Chicago Symphony Orchestra on TV – recorded February 25, 1962 – Walter Hendl conducts Sinigaglia’s Le baruffe chiozzotte & Stravinsky’s 1919 Firebird Suite, and Frank Miller plays Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No.1.

Jan 24, 2021 | Ramblings, Videos | 1 comment

Worth catching for the exuberant concert-opener that is the Sinigaglia* overture. Frank Miller (1912-86, pictured) is superb in the Saint-Saëns, in my opinion. Walter Hendl (1917-2007) concludes with colourful Stravinsky.

https://cso.org/csotv/great-music/walter-hendl-frank-miller/?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210116_CSOtvGuideRoundup9&utm_content=version_A&uid=2330520&promo=40766

*Leone Sinigaglia, 1868-1944, was born in Turin and he died there. He was also a mountaineer.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Jean Martinon, with Isaac Stern, 4 March 1962, Handel Opus 6/6, Mozart K207, Mendelssohn’s Dream.

1 Comment

  1. EDWARD CLARK
    EDWARD CLARK on January 25, 2021 at 10:04 am

    I think Walter Hendl was deputy to Reiner in Chicago. He actually became well
    Known for accompanying Heifetz and others in stereo remakes of the classics or at least some of them. The best is probably the Sibelius Concerto but there are others which show what a fine musician he was forever in the shadow of others.

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