Arr. Sir Jhon Barbirolli - Boston Shympony Orchestra

3 de Febrero de 1959
An Elizabethan Suite: Sir John Barbirolli
The walk to the paradise garden - Fredericke Dellus
Partita for Orchestra - William Walton
Shympony N°2 in D Major. Op.73 - Johanes Brahams

[@alexleach6307]

This was the tour Barbirolli undertook to include all the best orchestras in the US - he rated the BSO as perhaps the finest, but the engagement he was most apprehensive about was his return to the NYPO, of which he was of course resident conductor from the mid-1930s to 1943. Thirty players were still members from his old period, and his former secretary took leave from his current job to look after his old boss. The reviews were outstanding, with one critic praising 'a golden lustre absent from the Philharmonic string section for fully fifteen years...' He conducted Mahler's First Symphony in Carnegie Hall on 11 January 1959 with Alma Mahler, the composer's widow, present at rehearsals and concert; she said 'It was just like seeing and hearing my great husband again.' As Barbirolli wrote in a letter to his aged mother, 'You can imagine how happy this made me.'

[@MrKlemps]

The BSO just loved playing for Sir John. This you can tell by their command during the concert as well as by their tribute after the Brahms. Apart from the fragile very short-winded horn solo toward the end of the Brahms 1st movement, this was a great concert by a great Orchestra. How nice to see and hear timpanist Vic Firth and prinicipal trumpet Roger Voisin and the very top of their game as well as the beautiful bowing of concertmaster Richard Burgin.

[@davidcrc9155]

Fabulous conducting and playing.

[@johnrowland8375]

The kind of magic created here that he always created in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England with his Halle orchestra, the band no other financial offer could ever separate him from.

[@seekstruth5968]

wow. going back in time!

[@novagerio9244]

Phenomenal!

[@dmntuba]

Thanks so much for sharing 👍

[@shinichinishikaze3115]

42:20 brahms sym2 I thank to very rare video.

[@Gorboduc]

Delius 14:15
Walton 25:10
Brahms 42:40

[@paulheffron4836]

Where is this coming from? It looks like Sanders Theater in Cambridge, MA.

[@LyleFrancisDelp]

That looks like Armando Ghitalla on 1st trumpet.

[@LyleFrancisDelp]

On second thought, I guess it's Voisin, but I didn't hear his distinct vibrato.

[@ausbrum]

All males. Sydney and all the Australian orchestras had women members at this time

[@karldelavigne8134]

What about the flautist?

[@yvonneheald6456]

So what. This isnt the fault of Sir John Barbirolli. His own Orchestra the Halle in Manchester was full of women players as far back as the 1940's. It will have been the decision of the BSO to exclude women from there orchestra.

[@hendriphile]

@@karldelavigne8134 The great Doriot Anthony Dwyer.

[@RobertCoulter]

Not all. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doriot_Anthony_Dwyer?wprov=sfla1

[@johncooney4004]

There's a woman on principal flute, so there wasn’t a policy to exclude women. There were a lot women in UK orchestras around this time (e.g. the famous Philharmonia). That may have been a post-war thing. Men going off to fight left opportunities for women. But also, those times were different, once they'd married, women often gave up their job (like playing) to raise the family.

[@user-ts2di4ji2f]

😂😂

[@miguelagh2000]

I don't listen this video

[@francocastro4180]

the sound is normal, thanks