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...scores (Symphony 1933, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Song for Occupations, etc.), Harris really hit his stride with a Third Symphony. No sooner was it finished than Boston's pompous Sergei Koussevitzky rushed to give it a premiere. No sooner had Koussevitzky played it than excitable Maestro Arturo Toscanini (who conducts few U. S. compositions) asked a chance to broadcast it with his NBC Orchestra. Last month (TIME, April 1) Victor recorded...
Apropos of the review last week of Toscanini's recording of the Beethoven Fifth, lest you think us presumptuous, here is a review from the Gramophone Record Shop in New York City, Mecca and Delphic Oracle for classical record buyers...
...Toscanini's Beethoven is utterly unique! . . . ' So runs the advance note from Victor, and a truer statement never was written, for never have we heard a more disappointing reading of this symphony . . . Disappointing due to the fact there is less Beethoven and more of Toscanini than even this long-suffering work can stand . . . This latest unfolding of the Fifth is conceived along the lines of a popular Italian operatic overture...
...Individualiy by prima donna conductors can be carried too far and our remarks on the Mozart G Minor (as done by Toscanini) are applicable here: Excessive speed does not make for clarity; drive on the conductor's part can and does obscure many of the details. Of the two readings, Toscanini or Furtwaengler, we unhesitatingly recommend the latter, for, while its vigorously dramatic and vital treatment may shatter your ideas on the interpretation of the symphony (the conventional Weingartner rendition, nevertheless, Furtwaengler's musical integrity stands unquestioned, aside from the fact that the recording is superior...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (NBC Symphony, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor: eight sides). Most famed of living maestros gives the most famed of all symphonies a fiery performance. But the asbestos-lined acoustics of Radio City's broadcasting Studio 8-H, where it was recorded, make it sound somewhat brittle...