Since you are interested in Symphony No 39 / Oboe Concerto / German Dances / etc (recorded 1955/56), 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 / Violin Concerto (Rec 1955/60) David Oistrakh (violin) / Stockholm Festival Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / Paul Kletzki [ Medici Masters / CD - released 18/Nov/2007 ] "Another fine entrant in this increasingly useful series, this Tchaikovsky release is a testament to Kletzki's under-sung symphonic eloquence and adds the absorbing Oistrakh performance." (MusicWeb Dec 2007) |
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... |
PROKOFIEV
Symphony No.5 in B flat major, Op.100 (with works by Rossini & Vivaldi) (Recorded 1955/57/74) Philharmonia Orchestra / London Symphony Orchestra / Orchestra Alessandro Scarlatti / Thomas Schippers [ Medici Masters / CD - released 26/Oct/2007 ] "Overall this is a fascinating memento of a talent cut short too soon. Impossible to say how Schippers' career would have developed, but there is sufficient evidence of real musicality and real individuality on this disc to make us regret what might... |
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... |
VERDI / BELLINI / DONIZETTI / ROSSINI
Orchestral works (Rec.1959-61 ) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala / Tullio Serafin [ Medici Masters / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] This Serafin release, in excellent stereo, demonstrates his long and celebrated association with Italian opera, and represents the first of some carefully selected artists and titles for the future. |
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... |