2023 William Steinberg

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg - Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 8 (2023) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Nov. 23, 2023

The performance by Steinberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is suitably lithe, articulate and dance like. Steinberg's take on the two movements of the "Unfinished" Symphony No. 8, are characteristically direct and without editorialization. Together with excellent engineering from Bob Fine and his team, this is a lovely album which provides much enjoyment here.

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William Steinberg, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Gustav Holst: The Planets; Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra (2018) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at April 12, 2024

Steinberg's tenure at the helm of the Boston Symphony was cut short by illness, but his relatively slim catalogue of recordings with the orchestra produced several important examples of his art, boasting truly fine interpretations and spectacular playing. These orchestral showpieces by Strauss and Holst were long overdue for reissue. Steinberg's fast tempos make the Strauss work zip by; it's as if he takes it in one big gulp, creating as exciting a performance as you're likely to hear.

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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg - Copland: Billy the Kid; Appalachian Spring (2023) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Nov. 23, 2023

Billy the Kid is a 1938 ballet written by the American composer Aaron Copland on commission from Lincoln Kirstein. It was choreographed by Eugene Loring for Ballet Caravan. Along with Rodeo and Appalachian Spring, it is one of Copland's most popular and widely performed pieces. It is most famous for its incorporation of several cowboy tunes and American folk songs and, although built around the figure and the exploits of Billy the Kid, is not so much a biography of a notorious but peculiarly appealing desperado as it is a perception of the "Wild West", in which a figure such as Billy played a vivid role.

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William Steinberg – The Complete Command Classics Recordings (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at May 31, 2024

William Steinberg – The Complete Command Classics Recordings (2023)
FLAC (tracks) - 5.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 2.5 GB
17:57:17 | Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

William Steinberg's ability to take an orchestra to the next level was evident from his first two stops, the Cologne Opera and the Palestine Symphony Orchestra - later known as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He brought this to bear again during his tenure as principal conductor in Pittsburgh, turning the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra into one of America's top orchestras from 1952 to 1976, wowing audiences everywhere with their live concerts and recordings. The first recordings on Capitol Records and Everest were followed by a successful period with Command Classics from 1961 to 1968. A label of the Command Records group, which specialized in recording on 35 mm film and thus set qualitative standards.

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William Steinberg - William Steinberg & Boston Symphony Orchestra: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (2024) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at April 5, 2024

William Steinberg - William Steinberg & Boston Symphony Orchestra: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 3:32:31 | 0,99 Gb
Genre: Classical

Including “vital and inspiring performances”, here are 4 CD’s containing William Steinberg conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which includes some of his “best entries in his discography, and the finest recordings of the works.” Mendelssohn’s own orchestration of the Scherzo from his Octet and Stravinsky’s Scherzo fantastique and Scherzo à la russe, coupled on CD 3 with formidable virtuoso renderings of orchestral showpieces by Dukas, Richard Strauss and Saint-Saëns, were originally prepared for release on LP LSC-3155 but remained unpublished – until now.

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Nathan Milstein - Violin Concertos: Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Bruch (2023) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at March 21, 2023

Nathan Mironovich Milstein (January 13, 1904 [O.S. December 31, 1903] – December 21, 1992) was a Russian Empire-born American virtuoso violinist.Widely considered one of the finest violinists of the 20th century, Milstein was known for his interpretations of Bach's solo violin works and for works from the Romantic period. He was also known for his long career: he performed at a high level into his mid 80s, retiring only after suffering a broken hand.

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