BaL 5.10.19 - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

[smittims]

'Ein Heldenleben ' seems to be a good work with which to bow out; it was also one of the last works Mengelberg recorded .

Barbirolli's recording, and the concert performance issued on BBc Legends, both date form September 1969, though he was active in the studios as late as May 1970 (Sib 6) . Beecham's stereo Heldenleben was recorded in April 1958 and his last studio sessions were in Paris in December 1959.

[Barbirollians]

'Ein Heldenleben ' seems to be a good work with which to bow out; it was also one of the last works Mengelberg recorded .

Barbirolli's recording, and the concert performance issued on BBc Legends, both date form September 1969, though he was active in the studios as late as May 1970 (Sib 6) . Beecham's stereo Heldenleben was recorded in April 1958 and his last studio sessions were in Paris in December 1959.

He was , of course, active in concert and in rehearsal until the week of his death. Two concerts at King's Lynn including the superb Elgar 1 and rehearsing Mahler with Janet Baker the day before the night in which he died.

[smittims]

All too soon, too. He was no age for a conductor. And already it's more than 50 years ago...

Fortunately there've been some wonderful CD issues. I especially enjoyed the Society's issue of the ''John Barbirolli chamber orchestra'.

[richardfinegold]

I love the depiction of the Critics. Meredith Wilson borrowed the technique for his depiction of the Gossipers in The Music Man