the symphony] which yet has a Schubertian smile … The crisp attack in the Tchaikovsky, even tauter than in Barbirolli’s superb 1969 HMV New Philharmonia version, is thrillingly caught. The Debussy brings the most vivid sound of all, weighty and full of presence, with castanets and brass leaping out from the speakers. This is a white-hot performance, every bit as exciting as those of Toscanini, and with a moving vein of tenderness in the slow second movement.”

There are several works by Mozart, among them the Clarinet Concerto with Benny Goodman and the Symphony No. 25 and Piano Concerto No. 27 with Robert Casadesus. The Piano Concerto’s opening Allegro “is beautifully shaped with an almost palpable sense of wonder in the music and the pianist is definitely having a ball of time,” said Classical Net. “The final Allegro is also very commendable for its grand sense of pomp and majesty … The exquisite symphony also receives wonderful attention and care from Barbirolli and the NYPSO. Here one can sense the conductor's love for Mozart’s inspired melodies … Benny Goodman is a characterful interpreter of the Clarinet Concerto.”

“The generous flavor of Barbirolli’s Brahms comes through in the Academic Festival Overture and the Second Symphony,” wrote Audiophile Audition’s reviewer. “The Overture is rife with ceremonial grandeur and jolly spirits. The D major Symphony has a debonair airiness and bucolic relaxation about it.” And Sibelius’s First Symphony“ should delight fans of Barbirolli’s 1960s complete traversal of the symphonies … The conductor’s warmth, vision, and emotional urgency has lost none of its appeal in the more than half century that has passed” (Fanfare).

Nathan Milstein is playing the Bruch Concerto with “the Philharmonic-Symphony in tremendous form,” exclaimed MusicWeb International’s critic. “Barbirolli opens powerfully and Milstein responds in kind; not over emoted and with vibrato perfectly scaled to the demands of the music. He is really quite withdrawn and introspective in the Adagio, powerfully so indeed, and Barbirolli brings out the horn harmonies in a way that seems to reveal them for the first time. There is romantic fervour but also passagework clarity and digital cleanliness in the finale … a model of concerto accompaniment and creative collaboration.”

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Disk 1 von 6 (CD)

Suite for Strings, Woodwind and Horns - Remastered

1 Henry Purcell: 1. Andante maestoso. Allegro (Overture from 'The Gordian Knot Untied')
2 Henry Purcell: 2. Tempo di menuetto (Minuet from 'The Virtuous Wife')
3 Henry Purcell: 3. Andantino (Fairest Isle from 'King Arthur')
4 Henry Purcell: 4. Andantino giocoso (Air from 'Abdelazar')
5 Henry Purcell: 5. Largo (Lamento from 'Dido and Aeneas')
6 Henry Purcell: 6. Allegro (Allegro from 'King Arthur', second music)

Images pour orchestre, L. 122: No. 2, Iberia - Remastered

7 Claude Debussy: I. Par les rues et par les chemins
8 Claude Debussy: II. Les Parfums de la nuit
9 Claude Debussy: III. Le Matin d'un jour de fete

Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32 - Remastered

10 Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: I. Andante lugubre
11 Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: II. Allegro vivo
12 Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: III. Andante cantabile non troppo
13 Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: IV. Allegro vivo - Poco piu mosso

14 Ottorino Resphighi: Antiche danze et arie per liuto, Suite No. 3 - Remastered

Fontane di Roma - Remastered

15 Ottorino Resphighi: I. La fontana di Valle Giulia all'alba
16 Ottorino Resphighi: II. La fontana del Tritone al mattino
17 Ottorino Resphighi: III. La fontana di Trevi al meriggio
18 Ottorino Resphighi: IV. La fontana di Villa Medici al tramonto

Disk 2 von 6 (CD)

Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417, 'Tragic' - Remastered

1 Franz Schubert: I. Adagio molto - Allegro vivace
2 Franz Schubert: II. Andante
3 Franz Schubert: III. Menuetto - Allegro vivace
4 Franz Schubert: IV. Allegro

5 Deutsche Tänze mit 7 Trios und einer Coda, D. 89 - Remastered

5 Franz Schubert: No. 1, Deutscher Tanz - Trio I - Trio II in C Major
6 Franz Schubert: No. 2, Deutscher Tanz - Trio I - Trio II in G Major
7 Franz Schubert: No 3, Deutscher Tanz - Trio in D Major
8 Franz Schubert: No. 4, Deutscher Tanz in F Major
9 Franz Schubert: No. 5, Deutscher Tanz - Trio I - Trio II - Coda in C Major

Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73

10 Johannes Brahms: I. Allegro non troppo
11 Johannes Brahms: II. Adagio non troppo - L'istesso tempo, ma grazioso
12 Johannes Brahms: III. Allegretto grazioso - Presto ma non assai - Tempo I
13 Johannes Brahms: IV. Allegro con spirito

Disk 3 von 6 (CD)

Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39

1 Jean Sibelius: I. Andante ma non troppo - Allegro energico
2 Jean Sibelius: II. Andante
3 Jean Sibelius: III. Scherzo. Allegro
4 Jean Sibelius: IV. Finale - Allegro moderato

Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43

5 Jean Sibelius: I. Allegretto
6 Jean Sibelius: II. Tempo andante ma rubato
7 Jean Sibelius: III. Vivacissimo - Lento e suave
8 Jean Sibelius: IV. Finale: Allegro moderato

Disk 4 von 6 (CD)

1 Bedrich Smetana: The Bartered Bride, JB 1:100: Overture - Remastered

Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34 - Remastered

2 Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff: I. Alborada. Vivo e strepitoso
3 Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff: II. Variazioni. Andante con moto
4 Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff: III. Alborada. Vivo e strepitoso
5 Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff: IV. Scena e canto gitano. Allegretto
6 Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff: V. Fandango asturiano

7 Maurice Ravel: La Valse, M. 72
8 Hector Berlioz: Le Carnaval romain, Op. 9
9 Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 - Remastered
10 Claude Debussy: Petite Suite, L. 65, No. 4 'Ballet' - Remastered
11 Claude Debussy: Premiere Rhapsodie pour orchestre avec clarinette principale, L. 116 - Remastered
12 Johann Sebastian Bach: Sheep May Safely Graze, BWV 208, No. 9 - Remastered