Escales ("Ports of Call") 'Palmo'/Ibert/Leibowitz/Pt.1 of 2

Rene Leibowitz conducts The Orchestra di Roma (early 1960s)

'Palmo'

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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[gamma357]

Love this, thanks for the upload! :)

[billyguns2]

Rene Leibowitz is one of the lesser known great conductors; his opera conducting and recordings of Beethoven Symphonies are amazing. Many thanks for posting this stylish, evocative performance of this great work which had such an influence on film composers.