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This set contains the following albums:
- Producer's Note
- Full Track Listing
- Cover Art
Ultra-rare war-time Tchaikovsky recordings by Talich
Newly transfered and remastered by Mark Obert-Thorn
The present recordings are among Talich’s rarest discs. Although the Violin Concerto has seen limited reissue on small labels, neither recording has ever been available on LP or CD from EMI or in any of Supraphon’s Talich reissue series. (Tantalizingly, the conductor made his only recording of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony at the same sessions as the Violin Concerto, but it was never released and the masters are presumed lost.) The Piano Concerto makes its first extended play appearance in any form here.
Despite the scarcity of the original discs, two copies of each album were assembled for these transfers, and the best portions of each side were used. Some blasting in the louder passages of the Piano Concerto was present on both copies and may be due to the use of inferior shellac during wartime rather than from wear.
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TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 83
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TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Winfried Wolf, piano
Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Václav Talich
Matrix nos.: 2RA 4608-2, 4609-2, 4610-2, 4611-2, 4612-3, 4615-1, 4616-1, 4617-2
First issued on Electrola DB 5584 through 5587
Violin Concerto: Recorded July, 1941 in the National Theatre, Prague
Matrix nos.: CRX 147-2, 148-1, 149-1, 150-2, 151-1, 152-2, 153-2, 154-1
First issued on German Columbia LWX 349 through 352
Producer and Audio Restoration Engineer: Mark Obert-Thorn
Cover artwork based on a photograph of Václav Talich
Total duration: 65:52
