Fritz Reiner conducts Tchaikovsky (vaimusic.com)

[bernalor1]

Fritz Reiner, truly one of the greatest of all time.

[automatic84a842]

ライナーさんが、くるみ割り人形に見えてきました…かわいらしい­ですよね、どことなく…。

[tengtengcai2011]

好狂野的一个版本- -

[MrPoupard]

Hey I'm surprised no one has picked up on the repeat he adds at the last few bars which Tchaikovsky didn't actually write. Interesing - Toscannini does exactly the same thing in his recording with the NBC band

[poopoo111222333]

fritz dracula

[zzindorf]

That explains his unusual technique and unique version of the cadenza.

[radiootoo]

Chicago was never the same after Reiner and the CSO

[JJW2009]

A couple of corrections, if I might:

The harpist is Joseph Vito (not Edward Druzinsky).

The concertmaster is John Weicher (not Sidney Harth).

[zzindorf]

The harpist is Edward Druzinsky. Almost incomparable.

[Maskedhaven]

That is a killer harpist. That is what I call kicking it old-school,

[brassbend]

2nd oboe: Jerry Sirucek

Principal oboe: Arno Mariotti, who later taught at the University of Michigan for many years.

English Horn:I Robert Mayer.

principal clarinet: Clark Brody He just recently retired after more than 50 years in that position. Leonard Sharrow, on principal bassoon.

I think Adolph Herseth would already have been their principal trumpet.

concertmaster: Sidney Harth joined the CSO as concertmaster. He previously had been concertmaster in Louisville.

[maestrojimbo]

@brassbend

FYI: That principal oboist is NOT Mariotti - it is Florian Mueller, and yes he did teach at the University of Mich - I studied with him. I also studied with Mariotti who also taught at Mich, but much later. As far I know he (Mariotti) never played in the Chicago Symphony - he was principal in Detroit Symphony when I studied with him in high school. I also studied with DSO's 2nd oboist Ron Odmark. It was great to see Mueller when he was younger.

[jwinder2]

@brassbend Clark Brody didn't "recently" retire from the Chicago Symphony; he retired in 1978....

[brassbend]

Clyde Wedgwood ,the second horn, use to share his seat with my teacher who was in the Civic Orchestra. Both were "Vertically Challenged" and they needed a little platform so they could put their mutes down with out falling off their chairs. I understand he was very blessed in other areas. Was it his seat or his stand, I can't remember.

[davisbone]

this performance is colder then a witches tit

[GTMGUNN]

Fritz is so cool. Look at that baton control!

[gaemp]

a little too "german" execution....

[Buttontails]

My god! No wonder Fritz Reiner is considered one of the all time greats. He communicates intensity and immense energy. That's evident in this performance, the finest I've ever heard of this work. You can tell there would be no nonsense with Reiner. He must have been the inspiration for Phillip Farkas to write in his chapter about practice in The Art of French Horn Playing, "Besides, conductors are not particularly cordial toward musicians with unsolved technical problems!"

[ipmoic]

Another question: for students of first clarinetist Clark Brody.

He seemed to place VERY little mouthpiece into his mouth. Is this just my perception or was it true? I always admired his playing immensely.

[overlord1294]

his sound has always been super bright to me, but really warm with lots of edge. nice to my ears

[ipmoic]

I heard that once a double-bass player used a pair of binoculars in rehearsal--a joke because of Reiner's often tiny beat. I understand that he was fired.

Does anyone know this story or whether it's true or not?

[creolo3]

probabilmente credeva di dirigere la marcia di Radesky...carini i ritornelli....aggiunti...

[Gorboduc]

At 3:59 it looks like Reiner is chewing gum.

[overlord1294]

Correct me if im wrong but i believe that is Clark Brody sitting solo clarinet?

[ibrokemyfingerbowlin]

Yes, that is Clark Brody. Did you notice the young Ray Still playing 2nd Oboe? Also that is Donald Peck playing principal flute.

[paulgnr]

Those were the good ol' days of music. However, I didn't like Reiner's improvisation at the end.

[BloodyPoncho]

every member of that symphony is amazing

[FValthorn]

That is Bud Herseth, Phil Farkas, Arnold Jakobs and Ed Kleinhammer. I don't believe this footage is in any of the VAI releases that I know of, please correct me if wrong.

[JonMongasCineMoment]

OOHH! This is awesome. How I get the Embed?

[ItzhakRoxMySox]

Wow... What a harpist, my goodness... What the fricking heck, man, that's just astounding

[Sviolinist]

yep, that one always pleases. Great little cadenza idea from Tchaikovsky

[juskisiberiano]

Bernstein was badly theatrical, usually, in live performances, but rendered some excellent ones in the studio and even live as those in Denmark of Carl Nielssen's symphonies.

[paulostroff99]

Wonderful.One of my all time favourite conductors.

[crwv]

or would it still be renold schilke?

[nibelungensohn]

That's one heck of a harpist!

[davisbone]

@nibelungensohn too wild and no magic

[ThaSchwab]

Lol..Bud Herseth should be in here :)

[marionettekadaj]

He is there. The 2nd player is Rudolph Nashan.

[marionettekadaj]

Herseth.

[ThaSchwab]

Looked like him.

[ibizaking]

It is him, played for 50 years in the CSO!

[iaintnot]

haha, whats with the tag at the end? was that in another version Tchaikovsky wrote?

[lhiram23]

that's LIVING music. Such a rubato, imagination, the rythm is present and souple, the perfection of the tone, and they are together without to be rigid. It is breathing...

[neilsmit667]

Ah. Philip Farkas on 1st Horn!!

[JLwaldhorn]

Damn! sure he is, sweet...

[wienerphil]

Why do pople idolize Bernstein? He was nothing more than an attention whore who reduced the music through acrobatics (just listen to his stuff!). Now Reiner, there is an artist, directing one's attention away from the conductor and to the music itself. It seems to be a dying art, serving the conductor now rather than the music.

[crwv]

...because they disagree with you and think he was one of the best conductors ever.

this is all subjective ya know.

[winrx]

Incredible footage - don't make 'em like that any more