{"product_id":"leinsdorf-conducts-brahms-franck-1952-pasc706","title":"LEINSDORF conducts Brahms \u0026 Franck (1952) - PASC706","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBRAHMS \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eFRANCK \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony in D minor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1952\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 77:38\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eRobin Hood Dell Orchestra of Philadelphia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eErich Leinsdorf\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC706.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\nErich Leinsdorf (\u003cem\u003en\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eé\u003c\/em\u003e Landauer)\nwas born in Vienna on February 4th 1912. He studied music from an early\nage, later taking up conducting at the Salzburg Mozarteum, the University\nof Vienna and the Vienna Academy of Music. During the Salzburg Festivals\nof 1934 through 1937, he served as an assistant to both Arturo Toscanini\nand Bruno Walter. At the end of the latter year, he accepted a position\nat the Metropolitan Opera in New York, eventually becoming an American\ncitizen in 1942. Upon the death of Artur Bodanzky in November, 1939,\nLeinsdorf was named the head of the German wing of the Met at the age of\n27. In 1941-42, he made his first recordings (for Columbia), all of them\naccompaniments to Met singers in arias and duets.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nWhen Artur Rodziński left the Cleveland Orchestra at the end of the 1942-43\nseason, Leinsdorf won out over a number of other conductors (including\nGeorge Szell) who were considered for the post, and was given a three-year\ncontract. Almost immediately, however, he was drafted for service in the\nU.S. Army. While he only served slightly under a year before being\nhonorably discharged, by the time of his return to Cleveland it was clear\nthat Szell was being favored as his successor. Leinsdorf served out his\ncontract through the end of the 1945-46 season, making a number of\nrecordings with the Clevelanders for Columbia just before his departure,\nincluding the Schumann “Spring” Symphony, Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Antar”\nSymphony and the Dvořák Sixth.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nFrom 1947 to 1955, Leinsdorf was the conductor of the Rochester\nPhilharmonic, whose previous directors had been Albert Coates, Eugene\nGoossens and José Iturbi. He was later to acerbically refer to the post as\n“the best disguised dead end in the world”. With the Rochester, he made a\nseries of recordings for Columbia’s Entré label, including a Beethoven\n“Eroica” that was favorably compared with Toscanini’s, as well as the\npremière recording of Rachmaninov’s \u003cem\u003eSymphonic Dances\u003c\/em\u003e.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nIt was during this period that Leinsdorf recorded three LPs for RCA’s\nBluebird Classics series with the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra of\nPhiladelphia, the two works presented here, and the Grieg and Mendelssohn\nFirst Piano Concertos with Ania Dorfmann (reissued on Pristine PAKM 066).\nThe ensemble heard in these recordings was essentially the Philadelphia\nOrchestra minus several of its first desk players who were appearing\nelsewhere (e.g, Casals’ Prades Festival) during the summer. The Robin Hood\nDell, an outdoor amphitheater, was the summer home of the Philadelphians\nfrom 1930 through 1975, and is still used today for non-Classical concerts.\nThe orchestra’s recording sessions were held in the Academy of Music,\nusually the morning after the works were performed at the Dell.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nLeinsdorf’s approach to the Brahms First is very much in the objectivist\nToscanini tradition, although he eschews the Maestro’s tympani emendations\nat the reprise of the brass chorale in bars 408 to 417 of the finale,\nsomething which Ormandy had included in his 1950 recording with this\norchestra. On the other hand, his Franck Symphony has a Romantic\nelasticity appropriate to the score. While Leinsdorf would go on to\nre-record the Brahms, this was his only version of the Franck. Neither of\nthe recordings presented here were ever reissued by RCA or its successors.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nAfter leaving Rochester, Leinsdorf would return to conduct at the Met and\nachieve the appointment for which he is possibly best remembered today,\nthanks in part to numerous RCA recordings – the directorship of the Boston\nSymphony (1962-69). He died in Zürich on September 11th 1993 after two\nfurther decades of peripatetic guest conducting throughout the world.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMark Obert-Thorn\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003eLEINSDORF \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003econducts Brahms \u0026amp; 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