Dorati in Holland
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4825659
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 14th July 2017
Contents
Works
Piet Hein RapsodieLa Damnation de Faust, op.24 H111 (orchestral excerpts)
Romeo et Juliette, op.17
Pomp and Circumstance March no.1 in D major, op.39 no.1
Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage), op.27
Overture in D major, D591 'im italiensichen Stil'
Ma vlast (My Country)
Artists
Concertgebouw OrchestraResidentie Orkest
Conductor
Antal DoratiWorks
Piet Hein RapsodieLa Damnation de Faust, op.24 H111 (orchestral excerpts)
Romeo et Juliette, op.17
Pomp and Circumstance March no.1 in D major, op.39 no.1
Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage), op.27
Overture in D major, D591 'im italiensichen Stil'
Ma vlast (My Country)
Artists
Concertgebouw OrchestraResidentie Orkest
Conductor
Antal DoratiAbout
Dorati’s sentiment does not entirely square with the firebrand who terrorised his orchestras as well as electrifying his audiences during the 1950s when these recordings were made. The director of the Hague Philharmonic was once confronted by Doráti in a rage and a heavy glass ashtray flying towards his head (he ducked). Though the Residentie orchestra was regarded, then as now, in terms inferior to the Concertgebouw, they still attracted musicians of the calibre of Doráti and Ginette Neveu.
The conductor was already renowned in both Europe and the US for his idiomatic flair in the music of Dvořák, and the young Philips label was keen to expand its catalogue with orchestral showpieces such as the less-familiar Slavonic Rhapsodies, which were split between the two Dutch orchestras. The conductor also took on a local composer, Peter van Anrooy, and his vividly orchestrated rhapsody based on the life of an 18th-century Dutch naval hero, Piet Hein.
Most of the recordings here – overtures by Mendelssohn, Weber and Schubert – arose from the sudden death of the Concertgebouw’s principal conductor, Eduard van Beinum in April 1959. Three days of sessions in the studio had already been booked for September of the same year, and Doráti filled most of them in his efficient way. The opening item, Smetana’s Vltava, had been recorded in February 1952 and issued as the filler to the Fourth Symphony of Tchaikovsky which has been released separately on Eloquence (ELQ4825553). It was incorporated by Philips into a Má vlast which Doráti and the Concertgebouw completed in September 1956.
‘Berlioz's Rakoczy March and Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 are brilliantly played by the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Doráti.’ – Gramophone, October 1954
First international release on Decca CD
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