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Video, 1959, Featuring the BSO Horn Section
A friend sent a link to a YouTube video featuring the horn section of the BSO in 1959. According to the information there,
Sir John Barbirolli conducts An Elizabethan Suite “The King’s Hunt.” From: VAI DVD 4304 Boston Symphony Orchestra Historic Telecasts: Sir John Barbirolli. The only extant video of Sir Johns work with the BSO, this 1959 telecast finds the conductor in exemplary form, leading performances of Brahmss Symphony No. 2, Waltons Partita for Orchestra, Deliuss “The Walk to the Paradise Garden” (from A Village Romeo and Juliet), and Barbirollis own arrangement of selections from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, entitled An Elizabethan Suite. Black & White, 94 minutes. Mono with an alternate stereo soundtrack provided.
The work is an arrangement by Barbirolli for four horns and strings and features the horns very prominently. This video is set up so that we can’t embed it in Horn Matters so you will have to click over to it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBYtbcPqeN0&feature=related
The section is:
1. James Stagliano
2. Harry Shapiro
3. Harold Meek
4. Osbourne McConathy
It is well worth the click over to see this classic horn section in action on an interesting mixture of horns, with the rest of the telecast available for purchase there. Enjoy!
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