Decca Conductors' Gallery / Various: Decca Conductors' Gallery / Various
Decca Conductors' Gallery / Various
SKU: 43795192
Decca Conductors' Gallery / Various: Decca Conductors' Gallery / Various
Decca Conductors' Gallery / Various
SKU: 43795192
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Title: Decca Conductors' Gallery / Various
Artist: Decca Conductors' Gallery / Various
Label: Eloquence Australia
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 028948421176
Genre: Classical Artists
An A-Z of 23 conductors in a feast of classic recordings from Decca's early years - 1929-1949 - including the golden age of it's 'ffrr' technology. Newly remastered from the best available sources by Mark Obert-Thorn, Ward Marston and Andrew Hallifax, this comprehensively annotated and richly illustrated set features several new-to-CD releases. It is a must-have for any follower of historical recordings. Spanning almost twenty years, the unique story of this set begins in May 1929 with Decca's first major recording, Delius's Sea Drift - a performance whose merits were obscured at the time by surface noise, but which the latest technology reveals to be a gloriously sympathetic reading of Delius's poignant elegy. Back then, the conductor (Anthony Bernard) was not even printed on the 78 labels; yet, for a later recording in the set, a suite of Handel, the name of Erich Kleiber stands out: a sign of how far the label travelled in it's first twenty years, through some choppy commercial waters, to become a byword for technological excellence and world-class musical artistry drawn from around the globe. The pre-war recordings inevitably centre on British/Irish conducting talent, old and new: Hamilton Harty, dynamic in Haydn and Walton; Walton himself, in a definitive first recording of Façade; atmospheric Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Coates from Henry Wood. One of the rarest items in the set is Bach's Concerto for Two Violins as led by Mengelberg in 1936. The post-war material includes several great names of the podium from those pre-war days, judiciously picked up by Decca when they might otherwise have been forgotten: Albert Coates whipping up a frenzy in the Russian repertoire he made his own; Clemens Krauss, incandescent in Strauss from Milan and London; Leo Blech's genial 'Surprise' Symphony of Haydn. Senior composer-conductors include Fitelberg in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3 and Enescu in Schumann's Second. Then there are thrilling young podium tyros who were setting London musical life alight in the postwar years: Celibidache's electrifying and wayward Tchaikovsky, Martinon's exquisite Ravel, Coppola's majestic Schumann. A note from the remastering engineer Andrew Hallifax explains the history behind this first-ever release of Handel choruses conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent. Mark Obert-Thorn explains his choice of treasures for this box and introduces the history of Decca and it's revolutionary development of 'full frequency range recording' in the late 1940s. Peter Quantrill expands the historical perspective with notes on both Decca and each of the individual conductors in the box.
Tracks:
1.1 Delius: Sea Drift (With Roy Henderson) - Anthony Bernard
1.2 Walton: Overture 'Portsmouth Point' - Anthony Bernard
1.3 Walton: Façade (With Edith Sitwell, Constant Lambert); Viola Concerto (With Frederick Riddle) - Sir William Walton
2.1 Walton: Symphony No. 1 - Sir Hamilton Harty
2.2 Haydn: Symphony No. 95 - Sir Hamilton Harty
2.3 Berlioz: Overture 'Le Roi Lear'; Marche Troyenne (Les Troyens) - Sir Hamilton Harty
3.1 Handel-Harty: Suite in Five Movements - Sir Hamilton Harty
3.2 Purcell-Wood: Suite in Five Movements - Sir Henry Wood
3.3 Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves; Overture 'The Wasps'; Symphony No. 2 'A London Symphony' - Sir Henry Wood
4.1 Coates: London Suite; London Bridge - March - Sir Henry Wood
4.2 Elgar: Enigma Variations - Sir Henry Wood
4.3 J.S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins (With Louis Zimmermann, Ferdinand Helman) - Willem Mengelberg
4.4 Gluck: Overture 'Alceste' - Willem Mengelberg
4.5 Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain; Gopak (Sorochintsy Fair) - Albert Coates
5.1 Rimsky-Korsakov: Snegurochka - Suite - Albert Coates
5.2 Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq D'or - Suite - Albert Coates
5.3 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique'; Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture - Albert Coates
6.1 Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' - Victor de Sabata
6.2 Berlioz: Overture 'Le Carnaval Romain' - Victor de Sabata
7.1 Sibelius: Valse Triste - Victor de Sabata
7.2 Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre) - Victor de Sabata
7.3 Sibelius: en Saga - Victor de Sabata
7.4 Bizet: Ouverture 'Patrie'; Jeux D'enfants - Petite Suite - Roger Désormière
7.5 Chabrier: Habanera - Roger Désormière
7.6 Debussy: Marche Ecossaise - Roger Désormière
7.7 Opera Arias - Gounod, Offenbach, Thomas, Proch, Charpentier (With Janine Micheau) - Roger Désormière
8.1 Wagner: Overture 'Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg' - Grzegorz Fitelberg
8.2 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 (With Eileen Joyce) - Grzegorz Fitelberg
9.1 Borodin: Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor) - Grzegorz Fitelberg
9.2 Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan - Suite - Grzegorz Fitelberg
9.3 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Wilhelm Furtwängler
10.1 Rossini: Overture 'La Scala Di Seta' - Carlo Zecchi
10.2 Pizzetti: La Pisanelle - Suite - Carlo Zecchi
10.3 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (With Clara Haskil) - Carlo Zecchi
10.4 Grieg: Symphonic Dances Nos. 1,2 ; 4 - Piero Coppola
11.1 Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Piero Coppola
11.2 Schumann: Symphony No. 2 - George Enescu
12.1 Debussy: Petite Suite - Ernest Ansermet
12.2 Debussy: La Mer - Ernest Ansermet
12.3 Ravel: Alborada Del Gracioso (Miroirs) - Ernest Ansermet
12.4 Ravel: Shéhérazade (With Suzanne Danco); la Valse - Ernest Ansermet
13.1 Beethoven: Overture 'Fidelio' - Clemens Krauss
13.2 Brahms: Academic Festival Overture - Clemens Krauss
13.3 R. Strauss: Tod Und Verklärung - Clemens Krauss
13.4 R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche - Clemens Krauss
13.5 Wagner: Overtures, 'Tannhäuser' ; 'Der Fliegende Holländer' - Paul Van Kempen
14.1 Handel: Messiah, Israel in Egypt, Semele, Alexander's Feast, Solomon, Serse - Excerpts; Zadok the Priest - Sir Malcolm Sargent
15.1 Handel-Harty: Music for the Royal Fireworks - Suite - Sir Malcolm Sargent
15.2 Holst: The Perfect Fool - Ballet Music - Sir Malcolm Sargent
15.3 Elgar: Overture 'Cockaigne' - Eduard Van Beinum
15.4 Britten: Four Sea Interludes ; Passacaglia from Peter Grimes - Eduard Van Beinum
15.5 Arnold: Overture 'Beckus the Dandipratt' - Eduard Van Beinum
16.1 Mahler: Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen (With Eugenia Zareska) - Eduard Van Beinum
16.2 Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 - Eduard Van Beinum
17.1 Wagner: Overture 'Rienzi'; Tannhäuser - Overture ; Venusberg Music; Lohengrin - Prelude to Act III; Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg - Prelude to Act III, Dance of the Apprentices, March of the Guild - Hans Knappertsbusch
17.2 Wagner: Lohengrin - Prelude to Act I - Hans Knappertsbusch
17.3 Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg - Prelude to Act I - Hans Knappertsbusch
18.1 Handel: Andante Larghetto (Berenice) - Erich Kleiber
18.2 Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Erich Kleiber
18.3 Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral' - Erich Kleiber
19.1 Josef Strauss: Sphärenklänge - Erich Kleiber
19.2 Johann Strauss II: Overture 'Der Zigeunerbaron' - Erich Kleiber
19.3 Dvorák: Overture 'Carnaval' - Erich Kleiber
19.4 Tchaikovsky: Da, Cas Nastal!... Prostite VÏ, Kholmï, Polya Rodnïye (The Maid of Orléans) (With Eugenia Zareska) - Jean Martinon
19.5 Chabrier: Suite Pastorale - Jean Martinon
19.6 Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin - Jean Martinon
20.1 Humperdinck: Prelude 'Hänsel Und Gretel' - Leo Blech
20.2 Haydn: Symphony No. 94 'Surprise' - Leo Blech
20.3 Mozart: Symphony No. 25 - Sergiu Celibidache
21.1 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; the Nutcracker - Suite - Sergiu Celibidache
Artist: Decca Conductors' Gallery / Various
Label: Eloquence Australia
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 028948421176
Genre: Classical Artists
An A-Z of 23 conductors in a feast of classic recordings from Decca's early years - 1929-1949 - including the golden age of it's 'ffrr' technology. Newly remastered from the best available sources by Mark Obert-Thorn, Ward Marston and Andrew Hallifax, this comprehensively annotated and richly illustrated set features several new-to-CD releases. It is a must-have for any follower of historical recordings. Spanning almost twenty years, the unique story of this set begins in May 1929 with Decca's first major recording, Delius's Sea Drift - a performance whose merits were obscured at the time by surface noise, but which the latest technology reveals to be a gloriously sympathetic reading of Delius's poignant elegy. Back then, the conductor (Anthony Bernard) was not even printed on the 78 labels; yet, for a later recording in the set, a suite of Handel, the name of Erich Kleiber stands out: a sign of how far the label travelled in it's first twenty years, through some choppy commercial waters, to become a byword for technological excellence and world-class musical artistry drawn from around the globe. The pre-war recordings inevitably centre on British/Irish conducting talent, old and new: Hamilton Harty, dynamic in Haydn and Walton; Walton himself, in a definitive first recording of Façade; atmospheric Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Coates from Henry Wood. One of the rarest items in the set is Bach's Concerto for Two Violins as led by Mengelberg in 1936. The post-war material includes several great names of the podium from those pre-war days, judiciously picked up by Decca when they might otherwise have been forgotten: Albert Coates whipping up a frenzy in the Russian repertoire he made his own; Clemens Krauss, incandescent in Strauss from Milan and London; Leo Blech's genial 'Surprise' Symphony of Haydn. Senior composer-conductors include Fitelberg in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3 and Enescu in Schumann's Second. Then there are thrilling young podium tyros who were setting London musical life alight in the postwar years: Celibidache's electrifying and wayward Tchaikovsky, Martinon's exquisite Ravel, Coppola's majestic Schumann. A note from the remastering engineer Andrew Hallifax explains the history behind this first-ever release of Handel choruses conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent. Mark Obert-Thorn explains his choice of treasures for this box and introduces the history of Decca and it's revolutionary development of 'full frequency range recording' in the late 1940s. Peter Quantrill expands the historical perspective with notes on both Decca and each of the individual conductors in the box.
Tracks:
1.1 Delius: Sea Drift (With Roy Henderson) - Anthony Bernard
1.2 Walton: Overture 'Portsmouth Point' - Anthony Bernard
1.3 Walton: Façade (With Edith Sitwell, Constant Lambert); Viola Concerto (With Frederick Riddle) - Sir William Walton
2.1 Walton: Symphony No. 1 - Sir Hamilton Harty
2.2 Haydn: Symphony No. 95 - Sir Hamilton Harty
2.3 Berlioz: Overture 'Le Roi Lear'; Marche Troyenne (Les Troyens) - Sir Hamilton Harty
3.1 Handel-Harty: Suite in Five Movements - Sir Hamilton Harty
3.2 Purcell-Wood: Suite in Five Movements - Sir Henry Wood
3.3 Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves; Overture 'The Wasps'; Symphony No. 2 'A London Symphony' - Sir Henry Wood
4.1 Coates: London Suite; London Bridge - March - Sir Henry Wood
4.2 Elgar: Enigma Variations - Sir Henry Wood
4.3 J.S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins (With Louis Zimmermann, Ferdinand Helman) - Willem Mengelberg
4.4 Gluck: Overture 'Alceste' - Willem Mengelberg
4.5 Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain; Gopak (Sorochintsy Fair) - Albert Coates
5.1 Rimsky-Korsakov: Snegurochka - Suite - Albert Coates
5.2 Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq D'or - Suite - Albert Coates
5.3 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique'; Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture - Albert Coates
6.1 Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' - Victor de Sabata
6.2 Berlioz: Overture 'Le Carnaval Romain' - Victor de Sabata
7.1 Sibelius: Valse Triste - Victor de Sabata
7.2 Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre) - Victor de Sabata
7.3 Sibelius: en Saga - Victor de Sabata
7.4 Bizet: Ouverture 'Patrie'; Jeux D'enfants - Petite Suite - Roger Désormière
7.5 Chabrier: Habanera - Roger Désormière
7.6 Debussy: Marche Ecossaise - Roger Désormière
7.7 Opera Arias - Gounod, Offenbach, Thomas, Proch, Charpentier (With Janine Micheau) - Roger Désormière
8.1 Wagner: Overture 'Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg' - Grzegorz Fitelberg
8.2 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 (With Eileen Joyce) - Grzegorz Fitelberg
9.1 Borodin: Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor) - Grzegorz Fitelberg
9.2 Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan - Suite - Grzegorz Fitelberg
9.3 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Wilhelm Furtwängler
10.1 Rossini: Overture 'La Scala Di Seta' - Carlo Zecchi
10.2 Pizzetti: La Pisanelle - Suite - Carlo Zecchi
10.3 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (With Clara Haskil) - Carlo Zecchi
10.4 Grieg: Symphonic Dances Nos. 1,2 ; 4 - Piero Coppola
11.1 Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Piero Coppola
11.2 Schumann: Symphony No. 2 - George Enescu
12.1 Debussy: Petite Suite - Ernest Ansermet
12.2 Debussy: La Mer - Ernest Ansermet
12.3 Ravel: Alborada Del Gracioso (Miroirs) - Ernest Ansermet
12.4 Ravel: Shéhérazade (With Suzanne Danco); la Valse - Ernest Ansermet
13.1 Beethoven: Overture 'Fidelio' - Clemens Krauss
13.2 Brahms: Academic Festival Overture - Clemens Krauss
13.3 R. Strauss: Tod Und Verklärung - Clemens Krauss
13.4 R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche - Clemens Krauss
13.5 Wagner: Overtures, 'Tannhäuser' ; 'Der Fliegende Holländer' - Paul Van Kempen
14.1 Handel: Messiah, Israel in Egypt, Semele, Alexander's Feast, Solomon, Serse - Excerpts; Zadok the Priest - Sir Malcolm Sargent
15.1 Handel-Harty: Music for the Royal Fireworks - Suite - Sir Malcolm Sargent
15.2 Holst: The Perfect Fool - Ballet Music - Sir Malcolm Sargent
15.3 Elgar: Overture 'Cockaigne' - Eduard Van Beinum
15.4 Britten: Four Sea Interludes ; Passacaglia from Peter Grimes - Eduard Van Beinum
15.5 Arnold: Overture 'Beckus the Dandipratt' - Eduard Van Beinum
16.1 Mahler: Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen (With Eugenia Zareska) - Eduard Van Beinum
16.2 Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 - Eduard Van Beinum
17.1 Wagner: Overture 'Rienzi'; Tannhäuser - Overture ; Venusberg Music; Lohengrin - Prelude to Act III; Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg - Prelude to Act III, Dance of the Apprentices, March of the Guild - Hans Knappertsbusch
17.2 Wagner: Lohengrin - Prelude to Act I - Hans Knappertsbusch
17.3 Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg - Prelude to Act I - Hans Knappertsbusch
18.1 Handel: Andante Larghetto (Berenice) - Erich Kleiber
18.2 Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Erich Kleiber
18.3 Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral' - Erich Kleiber
19.1 Josef Strauss: Sphärenklänge - Erich Kleiber
19.2 Johann Strauss II: Overture 'Der Zigeunerbaron' - Erich Kleiber
19.3 Dvorák: Overture 'Carnaval' - Erich Kleiber
19.4 Tchaikovsky: Da, Cas Nastal!... Prostite VÏ, Kholmï, Polya Rodnïye (The Maid of Orléans) (With Eugenia Zareska) - Jean Martinon
19.5 Chabrier: Suite Pastorale - Jean Martinon
19.6 Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin - Jean Martinon
20.1 Humperdinck: Prelude 'Hänsel Und Gretel' - Leo Blech
20.2 Haydn: Symphony No. 94 'Surprise' - Leo Blech
20.3 Mozart: Symphony No. 25 - Sergiu Celibidache
21.1 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; the Nutcracker - Suite - Sergiu Celibidache
