{"product_id":"toscanini-schumann-symphonies-2-3-rhenish-194649-pasc584","title":"TOSCANINI Schumann: Symphonies 2 \u0026 3 'Rhenish' (1946\/49) - PASC584","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSCHUMANN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSCHUMANN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 3 'Rhenish'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eLive studio broadcast recordings, 1946\/49\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 66:20\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eNBC Symphony 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;\"\u003eArturo Toscanini\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC584.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\n\"Toscanini conducted relatively little Schumann. He never performed the\nFirst Symphony or the Overture, Scherzo, and Finale, and it seems that he\nprepared the Fourth Symphony only once. The Second Symphony was performed\nmore often, but Toscanini turned most frequently to the two works he\napproved for release – The \u003cem\u003eManfred\u003c\/em\u003e Overture and the “Rhenish”\nSymphony.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nWith the exception of a poorly balanced 1940 broadcast of the “Rhenish”\nSymphony, all of Toscanini’s NBC accounts of this score are impressive.\nHere is a conception usually ignored by those critics who allege that the\nconductor always favored streamlined, uncommonly fast tempos. In the outer\nmovements, Toscanini’s pacing is generally more expansive than that adopted\nby other conductors and—with a few tasteful revisions in orchestration,\nmostly involving redistribution of voices—stamped with a transparency and\ncolor absent from other conductors’ performances. Particularly interesting\nis a timbral contrast he draws in the first movement by having the horns\nplay with mutes. In annotations for Toscanini’s RCA recording of the work,\nHarris Goldsmith suggests this was done to simulate an effect Schumann\ncalled for by specifying that valved and natural horns alternate. As\nnatural horns were an anomaly in this pre—period instrument era,\nToscanini’s recourse to mutes seems an imaginative alternative.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThere are a number of reasons Toscanini’s two accounts of the Second\nSymphony are among the most interesting of his surviving performances. For\none, they preserve his conception of an important nineteenth-century score.\nOver and beyond that, though, is Toscanini’s view of the work, which in\nmany respects is so strikingly unorthodox, it forces one to hear the music\nin a totally new—and often compellingly revealing—light. Most intriguing\nare Toscanini’s unusual revisions of Schumann’s orchestration, revisions\nthat clarify the aesthetic not only of the music but of the conductor as\nwell.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nFrom “\u003ci\u003eArturo Toscanini, The NBC Years\u003c\/i\u003e” by Mortimer H. Frank\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThis release was inspired by an email I received in November 2019 which\nread thus: “I'm wondering, hoping, you have in that magical place where\nalternate sources are stored the concerts of Toscanini conducting Schumann.\nI've heard good sounding recordings of the 2nd symphony and \u003cem\u003eManfred\u003c\/em\u003e on YouTube but the commercial recording of the 3rd\nsymphony has always frustrated the heck out of me. It seems to be\nposter-child of a Studio 8H recording and is so cramped. I love it and\nwould love to hear it as it should be.”\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nI hope with the present release I’ve achieved all my correspondent hoped\nfor and more – the Third Symphony certainly sounds a whole better than the\n“sonic disaster” Mr. Frank describes when referring to RCA’s first LP\nrelease!\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Rose\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\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;\"\u003eTOSCANINI conducts Schumann\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. RADIO Introduction to Symphony No. 2  (0:18)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSCHUMANN  \u003c\/b\u003eSymphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. 1st mvt. - Sostenuto assai - Un poco più vivace - Allegro, ma non troppo  (11:01)\u003cbr\u003e3. 2nd mvt. - Scherzo: Allegro vivace  (6:30)\u003cbr\u003e4. 3rd mvt. - Adagio espressivo  (8:03)\u003cbr\u003e5. 4th mvt. - Allegro molto vivace  (9:05)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eBroadcast of 17 March, 1946\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. 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