Author: DontaitchicagoDontaitchicago Date: Feb 11, 2008 12:46
On Feb 11, 11:36�am, Kerrison yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Many thanks for this!
I have recordings here of some of this material; nevertheless, I
must try to get these releases. I know this Stokowski Brahms 4. It's
magnificent. The Toscanini/NYPSO Brahms material is obviously crucial,
especially the two Serenades. I have tapes of them, but they don't
sound very good. One hopes that these will come from better-sounding
source material.
The writer of the notes apparently didn't know that Toscanini's 1948
NBC broadcast of the Academic Festival Overture was issued by RCA
Victor as long ago as about 1966; but then as is said, to be correct,
Toscanini didn't commercially record it. (As I recall it, the 1948
performance is a strangely-paced and weirdly humorless one; seemingly
a remarkable example of a conductor "not getting it," at least for
this listener. One wants Bruno Walter. And I am a major Toscanini
fan.)
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