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In Reply to: RE: Mahler Symphony No 2 - sublime music posted by John C. - Aussie on June 15, 2012 at 19:01:41
He rerecorded it a few years later with Columbia's house band, "Columbia Symphony Orchestra," which I also have, but the NY performance is better, and the best Resurrection Symphony I've ever heard, and I have most of the performances being listed in this thread.
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Mali, check your collection....I am pretty sure he never recorded the 2nd with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra - I have both the original Columbia release and an Odyssey release and both are with the NYPO.
Here's what shows up on one of the online Bruno Walter discographies:
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor (“Resurrection”)
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (sung in English)
(a) Nadine Conner, Soprano; Mona Paulee, Mezzo-Soprano; New York Philharmonic; Westminster Choir; John F. Williamson, Chorus Master
January 25, 1948; Carnegie Hall (live broadcast)
• Source: Private Collection – unverified
Mahler: Symphony No. 2
(b) Maria Cebotari, Soprano; Rosette Anday, Contralto; Vienna Philharmonic
May 15, 1948; Musikvereinssaal (live performance)
• LP: CBS/Sony SOCN 19/20; 40AC 1962/3; Bruno Walter Society BWS 367;
Educational Media Associates EMA 105
• CD: CBS/Sony 42DC 5197/8; Nuova Era 2314/5; Grammofono 2000 AB 78787/8; andante 4973
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (sung in English)
(c) Nadine Conner, Soprano; Jean Watson, Mezzo-Soprano; New York Philharmonic; Westminster Choir; John F. Williamson, Chorus Master
December 5, 1948; Carnegie Hall (live performance)
• LP: Bruno Walter Society BWS 1067/8
Mahler: Symphony No. 2
(d) Maria Stader, Soprano; Maureen Forrester, Mezzo-Soprano; New York Philharmonic; Westminster Choir; John F. Williamson, Chorus Master
February 17, 1957; Carnegie Hall (live performance)
• Source: New York Philharmonic Archives
Mahler: Symphony No. 2
(e) Emilia Cundari, Soprano; Maureen Forrester, Mezzo-Soprano; New York Philharmonic; Westminster Choir; John F. Williamson, Chorus Master
February 18, 1957; February 17 & 21, 1958; Carnegie Hall
• LP: Columbia/CBS M2L 256; BRG 72052/3; Philips ABL 3245/6; stereo: M2S 601; SBRG 72052/3; Y2 30848; 61282/3; T-4; M3P 39635; Philips SABL 189/90
• CD: CBS/Sony 56DC 131/32; M2K 42032; M2BK 45674; SM2K 64447; Sony SX13K 92460
Like I said the two performances are identical. :) I was surprised when that CD set arrived, with it labeled as the Columbia Symphony Orchestra with Bruno Walter. Without checking carefully I came to the conclusion that he must have rerecorded it in the midst of those late career LA recordings with the pick up band Columbia organized for him. (They did my favorite 9th anyway.) Looks like the producers of that reissue thought the same thing. I listened to it once and thought it had inferior sonics to the two other CD versions. I had it on Lp in mono, then stereo, and finally in several CD versions. Would have loved to seen it as a SACD, but Sony threw in the towel on SACDs before that could happen, if it ever would have.
Edits: 06/17/12
BTW, I've got a recent Japanese CD of Bruno's 1958 M2 (Sony SICC 20075-76), and the sonics are FAR superior to the domestic releases (I've heard at least 3). The Japanese edition sounds much more open and transparent (there's even audible hiss--very obviously filtered out on the domestic CDs) with a greater frequency extension at both ends. Very much worth seeking out!
Russell
Thanks. I tried to find it via CD Japan, but they were sold out.
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