Raymond Agoult - Clair de Lune - Orchestral Favourites; Waldteufel - Waltzes (2019)

Posted By: varrock
Date: May 13, 2019

Raymond Agoult - Clair de Lune - Orchestral Favourites; Waldteufel - Waltzes (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 675 MB | Tracks: 22 | 140:31 min
Style: Classical | Label: Universal Music

Three Decca albums of popular Romantic classics remastered complete for CD and compiled for the first time. Recorded at London's Kingsway Hall early in 1957 and first released in the US by RCA Victor, 'Overtures in Spades' was a collection of operatic openers that enjoyed more popular currency then than they do now: Suppé'sLight Cavalry still features on radio playlists, less so his overtures to Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna or The Queen of Spades, while three 19th-century pieces of polished craftsmanship by Adam, Auber and Héroldare hardly known today.

Reissued as 'Overture! Overture!' the album took another 12 years to be incorporated within the Decca catalogue, though the reviewers had enjoyed the dynamic Decca sound of the original recording as well as the full-bodied, exciting performances of a London studio band under the directorship of Raymond Agoult, a seasoned, Hungarian-born conductor of popular and light classics.

In 1958 Agoultand the New Symphony Orchestra made a second record for Decca, 'Clair de lune', featuring gentle Andantes and tender Adagios –a Classic FM album before its time –by the likes of Debussy, Elgar, Tchaikovsky and Massenet. Newly remastered from the original tapes, both albums are coupled on this Eloquence reissue with a rare LP of Waldteufelwaltzes under the direction of another experienced, British-based session musician, the Australian-born Douglas Gamley. Waldteufel'sart lay in combining the easygoing feel and nostalgic pull of the Viennese waltz with a more brilliant, French style of orchestration: a synthesis that endeared him to English audiences in particular. This collection fills out a portrait of the composer beyond the ubiquitous Skaters' Waltz to present six further waltzes and a Grenadiers march scored with surprising delicacy.

'The recording… is a humdinger, with a resounding lower region, unbelievably powerful dynamics, excellent balance and marvellouslysweet string tone.' High Fidelity, August 1958 (Overtures in Spades)

'There is plenty of care and musical feeling in the performances… Particularly successful are the Méditation, the Andante cantabile and the Dernier sommeil, in all of which the intense but really quiet string playing is highly commendable.' Gramophone, June 1960 (Clair de lune)

'The playing has marvellouslife and flair and its spirit is essentially French… the National Philharmonic in spanking form.' Gramophone, October 1982 (Waldteufel)

Tracklist:

01. Thais - Meditation
02. Chant sans paroles, Op.2, No.3
03. Pavane, Op.50
04. Dream Children, Op.43
05. Suite bergamasque, L.75 - Orch. Henri Pierre Edouard Mouton - Clair de lune
06. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 ('Sleepers, awake')
07. String Quartet No.1 in D, Op.11 - orchestral version - 2. Andante cantabile
08. Orfeo ed Euridice - Ballo (Andante)
09. La Vierge / Scene 4: The Assumption - Le dernier sommeil de la Vièrge (The Last Sleep of the Virgin)
10. Si j'étais roi - Overture
11. Les diamants de la couronne - Overture
12. Light Cavalry
13. Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna
14. Overture "Pique Dame"
15. Zampa: Overture
16. The Skaters Waltz, Op.183 (Les Patineurs)
17. Mon rêve, waltz Op.151
18. Toujours ou jamais - waltz, Op.156
19. Les Grenadiers - valse militaire, Op.207
20. España, Op.236
21. Dolorès, Op.170
22. Pomone - waltz, Op.155


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