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CD-833: Toscanini conducts Mozart and Brahms

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NBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Arturo Toscanini

Rec. 20 April 1940, 6 May 1940
Original transfer to CD by Music and Arts, 1994
XR remastering by Andrew Rose, April 2007
Download ID: 295107
(Duration 67'58")

  • Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C "Jupiter" K551
  • Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

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Mozart, Brahms and Toscanini

 

Toscanini once said:

The Marriage of Figaro is beautiful; I heard a performance many years ago conducted by Richard Strauss and I was entranced. But I thought: ...there is something about it which I cannot understand, which eludes me and which is lacking in me. The Barber of Seville is a magnificent opera, but there are some poor moments, unnecessary pages which aren't beautiful and need cutting; but compared with Figaro,-how much sunlight, and variety and genuine gaiety there is in the music!

And again of Mozart:

He was too perfect, everything is just where it should be. Some of his music I find cold. But he was a unique genius

Evidently Toscanini had difficulty with Mozart. It is not therefore surprising that his exploration of the symphonic repertoire was sketchy and incomplete. Of the late symphonies, no Linz, just one Prague in 1938, a single 39th in the last thirty years of his career - both of these demonstrating, in their barely trammelled ferocity, why he never conducted them more often. Just three scores were programmed with any frequency: the Haffner and the G minor, both of which featured in concerts throughout his career, and the Jupiter. It is apparent why these scores appealed: the heroics of Symphonies Nos. 35 and 41 and the passionate utterances of No.40 are major elements of the works to which Toscanini's musical make-up could respond without equivocation. Nevertheless, it seems that Mozart's last symphony did not enter Toscanini's repertoire until the conductor was sixty-two, in his first season as director of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, when in the course of 1929-1930 he programmed it on five occasions.

Further performances followed in 1933, but thereafter the work achieved just three outings, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the Queen's Hall on June 3 1938, the present performance, his first with the NBC Symphony, and finally again with NBC on 4 February 1945. He recorded the work with this orchestra in sessions taking place in June 1945 and March 1946.

It is fortunate that all three performances (plus the commercial recording) have been preserved, since they show substantial changes. In particular, those dating from 1938 and 1940 are characterised by a greater breadth and majesty than the final renditions, in which the melodic lines are free of the straitjacketing which at times afflicts the commercial recording - magnificent though that is in some movements...

 

Excerpt from the sleevenotes, ©1995, Music & Arts Inc.

 

 

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Brahms Symphony No. 1:
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