Showing posts with label London Philharmonic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London Philharmonic. Show all posts

03 October 2022

24/48: Sir Adrian Boult / London Philharmonic - Vaughan Williams. Job - Decca 1954

Ralph Vaughan Williams:  "Job"  (A Masque For Dancing)    
Side 1:  Introduction and Saraband of the Sons Of God - Satan's Dance of Triumph - Minuet of the Sons Of Job and their Wives - Job's Dream    
Side 2:  Job's Dance of the Three Messengers - Dance of Job's Comforters - Elihu's Dance of Youth and Beauty - Galliard of the Sons of the Morning - Epilogue

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Joseph Shadwick, solo violin - London Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Adrian Boult
    
Decca  LXT 2937  1955 pressing/matrices: ARL2035/6 -1B.  Recorded: 9,11-13 January 1954 - Kingsway Hall
"1.3" Declick +2.75dB Treble (max) @ 10kHz.  Later LP transfers less good than this.. 
Boult's 1946 version   (more Boult RVW there..)      Boult's 1954 RVW Symphony 4  (sounds better than 'recent competition'...)       Sleeve-note  >>>  

25 March 2021

24/48: Georg Solti / London Philharmonic - Kodaly. Psalmus Hungaricus -&- Peacock Variations - Decca 1954

Zoltan Kodaly:  Psalmus Hungaricus, op.13
(with William McAlpine, Tenor  -&-  London Philharmonic Choir)

Zoltan Kodaly:  Variations on a Hungarian Folksong  “The Peacock”

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London Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Georg Solti

Decca  LXT 2848  (original 1954 LP)  Matrices: ARL2069/2070 - 1A/3A.   Recorded: 26/30 April & 3 May 1954 - Kingsway Hall.

Sleeve-note / EMG review >>>   Excellent orchestral playing. Some choral-parts were highly-modulated.

07 October 2017

24/48: Jean Martinon / London Philharmonic - Offenbach. Five Overtures - Decca 1951

Jacques Offenbach:  Overtures 

Orphee aux enfers    /    La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein
La Belle Helene    /    Barbe-Bleue    /    Le Mariage aux lanternes  
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London Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Jean Martinon

Decca  ACL 104  1960 LP  (LXT 2590)  1956 LXT matrices: ARL662/3 -2DR   Recorded: 13-14 February 1951 - Kingsway Hall
Some slight traces of recorded/cutting-stylus Woodwind discoloration.   2011 scans.  LXT sleeve-note / ACL cover >>>  

30 June 2016

24/48: Vaughan Williams. Symphony 4 - London Philharmonic / Sir Adrian Boult - Decca 1954

Ralph Vaughan Williams:  Symphony no.4 in F minor

I: Allegro  ~  II: Andante moderato  ~  III: Scherzo -Allegro molto  ~  IV: Finale con Epilogo Fugato -Allegro molto

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London Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Adrian Boult

Decca  LXT 2909  1957 matrices/1959 LP: ARL1977-1DR / ARL1978 -2DR     Recorded: 2,3,5 December 1953 - Kingsway Hall
Sleeve-note / very unenthusiastic EMG review >>>   1937 Composers version >>>

14 July 2015

24/48: Alfredo Campoli plays... Bruch. Violin Concerto 1 / Lalo. Symphonie espagnole / Saint-Saens. Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso, Havanaise - Decca 1951/1953

Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, op.26
I: Vorspiel - Allegro moderato ~ II: Adagio ~ III: Finale - Allegro energico
Alfredo Campoli, violin - New Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Royalton Kisch 
Decca  LXT 2904  (originally LXT 2596)  1957 LP/matrix: ARL809 -4DR    Recorded. 17 April 1951 - Kingsway Hall 
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Edouard Lalo:  Symphonie espagnole, op.21
I: Allegro non troppo ~ II: Scherzando ~ III: Intermezzo ~ IV: Andante
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Alfredo Campoli, violin - London Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Eduard van Beinum    
Decca  ACL 124  (originally LXT 2801)  1961 LP/matrices: ARL 5031 -1A / ARL5032 -1A   Rec. 3-4 March 1953 - Kingsway Hall

Camille Saint-Saens:  Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso, op.28    /   Havanaise, op.83
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Alfredo Campoli, violin - London Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Anatole Fistoulari  
Decca  ACL 64  (originally LW 5085)   1959 LP/matrix: ARL4524 -2A   Recorded. 10 November 1953 - Kingsway Hall  

Arthur Bliss: Concerto / Theme & Cadenza - 1955 >>>  ACL/LXT covers/sleeve-notes >>>