Busoni Recalled - The 1941 New York Commemorative Concert / Mitropoulos, New York PO

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This CD preserves a 1941 concert with three great artists closely associated with Busoni in historically valuable performances that may never be equaled. Mitropoulos is masterful in the romanticized Mozart arrangement and the Sarabande and Cortege. Petri's irresistible Indian Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, based on American Indian themes, tingles with life; he and Mitropoulos are incomparable in the atmospheric slow movement and the finale's rhythmic swing. Szigeti is as masterful in the 1897 Violin Concerto, superior to his 1954 Columbia studio recording, made when his technique no longer allowed him the tonal purity and command of line we hear in this performance. Classic in form, Romantic in feeling, the work has the characteristic Busonian mix of Germanic complexity with Italianate lightness. An indispensable disc, but the sound, while listenable, has patches of distortion and extraneous noise. --Dan Davis

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Busoni Recalled - The 1941 New York Commemorative Concert / Mitropoulos, New York PO
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 Busoni Recalled - The 1941 New York Commemorative Concert / Mitropoulos, New York PO

Manufacturer: Music & Arts Program
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000038I61
Release Date: 2000-01-11

Tracks:

  1. Idomeneo Overture
  2. Indian Fantasy For Piano And Orchestra
  3. Sarabande
  4. Cortege
  5. Violin concerto In D, Op. 35a
  6. Szigeti Recalls Busoni

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This CD preserves a 1941 concert with three great artists closely associated with Busoni in historically valuable performances that may never be equaled. Mitropoulos is masterful in the romanticized Mozart arrangement and the Sarabande and Cortege. Petri's irresistible Indian Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, based on American Indian themes, tingles with life; he and Mitropoulos are incomparable in the atmospheric slow movement and the finale's rhythmic swing. Szigeti is as masterful in the 1897 Violin Concerto, superior to his 1954 Columbia studio recording, made when his technique no longer allowed him the tonal purity and command of line we hear in this performance. Classic in form, Romantic in feeling, the work has the characteristic Busonian mix of Germanic complexity with Italianate lightness. An indispensable disc, but the sound, while listenable, has patches of distortion and extraneous noise. --Dan Davis

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A collector item!.......2006-11-14

Egon Petri was the most renowned pupil of Busoni; but also one of his closest friends. This fortunate circumstance may give us many clues in what respects to these piano works, admirably composed and barely performed.

This famous encounter in 1941 has another factor to take into account, the legendary Greek baton of Dimitri Mitropoulus, a conductor who always knew to extract a special sonority to this first rate Orchestra in those ages. By those ages, he was conductor of the Minneapolis Orchestra and was a very ofetn guest director.

Don't miss this chance to put in contact with three legends; composer, soloist and conductor.

Track Listings:

  1. Caliente! Laurel Zucker & Christopher Caliendo
  2. Calliope Dances: A Renaissance Revel
  3. Chant: Tenebrae Factea Sunt; Alleluia
  4. Christmas Mood
  5. Christmas Treasures
  6. Classical Music Nursery Rhymes
  7. Dances for Two Pianos
  8. Dangerous Graces: Music by Cipriano de Rore and his pupils
  9. Dear Mother, I've Come Home to Die Quickstep & Other Favorites of the Band of the 19th Virginia Heavy Artillery
  10. Dupre: Works for organ

Track Listings

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Track Listings

Quiet Life [Enhanced] [Import]

Schoenberg: La Nuit Transfigurée; R. Strauss: Métamorphoses

Sometimes I Get Drunk And Write Songs About You [Explicit Lyrics]

Midnight Mood [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Can't Take the Pressure

Sweethearts of the Blues [Box set]

Tell Me on a Sunday (2003 London Revival Cast) [Cast Recording]

Romantic Moments: Classical Music for Lovers (Box Set) [Box set]

San Francisco No Kiseki [Import]

Serenado

Swing Low, Sweet Mandolin

Río Rebelde

Salpicon

Chess Club Rhythm & Soul

The Collector's Edition