Sir John Barbirolli - Bucharest & Turin Concerts - Barbirolli Society: SJB104243 - 2 CDs

Release Date: 8th Mar 2010
Catalogue No: SJB104243
Label: Barbirolli Society

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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Overture

recorded 'live' – Romanian Athenian, Bucharest, 13 September 1958
George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

recorded 'live' – Romanian Athenian, Bucharest, 13 September 1958
George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli

Debussy: La Mer

recorded 'live' – Romanian Athenian, Bucharest, 13 September 1958
George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

recorded 'live' – Romanian Athenian, Bucharest, 13 September 1958
George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli

Holst: The Planets, Op. 32

(Mars, Venus, Mercury, Uranus & Jupiter). Recorded 'live' – Auditorium di Torino della RAI, 15 November 1957
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Sir John Barbirolli

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The Barbirolli Society's new 2-CD release brings together ‘live’ recordings, from the late 1950s, of Sir John conducting the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra and the RAI Symphony Orchestra, Turin. The complete concert from the Romanian Atheneum, Bucharest in September 1958 consisted of Wagner’s Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Vaughan Williams’s Fanstasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Debussy’s La Mer and Beethoven’s Symphony No.7.

The George Enescu Philharmonic was founded in 1868, the Romanian Philharmonic Society, conducted by Eduard Wachman, aimed at creating a permanent symphonic orchestra in order to promote musical culture and popularise classical music. When the palace of the Romanian Athenaeum was inaugurated, on 15 March 1889, concerts began to be held there, asnow, and is the headquarters of the Philharmonic. Eduard Wachman, conducted until 1907, and was succeeded by Dimitrie Dinicu, then in 1920, by George Georgescu, a remarkable conductor, student of Arthur Nikisch and Richard Strauss. After George Enescu died, in 1955, the Philharmonic took his name.

The five movements from Holst’s The Planets (Mars, Venus, Mercury, Uranus and Jupiter) comes from a concert in Turin on15 November 1957.

Sir John Barbirolli - Bucharest & Turin Concerts

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