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Carlo Maria Giulini | BBC Legends BBCL41942

Carlo Maria Giulini

Label: BBC Legends

Cat No: BBCL41942

Barcode: 0684911419429

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 2nd October 2006

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Contents

Artists

London Philharmonic Orchestra
New Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor

Carlo Maria Giulini

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Egmont Overture, op.84

Dvorak, Antonin

Symphony no.7 in D minor, op.70

Hindemith, Paul

Konzertmusik for string orchestra and brass, op.50

Artists

London Philharmonic Orchestra
New Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor

Carlo Maria Giulini

About

When Carlo Maria Giulini (1916-2006) died in 2005 aged 91, the musical world mourned one of the great conductors of the 20th Century and one of a line of legendary Italian conductors following De Sabata, Toscanini and Cantelli. BBC Legends has been at the forefront of keeping Giulini's name alive during the years of his retirement, with the Classical Record Collector Choral Award 2001 going to Britten's War Requiem (BBCL 4046-2), two sensational Verdi Requiems (BBCL40292 & BBCL41442) as well seven other recordings ranging from Bach, Brahms, Britten, Bruckner, Dvořák, Falla, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Rossini, Schubert and Tchaikovsky. All titles have received excellent reviews.
 
Giulini rarely conducted Hindemith's music though there is a wonderful live broadcast of the Mathis der Maler Symphony with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in their Centennial box set. Hindemith’s Concert Music for Brass & Strings gets a fiery performance and this new addition to the Giulini discography represents a real "find".  It has been sourced outside the BBC archive and is in excellent stereo sound.
 
From the same concert comes Dvořák’s Symphony No.7 in a blazing performance which was never captured on Giulini's commercial studio recording from 1976. This comes in fantastic stereo sound, sourced from outside the BBC archive, and has the tremendous atmosphere of a live occasion.
 
The final track, Beethoven's Egmont Overture from 1975, is another live performance taken from a concert six years later, again sounding more spontaneous than his commercial recording.  The broadcast has been taken from outside the BBC archive.
 

Hindemith: Concert Music for Brass & Strings / Dvorak: Symphony No.7 - Recorded: Royal Festival Hall, London, 30 November 1969
Beethoven: Egmont Overture - Recorded: Royal Festival Hall, London, 14 May 1975

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