Download: Artur Rodzinski conducts Beethoven (the “Conductor X” Remington 199-156)

Bill Anderson

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Mar 27, 2010, 5:07:00 PM3/27/10

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One more Rodzinski project before I go silent for a few weeks. I
actually transferred this from LP back in 2007 but never got around to
posting it…

This is the famous (or infamous) Remington recording that Rodzinski
made with the “"Austrian Symphony Orchestra", March 7-9, 1952. The LP
had Beethoven’s First Symphony on side 1 and Leonore Overture No 3 on
side 2.

The reasons, contractual and/or artistic, for Rodzinski’s name being
left off the issue are still open for discussion. Suffice to say it is
a difficult record to find. AFAIK it has not been issued on CD. Sound
quality is adequate on the Leonore, better for the symphony.

Many thanks to collector Mark Kluge for letting me borrow the LP for
this project.

Zip file mono VBR mp3 format 320/192 max/min kbps 47 mg total size.
Audio files only - no scans of album or label (sorry guys!)

http://www.mediafire.com/?yu0nuqwzojn

A website on the Remington label can accessed here:

http://www.soundfountain.org/rem/dongabor3.html

Near the end of the page there is a textbox that discusses this
recording and one explanation of why the “Conductor X” record was
issued as such.

- Bill

woytek

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Mar 27, 2010, 6:18:29 PM3/27/10

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If memory serves well Halina Rodzinska "In our two lives" claims that
Rodzinski was not satisfied with artistic results of this session. In
any event many, many thanks for another great Rodzinski download!
Maybe it's time for Cleveland recordings with AR?

Bill Anderson

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Mar 27, 2010, 6:29:26 PM3/27/10

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On Mar 27, 4:18 pm, woytek <bar...@op.pl> wrote:

Maybe it's time for Cleveland recordings with AR?

Well, this years version of "the Midwest Tour' will be starting soon!

I will have to rely on some of my colleagues here in Chicago ( I don't
have that many Cleveland items in my collection)

- Bill

Jerry

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Mar 27, 2010, 6:59:41 PM3/27/10

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Many, many thanks for this gramophonic oddity, and the
citations to Remington records (of fond memory).

Worth noting that Michael Gray's discography of
Rodzinski also shows Lohengrin Preludes to
Act I and III (March 6 and 11, 1952, for Remington
in Vienna ....."Austrian Symphony Orchestra", unissued).

Surely these recordings must have served as introductions to
great music to many of us who were young teenagers at the
time and could perhaps only afford $1.99 to splurge.

Jerry

FredT

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Mar 27, 2010, 9:00:53 PM3/27/10

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On Internet Archive, there are a whole slew of Rodzinski-Cleveland
recordings available....

Fred

The Historian

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Mar 28, 2010, 12:26:41 AM3/28/10

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And some New York ones as well, both by different transfer engineers.
Both have problems - most of the Cleveland ones are good transfers,
but at a very low bit rate, while the New York ones are 320 kbs but
heavily filtered and denoised. Bill, I'm sure, could do an excellent
job on these recordings - compare his fine-sounding Rodzinksi/Chicago
Also Sprach with the disappointing Internet Archive transfer of
Khatchaturian ballet excerpts.

woytek

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Mar 28, 2010, 2:58:05 AM3/28/10

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Exactly!

FredT

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Mar 28, 2010, 6:57:46 AM3/28/10

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Well.I agree that Bill does an outstanding job with his restorations.
I was just pointing out where the Rodzinski recordings were
located...they are listenable though problems exist as you have
pointed out.