The majority of the recordings presented us back to the time when the fiery young leader will sign many of his best records.
In the course, we note the important place given to French music. A spooky Berlioz. Listen frenzy, incisive strokes the strings in the party at the Capulet of Romeo and Juliet Berlioz. The sound is from another age but the raw energy of Berlioz's friend jumps out at you. What a contrast with the phrasing of the sensuality of the love scene. Our great national romantic restored to its quintessence. Always Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev but. The first opening and fantasy epitomizes the style Lorin Maazel: partition, that partition. Unerring placement (wood-harp soars in a clear band (making more modern and transparent) For second, Maazel said that Prokofiev is a modernist post-Romantic composer, not! Violence accents, rhythm regularity. We find this subtlety rough (not incompatible) in Firebird and The Song of the Nightingale Stravinsky recorded here with the orchestra of the Berlin Radio forged clarity by Fricsay.
Beethoven (Symphonies 5 and 6 and some lesser known works) are certainly rivaled by the time of colleagues, but to disfigure anything this anthology. What verve in the dance of the peasants, the tempos are not looking metaphysics and reach the desired freshness in this bucolic 6th if.
I will not repeat the Child and the Spells and Spanish time with the orchestra of ORTF who have never left the catalog for over a half century. The perfect French diction, sheer magic and fun of management make the Child and the Spells, in my opinion, the only version that gum obsolescence of Colette text.
One could go on all recorded works to align the glowing adjectives: A 4th of Tchaikovsky Slavic generously but without pathos, prefiguring the subsequent full Decca in Vienna; Symphonies 2, 3 and 4 to 6 Schubert with dialogues wood and jubilation befitting 2 and 3 closent the first Viennese symphonic cycle that has not twenty, imps and tempos of the other 3 (final from 6) with a thick hint yet that is not found in Böhm Kertesz or even in that time (this is really history quibble minima)
Finally to conclude (not completely, one could write 2,000 words on this case) Franck's symphony and 5th "Reformation" by Mendelssohn degreased but again without denying pathos of these partitions. Two prints on an isolated coupled CD besides Somewhat trivial, one could write "there is nothing to throw in this reissue." An interpretive style that remains forever young like the US chief at the dawn of his career a chance to discover a very comprehensive choice for those who want to discover this classic anthology in excellent acoustics.
