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Reiner Rarities, Volume 2 (CD)

Reiner Rarities, Volume 2 (CD)
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The second volume of Pristine Classical’s Reiner Rarities brings together four seldom-heard recordings made by Fritz Reiner between 1950 and 1954. Each represents Reiner’s only commercial recording of the work, and none received an official CD reissue from RCA or Sony.

The collection includes Mozart’s A Musical Joke with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53, featuring contralto Marian Anderson and the Robert Shaw Chorale of Men’s Voices, and Debussy’s Petite Suite in Henri Büsser’s orchestration. The album concludes with Rolf Liebermann’s Concerto for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra, recorded at Orchestra Hall in 1954 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra.

Liebermann’s concerto is an especially unusual document from Reiner’s Chicago years, combining a symphony orchestra and jazz band in a set of dance variations that incorporates jump, blues, boogie-woogie and mambo rhythms. The original stereo recording was transferred for this release from a 1955 RCA two-track tape. All four performances were restored and remastered by Mark Obert-Thorn.

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