{"product_id":"rodzinski-early-recordings-tchaikovsky-franck-sibelius-1939-41-pasc619","title":"RODZIŃSKI Early Recordings: Tchaikovsky, Franck, Sibelius (1939-41) - PASC619","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eTCHAIKOVSKY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 4\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eTCHAIKOVSKY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eRomeo \u0026amp; Juliet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eTCHAIKOVSKY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e1812 Overture\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSIBELIUS \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 5\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1939-41\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 2hr 20:33\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eNBC Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eThe Cleveland Orchestra\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;\"\u003eArtur Rodziński\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC619.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\n\nBorn in Split, Dalmatia in 1892, Artur Rodziński was raised in Poland\nand studied music there and in Vienna, where his teachers included\nFranz Schalk. After a stint as chorus master in Lwów, Poland, he\ngraduated to conducting opera in that city in 1920. Five years later,\nwhile leading a performance of \u003cem\u003eDie Meistersinger\u003c\/em\u003e in Warsaw, he\nwas “discovered” by Leopold Stokowski, who brought him to Philadelphia\nas his assistant.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nIn 1929, Rodziński became music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic,\nwhere he stayed for four seasons. He went on to head the Cleveland\nOrchestra for a decade beginning in 1933. Conducting at the Salzburg\nFestival in 1936, Rodziński so impressed Toscanini that the Maestro\nrequested that he be engaged to train the members of the orchestra that was\nbeing created for him, the NBC Symphony. Rodziński led their first concert\non 2 November 1937 as well as ten more before making the two recordings\nwhich begin our program.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe “World’s Greatest Music” label was begun by the New York \u003cem\u003ePost\u003c\/em\u003e\nto market recordings of standard Classical repertoire at prices which\nsubstantially undercut the majors. Neither the conductors nor the\norchestras were named on the labels; but subsequent research has identified\nalbums recorded by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra and Fritz\nReiner and the New York Philharmonic, among others. The recordings were\nmade by RCA Victor and were pressed by them as well, using cheaper and\nnoisier shellac than their Red Seal releases.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nAlthough Rodziński had conducted on some operatic aria recordings in Poland\n(as well as being Stokowski’s piano accompanist on two of his album “talk\nsides”), these 1939 NBC Symphony discs were his first as a symphonic\nconductor. He had led neither work previously with the ensemble; and while\nthe orchestra had played the Franck once under Monteux in their first\nseason, they were new to the Tchaikovsky. Perhaps due to this, each side of\nthe Franck was able to be done in a single take, while two takes were\nrequired for three of the Tchaikovsky sides. Rodziński turns in solid\nperformances which generate particular excitement at the ends of the first\nand last movements of each work.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nSimultaneously with his work at NBC, Rodziński continued to lead the\nCleveland Orchestra; and by the end of the year in which he made the NBC\ndiscs, he and the Cleveland were under contract to the Columbia label,\nwhere they made an extensive series of recordings over the next three\nseasons. The three works on the second half of our program date from that\nperiod. They were recorded directly onto wide-frequency range lacquer\ndiscs, from which the 78s and, later, LPs were dubbed.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nAlthough George Szell is usually credited for the developing the Cleveland\nOrchestra into a virtuoso ensemble, one can hear from these recordings that\nRodziński had already honed it into a formidable instrument. In the\nTchaikovsky works, Rodziński presses forward with a Toscanini-like focus;\nyet, when the music calls for it, he slows down to make rhetorical emphases\nlike Stokowski or Mengelberg, but without employing string portamenti,\nwhich was already fading from fashion by this time. The Sibelius Fifth,\nlike his later recording of the Fourth with the New York Philharmonic,\nblazes with intensity, and makes one regret that he recorded no more of\nthat composer’s symphonies.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nRodziński would leave Cleveland for the New York Philharmonic in 1943, and\nsubsequently move on to the Chicago Symphony in 1947 (Pristine PASC 569).\nAfter that last one-season appointment, he would no longer command an\nensemble, and spent his remaining decade guest-conducting and recording\nprimarily in Europe. He died in Boston in 1958, shortly after leading a\ntriumphant production of \u003cem\u003eTristan\u003c\/em\u003e at the Chicago Lyric Opera with\nBirgit Nilsson.\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\u003eARTUR RODZIŃSKI\u003c\/b\u003e Early Recordings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCD 1 (79:44)\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\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003eTCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 1st Mvt. – Andante sostenuto – Moderato con anima (16:08)\u003cbr\u003e2. 2nd Mvt. – Andantino in modo di canzona (8:39)\u003cbr\u003e3. 3rd Mvt. – Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato (Allegro) (5:26)\u003cbr\u003e4. 4th Mvt. – Finale (Allegro con fuoco) (9:19)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 2 January 1939 in Carnegie Hall, New York City ∙ Matrices: CS\n030868-1, 030869-2, 030870-2, 030871-1, 030872-1, 030873-1, 030874-2,\n030875-1, 030876-1 \u0026amp; 030877-1 ∙ First issued on World’s Greatest Music\nSR-23\/27\n\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003eFRANCK Symphony in D minor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 1st Mvt. – Lento (18:25)\u003cbr\u003e2. 2nd Mvt. – Allegretto (10:45)\u003cbr\u003e3. 3rd Mvt. – Allegro non troppo (11:03)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 2 January 1939 in Carnegie Hall, New York City ∙ Matrices: CS\n030878\/89 (All Take 1) ∙ First issued on World’s Greatest Music SR-33\/38\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtur Rodziński ∙ NBC Symphony Orchestra\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCD 2 (60:49)\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n1. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003eTCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet – Fantasy Overture\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e(18:16)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 14 December 1940 in Severance Hall, Cleveland ∙ Matrices: XCO\n29305\/9 ∙ First issued on Columbia 11655\/57-D in album M-478\n\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n2. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003eTCHAIKOVSKY Ouverture solennelle “1812”, Op. 49\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e(14:23)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 14 April 1941 in Severance Hall, Cleveland ∙ Matrices: XCO\n30559\/62 ∙ First issued on Columbia 11630\/31-D in album X-205\n\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003eSIBELIUS Symphony No. 5 in E-flat, Op 82\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. 1st Mvt. – Tempo molto moderato – Largamento – Allegro moderato (12:03)\u003cbr\u003e4. 2nd Mvt. – Andante mosso quasi allegretto (8:02)\u003cbr\u003e5. 3rd. 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