London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goossens
Everest SDBR 3035 (recorded May 1959; original LP issue November 1959. Digital remastered 2008)
(digital download - flacs, booklet and cover scans)
Recording venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
Recording engineers: Bert Whyte & Aaron Nathanson; Producer: Bert Whyte
Another Everest reissue from Countdown Media (now part of BMG).This one doesn't quite reach the height's of earlier ones posted here - neither as sound nor performance -and it has undoubtedly been superseded by more recent issues - my favourite Manfred is still Igor Markevich with the London Symphony and, more recently, Vasily Petrenko in Liverpool.
Nevertheless, this release still has much to offer with Goossens revealed to be a fine Tchaikovskian with a very taut performance. The recording is excellent overall but I do find much of the percussion rather backward in the mix - very unusual for Bert Whyte.
This was one of a series of recordings that the British-born but long Australian resident conductor and composer, Sir Eugene Goossens, was invited to make for Everest after a possession of pornography scandal in Sydney in 1956 which destroyed his career.
Download from MEGA.