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| Beethoven Symphony No. 5, 4th mvt--Arturo Toscanini/NBC Sy |
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Telecast March 22, 1952 from Carnegie Hall,
New York City
in the notes, Mortimer H. Franks reports that
the engineers were unfamiliar with Carnegie
Hall, and that explains the less than ideal
camera shots and directions.
Also, the hot lights got the 85 year old
Toscanini sweating so much that by the end of
the symphony he had to close his eyes and
bear it! He never telecasted another concert
live again.
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Affichage : 43898
Durée : 536 s |
| Beethoven Symphony No. 5, 3rd mvt--Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symp |
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Telecast March 22, 1952 from Carnegie Hall,
New York City
Toscanini's recordings of this symphony from
the 20s and 30s show that he used to conduct
it with
more flexibility and breathing back and
forth, but I do prefer these later
versions---more direct with
stronger flow and propulsive urgent force.
The driving clairity and carefully built
climaxes still there.
He was an early
enthusiast of the "original intruments"
movement, and would love the clairity and
tempi you hear today in the chamber ensemble
performances of these symphonies.
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Affichage : 32059
Durée : 265 s |
| Beethoven Symphony No. 5, 1st mvt--Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symp |
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Telecast March 22, 1952 from Carnegie Hall,
New York City
for the second movement go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijiHzheK4GQ
from an interview by Robert Stumpf II with
Bob Bloom, who played with Toscanini:
I played for him for six years. He yelled at
me a lot, but as a father. After awhile I
became, from those in the orchestra, possibly
closer than anyone else to Toscanini. Away
from the podium, he was like a little child.
He loved music. In his study, he would show
me Puccini's snuff box, Verdi's eye glasses.
He treasured these things.
One day I was visiting him and he asked me to
stay for lunch. I could tell he was very
tired, and we had finished our business, so I
told him that I didn't have to stay. I said,
"Maestro, you look tired. Why don't you take
a nap?"
He said, "I've been up since five o'clock
this morning studying this symphony." The
symphony that week was Beethoven's Fifth.
I said, "Maestro, how many times have you
conducted that?"
He answered, "Oh, hundreds."
I said, "And you're still studying it?"
I loved his answer. He said, "Well, I'm
always afraid I may have missed something."
This is how he really felt about music.
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Affichage : 224040
Durée : 366 s |
| Lohengrin: Prelude Act III -- Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symph |
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Richard Wagner, Prelude to Act III of his
opera "Lohengrin"
Arturo Toscanini with the NBC Symphony
Orchestra, at Studio 8-H, New York City.
from TV broadcast of March 20, 1948.
Toscanini (born 1867) first performed
"Lohengrin" with his school friends in
Professor Carini's violoncello school at the
conservatory of Parma.
He collected a few nicknames at
school--"genius" and also "scissors" due to
his sometimes sharp criticism.
Toscanini received excellent grades and left
the school in 1885. The conservatory kept
and display a few orchestral scores, plus a
romance for vocalist and piano, he composed
while there.
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Affichage : 51840
Durée : 217 s |
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