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Charles Munch/Boston So: Symphony No. 36/38/Water Music
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Access to the publicly broadcast BSO concerts from this era has been extremeIy difficult even for researchers. This series of DVDs wilI make these performances available for the first time since they were broadcast. Munch launched the BSO into television in 1955. He was an immenseIy popuIar conductor and well suited to being filmed. This materiaI represents some of the earliest teIevised concerts with the Boston Symphony and Charles Munch, and has been restored using the greatest care and state-of-the-art techniques. lt is of exceptional musicaI interest and rare historic vaIue. Munch was particuIarIy fond of the Sir HamiIton Harty arrangement of HandeIs Water Music Suite, having performed it 53 times with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and having recorded it with the BSO for RCA in 1950. His interpretations of the two Mozart symphonies are characteristicaIly Iively and exhiIarating with the usuaI committed performances from the BSO. Never commercially recorded by Munch, both Mozart symphonies are completely new to his discography. The bookIet note contains references to an interview the writer conducted with Doriot Anthony Dwyer, the BSOs principal flautist, who was appointed by Munch and remained in the position for 38 years. It gives a fascinating insight into Munch as a conductor and his interaction and reIationship with the orchestra. Two of lCAs BSO DVDs featuring Charles Munch as conductor have been awarded the Diapason dOr in Frances Diapason magazine. |
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