Beethoven-Symphony #3 "Eroica"/Leibowitz/Pt.1 (of 4)

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Uploaded by on May 6, 2008

Rare. Rene Leibowitz conducts The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1961)

Rene Leibowitz (1913-1972) was born in Warsaw but moved to Paris in his teens and there began a long, illustrious conducting career. Particularly interested in contemporary music, he studied with Webern and Schoenberg and wrote a detailed analysis of twelve-tone music. A keen ear for instrumental coloration (Ravel was his orchestration teacher) was evident in his kaleidoscopic transcriptions of such works as Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C (for double orchestra!). But he is best known for his often highly personal renditions of many staples of the Classical and Romantic repertoire.

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  • Wow! This performance is a real event, not the usual museum embalming, but a fiery, spontaneous sounding edge-of-the chair experience! Rene Leibowitz may be one of the most underrated and unknown conductors of all time.

  • Exactly. That's why I'm loading up YT with his work. Glad you enjoyed it.

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  • It is even too slow for Disco people!!!!!

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  • I have the LP and cd versions of this set.I grew up with this set in the mid 60s,I learned these symphonies,with score,with this set,it still captivates me.Search this set out on Amazon or Ebay, you wont be disappointed.I have just played no.s 1 and 2 on LP, in mono,but you would think they were stereo.One of the R/DIgest` successes.The LPs are now hard to find,a 1st pressing set recently sold on Ebay for just over £160.

  • dear zmov1 thanks I was curious about this very recording of one of my favourite symphonies, after the Funeral March I'll form my position is a Ferrai among the racehorses

  • Just TOO damn fast for my taste

  • Of course, this is taken from the Reader's Digest vinyl set "The Nine Symphonies of Beethoven" from which I learned them all, making these performances true favorites of mine.

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