Arturo Toscanini
The Complete Concert - October 22 1938
GIOACHINO ROSSINI (1792-1868)
Cenerentola Overture
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949)
Don Quixote - Fantastic Variations on a Knightly Theme
Emanuel Feuermann - Cello
Carlton Cooley - Viola
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
Symphony No.5 in C minor
NBC Symphony Orchestra
CD Contents
| 1 |
Applause |
0:19 |
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI (1792-1868) |
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| 2 |
Cenerentola Overture |
7:23 |
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RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949) |
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Don Quixote - Fantastic Variations on a Knightly Theme |
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| 3 |
Mäßiges Zeitmaß |
5:14 |
| 4 |
Don Quixote, der Ritter von der trauigen Gestalt |
0:51 |
| 5 |
Maggiore - Sancho Panza |
0:58 |
| 6 |
Variation I Gemächlich - Das Abenteuer mit den Windmühlen |
2:18 |
| 7 |
Variation II Kriegerisch - Der Kampf gegen die Hammelherde - |
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Variation III Gespräche zwischen Ritter und Knappe |
1:36 |
| 8 |
Mäßiges Zeitmaß |
3:23 |
| 9 |
Viel langsamer |
3:51 |
| 10 |
Variation IV - Etwas breiter - Das Abenteuer mit der Prozession von Büßern |
1:58 |
| 11 |
Variation V Sehr langsam - Don Quixotes Waffenwache und Herzensergüße |
4:06 |
| 12 |
Variation VI Schnell - Die verzauberte Dulzinea |
1:09 |
| 13 |
Variation VII - Ein wening ruhiger als vorher - Der Ritt durch die Luft |
0:48 |
| 14 |
Variation VIII Gemächlich - Die Fahrt auf dem verzauberten Nachen |
1:46 |
| 15 |
Variation IX Schnell und stürmisch - Der Kampf gegen die vermeintlichen |
0:57 |
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Variation X Viel breiter - Zweikampf mit dem Ritter vom blanken Monde; |
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Heimkehr des geschlagenen Don Quixotes |
3:46 |
| 17 |
Finale Sehr ruhig - Don Quixotes Tod |
5:35 |
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) |
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Symphony No.5 in C minor |
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| 18 |
Allegro con brio |
6:46 |
| 19 |
Andante con moto |
8:45 |
| 20 |
Allegro |
4:35 |
| 21 |
Allegro |
8:20 |
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NBC Symphony Orchestra |
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Emmanuel Feuermann - cello Carlton Cooley - viola |
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ARTURO TOSCANINI |
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22 October 1938 |
Total Time: 75:27 |
ADD Series Producer: Jonathan Wearn - Restoration: Richard Caniell, IPRMS, British Columbia, Canada - Series consultant: Keith Hardwick †
Reviews for CD 2223 - Toscanini Concert 22.October 1938
Gramophone 12 02
From Guild comes the concert of October 22, 1938 with Toscanini and the NBC Symphony which includes, as its thrilling and often witty central attraction, Strauss’s Don Quixote with Emannuel Feuermann as cello soloist (tonally gorgeous if not always totally in tune). That recording has enjoyed previous incarnations but, as far as I’m aware, a memorable Rossini Cenerentola Overture (wonderful closing crescendo) hasn’t, and neither has an electrifying Beethoven Fifth which at times drives so hard and fast that the players can barely keep up. But for most of the time they do, and the performance has a fresh, open feel it, quite unlike – and not a whit inferior to – various Toscanini-led alternatives. The hard-hitting sound sources thrive on transfers that are free of generalised noise reduction.
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