Various Artists - Decca Conductors' Gallery / Various (CD)

Decca Conductors' Gallery / Various

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FORMAT: New CD • UPC: 028948421176
GENRE: Classical Artists • RECORD LABEL: Eloquence Australia
RELEASE DATE: 09/15/23

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Various Artists - Decca Conductors' Gallery / Various (CD)

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Various Artists - Decca Conductors' Gallery / Various (CD)

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Details: 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.

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Tracklist:

Delius: Sea Drift (With Roy Henderson) - Anthony Bernard
Walton: Overture 'Portsmouth Point' - Anthony Bernard
Walton: Façade (With Edith Sitwell Constant Lambert); Viola Concerto (With Frederick Riddle) - Sir William Walton
Walton: Symphony No. 1 - Sir Hamilton Harty
Haydn: Symphony No. 95 - Sir Hamilton Harty
Berlioz: Overture 'Le Roi Lear'; Marche Troyenne (Les Troyens) - Sir Hamilton Harty
Handel-Harty: Suite in Five Movements - Sir Hamilton Harty
Purcell-Wood: Suite in Five Movements - Sir Henry Wood
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves; Overture 'The Wasps'; Symphony No. 2 'A London Symphony' - Sir Henry Wood
Coates: London Suite; London Bridge - March - Sir Henry Wood
Elgar: Enigma Variations - Sir Henry Wood
J.S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins (With Louis Zimmermann Ferdinand Helman) - Willem Mengelberg
Gluck: Overture 'Alceste' - Willem Mengelberg
Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain; Gopak (Sorochintsy Fair) - Albert Coates
Rimsky-Korsakov: Snegurochka - Suite - Albert Coates
Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq D'or - Suite - Albert Coates
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique'; Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture - Albert Coates
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' - Victor de Sabata
Berlioz: Overture 'Le Carnaval Romain' - Victor de Sabata
Sibelius: Valse Triste - Victor de Sabata
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre) - Victor de Sabata
Sibelius: en Saga - Victor de Sabata
Bizet: Ouverture 'Patrie'; Jeux D'enfants - Petite Suite - Roger Désormière
Chabrier: Habanera - Roger Désormière
Debussy: Marche Ecossaise - Roger Désormière
Opera Arias - Gounod Offenbach Thomas Proch Charpentier (With Janine Micheau) - Roger Désormière
Wagner: Overture 'Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg' - Grzegorz Fitelberg
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 (With Eileen Joyce) - Grzegorz Fitelberg
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor) - Grzegorz Fitelberg
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan - Suite - Grzegorz Fitelberg
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Wilhelm Furtwängler
Rossini: Overture 'La Scala Di Seta' - Carlo Zecchi
Pizzetti: La Pisanelle - Suite - Carlo Zecchi
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (With Clara Haskil) - Carlo Zecchi
Grieg: Symphonic Dances Nos. 12 ; 4 - Piero Coppola
Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Piero Coppola
Schumann: Symphony No. 2 - George Enescu
Debussy: Petite Suite - Ernest Ansermet
Debussy: La Mer - Ernest Ansermet
Ravel: Alborada Del Gracioso (Miroirs) - Ernest Ansermet
Ravel: Shéhérazade (With Suzanne Danco); la Valse - Ernest Ansermet
Beethoven: Overture 'Fidelio' - Clemens Krauss
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture - Clemens Krauss
R. Strauss: Tod Und Verklärung - Clemens Krauss
R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche - Clemens Krauss
Wagner: Overtures 'Tannhäuser' ; 'Der Fliegende Holländer' - Paul Van Kempen
Handel: Messiah Israel in Egypt Semele Alexander's Feast Solomon Serse - Excerpts; Zadok the Priest - Sir Malcolm Sargent
Handel-Harty: Music for the Royal Fireworks - Suite - Sir Malcolm Sargent
Holst: The Perfect Fool - Ballet Music - Sir Malcolm Sargent
Elgar: Overture 'Cockaigne' - Eduard Van Beinum
Britten: Four Sea Interludes ; Passacaglia from Peter Grimes - Eduard Van Beinum
Arnold: Overture 'Beckus the Dandipratt' - Eduard Van Beinum
Mahler: Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen (With Eugenia Zareska) - Eduard Van Beinum
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 - Eduard Van Beinum
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
Wagner: Lohengrin - Prelude to Act I - Hans Knappertsbusch
Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg - Prelude to Act I - Hans Knappertsbusch
Handel: Andante Larghetto (Berenice) - Erich Kleiber
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Erich Kleiber
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral' - Erich Kleiber
Josef Strauss: Sphärenklänge - Erich Kleiber
Johann Strauss II: Overture 'Der Zigeunerbaron' - Erich Kleiber
Dvořák: Overture 'Carnaval' - Erich Kleiber
Tchaikovsky: Da Čas Nastal!... Prostite VÏ Kholmï Polya Rodnïye (The Maid of Orléans) (With Eugenia Zareska) - Jean Martinon
Chabrier: Suite Pastorale - Jean Martinon
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin - Jean Martinon
Humperdinck: Prelude 'Hänsel Und Gretel' - Leo Blech
Haydn: Symphony No. 94 'Surprise' - Leo Blech
Mozart: Symphony No. 25 - Sergiu Celibidache
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; the Nutcracker - Suite - Sergiu Celibidache