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Title: Händel/Mozart: Wasser Musik Suite/Sinfonien 36+38
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Number Of Discs: 1
Runtime: 1 Stunde und 2 Minuten
Region Code: DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...)
Studio: ICA Classics (Naxos Deutschland Gmbh / Kirchheim)
Description: PRODUKTBESCHREIBUNGEN
KURZBESCHREIBUNG
Access to the publicly broadcast BSO concerts from this era has been extremely difficult even for researchers. This series of DVDs will make these performances available for the first time since they were broadcast. Munch launched the BSO into television in 1955. He was an immensely popular conductor and well suited to being filmed. This material represents some of the earliest televised concerts with the Boston Symphony and Charles Munch, and has been restored using the greatest care and state-of-the-art techniques. It is of exceptional musical interest and rare historic value. Munch was particularly fond of the Sir Hamilton Harty arrangement of Handels Water Music Suite, having performed it 53 times with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and having recorded it with the BSO for RCA in 1950. His interpretations of the two Mozart symphonies are characteristically lively and exhilarating with the usual committed performances from the BSO. Never commercially recorded by Munch, both Mozart symphonies are completely new to his discography. The booklet note contains references to an interview the writer conducted with Doriot Anthony Dwyer, the BSOs principal flautist, who was appointed by Munch and remained in the position for 38 years. It gives a fascinating insight into Munch as a conductor and his interaction and relationship with the orchestra. Two of ICAs BSO DVDs featuring Charles Munch as conductor have been awarded the Diapason dOr in Frances Diapason magazine.

SYNOPSIS
The ICA Classic Legacy series represents an historic accoutn of performances by some of the world's greatest artists. This DVD features some of the earliest televised concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and their Music Director, Charles Munch.

While the material has been restored using the greatest care and state-of-the-art techniques, certain visual artefacts and distortions remain in some instances due to the age of the film. Despite this, it remains of exceptional musical interest and historic value and is released here for the first time on DVD.

REZENSION
Exhilarating performances of Mozart's Linz and Prague Symphonies and a splendid Handel Water music, all from 1959-60. Performance **** Picture & Sound *** --BBC Music Magazine,May'12

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