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They are being presented in roughly chronological order, with\nthe present volume featuring recordings Mengelberg made in 1937\/8. (The\nconductor’s Telefunken recordings with the Berlin Philharmonic have\nalready been released on PASC 348.)\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nOur program begins with two versions of Vivaldi’s Concerto No. 8 in A minor\nfrom \u003cem\u003eL’estro armonico \u003c\/em\u003eand its “filler side”, the Air from Bach’s\nOrchestral Suite No. 3. Previously, it was thought that there was a single\nissued version of these recordings, which most discographies listed as\nhaving been made in December, 1938. However, a discovery I made during the\nproduction of this reissue revealed that, in fact, two completely different\nversions were recorded a year apart and issued under the same catalog\nnumbers. The first one presented here was made in December, 1937. Before\nrestoration, it had a prominent 50 Hz mains hum which was absent from the\nremake, heard directly following it.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nAccording to the original Telefunken recording cards, the Vivaldi is played\nin an arrangement made by American violinist and conductor Sam Franko.\nWhile Mengelberg had previously recorded the Bach Air with the New York\nPhilharmonic in an all-string setting by Mahler (on Pristine PASC 378), by\n1937 this would not have been permitted for a German-based label, and\nanother version with a harpsichord continuo (credited on some original 78\nrpm editions as being by “Telico”, although I’ve found no evidence of a\ncomposer or arranger by that name) was substituted.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe Beethoven First Symphony was another work which Mengelberg had\npreviously recorded in New York (PASC 412). In the earlier version, which\ntook up eight sides, he included the repeats in the first and fourth\nmovements (as he also did in his live 1940 Concertgebouw broadcast, on PASC\n221). The remake cut it down to six by eliminating them. The Eighth\nSymphony, recorded the following day, was new to his discography (except\nfor the second movement, which had previously been recorded as a filler\nside for Columbia), while the Schubert \u003cem\u003eRosamunde\u003c\/em\u003e Overture had only\nfigured among his recordings earlier in an acoustic version from New York\nin 1924, cut to fit one side.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nMengelberg had recorded only one complete Brahms Symphony earlier (the\nThird, for Columbia, now on PASC 616), so the Fourth was a major addition\nto his discography. He would go on to record the Second for Telefunken in\n1940 (to be featured in the next volume of this series), but the First\nwould only be preserved via a live radio performance from the same year\n(PASC 221).\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nAs one of the greatest interpreters of the works of Richard Strauss (as\nwell as a friend of the composer and the dedicatee of \u003cem\u003eEin Heldenleben\u003c\/em\u003e), it’s puzzling that Mengelberg’s interpretations\nof his scores were not more frequently recorded. Besides two versions of \u003cem\u003eHeldenleben\u003c\/em\u003e (from New York and Amsterdam) and one of \u003cem\u003eDeath and Transfiguration\u003c\/em\u003e, there was only this \u003cem\u003eDon Juan\u003c\/em\u003e\nto make up his complete Strauss discography. Our program concludes with\nDebussy’s \u003cem\u003ePrelude to the Afternoon of a Faun\u003c\/em\u003e, the only commercial\nrecording of a work by that composer that Mengelberg made, although a\nbroadcast performance of the Debussy \u003cem\u003eFantasy \u003c\/em\u003ewith Gieseking has\nsurvived.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe sources for the transfers were German and French Telefunken pressings\nfrom the original masters (no American Capitol-Telefunken dubbings), with a\nportion of the beginning of the final movement of the Beethoven First taken\nfrom a Czech Ultraphon edition.\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\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMENGELBERG \u003c\/b\u003eThe Concertgebouw Telefunken Recordings, Vol. 2 (1937-38)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCD 1 (77:29)\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\n\nVIVALDI Concerto No. 8\nin A minor from \u003cem\u003eL’estro armonico\u003c\/em\u003e, Op. 3, RV 522\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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