{"product_id":"toscanini-beethoven-symphony-no-9-choral-1936-pasc117","title":"TOSCANINI Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 \"Choral\" (1936) - PASC117","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBEETHOVEN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 9 'Choral'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 1936\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 66:48\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eRosa Tentoni, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003esoprano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e Rose Bampton, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003emezzo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e Charles Kullman, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003etenor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e Ezio Pinza, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003ebass\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e Schola Cantorum of New York\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eNew York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eArturo Toscanini\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFanfare Review578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fThis is a superb issue to which I can only give my highest recommendation578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp class=\"B\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eToscanini’s long and often anguished attempts to\ncome to grips with Beethoven’s Ninth stem from his first performance in\n1902 and ended with his final studio recording a half-century later—a\nrecording I’ve never liked because of its static rhythms and\nphrase-to-phrase pacing. David Hamilton, writing in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMESi\"\u003eHigh Fidelity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003e\nmany years ago, said that it seemed to him as if Toscanini was lining\nup each chord and phrase to be voiced vertically, trying to get all the\nbalances right but missing the flow of the music. I agree. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"B\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eThis is neither the time nor place to detail his\n11 performances of the Symphony between 1936 and 1952, of which I’ve\nheard six, but in general terms it always seemed to me that he\nvacillated between trying to conduct it in a spacious style, relating it\nto the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMESi\"\u003eMissa solemnis, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eand\ntrying to conduct it in a taut, linear way, relating it to the late\nquartets. Of the linear performances, the most successful were his 1948\nNBC telecast, particularly in the first two movements where he allowed\nsome generous rubato for “breathing space,” and the 1939 NBC account in\nthe last two movements. The four performances where he tried to present a\ngrander, more spacious interpretation are this one, the first NBC\nbroadcast of 1938, the 1941 Buenos Aires performance (a great\ninterpretation, second in originality of thought to this one), and the\n1952 recording. It is the considered opinion of most Toscanini experts\nthat the 1936 is the best of them all, but until now it only existed in\nvery poor quality sound. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"B\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eIn addition, the copies that circulated were\neither incomplete—missing the end of the first movement, the beginning\nof the fourth up to the entrance of the basses, and a choral section—or\ncomplete, using inserts by engineer Tony Paterno from the 1952 studio\nrecording. Paterno purposely distorted the 1952 inserts by playing them\nthrough speakers with a microphone and crushed cellophane paper to\nsimulate the original surface noise. I’ve only heard the incomplete\nversion before and, though the performance was indeed splendid, the\nsound quality always put me off. Yet, unknown to us, there was a second,\nmore complete version—in even worse sound—in the possession of NBC\nviolinist Edwin Bachmann, which only surfaced after his death in the\nearly 1980s. This issue uses the patches from the Bachmann recording,\nexcept for one 10-second bit taken from the 1938 NBC performance (minus\ncellophane, thankfully). \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"B\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eNow that I’ve explained so much about the sources\nand Toscanini’s approach to the work, there’s unfortunately little room\nto describe the performance. It is sublime. Even confirmed\nToscanini-haters have been known to succumb to its charms. One scribe\nhas even opined that it sounds as if Beethoven himself, and not\nToscanini, is conducting it. My only caveat is in the singing of soprano\nRosa Tentoni. She was a highly musical artist but did not have a very\npleasant tone. Tenor Kullmann, who shortly afterwards went into decline,\nis superb. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"Br\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003ePristine’s transfer, removing most blemishes\n(including static spits) and equalizing the sound, gives us as fine a\nversion as I’ve ever heard, except in the last movement where certain\ninstruments (particularly the basses) still sound distorted. The high\nend seems a little “hot” to me, but this can be rectified by reducing\ntreble somewhat. Otherwise, this is a superb issue to which I can only\ngive my highest recommendation, despite the limitations. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"Br\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMESb\"\u003eLynn René Bayley \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis article originally appeared in Issue 32:3 (Jan\/Feb 2009) of Fanfare Magazine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC117.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodybig\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eToscanini's Legendary 1936 Broadcast Performance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"bodybig\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cem class=\"bodymid\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eA major restoration from badly damaged sourced material \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003eThis restoration stands amongst the hardest I've\nhad to tackle. The original acetate source material was unavailable to\nme, as is often the case in recordings such as this, and therefore I was\nworking from a good CD copy of this, sent to me by a collector\u003c\/span\u003e.\nThe greatest obstacle for the listener to this particular recording has\nalways been the huge amount of surface noise, clicks, crackles, splats,\ninterference and so forth, and it's in tackling this that I've devoted\nthe greatest part of my work effort.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"body\" align=\"left\"\u003eThe slow, painstaking removal of these\nextraneous noises, and at times reconstruction of the holes they left in\nthe audio, took many days of work. I also worked hard to reduce the\nvery high levels of surface noise, fill dropouts, correct both overall\npitch (to A440) and fix a small pitch instability at one point in the\nrecording. As with other difficult recordings I used a dual-XR approach,\nallowing XR equalisation to act as a primary noise reduction tool prior\nto the use of digital NR to further help control hiss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"body\" align=\"left\"\u003eThere do still remain areas of high\nbackground noise. Some disc sides were considerably noisier than others,\nand to preserve as much of the musical sound as possible one has to\naccept sections of higher background noise. With a performance such as\nthis, widely regarded as perhaps Toscanini's finest recorded\ninterpretation of this work, I suspect most listeners will be too drawn\nin by the music to be too aware of the shortcomings that remain in the\nrecording.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Rose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_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: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003eBEETHOVEN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 9 'Choral' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003ein D minor, Op. 125\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRosa Tentoni, \u003c\/b\u003esoprano\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rose Bampton, \u003c\/b\u003emezzo\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Charles Kullman, \u003c\/b\u003etenor\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ezio Pinza, \u003c\/b\u003ebass\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Schola Cantorum of New York\u003cbr\u003eNew York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003econducted by \u003cb\u003eArturo Toscanini\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003eLive radio broadcast recording originally captured on 78rpm acetate discs, 8th March 1936\u003cbr\u003e Restoration and XR remastering by Andrew Rose at Pristine Audio, July 2008\u003cbr\u003e Cover artwork based on a photograph of Arturo Toscanini\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNB. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe original recording of\nthis concert omits two short sections in the finale comprising a total\nof perhaps ten seconds of music, missing due to disc recording errors.\nThe copy from which the present recording was restored had had\nalternative takes from contemporary Toscanini accounts edited in to fill\nthese gaps. Rather than exclude them I have sought to blend them in\nmore effectively and seamlessly than was originally the case, in order\nto present a convincing full account of the Symphony as it would have\nsounded to radio listeners in 1936.\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003eTotal duration: 66:48\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fCover Art578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcover_art578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcovers\/thumbs\/PASC117.jpg578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcovers\/PASC117.pdf578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f","brand":"Pristine Classical","offers":[{"title":"Mono 24-bit FLAC","offer_id":54932167360851,"sku":"hid1789300908590","price":14.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ambient Stereo 16-bit FLAC","offer_id":54932167393619,"sku":"ape1789300908591","price":8.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Mono 16-bit FLAC","offer_id":54932167426387,"sku":"mmj1789300908592","price":10.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"320kbps Ambient Stereo MP3","offer_id":54932167459155,"sku":"knh1789300908593","price":7.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/1833\/9155\/files\/toscanini-beethoven-symphony-no-9-choral-1936---pasc117_1.jpg?v=1789300916","url":"https:\/\/vendnora.com\/products\/toscanini-beethoven-symphony-no-9-choral-1936-pasc117","provider":"luckagni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}