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Complete RCA & Columbia on CD

The young John Barbirolli was hardly known in America when the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra chose him to be Arturo Toscanini's successor starting in 1937. The 36-year-old Londoner's first season was a triumph with both players and audiences, and although his years in New York would be increasingly marred by unfair rivalry with Toscanini - lured back to lead a specially created NBC Symphony - and by partisan hostility from two influential critics, Barbirolli's tenure can now be looked back on as a real success. From 1938 until 1943, when he returned to the UK to take over Manchester's Hallé Orchestra, Sir John made a series of recordings in New York for American Columbia and RCA Victor which are still essential for a full appreciation of this revered conductor's career, "performances that are as competitive today as they were when initially released" (Fanfare). Sony Classical is pleased to reissue them in a newly remastered six-album set.

  • - Disc 1 -
  • 1 Purcell (Arr. Barbirolli): Suite for Strings, Woodwind and Horns (Remastered) 
  • 2 Debussy: Images Pour Orchestre, L. 122: No. 2, Iberia (Remastered) 
  • 3 Tchaikovsky: Francesca Da Rimini, Op. 32 (Remastered) 
  • 4 Respighi: Antiche Danze Et Arie Per Liuto, Suite No.3 (Remastered) 
  • 5 Respighi: Fontane Di Roma (Remastered) 
  • - Disc 2 -
  • 1 Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D. 417, "Tragic" (Remastered) 
  • 2 Schubert: 5 German Dances, D. 89 (Remastered) 
  • 3 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 (Remastered) 
  • 4 Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39 (Remastered) 
  • 5 Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43 (Remastered) 
  • - Disc 3 -
  • 1 Smetana: The Bartered Bride, JB 1:100: Overture (Remastered) 
  • 2 Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34 (Remastered) with Mishel Piastro, Violin; Joseph Schuster, Cello 
  • 3 Ravel: La Valse, M. 72 (Remastered) 
  • 4 Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9 (Remastered) 
  • 5 Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 (Remastered) 
  • 6 Debussy: Petite Suite, L. 65, No. 4 "Ballet" (Remastered) 
  • 7 Debussy: Première Rhapsodie, L. 116 (Remastered) with Benny Goodman, Clarinet 
  • 8 Bach, J.S. (Arr. Barbirolli): Sheep May Safely Graze, BWV 208, No. 9 (Remastered) 
  • - Disc 4 -
  • 1 Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in a Major, K. 622 with Benny Goodman, Clarinet 
  • 2 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat Major, K. 595 (Remastered) with Robert Casadesus, Piano 
  • 3 Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183 (Remastered) 
  • - Disc 5 -
  • 1 Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 (Remastered) with Nathan Milstein, Violin 
  • 2 Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 3 in G Major, Op. 55: IV. Tema Con Variazioni. Andante Con Moto (Remastered) 
  • 3 Various (Arr. Barbirolli): An Elizabethan Suite (Remastered) 
The young John Barbirolli was hardly known in America when the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra chose him to be Arturo Toscanini's successor starting in 1937. The 36-year-old Londoner's first season was a triumph with both players and audiences, and although his years in New York would be increasingly marred by unfair rivalry with Toscanini - lured back to lead a specially created NBC Symphony - and by partisan hostility from two influential critics, Barbirolli's tenure can now be looked back on as a real success. From 1938 until 1943, when he returned to the UK to take over Manchester's Hallé Orchestra, Sir John made a series of recordings in New York for American Columbia and RCA Victor which are still essential for a full appreciation of this revered conductor's career, "performances that are as competitive today as they were when initially released" (Fanfare). Sony Classical is pleased to reissue them in a newly remastered six-album set.