Today brings another two brief updates, because I’ve been busy. There’s an early LP of Rodzinski conducting Pictures at an Exhibition. The record I’ve taken this from is in terrible condition, so there is a considerable amount of noise that could not be removed. The other item is Henry Wood conducting an arrangement of a Handel overture – as “inauthentic” a performance as one could wish for.

Mussorgsky-Ravel – Pictures at an Exhibition
Columbia Masterworks ML 4033
Matrices F XLP 254 3A, F XLP 255 3C
Recorded 1945
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, Artur Rodzinski

Mediafire link for Mussorgsky-Ravel – Pictures at an Exhibition – Rodzinski

(These are zip files – left click the link, download the files, then unzip when downloaded)

1. Promenade
2. Gnomes
3. Promenade
4. The Old Castle
5. Promenade
6. Tuileries
7. Bydlo
8. Promenade
9. Ballet of chicks in their shells
10. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
11. The market place at Limoges
12. Catacombs
13. Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
14. The hut on Fowls’ Legs
15. The great gate at Kiev

Tracks 11 and 12 are combined into one mp3 file to avoid a break in sound. The gap between tracks 14 and 15 is as on the LP.

Handel – Berenice – Overture
Decca K.819
Matrices TA 2041-II, 2042-II
Recorded 7th November 1935
Released May 1936
The Queen’s Hall Orchestra, Sir Henry J. Wood
Charles Woodhouse, leader

Download – Handel – Berenice – Overture – Henry Wood

(mp3 file – right click the link, then select “Save as” or click the play button)

The minuet from this overture was also recorded in a performance by Reginald Jacques.