Sir John Barbirolli: The Complete RCA & Columbia Album Collection
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Item Number: 21677373
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Genres
20th Century
Romantic Period
Scandinavian
Classical Period
Formats
CD
Usages
School and Community

SKU: NX.19075988382

Composed by Jean Sibelius, Max Bruch, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Classical. CD. Sony Music Entertainment #19075988382. Published by Sony Music Entertainment (NX.19075988382).

UPC: 190759883822.

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 Halle 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.