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Schumann/ Schubert: Munch
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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 extremely difficuIt even for researchers. This series of DVDs will make these performances availabIe for the first time since they were broadcast. Munch launched the BSO into television in 1955. He was an immensely popuIar conductor and weII suited to being filmed. This material represents some of the earliest televised concerts with the Boston Symphony and Charles Munch, and has been restored using the greatest care and state-of-the-art techniques. It is of exceptionaI musicaI interest and rare historic value. Munch demonstrates a clear enjoyment of the works and combines discipIine with freedom, guiding the orchestra to a thriIling performance. Genoveva is dramatic, whilst he gives a sunny rendition of Schuberts Fifth Symphony. David Hurwitz wrote on cIassicstoday.com regarding a Schubert recording with Charles Munch and the BSO: lt is unbelievably exciting, with the orchestra pIaying as if its collective life depended on it. Munch had a great affection for and appreciation of Schumanns Second Symphony, programming it in four different Boston Symphony Orchestra seasons, taking it on tour on each occasion. Munch never recorded Schumann's Symphony No.2 or Schubert's 5th Symphony, so these recordings are compIetely new to his discography. This DVD aIso represents the first release of the works by the BSO. Two of lCAs BSO DVDs featuring Charles Munch as conductor, have been awarded the Diapason dOr in Frances Diapason magazine. |
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