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I just saw this in my stack and decided to give it a play as it is one of those pieces that is frequently played by the high school orchestras that my kids all played in. (In Carnegie Hall no less. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Take the Q train, because I can tell you my kids never practiced!)
I had no idea of the quality of this recording! It was an Odyssey reissue of the Columbia Orchestra recording from the 50s or 60s. I probably bought it back in the 80s during one of my runs to Tower Records in Seattle from the budget bin and listened to it once or twice, and it has sat unplayed ever since. The vinyl itself was nearly silent after a wash.
This makes me think I should scour my recordings for some more gems, but they all went through the great house flood of 1996.
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I have found most, if not all, of the Columbia Symphony Walter recordings to be wonderful. Admittedly, there is a certain resonance about the recordings that is unique, possibly from the recording hall (I think that they were recorded at Royce Hall at UCLA) or the tube-based recorder. They are not crisp recordings, but have a lovely way of sweeping over you and are among my "desert island" disks.
Enjoy!
Jim E
nt
Do you know which recordings? I wasn't aware that the CSO traveled beyond LA, since I understand that they were a pick-up orchestra with various Hollywood commitments.
Thanks!
Jim
There wasn't a Columbia Symphony Orchestra. It was the name given to whatever pick-up orchestra, whatever group of itinerant freelancers, Columbia would assemble either in LA or NY for a recording session. Many of the musicians were members of either the NY or LA Philharmonic. There were enough excellent musicians available in this manner on either coast to satisfy Walter.
Edits: 05/16/15
Thank you for sharing this. What a facinating story!
Jim E
If so i think i have it somewhere i give it a listen....
dee
;-D
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
quote by Kurt Vonnegut
That would be it.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
quote by Kurt Vonnegut
I have this version.
Thanks for the recommendation
dee
;-D
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
quote by Kurt Vonnegut
And yet the best interpretation of this Dvorak IMHO is the Rodzinski on Westminster WL 5370 Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of London... the second adagio movement is exquisite. This is truly the best I've heard.
Sim
never heard it, but the Dv 8 is only OK, imho.
Love his stereo Beethoven 6, have it on 6 eyes LP, Odyssey LP, Odyssey reissue CD and Sony SACD.
Love his Beethoven NYPO mono, Brahms mono and stereo, but esp mono, Mozart overtures stereo, many others.
Too much to write, just random thoughts almost finished at work.
Did you ever see this one?
Practice!
How do I get to Carnegie Hall - not where's!
And it butchered my version of it too.
I have 3 kids. 2 of the 3 have played Carnegie Hall, once they played together there. The third one has "only" played at Avery Fisher hall in Lincoln Center, and she is the one that ended up in music school. All three have played at Avery Fisher (soon to be Geffen Hall). One was in a sold out public performance of The Messiah in the chorus. The others were school performances.
I love to brag about this. How many parents would be thrilled to see their kid play in one of these spaces, and all three of mine already have.
And another joke, when we were in Milan I prodded my daughter to sing in front of La Scala, so she could say she sang there too... I get a good eye roll whenever I tell that one.
nt
Maybe.
Nah
I don't know. I'm just waiting for Godot.
my name is Estragon
dee
;-D
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
quote by Kurt Vonnegut
This was my own very first New World. Let it go when I converted to CD (and did a cross country move) - but about 10 years ago I came back to vinyl. I also have a great appreciation for Walter's work than I did many years ago. Bottom line, I own a sealed copy of the Odyssey recording that I got while I was collecting a lot of Walter recordings (I have his Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert and Mahler, save the 9th, and a few other ones). I need to unwrap this and play it again.
There are a few must have Walter recordings, if you don't have them. Act I of Die Walkure, with Melchior and Lehmann - nothing in the Wagner recorded literature quite like it. His stereo Brahms 3rd. His Mahler 1 and 2. etc.
...and very distinctive. No one else phrases the melodies like he does.
nt
Recording's pretty good for Columbia, but what an evergreen, TLC performance!
I thought that I couldn't get into this piece anymore but Walter's keeps my toes tapping. Lovely end to the 2nd mov't as well.
This has become my favorite New World...a joy to listen to...in fact, I think I will.
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