BRUNO WALTER'S NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
BEETHOVEN NINTH.
CD-1155(1)
When this performance was first released on LP, High Fidelity said: "Dr. Walter's performance is the most romantically aspiring of all, harmonically weightier than the others and voluptuously phrased".
CD-1155(1) BRUNO WALTER'S NEW YORK
PHILHARMONIC BEETHOVEN NINTH. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 9 in
D Minor, Op. 125; recorded for American Columbia with NYPO on
April 18, 1949, 30th Street Studio, NYC (Movements 1-3), and March 7, 1953,
Carnegie Hall, NYC (Movement 4). With Frances Yeend, soprano; Martha Lipton,
contralto; David Lloyd, tenor; Mack Harrell, baritone; Westminster Choir,
John Finley Williamson, director.
Digital restoration (2004): John Wilson; liner notes: Mark Kluge. Note:
this is NOT the "Choral" movement recently released by Music &
Arts in set CD-1137 (which dates from 1949). Total time: 65:40. [AAD] UPC
# 017685-11552-3.