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1.1 Delius: Sea Drift (With Roy Henderson) - Anthony Bernard1.2 Walton: Overture 'Portsmouth Point' - Anthony Bernard1.3 Walton: Façade (With Edith Sitwell, Constant Lambert); Viola Concerto (With Frederick Riddle) - Sir William Walton2.1 Walton: Symphony No. 1 - Sir Hamilton Harty2.2 Haydn: Symphony No. 95 - Sir Hamilton Harty2.3 Berlioz: Overture 'Le Roi Lear'; Marche Troyenne (Les Troyens) - Sir Hamilton Harty3.1 Handel-Harty: Suite in Five Movements - Sir Hamilton Harty3.2 Purcell-Wood: Suite in Five Movements - Sir Henry Wood3.3 Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves; Overture 'The Wasps'; Symphony No. 2 'A London Symphony' - Sir Henry Wood4.1 Coates: London Suite; London Bridge - March - Sir Henry Wood4.2 Elgar: Enigma Variations - Sir Henry Wood4.3 J.S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins (With Louis Zimmermann, Ferdinand Helman) - Willem Mengelberg4.4 Gluck: Overture 'Alceste' - Willem Mengelberg4.5 Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain; Gopak (Sorochintsy Fair) - Albert Coates5.1 Rimsky-Korsakov: Snegurochka - Suite - Albert Coates5.2 Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq D'or - Suite - Albert Coates5.3 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique'; Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture - Albert Coates6.1 Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' - Victor de Sabata6.2 Berlioz: Overture 'Le Carnaval Romain' - Victor de Sabata7.1 Sibelius: Valse Triste - Victor de Sabata7.2 Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre) - Victor de Sabata7.3 Sibelius: en Saga - Victor de Sabata7.4 Bizet: Ouverture 'Patrie'; Jeux D'enfants - Petite Suite - Roger Désormière7.5 Chabrier: Habanera - Roger Désormière7.6 Debussy: Marche Ecossaise - Roger Désormière7.7 Opera Arias - Gounod, Offenbach, Thomas, Proch, Charpentier (With Janine Micheau) - Roger Désormière8.1 Wagner: Overture 'Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg' - Grzegorz Fitelberg8.2 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 (With Eileen Joyce) - Grzegorz Fitelberg9.1 Borodin: Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor) - Grzegorz Fitelberg9.2 Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan - Suite - Grzegorz Fitelberg9.3 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Wilhelm Furtwängler10.1 Rossini: Overture 'La Scala Di Seta' - Carlo Zecchi10.2 Pizzetti: La Pisanelle - Suite - Carlo Zecchi10.3 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (With Clara Haskil) - Carlo Zecchi10.4 Grieg: Symphonic Dances Nos. 1,2 ; 4 - Piero Coppola11.1 Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Piero Coppola11.2 Schumann: Symphony No. 2 - George Enescu12.1 Debussy: Petite Suite - Ernest Ansermet12.2 Debussy: La Mer - Ernest Ansermet12.3 Ravel: Alborada Del Gracioso (Miroirs) - Ernest Ansermet12.4 Ravel: Shéhérazade (With Suzanne Danco); la Valse - Ernest Ansermet13.1 Beethoven: Overture 'Fidelio' - Clemens Krauss13.2 Brahms: Academic Festival Overture - Clemens Krauss13.3 R. Strauss: Tod Und Verklärung - Clemens Krauss13.4 R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche - Clemens Krauss13.5 Wagner: Overtures, 'Tannhäuser' ; 'Der Fliegende Holländer' - Paul Van Kempen14.1 Handel: Messiah, Israel in Egypt, Semele, Alexander's Feast, Solomon, Serse - Excerpts; Zadok the Priest - Sir Malcolm Sargent15.1 Handel-Harty: Music for the Royal Fireworks - Suite - Sir Malcolm Sargent15.2 Holst: The Perfect Fool - Ballet Music - Sir Malcolm Sargent15.3 Elgar: Overture 'Cockaigne' - Eduard Van Beinum15.4 Britten: Four Sea Interludes ; Passacaglia from Peter Grimes - Eduard Van Beinum15.5 Arnold: Overture 'Beckus the Dandipratt' - Eduard Van Beinum16.1 Mahler: Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen (With Eugenia Zareska) - Eduard Van Beinum16.2 Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 - Eduard Van Beinum17.1 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 Knappertsbusch17.2 Wagner: Lohengrin - Prelude to Act I - Hans Knappertsbusch17.3 Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg - Prelude to Act I - Hans Knappertsbusch18.1 Handel: Andante Larghetto (Berenice) - Erich Kleiber18.2 Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Erich Kleiber18.3 Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral' - Erich Kleiber19.1 Josef Strauss: Sphärenklänge - Erich Kleiber19.2 Johann Strauss II: Overture 'Der Zigeunerbaron' - Erich Kleiber19.3 Dvorßk: Overture 'Carnaval' - Erich Kleiber19.4 Tchaikovsky: Da, Cas Nastal!... Prostite VÏ, Kholmï, Polya Rodnïye (The Maid of Orléans) (With Eugenia Zareska) - Jean Martinon19.5 Chabrier: Suite Pastorale - Jean Martinon19.6 Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin - Jean Martinon20.1 Humperdinck: Prelude 'Hänsel Und Gretel' - Leo Blech20.2 Haydn: Symphony No. 94 'Surprise' - Leo Blech20.3 Mozart: Symphony No. 25 - Sergiu Celibidache21.1 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; the Nutcracker - Suite - Sergiu Celibidache |
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| | Description: | 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.TRACK LISTING / ARTISTS
CD 1
ANTHONY BERNARD
Delius: Sea Drift (with Roy Henderson)
Walton: Overture ?Portsmouth Point?
New English Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
SIR WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Façade (with Edith Sitwell, Constant Lambert); Viola Concerto (with Frederick Riddle)
London Symphony Orchestra
CD 2
SIR HAMILTON HARTY
Walton: Symphony No. 1
Haydn: Symphony No. 95
Berlioz: Overture ?Le Roi Lear?; Marche troyenne (Les Troyens)
London Symphony Orchestra
CD 3
SIR HAMILTON HARTY
Handel?Harty: Suite in Five Movements
London Symphony Orchestra
SIR HENRY WOOD
Purcell?Wood: Suite in Five Movements
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves; Overture ?The Wasps?; Symphony No. 2 ?A London Symphony?
Queen?s Hall Orchestra
CD 4
SIR HENRY WOOD
Coates: London Suite; London Bridge ? March
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Queen?s Hall Orchestra
WILLEM MENGELBERG
J.S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins (with Louis Zimmermann, Ferdinand Helman)
Gluck: Overture ?Alceste?
Concertgebouworkest
ALBERT COATES
Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain; Gopak (Sorochintsy Fair)
London Symphony Orchestra
CD 5
ALBERT COATES
Rimsky-Korsakov: Snegurochka ? Suite
National Symphony Orchestra
Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d?or ? Suite
London Symphony Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 ?Pathétique?; Romeo and Juliet ? Fantasy Overture
National Symphony Orchestra
CD 6
VICTOR DE SABATA
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ?Eroica?
Berlioz: Overture ?Le Carnaval romain?
Sibelius: Valse triste
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
CD 7
VICTOR DE SABATA
Sibelius: En saga
London Philharmonic Orchestra
ROGER DÉSORMIÈRE
Bizet: Ouverture ?Patrie?; Jeux d?enfants ? Petite Suite
Chabrier: Habanera
Debussy: Marche ecossaise
National Symphony Orchestra
Opera Arias ? Gounod, Offenbach, Thomas, Proch, Charpentier (with Janine Micheau)
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
CD 8
GRZEGORZ FITELBERG
Wagner: Overture ?Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg?
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Eileen Jo | | | No. of tracks: |
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ELQ4842117 |
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