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1962 Boston/Munch Symphonie Fantastique

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2009-10-29 21:58

I found a great 1962 live performance on YouTube of Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony playing the Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, with plenty of views of the wind principals: Doriot Anthony Dwyer, flute, John Holmes (no, another one), oboe, Louis Speyer, English horn, Gino Cioffi, clarinet and Sherman Walt (I think), bassoon. I don't recognize the Eb player. Perhaps someone can fill us in. You'll also see Roger Voisin, the world's loudest trumpet player, and Leslie "Tiny" Martin, the 400 pound double bass payer.

It's chopped up into five equal parts with breaks in the middle of movements, and part 4 stalls halfway through. Still, it's an amazing performance -- better, in my opinion, than the studio recording, and Munch whips up an incredible fury at the end, when he holds the final note forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s0wMe7bfMQ&feature=PlayList&p=C34147F0908E494A&index=0&playnext=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzCTUT8XdTs&feature=PlayList&p=C34147F0908E494A&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPs7cxrTUBQ&feature=PlayList&p=C34147F0908E494A&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3iGuquRkBs&feature=PlayList&p=C34147F0908E494A&index=3 note -- stalls about a minute into the march to the scaffold -- when the scene in the country movement ends, switch to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNSeBwy4qGw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imPA6BfIeNQ&feature=PlayList&p=C34147F0908E494A&index=4

I've found many more very good live recordings on YouTube by searching for vaimusic and also for conductorrr.

Ken Shaw

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