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Notes and Editorial Reviews
"There must be many Gramophone readers who cut their musical teeth on these recordings, and whose abilities to re-assess first loves will be challenged afresh by EMI's skilful transfers...the Mozart items are excellent, with a trim, nicely buoyed A Musical Joke (the multiple raspberry at the end of the Presto has genuine comic-strip impact) and a finely proportioned Symphony No. 29. Schubert's Unfinished is forward-moving and beautifully drawn, while Franck's D minor (recorded, believe it or not, within a week of Toscanini's final broadcast) has an imperious gait that trades Franco-Belgian exuberance for Teutonic weight. It is imposing but also rather earthbound. The recordings themselves are admirable, while well-balanced stereophony
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confirms Cantelli's Toscanini-style orchestral positioning, with antiphonally placed violins."
-- Gramophone (11/1994)
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Works on This Recording
1.
Eine musikalischer Spass, K 522 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor:
Guido Cantelli
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1787; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 08/1955
Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
Length: 19 Minutes 23 Secs.
2.
Symphony no 29 in A major, K 201 (186a) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor:
Guido Cantelli
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Written: 1774
Date of Recording: 06/1956
Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
Length: 21 Minutes 19 Secs.
3.
Symphony no 7 in A major, Op. 92 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Conductor:
Guido Cantelli
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1811-1812; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 05/1956
Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
Length: 34 Minutes 55 Secs.
4.
Symphony no 8 in B minor, D 759 "Unfinished" by Franz Schubert
Conductor:
Guido Cantelli
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1822; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 08/1955
Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
Length: 22 Minutes 46 Secs.
5.
Symphony in D minor, M 48 by César Franck
Conductor:
Guido Cantelli
Orchestra/Ensemble:
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1886-1888; France
Date of Recording: 04/1954
Venue: Carnegie Hall, New York City
Length: 36 Minutes 30 Secs.
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