Ninth Symphony from The Philadelphia Orchestra

This is very exciting: the Internet Archive has a recording of the 1951 premiere performance of the Ninth Symphony of Heitor Villa-Lobos performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy. This is the only recording of this interesting and surprising work that I know of, other than those from the complete symphony series from Stuttgart & São Paulo. Here is what Fábio Zanon said about it, in his liner notes to the recent Naxos recording from São Paulo.

In his Ninth – just like Beethoven in his Eighth – Villa-Lobos makes use of disguise. We are presented here with agitated propulsion, the thick layer of orchestral activity that flows in a seemingly uncontrolled manner, but this is his shortest symphony, more economic in terms of ideas and, although the orchestration sounds chimerical in comparison with the likes of Haydn, pre-Beethoven symphonies are his formal inspiration.