Beethoven/Tschaikowsky: Egmont Ouvertüre/Sinfonie 5

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
This series of DVDs will make the publicly broadcast BSO concerts from this era available for the first time since they were broadcast. This rare material represents some of the earliest televised concerts with the Boston Symphony and Erich Leinsdorf, and has been restored using the greatest care and state-of-the-art techniques. It is of exceptional musical interest and historic value. The BSOs Music Director for seven seasons, Leinsdorf had a long and distinguished career, having worked with Toscanini and Walter, conducting at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Cleveland Orchestra and Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in addition to his tenure at the BSO. This 1969 performance of Tchaikovskys Fifth Symphony has been the object of some attention from internet bloggers, with one site featuring an almost complete audio recording of the performance. Readers were astonished at the intensity and drive behind Leinsdorfs interpretation. Because he didnt perform the work regularly (on only 14 occasions with the BSO) the performance is fresh and insightful the emotional commitment is great both from Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which Richard Dyer describes as solid, flexible and brilliant. All three featured works are new to Leinsdorfs discography. Two of ICAs BSO DVDs featuring Charles Munch as conductor have been awarded the Diapason dOr in Frances Diapason magazine.

REVIEW
A hard-driven but very exciting Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 and Beethoven's Egmont from 1969 is countered by a delightful, stylish Mozart's Posthorn Serenade. Performance **** Picture & Sound **** --BBC Music Magazine,May'12

In a performance from January 1963 at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre, this time with Leinsdorf sans baton and drawing some rich-toned, immaculately tailored playing from this aristocrat among orchestras. --Gramophone,June'12

Actors: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra

Audio Languages: English

Duration: 57 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

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