Guido Cantelli: Live at the 1954 Edinburgh Festival
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Label: ICA Classics
Cat No: ICAC5081
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 3rd September 2012
Contents
Artists
Philharmonia OrchestraConductor
Guido CantelliWorks
La MerLe Martyre de Saint Sebastien: Suite
Symphony no.4 in D minor, op.120
Artists
Philharmonia OrchestraConductor
Guido CantelliAbout
From 1949 onwards, Cantelli each year conducted the NBC, the New York Philharmonic and Boston Symphony orchestras. In 1950, he was at the Edinburgh Festival and in 1951 Lucerne, Salzburg and Venice Festivals. He started recording with the Philharmonia Orchestra for EMI but was tragically killed in an air crash in Paris in 1956. Walter Legge wrote, ‘no other conductor in the history of the art has established, so early in life, so wide a fame’. While studio recordings validate that encomium, none quite captured the incandescence of his live performances.
These important and very rare live recordings featuring the Philharmonia Orchestra derive from the Music Preserved archive and have never been released before. They have been carefully restored by Paul Baily.
The Glasgow Herald stated that Cantelli’s Schumann nearly raised the roof with its excitement but it also noted ‘the plasticity of line and transparent textures’.
Debussy’s Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien was a Cantelli speciality and was noted by the Glasgow Herald for ‘its breathtaking moments’ which held the audience in rapt silence. Similarly, Debussy’s La Mer got praise for the conductor’s feeling for orchestral colouring and ‘rhythmic exactitude that mark the conductor at his best … There is no mistaking the greater impetuosity and attack in the Edinburgh account compared to the Kingsway Hall recording made four days later.’ (Mark Kluge)
These performances offer an intimate glimpse of a wonderful partnership between Cantelli and the Philharmonia Orchestra which was so tragically cut short.
Recorded: Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 9 September 1954
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