This performance uses the wrong version of the piano cadenza at the very start of the third section, PInes of the Janiculum. The strings are sustaining a pentatonic chord in B major, with D# in the bass, and the piano should start on that low D# also; but it starts on B instead, like the later version of the cadenza near the end of the section, quite spoiling the effect. (The score confirms that initially the piano should start on D# in the first instance - it is not just my assumption that the piano and strings should agree on which bass note to use.) I wonder how this mistake ever got past the conductor immediately after it occurred.
A genuine miracle of a recording, at the very cusp of the stereophonic era.
Fabulous!!
This splendor of words can not arrive
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This performance uses the wrong version of the piano cadenza at the very start of the third section, PInes of the Janiculum. The strings are sustaining a pentatonic chord in B major, with D# in the bass, and the piano should start on that low D# also; but it starts on B instead, like the later version of the cadenza near the end of the section, quite spoiling the effect. (The score confirms that initially the piano should start on D# in the first instance - it is not just my assumption that the piano and strings should agree on which bass note to use.) I wonder how this mistake ever got past the conductor immediately after it occurred.