Mystery Beethoven Symphony no. 2

Beethoven: Symphony no. 2 in D, op. 36
Misattributed to the Rome Symphony Orchestra, cond. Leonardo Scotti
[Neither the orchestra nor the conductor are real]
I - Adagio molto - Allegro con brio 0:00
II - Larghetto 12:29
III - Scherzo 24:12
IV - Allegro molto 28:04

[@YoshiyukiMukudai_NBC-ABC-CBS]

Stunning performance! Thank you, Misha!!!

[@LyleFrancisDelp]

A very reliable source thinks the orchestra is the Graz Philharmonic...conductor unknown. He links this with several minor labels with connections to Vox (which might mean Horenstein) and Omega, and others. Lots of recordings like this were circulated on several labels under pseudonymous conductors and orchestra. All that said, this really is a damned fine recording of this work.

[@mishoren]

I don't think this is Horenstein conducting, he rarely did no. 2 and there is no indication that he ever recorded it in the studio. There is a live recording from Venezuela which is very different.

[@jiri111000]

@@mishoren Is there really a recording of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony with Horenstein? And would it be possible to publish it?

[@mishoren]

@@jiri111000 Only this one from Venezuela. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hn-ugIGumbFqZ5I

[@MrBohuslav]

With the repeat in the first movement, which was not as frequent at that time

[@lordlouckster2315]

Are you a relative of Jascha Horenstein?

[@karldelavigne8134]

A very decent performance conducted presumably by Jascha?

[@mishoren]

Could be but as far as I know Jascha Horenstein never recorded Beethoven no. 2 in a studio, only live, and that one is very different from this one.

[@markiz1009]

Why not Jasha Gorestein???

[@barney6888]

might it be sir john and the vpo??

[@jean-yvesdelafosse7510]

Funny !

[@barney6888]

@@jean-yvesdelafosse7510 : ) I guess this because of the sound of the oboe, the excellent string section and Barbirolli had a keen ear for orchestral effect, which so many conductors today can't do to save their lives. Whoever it is, they're very, very good.

[@jean-yvesdelafosse7510]

@@barney6888 I share ! They are very good and the tempo is pulsatile, especially in the final movement. I like it ! And I think that I have the LP since the seventies in my collection in a French edition. I have to look after somwherre in my country house : I shall tell U when I'll get it.

[@barney6888]

@@jean-yvesdelafosse7510 Merci, and if by miracle I'm correct with my guess, I think I should win one year of conducting the Berlin Phil and the Chicago Symphony with a program of my choice, plus hotel and food of course.

[@jean-yvesdelafosse7510]

@@barney6888 For the BPO you're like Barenboïm U have to wait agin and again.... With Shazam I had this reference = Kletzki and the Czech Phil...