• Album cover for Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony, Vol. 2 (2-CD), conducted by Frederick Stock, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, featuring Ernest Liegl and Vaclav Jiskra
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Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony, Vol. 2 (2-CD)

Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony, Vol. 2 (2-CD)
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The second volume in Pristine Classical’s series devoted to Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra brings together historic Victor recordings made between 1925 and 1929. The two-disc collection includes Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Dohnányi’s Suite in F-sharp Minor, Op. 19, Schumann’s Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 38 (Spring) and shorter works by Dvořák, Glazunov, Glinka, Smetana, Johann Strauss Jr., Suk and Wagner.

The recordings document an important period in the CSO’s early history in the recording studio. Concerns over the reverberant acoustics of Orchestra Hall led Victor to move the Orchestra’s 1927 and 1928 sessions to the smaller Goodman Theatre, where Stock and the CSO recorded Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and much of the repertoire included here. Wagner’s Träume appears in an arrangement by Theodore Thomas, founder and first music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Among the collection’s rarities is the first release of a previously unpublished 1925 recording of an intermezzo from Josef Suk’s Fairy Tale Suite. Recordings of works by Dvořák, Glinka, Glazunov and Smetana had not been available since the 78-rpm era, and Johann Strauss Jr.’s Du und du receives its first CD and digital release. Restored and remastered by Mark Obert-Thorn, the set offers a wide-ranging portrait of Stock and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra during the formative years of electrical recording.

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