Barbirolli in New York: Wagner
£10.93 £8.74
save £2.19 (20%)
special offer ending 27/05/2024
In stock - available for despatch within 1 working day
Despatch Information
This despatch estimate is based on information from both our own stock and the UK supplier's stock.
If ordering multiple items, we will aim to send everything together so the longest despatch estimate will apply to the complete order.
If you would rather receive certain items more quickly, please place them on a separate order.
If any unexpected delays occur, we will keep you informed of progress via email and not allow other items on the order to be held up.
If you would prefer to receive everything together regardless of any delay, please let us know via email.
Pre-orders will be despatched as close as possible to the release date.
Label: Barbirolli Society
Cat No: SJB1035
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 10th August 2009
Contents
Works
Die Meistersinger von NurnbergTannhauser
Artists
New York Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
John BarbirolliWorks
Die Meistersinger von NurnbergTannhauser
Artists
New York Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
John BarbirolliAbout
The orchestra was immediately won over by Barbirolli’s personality and remained devoted to him. If these tough players – once known as ‘Murder Incorporated’ – had not liked him and respected his musicianship, it would have been impossible for the manager Arthur Judson, within five days of JB’s first concert, to have begun to mention a permanent appointment. On 7 December 1936, after five weeks’ work with the orchestra, the board offered him a three-year contract and this was renewed in 1940 for a further two years, by which time the war was a complicating factor.
JB himself was overwhelmed and wrote to his future wife Evelyn Rothwell on 11 December 1936: ‘The orchestra played tonight as something I have dreamed of. . . The emotion of the orchestra at my appointment is something too touching for words. I can’t believe I am worthy of all this.’ The orchestra’s first horn player spoke of ‘the joy’ of making music with Barbirolli.
Recording of a concert in Carnegie Hall, New York on 20 November, 1938.
Error on this page? Let us know here
Need more information on this product? Click here