new releases - Guild Music

NEW RELEASES
FRITZ BUSCH (1890-1951) - BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 9
Kerstin Lindberg-Torlind - soprano, Else Jena - mezzo soprano, Eric Sjöberg tenor, Holger Byrding - bass, Danish Radio Chorus, Danish Radio Symphony
Orchestra
This is a very important issue for collectors of great conductors of the past. One of three
virtually simultaneous releases by Guild of historic recordings Beethoven’s mighty
Ninth Symphony, the remains the only surviving recording in existence of the great
German musician Fritz Busch conducting Beethoven’s ‘Choral’, and it is a very great
one. In the years following World War II, Fritz Busch was chief conductor of the
Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra, raising it to a position of world-class. This
live performance of Beethoven’s last Symphony is one of the finest ever committed to
record, and the sound has been remastered to the finest of modern standards.
Completing the record is an equally outstanding account of Beethoven’s Leonore No 3
Overture, recorded in Copenhagen the previous year.
GHCD 2343
ARTURO TOSCANINI - BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 9
Judith Hellwig - soprano, Lydia Kindermann - contralto, René Maison - tenor,
Alexander Kipnis - bass, Teatro Colón Orchestra & Choir, (chorus master: Rafael
Terragnuolo) / Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
There are a number of extant recordings of Toscanini conducting Beethoven’s Ninth
Symphony, but specialists agree that this exceptionally rare version, recorded in Buenos
Aries in July 1941, is arguably the finest of them all. This concert marked Toscanini’s
final appearance in South America - in which continent he had made his conducting
debut at the age of 19 in 1886 - and it shows the fire and powerful energy in this of all
works in a manner that could only be a performance conducted by the greatest Italianborn conductor of them all. The record also contains a performance of Beethoven’s
Leonore No 3 Overture, a performance that concluded Toscanini’s last scheduled
concert as chief conductor of the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York in
1936. This pair of great performances therefore has exceptional
interest, and the sound has been specially remastered to the
highest modern specifications in Copenhagen the previous year.
GHCD 2344
FURTWÄNGLER (1886-1954) - BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 9
Tilla Briem - soprano, Elisabeth Hoengen - contralto, Peter Anders - tenor, Rudolf
Watzke - bass, The Bruno Kittel Choir (chorus master: Bruno Kittel), Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra, Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Concertgebouw
Orchestra, Teatro Colón Orchestra
GHCD 2345/46
This important release contains the incomparable wartime performance of Beethoven’s
Choral Symphony conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler in Berlin in 1942, by general
consent one of the greatest accounts of this imperishable mastepiece ever recorded. On
the second disc we have a vary rare rehearsal sequence of Beethoven’s ‘Leonore No 3’
Overture with Furtwängler and Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra from 1948, together
with a complete translation of what he says, with bar numbers added for those who
would wish to follow the rehearsal with a score. We also offer three Beethoven
Overtures, recorded at different times in Berlin, and some very rare items from concerts
given in Buenos Aries by Furtwängler in 1950. The result is a
major addition to the burgeoning repertoire of great conductors
of the past on disc.
Guild GmbH, Moskau 314b, 8262 Ramsen, Switzerland - Tel: +41 52 742 85 00 - [email protected] - www.guildmusic.com
GHCD 2343 - Fritz Busch (1890-1951) - Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
1. I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
2. II. Molto vivace - Presto - Molto vivace
3. III. Adagio molto e cantabile - Andante moderato
4. IV. Presto - Allegro assai - Vivace - Alla marcia - Andante maestoso - Allegro energico
- Prestissimo (Final chorus from Schiller’s ‘Ode to Joy’)
5. Overture - Leonore III in C major, Op. 72a
GHCD 2344 - Arturo Toscanini - Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
1. I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
2. II. Molto vivace - Presto - Molto vivace
3. III. Adagio molto e cantabile - Andante moderato
4. IV Presto - Allegro assai - Vivace - Alla marcia - Andante maestoso - Allegro energico
- Prestissimo - (Final chorus from Schiller’s ‘Ode to Joy’)
5. Overture - Leonore III in C major, Op. 72a
GHCD 2345/46 - Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886-1954) - Beethoven Symphony No. 9
CD 1
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
1. I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
2. II. Molto vivace - Presto - Molto vivace
3. III. Adagio molto e cantabile - Andante moderato
4. IV Presto - Allegro assai - Vivace - Alla marcia - Andante maestoso - Allegro energico
- Prestissimo (Final chorus from Schiller’s ‘Ode to Joy’)
CD 2
1. Overture - Leonore III - REHEARSAL
2. Overture - Leonore III
3. Overture - Egmont
4. Overture - Coriolan
Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759) - Concerto Grosso in A, Op. 6, No. 11
5. I Andante larghetto e staccato; Allegro
6. II Andante
7. III Largo e staccato
8. IV Allegro
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
9. Rosamunde I - incidental music
10. Rosamunde II - incidental music
[14:33]
[10:49]
[13:59]
[23:56]
[13:38]
[13:04]
[12:33]
[13:44]
[24:15]
[13:52]
[17:14]
[11:18]
[20:03]
[24:23]
[10:59]
[14:36]
[8:24]
[8:57]
[4:37]
[2:30]
[4:07]
[3:43]
[6:48]
[4:06]