Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliet

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I’m sure there’s a Barbirolli recording that was never completed. It stops just before the coda.

I was disappointed that it wasn't included in the Barbirolli big box in 2020. Yet other incomplete recordings were there.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Yes there was

https://www.classicalsource.com/cd/tchaikovsky-barbirolli/

I don’t know if it was included the big Warner box - no doubt those on forum who indulged in this can inform!

Not there. Only the mono Pye version.

[gurnemanz]

I recently got a download of the 1963 Monteux/LSO performance live in Vienna - the 88 year old and his players are on great form. Two years earlier he had signed a 25-year contract! He died in 1964.

(It's on YouTube)

[cloughie]

Not there. Only the mono Pye version.

In which case I think it must have been on an LP including recordings not previously released sometime in a year or two after he died - I have a recollection of Mastersingers Ov being on the same LP.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

In which case I think it must have been on an LP including recordings not previously released sometime in a year or two after he died - I have a recollection of Mastersingers Ov being on the same LP.

I think the Mastersingers Overture was on the Glorious John album, released soon after his death.

[gradus]

Never felt the need to venture beyond Karajan/VPO.

[Barbirollians]

Never felt the need to venture beyond Karajan/VPO.

I find I have that coupled with Szell’s incendiary Fourth - it’s a classy affair but perhaps rather lacking in the visceral excitement of other performances like the Cantelli.

[Bryn]

All very interesting but which versions of the work are we dealing with. There are recordings of the 1869, 1870(BBCSSO, Baldur Bronnimann, broadcast during the Radio 3 Tchaikovsky Experience), and 1880 final definitive version.

[Barbirollians]

All very interesting but which versions of the work are we dealing with. There are recordings of the 1869, 1870(BBCSSO, Baldur Bronnimann, broadcast during the Radio 3 Tchaikovsky Experience), and 1880 final definitive version.

I suspect the latter.

I note that in BBCMM in 2020 Jessica Duchen plumped for the 1957 Bernstein. I suppose that makes sense that the man who wrote the music for West Side Story was brilliant in this piece.

[Bryn]

I suspect the latter.

I note that in BBCMM in 2020 Jessica Duchen plumped for the 1957 Bernstein. I suppose that makes sense that the man who wrote the music for West Side Story was brilliant in this piece.

I'm tempted to investigate the Jurowski SACD with the 1869 original version, or maybe I'll import the Hi-Res stereo option from QOBUZ.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Never felt the need to venture beyond Karajan/VPO.

In audio terms, perhaps not as good as the later VPO/Maazel. Some rather obvious limiting triggered by the timpani in the fighting scenes. Great interpretation though.

[BBMmk2]

A work programmed not that often. Where do you put it?

With other Shakespearean themed music, or what other composers have written, with inspirations from literary fare?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It was always there in the regular all-Tchaikovsky Victor Hochhauser concerts.

[Barbirollians]

It was always there in the regular all-Tchaikovsky Victor Hochhauser concerts.

Followed by Piano Concerto No 1 and 1812 !

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Not there. Only the mono Pye version.

I was mistaken. The unfinished recording is there on Disc 64, after Barbirolli’s BBCSO Eroica. My error was actually Warner’s error, as this version isn’t mentioned in the booklet’s index.

I listened to it for the first time today. It’s a terrific interpretation. What a pity he didn’t live to record the coda.