Very Rare 1938 VPO Mahler Symphony no .9 Bruno Walter Original 78 rpm HMV

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Wow What can I say about these rare records...... Maybe one of the most important notable recordings ever.... These records are also near mint but I will describe as EX+..please see pictures.. They will be sent Worldwide and very well packaged.. Very rare Important Recording...Feel like you were there in the Audience. Just before the start of the Second World War...In the heart of where it was all happening.. Bruno Walter cried himself when he heard the recording..... your chance to own this rare set of records... How often do they appear...just try and find another set as good as this for sale anywhere... for the true collector and connoisseur of classical records and music.. This would also make a great gift for someone you love or for a dear friend ......  If you would Love to own these do not miss this opportunity....  HMV..........  Mahler....Ninth Symphony... Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.. Conducted by Bruno Walter... in Vienna 16 th January 1938... D.B.3613......stamper..2VH.7027 10 records...Complete...78 rpm...Original recordings.. Condition..EX+........................

Walter's work was documented on hundreds of recordings made between 1900 (when he was 24) and 1961. Most listeners became familiar with him through the stereo recordings made in his last few years, when his health was declining. But many critics agree that these recordings do not fully convey what Walter's art must have sounded like in its prime. For one thing, the late recordings sometimes have a geniality that contrasts with the more mercurial, intense, and energetic performances Walter recorded in earlier decades. For another, the late recordings focus mostly on music from Mozart through Mahler, but in Walter's youth he often conducted what was then newer music (including Mahler).

Walter worked closely with Mahler as an assistant and protege. Mahler did not live to perform his Das Lied von der Erde orSymphony No. 9, but his widow, Alma Mahler, asked Walter to premiere both. Walter led the first performance of Das Liedin 1911 in Munich and of the Ninth in 1912 in Vienna with the Vienna Philharmonic. Decades later, Walter and the Vienna Philharmonic (with Mahler's brother-in-law Arnold Rose still the concertmaster) made the first recordings of Das Lied von der Erde in 1936 and of the Ninth Symphony in 1938. Both were recorded live in concert, the latter only two months before the Nazi Anschluss drove Walter (and Rose) into exile.

These recordings are of special interest for the performance practices of the orchestra and also for intensity of expression. Walter was to re-record both works successfully in later decades. His famous Decca Das Lied von der Erde with Kathleen Ferrier, Julius Patzak, and the Vienna Philharmonic was made in May, 1952, and he recorded it again in studio with the New York Philharmonic in 1960. He conducted the New York Philharmonic in the 1957 stereo recording of the second symphony. He recorded the Ninth in stereo in 1961. These recordings, as well as his other American recordings, were released initially by Columbia Records and later on CD by Sony.

Since Mahler himself never conducted the Ninth Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde, Walter's performances cannot be taken as documentations of Mahler's interpretations. But in the light of Walter's personal connection with the composer, and his having given the original performances, they have another kind of primary authenticity. In his other (greatly esteemed) recordings of Mahler – various songs and the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth symphonies – there is the great added interest that he had heard Mahler's own performances of most of them.

Walter made many highly acclaimed recordings of other great Germanic composers, such as Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss Jr., and Anton Bruckner, as well as of Bach, Wagner, Schumann, Dvorak, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Smetana, and others. Walter was a leading conductor of opera, particularly known for his Mozart, and recordings of some from the Metropolitan Opera and the Salzburg Festival are now available on CD. So are performances of Wagner, Verdi, and Beethoven's Fidelio. Also of great interest are recordings from the 1950s of his rehearsals of Mozart, Mahler, and Brahms, which give insight into his musical priorities and into the warm and non-tyrannical manner (as contrasted with some of his colleagues) with which he related to orchestras.

Anyone interested in the history of this symphony needs to have at least one version of this "live" 1938 recording by the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Bruno Walter; so different, and therefore so illuminating, from his later stereo remake in California in 1961.

Over and above any details of playing and interpretation this is a document of a unique occasion too. Eight weeks after this performance took place Austria became part of Hitler's Third Reich. Remember that when you sense the presence of the audience and what must have been on their minds - fear or anticipation, depending on their political viewpoint. Walter fled westward after this performance and many of the players in the orchestra would not be in their places when concerts resumed after the war, so here is the end of an era commemorated by the performance of a work that was itself commemorating the end of another.

There is a moment in the first movement 27 bars from the end when the whole orchestra is silent but for the solo flute descending and you can nearly touch the atmosphere in the hall. It is aspects like these that give recordings like this their unique quality; one clearly recognised by Walter himself when producer Fred Gaisberg played him test pressings in Paris a few weeks later. There were tears in the delighted conductor's eyes as he gave Fred Gaisberg the clearance to release the recording commercially.

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Low start to encourage Bidding when will you see this set for sale again in this condition.

a real opportunity to own a very historical important set of Classical records...I believe there are 4 different versions on CD...

How nice to hear and appreciate the original recordings on these superb condition.78 `s.

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Postage .......This will be a very heavy package..UK....£10.00.....Europe....£18.00.....Rest of the World..£25.00...