{"product_id":"decca-conductors-gallery-various-decca-conductors-gallery-various-box-aus-cd","title":"Decca Conductors' Gallery \/ Various - Decca Conductors' Gallery \/ Various (Box) (Aus) [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDelius: Sea Drift (With Roy Henderson) - Anthony Bernard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWalton: Overture 'Portsmouth Point' - Anthony Bernard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWalton: Façade (With Edith Sitwell, Constant Lambert); Viola Concerto (With Frederick Riddle) - Sir William Walton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWalton: Symphony No. 1 - Sir Hamilton Harty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHaydn: Symphony No. 95 - Sir Hamilton Harty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBerlioz: Overture 'Le Roi Lear'; Marche Troyenne (Les Troyens) - Sir Hamilton Harty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandel-Harty: Suite in Five Movements - Sir Hamilton Harty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePurcell-Wood: Suite in Five Movements - Sir Henry Wood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves; Overture 'The Wasps'; Symphony No. 2 'A London Symphony' - Sir Henry Wood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCoates: London Suite; London Bridge - March - Sir Henry Wood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElgar: Enigma Variations - Sir Henry Wood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJ.S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins (With Louis Zimmermann, Ferdinand Helman) - Willem Mengelberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGluck: Overture 'Alceste' - Willem Mengelberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain; Gopak (Sorochintsy Fair) - Albert Coates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRimsky-Korsakov: Snegurochka - Suite - Albert Coates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq D'or - Suite - Albert Coates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique'; Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture - Albert Coates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' - Victor de Sabata\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBerlioz: Overture 'Le Carnaval Romain' - Victor de Sabata\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSibelius: Valse Triste - Victor de Sabata\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWagner: Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre) - Victor de Sabata\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSibelius: en Saga - Victor de Sabata\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBizet: Ouverture 'Patrie'; Jeux D'enfants - Petite Suite - Roger Désormière\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChabrier: Habanera - Roger Désormière\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDebussy: Marche Ecossaise - Roger Désormière\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOpera Arias - Gounod, Offenbach, Thomas, Proch, Charpentier (With Janine Micheau) - Roger Désormière\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWagner: Overture 'Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg' - Grzegorz Fitelberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 (With Eileen Joyce) - Grzegorz Fitelberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorodin: Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor) - Grzegorz Fitelberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan - Suite - Grzegorz Fitelberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrahms: Symphony No. 2 - Wilhelm Furtwängler ^1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRossini: Overture 'La Scala Di Seta' - Carlo Zecchi ^1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePizzetti: La Pisanelle - Suite - Carlo Zecchi ^1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (With Clara Haskil) - Carlo Zecchi ^1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrieg: Symphonic Dances Nos. 1,2 ; 4 - Piero Coppola ^1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSchumann: Symphony No. 1 - Piero Coppola ^1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSchumann: Symphony No. 2 - George Enescu ^1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDebussy: Petite Suite - Ernest Ansermet ^1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDebussy: La Mer - Ernest Ansermet ^1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRavel: Alborada Del Gracioso (Miroirs) - Ernest Ansermet ^1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRavel: Shéhérazade (With Suzanne Danco); la Valse - Ernest Ansermet ^1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeethoven: Overture 'Fidelio' - Clemens Krauss ^1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrahms: Academic Festival Overture - Clemens Krauss ^1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eR. 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