In a way, this album celebrates the anniversary of an anniversary. The first work on the program, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, was recorded live in 1957 to commemorate the 10th year of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin (now the German Symphony Orchestra). The release of this CD comes 50 years later, marking 60 years of history and exceptional music-making. After 10 years, the RSO proves to be a fine-tuned machine and Ferenc Fricsay's energetic and detail-oriented leadership of the orchestra shines through brilliantly in ...
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In a way, this album celebrates the anniversary of an anniversary. The first work on the program, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, was recorded live in 1957 to commemorate the 10th year of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin (now the German Symphony Orchestra). The release of this CD comes 50 years later, marking 60 years of history and exceptional music-making. After 10 years, the RSO proves to be a fine-tuned machine and Ferenc Fricsay's energetic and detail-oriented leadership of the orchestra shines through brilliantly in the Tchaikovsky. This remastered recording is especially dynamic and captures all of the details and nuance of the original performance. So driven and vibrant are the outer movements of the symphony that listeners are unlikely to mind the occasional instances where the orchestra issues more power than the recording technology of the day could handle. The recording of Schumann's Piano Concerto is quite a different story. Made six years earlier, the younger orchestra had not quite come...
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