Beethoven Symphony No. 5, 1st mvt--Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symp

Telecast March 22, 1952 from Carnegie Hall, New York City

for the second movement go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijiHzheK4GQ


from an interview by Robert Stumpf II with Bob Bloom, who played with Toscanini:


I played for him for six years. He yelled at me a lot, but as a father. After awhile I became, from those in the orchestra, possibly closer than anyone else to Toscanini. Away from the podium, he was like a little child. He loved music. In his study, he would show me Puccini's snuff box, Verdi's eye glasses. He treasured these things.

One day I was visiting him and he asked me to stay for lunch. I could tell he was very tired, and we had finished our business, so I told him that I didn't have to stay. I said, "Maestro, you look tired. Why don't you take a nap?"

He said, "I've been up since five o'clock this morning studying this symphony." The symphony that week was Beethoven's Fifth.

I said, "Maestro, how many times have you conducted that?"

He answered, "Oh, hundreds."

I said, "And you're still studying it?"

I loved his answer. He said, "Well, I'm always afraid I may have missed something." This is how he really felt about music.

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[conantat1]

40 people are deafer than Beethoven ever was.

[TheSneeakyNinjas]

@mobbydogg1 No, he dies in 1827...Jesus... o.O

[SatchmoSings]

@BrKT85 The NBC Symphony Orchestra was all "stag" in a much less liberated time.

Even today, some orchestras have few, if any women; the Vienna Philharmonic would be the best example; on a good day they have FOUR women players.

[SatchmoSings]

@Capaden11 Toscanini's Beethoven Cycle is as good as anyone's.

Yes, you can find individual performances that might be better, but as a "whole" his are as good as anyone's.

[SatchmoSings]

When it starts, you see the cello lead, Frank Miller playing on a cello made in 1941!!!

No antique instrument for him; he really did like that cello and Toscanini also liked it.

[moshekai2010]

42 people wouldn't know good music even if they took an arrow to the knee

[obtica1]

Music of a Genius...

youtube.com/watch?v=EmV35VPRT9­­s

[conantat1]

@Capaden11 they miss the autotune. Tasteless.

As you say, no matter what you think of the rendition it's stil Beethoven.

[Capaden11]

@conantat1 Thats hilarious and true. Why can't people just accept greatness when they hear it? Toscanini's performances were soooo tight and rhythmically precise, even if somehow you don't like the particular rendition, you have to appreciate it.

[wkunzelman1]

whenever i hear this... i immediately think of butterflies. /watch?v=sqd_dfR9WSM 

[bokoa1]

@mobbydogg1

OMG

[GONZAL3ZTHUND3R]

i love the way he composes. also love this song!!!!!