Tchaikovsky, Mitropoulos, Francescatti NY Philharmonic 1954

[@eirini1501]

Thank you very much for sharing! Greetings from Greece! 🙂

[@verdiguy]

Saw the three names in the title of the video and just knew this was going to be an epic performance. The perfect marriage of a composition and a soloist ideally suited to its many challenges. Francescatti and Mitropoulos very a great pairing as well. I love their recording of the Saint-Saens third concerto from 1950 and this is another gem. Thanks for posting and Happy Thanksgiving from north of the border in Canada!

[@taniapetrova9977]

Majestic masterpiece ❤

[@alexrigas9788]

What a present! All the best wishes.

[@MarchantTapeArchive]

Interesting to hear the applause after the first movement - I guess being wowed by incredible playing overrules the convention of holding applause to the end.

[@remomazzetti8757]

It was a fairly common practice to applaud between movements in former times. And this still happens today especially in Europe.

[@MarchantTapeArchive]

Interesting! My experience with live in person classical only goes back to the 70s.

[@brianwilliams9408]

Yes, it was more common then. Listen to Mitropoulos and Kapell for their live performance of the Brahms Piano Concerto #1. Huge applause after the first movement. Even for an even better example, Stokowski and the NBC Symphony in their performance of the Brahms 4th. The audience applauds after every movement!

[@verdiguy]

We watch the Berlin Philharmonic in their Digital Concert Hall and audiences still occasionally applaud between the movements of a symphony or concerto, including the Tchaikovsky. I've also heard audiences clap after the third movement of Tchaikovsky's Pathetique though I suspect that might be because they aren't familiar with it and assume that's the finale of the symphony. Of course, there are also plenty of moments in opera where spontaneous applause is a regular occurrence, most notably after nessun dorma in Turandot. It was also very common for audiences to give a nice round of applause to a favourite singer when they made their first appearance of the evening. That's a tradition that has almost completely died out these days though for some reason, they still clap after nessun dorma no matter how bad the tenor is...

[@verdiguy]

@@brianwilliams9408 I can certainly understand in the case of the Brahms Piano Concerto as it's almost a complete concerto on its own merits and that particular performance is sublime. I've also heard audiences applaud after the first movement of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto.

[@marcovillarroel2490]

Que hermoso concierto,el director faltan palabras y este gran violinista con sensibilidad exquisita y una sonoridad aterciopelada,mil y mil gracias