Since you are interested in Symphony No.5 in C minor / Symphony No.6 in F major, Pastoral (recorded 1956), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
W.A. MOZART / BEETHOVEN
String Quartets (rec 1956) Amadeus Quartet [ Medici Masters / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "it is striking that the relatively early performances show the Amadeus achieving a combination of focused intensity, delicacy and intellectual power that may surprise those who know them only from their later appearances" Stephen Johnson |
W.A. MOZART
Piano Concertos 9 & 19 (recorded 1952-56) Clara Haskil (piano) / Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra / Otto Ackermann / Ferenc Fricsay [ Medici Masters / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "Listening to the Bucharest-born Clara Haskil (1895-1960) always brings much joy. Her playing exudes musicality, whether it is Mozart, Falla or Hindemith...A very recommendable release." (Colin Clarke classicalsource.com) |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.74 Pathetique (rec 1955) (with works by Mozart & Weber) Kalner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester / Erich Kleiber [ Medici Masters / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "...an account of Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony..it's amazing, it's devastating...it's preceded by Weber's Euryanthe Overture, exploding like a rocket, amd Mozart's Symphony No.33, in which Kleiber sets a standard for his son Carlos to match." (BBC... |
MENDELSSOHN
Symphonies Nos 3 & 5 (recorded 1957 & 1960) Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester / Dmitri Mitropoulos [ Medici Masters / CD - released 26/Oct/2007 ] "In all these pieces Mitropoulos is skilled in balancing the structural aspects of the music with its dramatic, expressive side. All provide further evidence, if any were needed, of this great conductor's total absorption in music-making, and fully... |
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition & other Russian works (Recorded 1956/57) Philharmonia Orchestra / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Eugene Goossens [ Medici Masters / CD - released 20/Oct/2007 ] Sir Eugene Goossens was the third member of the illustrious Goossens family - Leon and Sidonie being the others. After leaving the Royal College of Music (1907-1912) he became a violinist with the Queen's Hall Orchestra (1912-15) before becoming an... |
PROKOFIEV / SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor / Concerto for Piano, String Orchestra and Trumpet No.1 in C (rec 1955/56) Shura Cherkassky (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Herbert Menges [ Medici Masters / CD - released 24/Oct/2007 ] Shura Cherkassky (1909-1995) was a pupil of the legendary pianist Josef Hofman at the Curtis Institute, Philadelphia. Cherkassky was considered to be one of the greatest romantic virtuosos of the 20th Century and apart from the playing the major... |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat major, Op.73 Emperor / Piano Sonata No.21 in C major Op.53 Waldstein (Rec 1956-1959) Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) / Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester / Georg Solti [ Medici Masters / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] Backhaus was probably a finer pianist live than in the confines of the studio as his style became much freer and less analytical. The superb live concert performance of Beethoven's "Waldstein" Sonata from the Beethovenhalle in Bonn in 1959 supports... |