Arturo Toscanini - The 1939 Beethoven Cycle, Volume 5 (1939) [2019]

• Title: The 1939 Beethoven Cycle, Volume 5
  
• Year Of Release: 1939 [2019]
  
• Label: Pristine [PASC556]
  
• Genre: Classical
  
• Quality: FLAC (*tracks) 24 Bit/44,1 kHz
  
• Total Time: 01:19:41
  
• Total Size: 819 mb (+3%rec.)
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

This fifth concert contained significantly less music than any of the other concerts, and so we have been able to retain much more of the radio commentary. In general where this is lengthy it has been tracked separately so that it can be skipped if required. It is the only volume where we have been able to include the interval talk by Samuel Chotzinoff, who looks into the impact on Beethoven of his brother's early death and the ensuing difficulties over the adoption of his nephew and the ultimate effect of this emotional trauma on Beethoven's later work. Including this talk, which lasts almost 9 minutes, meant some minor editing in other links and the loss of the pay-off after the final applause had been faded out, but otherwise it offers a much closer impression of the actual radio broadcasts than has been possible in the other volumes of this series, due to the time restrictions inherent in audio CDs.

As with the previous volumes, the sound quality here is once again excellent, if a little less "open" in its dynamic range as a result of a degree of audio compression used at the time of broadcast to limit peak volumes.

Tracks:

BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 1
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8
BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 16
BEETHOVEN The Creatures of Prometheus
BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 2

Personnel:

NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini

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