Decca Conductors’ Gallery
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4842117
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 21
Release Date: 22nd September 2023
Contents
Works
Beckus the Dandipratt, op.5Concerto for 2 violins in D minor, BWV1043
Fidelio, op.72
Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.55 'Eroica'
Symphony no.6 in F major, op.68 'Pastoral'
Le Carnaval romain (Roman Carnival): overture, op.9 H95
Le Roi Lear: Overture, op.4
Les Troyens
Patrie: Overture, op.19
Prince Igor
Symphony no.2 in D major, op.73
Passacaglia (from Peter Grimes), op.33b
Sea Interludes (4), op.33a
Symphony no.7 in E major
Habanera
Suite pastorale
London Bridge: March
London Suite
La Mer
Marche ecossaise (orch)
Petite Suite (orch. H Busser)
Sea Drift
Carnival Overture, op.92 B169
Cockaigne Overture 'In London Town', op.40
Enigma Variations, op.36
Alceste
Berenice, HWV38
Messiah, HWV56 (excerpts)
Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV351 (arr. Hamilton Harty)
Semele, HWV58 (excerpts)
Serse (Xerxes), HWV40 (excerpts)
Solomon, HWV67 (excerpts)
Zadok the Priest, HWV258
Suite in 5 movements (Handel)
Symphony no.94 in G major, Hob.I:94 'The Surprise'
Symphony no.95 in C minor, Hob.I:95
The Perfect Fool: Ballet Music, op.39
Hansel und Gretel
Symphony no.25 in G minor, K183
Symphony no.40 in G minor, K550
A Night on the Bare Mountain
Sorochintsy Fair
La Valse
Le Tombeau de Couperin (orchestra)
Miroirs
The Golden Cockerel (Le Coq d'Or): Suite
The Snow Maiden: Suite
The Tale of Tsar Saltan: Suite, op.57
La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder)
Symphony no.2 in C major, op.61
En saga, op.9
Valse triste, op.44 no.1
Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron)
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op.28
Tod und Verklarung (Death and Transfiguration), op.24
Piano Concerto no.2 in G major, op.44
Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture in F major, op.64
Symphony no.5 in E minor, op.64
Symphony no.6 in B minor, op.74 'Pathetique'
The Maid of Orleans
Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'
Symphony no.2 'A London Symphony'
The Wasps: Overture
Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman)
Portsmouth Point
Symphony no.1 in B flat minor
Suite in 5 movements (Purcell)
Artists
Suzanne Danco (soprano)Janine Micheau (soprano)
Eugenia Zareska (mezzo-soprano)
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Richard Lewis (tenor)
Trevor Anthony (bass)
Roy Henderson (baritone)
Constant Lambert
Edith Sitwell
Clara Haskil (piano)
Eileen Joyce (piano)
Ferdinand Helman (violin)
Louis Zimmermann (violin)
Frederick Riddle (viola)
Royal Choral Society
Concertgebouworkest
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
National Symphony Orchestra
New English Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Queen’s Hall Orchestra
Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich
Conductors
Ernest AnsermetEduard van Beinum
Anthony Bernard
Leo Blech
Sergiu Celibidache
Albert Coates
Piero Coppola
Roger Desormiere
George Enescu
Grzegorz Fitelberg
Wilhelm Furtwangler
Hamilton Harty
Paul van Kempen
Erich Kleiber
Hans Knappertsbusch
Clemens Krauss
Jean Martinon
Willem Mengelberg
Victor de Sabata
Malcolm Sargent
William Walton
Henry Wood
Carlo Zecchi
Works
Beckus the Dandipratt, op.5Concerto for 2 violins in D minor, BWV1043
Fidelio, op.72
Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.55 'Eroica'
Symphony no.6 in F major, op.68 'Pastoral'
Le Carnaval romain (Roman Carnival): overture, op.9 H95
Le Roi Lear: Overture, op.4
Les Troyens
Patrie: Overture, op.19
Prince Igor
Symphony no.2 in D major, op.73
Passacaglia (from Peter Grimes), op.33b
Sea Interludes (4), op.33a
Symphony no.7 in E major
Habanera
Suite pastorale
London Bridge: March
London Suite
La Mer
Marche ecossaise (orch)
Petite Suite (orch. H Busser)
Sea Drift
Carnival Overture, op.92 B169
Cockaigne Overture 'In London Town', op.40
Enigma Variations, op.36
Alceste
Berenice, HWV38
Messiah, HWV56 (excerpts)
Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV351 (arr. Hamilton Harty)
Semele, HWV58 (excerpts)
Serse (Xerxes), HWV40 (excerpts)
Solomon, HWV67 (excerpts)
Zadok the Priest, HWV258
Suite in 5 movements (Handel)
Symphony no.94 in G major, Hob.I:94 'The Surprise'
Symphony no.95 in C minor, Hob.I:95
The Perfect Fool: Ballet Music, op.39
Hansel und Gretel
Symphony no.25 in G minor, K183
Symphony no.40 in G minor, K550
A Night on the Bare Mountain
Sorochintsy Fair
La Valse
Le Tombeau de Couperin (orchestra)
Miroirs
The Golden Cockerel (Le Coq d'Or): Suite
The Snow Maiden: Suite
The Tale of Tsar Saltan: Suite, op.57
La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder)
Symphony no.2 in C major, op.61
En saga, op.9
Valse triste, op.44 no.1
Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron)
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op.28
Tod und Verklarung (Death and Transfiguration), op.24
Piano Concerto no.2 in G major, op.44
Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture in F major, op.64
Symphony no.5 in E minor, op.64
Symphony no.6 in B minor, op.74 'Pathetique'
The Maid of Orleans
Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'
Symphony no.2 'A London Symphony'
The Wasps: Overture
Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman)
Portsmouth Point
Symphony no.1 in B flat minor
Suite in 5 movements (Purcell)
Artists
Suzanne Danco (soprano)Janine Micheau (soprano)
Eugenia Zareska (mezzo-soprano)
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Richard Lewis (tenor)
Trevor Anthony (bass)
Roy Henderson (baritone)
Constant Lambert
Edith Sitwell
Clara Haskil (piano)
Eileen Joyce (piano)
Ferdinand Helman (violin)
Louis Zimmermann (violin)
Frederick Riddle (viola)
Royal Choral Society
Concertgebouworkest
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
National Symphony Orchestra
New English Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Queen’s Hall Orchestra
Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich
Conductors
Ernest AnsermetEduard van Beinum
Anthony Bernard
Leo Blech
Sergiu Celibidache
Albert Coates
Piero Coppola
Roger Desormiere
George Enescu
Grzegorz Fitelberg
Wilhelm Furtwangler
Hamilton Harty
Paul van Kempen
Erich Kleiber
Hans Knappertsbusch
Clemens Krauss
Jean Martinon
Willem Mengelberg
Victor de Sabata
Malcolm Sargent
William Walton
Henry Wood
Carlo Zecchi
About
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 its 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 Piano Concerto no.2 and Enescu in Schumann's Second Symphony. 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 Malcolm Sargent. Mark Obert-Thorn explains his choice of treasures for this box and introduces the history of Decca and its 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.
"There is much that reflects Furtwängler's great attention to dynamic relationships, his sense of architecture, and his ear for balance and color. He whips up quite a phenomenal bit of energy for the final coda." - Fanfare, July 2020 (Furtwängler - Brahms: Symphony No. 2)
"Mr. Riddle seems to get ample sonority and a good deal of variety out of the solo part, and the recording is clear and free from harshness." - Gramophone, February 1938 (Walton: Viola Concerto)
"[Harty] shows clearly how much of the work's success was due to his inspired advocacy. He brings out the vehemence and passion very starkly, but also finds an underlying rock-like strength." - Gramophone, December 1993 (Harty - Walton: Symphony no.1)
"It would be difficult to exaggerate the concentrated power of this music, which is superbly performed and recorded." - The Record Guide, 1955 (Van Beinum - Britten: Four Sea Interludes)
Contents:
CD 1
Anthony Bernard
Delius: Sea Drift (with Roy Henderson)
Walton: Overture ‘Portsmouth Point’
- New English Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
William Walton
Walton: Façade (with Edith Sitwell, Constant Lambert); Viola Concerto (with Frederick Riddle)
- London Symphony Orchestra
CD 2
Hamilton Harty
Walton: Symphony No. 1
Haydn: Symphony No. 95
Berlioz: Overture ‘Le Roi Lear’; Marche troyenne (Les Troyens)
- London Symphony Orchestra
CD 3
Hamilton Harty
Handel–Harty: Suite in Five Movements
- London Symphony Orchestra
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
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 écossaise
- 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 Joyce)
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
CD 9
Grzegorz Fitelberg
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan – Suite
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Brahms: Symphony no.2
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
CD 10
Carlo Zecchi
Rossini: Overture ‘La Scala di Seta’
Pizzetti: La Pisanelle – Suite
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no.4 (with Clara Haskil)
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
Piero Coppola
Grieg: Symphonic Dances nos. 1, 2 & 4
- London Symphony Orchestra
CD 11
Piero Coppola
Schumann: Symphony no.1
- National Symphony Orchestra
George Enescu
Schumann: Symphony no.2
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
CD 12
Ernest Ansermet
Debussy: Petite Suite
- Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Debussy: La Mer
Ravel: Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)
- Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ravel: Shéhérazade (with Suzanne Danco); La Valse
- Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
CD 13
Clemens Krauss
Beethoven: Overture ‘Fidelio’
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
- London Symphony Orchestra
Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
- Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Paul van Kempen
Wagner: Overtures, ‘Tannhäuser’ & ‘Der fliegende Holländer’
CD 14
Malcolm Sargent
Handel: Messiah, Israel in Egypt, Semele, Alexander’s Feast, Solomon, Serse – excerpts; Zadok the Priest (with Kathleen Ferrier, Richard Lewis, Trevor Anthony)
- Royal Choral Society
- London Symphony Orchestra
CD 15
Malcolm Sargent
Handel–Harty: Music for the Royal Fireworks – Suite
- National Symphony Orchestra
Holst: The Perfect Fool – ballet music
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum
Elgar: Overture ‘Cockaigne’
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
Britten: Four Sea Interludes & Passacaglia from Peter Grimes
- Concertgebouworkest
Arnold: Overture ‘Beckus the Dandipratt’
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
CD 16
Eduard van Beinum
Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (with Eugenia Zareska)
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bruckner: Symphony no.7
- Concertgebouworkest
CD 17
Hans Knappertsbusch
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
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wagner: Lohengrin – Prelude to Act I
- Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Prelude to Act I
- Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
CD 18
Erich Kleiber
Handel: Andante larghetto (Berenice)
Mozart: Symphony no.40
Beethoven: Symphony no.6 ‘Pastoral’
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
CD 19
Erich Kleiber
Josef Strauss: Sphärenklänge
Johann Strauss II: Overture ‘Der Zigeunerbaron’
Dvořák: Overture ‘Carnaval’
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jean Martinon
Tchaikovsky: Da, čas nastal! … Prostite vï, kholmï, polya rodnïye (The Maid of Orléans) (with Eugenia Zareska)
Chabrier: Suite Pastorale
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
CD 20
Leo Blech
Humperdinck: Prelude ‘Hänsel und Gretel’
Haydn: Symphony no.94 ‘Surprise’
- Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Sergiu Celibidache
Mozart: Symphony no.25
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
CD 21
Sergiu Celibidache
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no.5; The Nutcracker – Suite
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
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