Sir John Barbirolli: Complete RCA & Columbia - COMPACT DISCS

Sir John Barbirolli: Complete RCA & Columbia - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Complete RCA & Columbia

Artist:

Sir John Barbirolli

Label:

Sony Masterworks

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

190759883822

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2020-02-21

Number of Discs:

6

Additional Details:

BOXED SET

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.

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