John Barbirolli - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (1961) [2016]
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BAND/ARTIST: John Barbirolli
- Title: Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
- Year Of Release: 1961 [2016]
- Label: Pristine [PASC486]
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: FLAC (Tracks)
- Total Time: 00:57:43
- Total Size: 281 mb (+3%rec.)
- WebSite: Album Preview
Barbirolli's first recorded Bruckner Symphony - with two full orchestras in Manchester, 1961
"This previously-unreleased Barbirolli/Bruckner Ninth bristles with ardent energy and yearning devotion" - Audiophile Audition
Sir John Barbirolli's recordings of Bruckner are exceptionally thin on the ground. Although his earliest known performance of music by the composer dates from 1940, it was only in the late 1950s that Bruckner's music started to creep more regularly into Barbirolli's concert repertoire, and he never recorded Bruckner commercially.
The present recording marks both the first time that Barbirolli had ever conducted the 9th Symphony (records indicate two performances of the Fourth and four of the Seventh symphonies between 1940 and 1961) and the earliest known recording of Barbirolli conducting any Bruckner work. Two later live recordings, both from 1966, have surfaced, one with the Hallé, the other with the Berlin Philharmonic.
Here we have two full orchestras playing together - itself an exceptionally rare occurrence - in a concert broadcast by the BBC from the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. My source here was a good taped, mono, FM-quality recording of a BBC broadcast of the concert, which I assume was transmitted some short time after the event (this is suggested by slightly different background hiss profiles during the announements and a lack of audience applause).
The tape, although slightly hissy, was generally in good condition bar one significant technical issue: repeated and persistent volume fluctuations throughout the first eleven minutes, akin to someone constantly fiddling with a volume control, but almost certainly due to tape deterioration. These thousands of semi-dropouts have been painstakingly corrected, one by one, and by ear, in multiple passes. The result is satisfying, the quality otherwise is excellent, and overall it conveys well a performance that is truly exceptional.
Tracks:
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 9 in D minor (original version)
Personnel:
Hallé Orchestra
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli, conductor
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"This previously-unreleased Barbirolli/Bruckner Ninth bristles with ardent energy and yearning devotion" - Audiophile Audition
Sir John Barbirolli's recordings of Bruckner are exceptionally thin on the ground. Although his earliest known performance of music by the composer dates from 1940, it was only in the late 1950s that Bruckner's music started to creep more regularly into Barbirolli's concert repertoire, and he never recorded Bruckner commercially.
The present recording marks both the first time that Barbirolli had ever conducted the 9th Symphony (records indicate two performances of the Fourth and four of the Seventh symphonies between 1940 and 1961) and the earliest known recording of Barbirolli conducting any Bruckner work. Two later live recordings, both from 1966, have surfaced, one with the Hallé, the other with the Berlin Philharmonic.
Here we have two full orchestras playing together - itself an exceptionally rare occurrence - in a concert broadcast by the BBC from the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. My source here was a good taped, mono, FM-quality recording of a BBC broadcast of the concert, which I assume was transmitted some short time after the event (this is suggested by slightly different background hiss profiles during the announements and a lack of audience applause).
The tape, although slightly hissy, was generally in good condition bar one significant technical issue: repeated and persistent volume fluctuations throughout the first eleven minutes, akin to someone constantly fiddling with a volume control, but almost certainly due to tape deterioration. These thousands of semi-dropouts have been painstakingly corrected, one by one, and by ear, in multiple passes. The result is satisfying, the quality otherwise is excellent, and overall it conveys well a performance that is truly exceptional.
Tracks:
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 9 in D minor (original version)
Personnel:
Hallé Orchestra
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli, conductor
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