![]() It is a mono pressing by RCA Victor, Red Seal Series, collecting both, the second and the fourth Beethoven symphonies, with one per each long-playing side. The recording is taken from a broadcast of February 3rd, 1951 (!) performed by the NBC Symphony Orchestra with Arturo Toscanini at the helm. I flash to the premiere of the first, and now in front of me, inside the hard and crumbling cardboard and yellow crinkly waxy sleeve, I hold a vinyl of the second. Surprisingly (or not surprisingly at all), the next piece in a series of this tale is one of the Beethoven once again. ![]() The records sat inside, awaiting for their time, and now, on early Sunday morn, I pull another one in shy anticipation. I haven’t heard the voice until it spoke again, somewhere in my mind, it beckoned for surrender, and then these words just came, one letter at a time, like single notes in chords unveiled in their splendour. A few more weeks have passed, and then another day until I felt obliged again to turn back to my story. It’s been a while since I wrote and even longer since I listened. ![]() ![]() RCA’s Red Seal, Arturo Toscanini and Beethoven’s Fourth ![]()
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