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It's my favorite performance of work that should be performed much more often.

Although not performed by Lupu, I have the Enescu "Cello Sonata No. 1 with Csaba and Grigore on my main channel. Amazing music! th-cam.com/video/et-ABIuxqow/w-d-xo.html

@@constantinsilvestrigar csaba andras was my cello teacher in school !

Why this the Constantin Silvestri channel, so all Silvestri all the time!

​@@constantinsilvestrigarAha, didn't notice, thanks

@@kaiiida4661 If you don't know anything about Silvestri, many very knowledgeable classical people don't, he was a totally amazing conductor. In the description you can find a link to a documentary my wife made about Ray Carpenter, principal clarinet of the Bournemouth Symphony, the reason that the broadcasts on this channel exist, and background on Silvestri. Visit the playlists to look for your favorite composers to find links to the broadcasts that contain their works, as well as any commercial recordings. Of course his most famous performance was of Elgar's "In the South". Give it a listen. th-cam.com/video/2zoBCTf7LYQ/w-d-xo.html One of the things that impressive me most about Silvestri is his work with soloists. I have heard many a famous pianist playing their heart out only to have an equally famous conductor give a totally lifeless performance even though they may do a fantastic job with that composers symphonic works. Silvestri's conducting of concertos is never anything short of stellar. Also check out Falla's "El Amor Brujo". th-cam.com/video/2zoBCTf7LYQ/w-d-xo.html

@@constantinsilvestrigar thanks for illuminating him to me. Always a pleasure to discover "new" musicians, especially good ones.

I doubt many people were playing Bruckner back then. Actually I don't think many people play Bruckner now either for that matter and I love Bruckner.

I consider this one of the greatest recordings of anything ever. I am not alone in that opinion.

I removed some power line hum, traffic noise, and touched up the EQ to make it a little less tubby and a little brighter. Glad you enjoyed it. It is an amazing performance.

It is a real shame that TH-cam will allow the type of ads that interrupt music rather than just the banner type. The solution is pay the TH-cam premium monthly subscription fee, then no ads. What a shame is that even though I produce three channels for them, I still have to pay TH-cam to NOT see ads on my own videos!

Be sure to checkout the broadcast performance on this concert. th-cam.com/video/j6RN61sBcQw/w-d-xo.html There are also playlists by composer so that you can find your favorites among the broadcasts. Sorry, but for some reason TH-cam doesn't think you would want to sort playlists alphabetically.

I heartily agree!

How did your father know Silvestri was he musician?

@@constantinsilvestrigar My father loved classical music and went to concerts in Bournemouth. He had friends in the orchestra and thats how he met Silvestri. When he died Sivestri's wife gave my dad his fur coat and hat.

If you didn't know of Silvestri, then you will be in for a real treat exploring the channel. Of course he was famous for his Tchaikovsky "Manfred" and Elgar "In the South", but just about everything he touched turned to gold. This channel contains both "studio" recordings and radio broadcasts. The Playlists allow you to find your favorite composers and which broadcasts contain their works. To learn more about Silvestri and the Bournemouth Symphony, check out my wife's documentary "Metamorphosis", link in the Description, as well as the BBC program "The Concert Makers" on my channel.

Hola Glenn, tienes razón todo lo que dirigía Silvestri se convertía en oro, desde luego hizo un extraordinsrio trabajo transformando una orquesta de una localidad practicamente rural en un conjunto de 1er nivel....y de las versiones que he podido escuchar me han gustado especial su 5ta de Buckner, sus 7a y 8a de Dvorak, las danzas del Sombrero de tres picos de Falla y especialmente el piano concerto No 2 de Brahms con compatriota Claudio Arrau, te felicito sinceramente por tu maravillosa labor y por supuesto me he suscrito a tu canal! Afectuosamente, Óscar Olavarria desde Chile, Sudamérica

I don't know if I can even imagine what it would have been like to be in the audience hearing this piece for the first time. What an experience it must have been!

Ray Carpenter gave me a copy of their rehearsal and travel schedule where there were forty some days without a day off. Those were some hard working musicians.

It certainly sounds like that was one group of hard working musicians!

One of the best B5s I have heard, but what surprised me is how the performance of the Elgar which is quite different but equally amazing as the incredible EMI performance. Then of course you get to hear Raymond Carpenter solo on the clarinet. Be sure to check out my wife's documentary about Ray, Silvestri, and the Bournemouth Symphony. th-cam.com/video/LgrLATb75No/w-d-xo.html

Well you are in luck then. Here is the concert you heard. The absolute best performance of the Pines ever! th-cam.com/video/LLfjUmHCMLc/w-d-xo.html

Frank Miller, the principal cellist for the NBC Symphony became the principal cellist of the Chicago Symphony. I was listening to a broadcast in my car where they announced that he died and the Symphony played the Elgar “Nimrod” variation in his honor. I was in tears and almost drove off the road. Maybe I don’t listen to as many contemporary symphony recordings as I should rather than living in the past, but damn, the past had some incredible performances.

It is certainly worth being in the repertoire. I would love to hear it performed live.

So very little footage of Silvestri conducting. What a charming looking man.

Constantin Silvestri was a very good friend of my father. He passed away a few days before I was born and I was named after him (Constanze) My mother who is nearly 84 remembers special times spent with Maestro in Bournemouth.

Hi, I'm Glen and have three TH-cam channels, this channel dedicated to Constantin Silvestri, my general channel "Glen's Audio Restoration", and a channel featuring popular music of the 1910's and 1920's "Glen's Centennial Oldies". Links are in the description. When ever possible I try to restore from original sources and say what source I use in the Description. Ciccolini is one of my favorite pianists! Although there are many wonderful pianists out there, many of the accompaniments are rather perfunctory. Silvestri absolutely shines in all of his concerto recordings. I have all three of the Toscanini/Horowitz Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos, but the 6 May 1941 "Studio" is still my favorite of the three because of the sheer insanity of it. Many have restored and reissued it, but mine, restored from '78s on my main channel IMO is the best sound. th-cam.com/video/HS4MQt8czdA/w-d-xo.html Check out my wife's documentary linked in the Description. Metamorphosis: The Transformation of the Bournemouth Symphony th-cam.com/video/LgrLATb75No/w-d-xo.html

Agreed! Be sure to check out my Shostakovich playlist. Shostakovich th-cam.com/play/PLYsb90QzREGAMJHkwjoWp8tlbTKHTjk9I.html

I really can't decide whether I like this performance or his ORTF performance better. Well I guess they are both the best.

He did one with the Philadelphia SO too.@@constantinsilvestrigar

@@TheFergymeThe Philadelphia broadcast is on Pristine. I find this and the ORTF performances superior. There is also the Royal Albert Hall Promenade Concert performance on my channel. th-cam.com/video/Gk-32k3ejYY/w-d-xo.html

Equally terrific are performances by Cantelli, Stokowski, and Mravinsky. But yeah, this one is terrific.

Yes, it was a fine one, and I love the Oboe Concerto. This tape was in better condition and sound than most.

Then I guess you had never REALLY heard Shostakovich's 10th.

@@constantinsilvestrigar 😁

With all respect to Silvestri's excellent performance here, my favorite T5s is still the three Guido Cantelli in order Boston Symphony, La Scala, NBC Symphony. After that is Stokowski's New Philharmonia in glorious Phase 4 sound. Everybody else is below those. Kletzki and Celibidache are both excellent conductors but I have heard neither of their T5s and will check to see if they are on TH-cam and give them a listen.

I had not heard of the pianist before and he did an excellent job! The Bartók concertos are also seldom played. I wonder how many Eastern European recordings Silvestri made. It has been extremely difficult finding the ones I have.

The Bartok Concertos are among the most popular and most often played of the modern repertoire, especially the 2nd and 3rd Piano Concertos, the 2nd Violin Concerto, and the Serly version of the Viola Concerto.

Isn't that true of just about all of Silvestri's recordings? It is really hard to find one that is not one of the best performances available.

I had the pleasure of visiting Bucharest several years ago and meeting with the very gracious head of your Radio, Liliana Staicu as well as attending a rehearsal of the orchestra. I can't remember at the moment who the conductor was, but they seem to do quite a fine job. I would love to return to Romania some day and visit the countryside as everyone was so friendly and helpful and the food was FABULOUS.

Just minor touch up work on an already excellent sounding CD. Except for the Ciccolini Massenet Piano Concerto on my Audio Restoration channel which was really thin sounding, EMI CD reissues from the '50s and '60s are reliably good.

I'm sort of slumming it here as there are going to be a number of EMI recordings coming up that needed very little work, just some hum, a few tape dropouts, and minor noise reduction. They are all referenced in a radio broadcast about Silvestri that will be coming soon. (Assuming they don't get copyright blocked).

I would much rather read a comment like yours than have a million subscribers. She had a wonderful voice. You were very fortunate indeed.

So glad you enjoyed it!

This documentary is really all Bunny’s doing. I’m so envious of you for getting to hear him live. All of the musicians I have met that worked with him say the same, kind and modest.

@@constantinsilvestrigar Thank you so much for your kind reply. I remember when Groves was in charge and it was a pretty ropey sound he produced Silvestri took over and the first concert was dreadful. I didn't attend another concert for months BUT, he scheduled a work I wanted to see and so I bit the bullet and went. The orchestra had been utterly transformed. He had rebuilt the orchestra. Class. Quality. Musicianship. I attended every concert until I moved to London. Was he died, I was shocked and deeply saddened. The music world had lost an unsung giant.

On behalf of Bunny, thanks! This was really all her doing. V-W is one of my favorite composers also.

The vast majority of the broadcast were from Silvestri's off-the-air recordings that were saved by principal clarinet Ray Carpenter. Ray wasn't really interested in these as concerts and would just quest Wessex Archive which is storing the tapes. Ray gave me the Berlioz and Baermann, but did not have the other two pieces. I got the complete concert from one of the BSO's violinists although he wasn't sure of what the original source was. Unfortunately, he did not have any other material that wasn't from Ray. Silvestri recorded a good majority of the broadcasts at 1 7/8 IPS on a single track of a quarter-track stereo machine with just a handful at 3 3/4 IPS. The tapes have poor fidelity with large quantities of dropouts. The source for this was from a lossy digital compression source with primitive noise reduction on top of that. Clearly the mystery original source was excellent, and the damage caused by the transfer to lossy digital wasn't enough to not give me better results than most of the broadcasts. When I saw the B5 I thought "Well this is probably going to be the best performance I have ever heard". Silvestri did not disappoint.

Everybody praises Heifetz and if they are going Russian, Oistrakh, both fine musician's, but Kogan is my favorite violinist.

East European labels were not exactly known for their state-of-the art sound and pressings. Electrecord released several CD reissues indicating the master tapes weren't too bad. I don't remember if I have any Hungaroton CDs that come from this vintage. Yes, indeed, this is by far my favorite performance. But then many of Silvestri's recordings are my favorite performances and Pally perfectly captures an authentic style.

@@constantinsilvestrigar I couldn't agree more. I often spoke to Silvestri after the concerts and he was always delightful and kind.

Back in the day I always looked for Penguin "Rosettes" and Bruno Walter's performance justly received one. I had several others but none compared to Walter's. Then I heard the Silvestri. Quite different from Walter's but equally stunning.

@@constantinsilvestrigar Walter's recording is indeed a different, rather more reserved reading. Sylvestri's sounds to me more in the style of Talich and his disciples. Shows again that a great composition permits a range of interpretation.

Yep. Dude could write a tune.

It is indeed a wonderful concerto. Unfortunately most people just want to hear the same old concertos over and over again. What I was surprised to find out was how much amazing music Enescu wrote. All we ever here is his Romanian Rhapsody.