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Ernest Ansermet: The Mono Years | Decca 4851584

Ernest Ansermet: The Mono Years

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Label: Decca

Cat No: 4851584

Barcode: 0028948515844

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 26

Release Date: 19th January 2024

Contents

Works

Bartok, Bela

Piano Concerto no.2, BB101, Sz95

Bizet, Georges

Symphony in C major

Bloch, Ernest

Schelomo (Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and orchestra)
Voice in the Wilderness

Borodin, Alexander

In the Steppes of Central Asia

Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel

Espana
Joyeuse Marche

Chopin, Frederic

Piano Concerto no.2 in F minor, op.21

Debussy, Claude

Epigraphes antiques (6)
Images pour orchestre
Jeux
La Mer
Nocturnes (3)
Pelleas et Melisande
Petite Suite (orch. H Busser)
Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un faune

Dukas, Paul

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'Apprenti sorcier)

Falla, Manuel de

El sombrero de tres picos (The three-cornered hat): Suite

Geiser, Walther

Symphony in D minor, op.44

Glinka, Mikhail

Ruslan and Lyudmila, op.5
» Overture

Handel, George Frideric

Concerti grossi (12), op.6
» no.2 in F major, HWV320
» no.3 in E minor, HWV321
» no.4 in A minor, HWV322
» no.10 in D minor, HWV328
» no.12 in B minor, HWV330
Organ Concertos (6), op.4 HWV289-294
» no.1 in G minor, HWV289
» no.2 in B flat major, HWV290

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Symphony no.101 in D major, Hob.I:101 'The Clock'

Honegger, Arthur

Pacific 231

Marcello, Benedetto

Oboe Concerto in C minor

Martin, Frank

Petite Symphonie concertante, op.54
Violin Concerto

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Exsultate, jubilate, K165
Serenade no.10 in B flat major, K361 'Gran Partita'
Symphony no.38 in D major, K504 'Prague'

Mussorgsky, Modest

A Night on the Bare Mountain
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
Sorochintsy Fair
» Hopak

Oboussier, Robert

Antigone (recitative, aria and elegy after Sophocles)

Prokofiev, Sergei

Piano Concerto no.3 in C major, op.26
Symphony no.1 in D major, op.25 'Classical'
Symphony no.6 in E flat minor, op.111
The Love for Three Oranges: Suite, op.33a
» III March

Ravel, Maurice

Bolero
Daphnis et Chloe
L'Heure espagnole
La Valse
Le Tombeau de Couperin (orchestra)
Ma Mere l'Oye (Mother Goose)
Miroirs
» Alborada del gracioso (orchestral version)
Pavane pour une infante defunte
Piano Concerto in D major for the left hand
Piano Concerto in G major
Poemes (3) de Stephane Mallarme
Rapsodie espagnole
Sheherazade
Valses nobles et sentimentales (arr. for orchestra)

Respighi, Ottorino

La Boutique fantasque (after Rossini), P120

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

Capriccio espagnol, op.34
Scheherazade, op.35
The Golden Cockerel (Le Coq d'Or): Suite
The Golden Cockerel (Le Coq d'Or)
» Introduction
» Wedding procession

Saint-Saens, Camille

Danse macabre, op.40
Le Rouet d'Omphale, op.31

Schumann, Robert

Cello Concerto in A minor, op.129
Genoveva, op.81
» Overture
Symphony no.1 in B flat major, op.38 'Spring'

Stravinsky, Igor

Circus Polka
Divertimento
Oedipus rex
Petrushka (1911 version)
Symphony of Psalms
The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu): Suite no.2 (1919)
The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu): Suite
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Variations on a Rococo theme, op.33

Villa-Lobos, Heitor

Piano Concerto no.1

Vivaldi, Antonio

Bassoon Concerto in D minor, RV481

Artists

Suzanne Danco (soprano)
Janine Micheau (soprano)
Flore Wend (soprano)
Helene Bouvier (mezzo-soprano)
Elsa Cavelti (mezzo-soprano)
Hugues Cuenod (tenor)
Paul Derenne (tenor)
Ernst Haefliger (tenor)
Michel Hamel (tenor)
Pierre Mollet (baritone)
Heinz Rehfuss (bass-baritone)
Derrick Olsen (bass)
Andre Vessieres (bass)
Ellen Ballon (piano)
Jacqueline Blancard (piano)
Julius Katchen (piano)
Dinu Lipatti (piano)
Pierre Nerini (violin)
Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin)
Maurice Gendron (cello)
Zara Nelsova (cello)
Roger Reversy (oboe)
Henri Helaerts (bassoon)
Jeanne Demessieux (organ)
Geneva Motet Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
Decca String Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Conductor

Ernest Ansermet

Works

Bartok, Bela

Piano Concerto no.2, BB101, Sz95

Bizet, Georges

Symphony in C major

Bloch, Ernest

Schelomo (Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and orchestra)
Voice in the Wilderness

Borodin, Alexander

In the Steppes of Central Asia

Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel

Espana
Joyeuse Marche

Chopin, Frederic

Piano Concerto no.2 in F minor, op.21

Debussy, Claude

Epigraphes antiques (6)
Images pour orchestre
Jeux
La Mer
Nocturnes (3)
Pelleas et Melisande
Petite Suite (orch. H Busser)
Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un faune

Dukas, Paul

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'Apprenti sorcier)

Falla, Manuel de

El sombrero de tres picos (The three-cornered hat): Suite

Geiser, Walther

Symphony in D minor, op.44

Glinka, Mikhail

Ruslan and Lyudmila, op.5
» Overture

Handel, George Frideric

Concerti grossi (12), op.6
» no.2 in F major, HWV320
» no.3 in E minor, HWV321
» no.4 in A minor, HWV322
» no.10 in D minor, HWV328
» no.12 in B minor, HWV330
Organ Concertos (6), op.4 HWV289-294
» no.1 in G minor, HWV289
» no.2 in B flat major, HWV290

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Symphony no.101 in D major, Hob.I:101 'The Clock'

Honegger, Arthur

Pacific 231

Marcello, Benedetto

Oboe Concerto in C minor

Martin, Frank

Petite Symphonie concertante, op.54
Violin Concerto

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Exsultate, jubilate, K165
Serenade no.10 in B flat major, K361 'Gran Partita'
Symphony no.38 in D major, K504 'Prague'

Mussorgsky, Modest

A Night on the Bare Mountain
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
Sorochintsy Fair
» Hopak

Oboussier, Robert

Antigone (recitative, aria and elegy after Sophocles)

Prokofiev, Sergei

Piano Concerto no.3 in C major, op.26
Symphony no.1 in D major, op.25 'Classical'
Symphony no.6 in E flat minor, op.111
The Love for Three Oranges: Suite, op.33a
» III March

Ravel, Maurice

Bolero
Daphnis et Chloe
L'Heure espagnole
La Valse
Le Tombeau de Couperin (orchestra)
Ma Mere l'Oye (Mother Goose)
Miroirs
» Alborada del gracioso (orchestral version)
Pavane pour une infante defunte
Piano Concerto in D major for the left hand
Piano Concerto in G major
Poemes (3) de Stephane Mallarme
Rapsodie espagnole
Sheherazade
Valses nobles et sentimentales (arr. for orchestra)

Respighi, Ottorino

La Boutique fantasque (after Rossini), P120

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

Capriccio espagnol, op.34
Scheherazade, op.35
The Golden Cockerel (Le Coq d'Or): Suite
The Golden Cockerel (Le Coq d'Or)
» Introduction
» Wedding procession

Saint-Saens, Camille

Danse macabre, op.40
Le Rouet d'Omphale, op.31

Schumann, Robert

Cello Concerto in A minor, op.129
Genoveva, op.81
» Overture
Symphony no.1 in B flat major, op.38 'Spring'

Stravinsky, Igor

Circus Polka
Divertimento
Oedipus rex
Petrushka (1911 version)
Symphony of Psalms
The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu): Suite no.2 (1919)
The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu): Suite
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Variations on a Rococo theme, op.33

Villa-Lobos, Heitor

Piano Concerto no.1

Vivaldi, Antonio

Bassoon Concerto in D minor, RV481

Artists

Suzanne Danco (soprano)
Janine Micheau (soprano)
Flore Wend (soprano)
Helene Bouvier (mezzo-soprano)
Elsa Cavelti (mezzo-soprano)
Hugues Cuenod (tenor)
Paul Derenne (tenor)
Ernst Haefliger (tenor)
Michel Hamel (tenor)
Pierre Mollet (baritone)
Heinz Rehfuss (bass-baritone)
Derrick Olsen (bass)
Andre Vessieres (bass)
Ellen Ballon (piano)
Jacqueline Blancard (piano)
Julius Katchen (piano)
Dinu Lipatti (piano)
Pierre Nerini (violin)
Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin)
Maurice Gendron (cello)
Zara Nelsova (cello)
Roger Reversy (oboe)
Henri Helaerts (bassoon)
Jeanne Demessieux (organ)
Geneva Motet Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
Decca String Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Conductor

Ernest Ansermet

About

As a conductor, philosopher, mathematician and composer, Ernest Ansermet occupied an exceptional position in the world of music. At the frontier of modernity, he offered up recordings of music by several composers whom he counted among his friends: Debussy, Ravel, Roussel and Stravinsky but also Honegger, Frank Martin, Bartók and Prokofiev – all of whom are represented in this collection of recordings made for Decca between 1929 and 1955. The collection opens with a recording of six of Handel’s Op.6 Concerti grossi made with a specially formed band of London musicians, the ‘Decca String Orchestra’ in 1929, the year in which the label was founded. Ansermet returned to the studio to record for the label from 1946 and from then on became one of its most frequently recorded conductors. Fortunately, the music of his friend Igor Stravinsky is strongly represented in this collection. Of other composers Ansermet knew personally, several landmark recordings of works by Maurice Ravel are significant. 1952 was a particularly busy year for the conductor and his Orchestre de la Suisse Romande – with recordings of Handel, Prokofiev as well as his famous interpretation of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande. An orchestral version of Mussorgsky's two-minute Gopak was recorded as the last work in this collection. The stereo recording from 1955 was only available as a test pressing – this box presents it as a veritable world premiere.

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