Early Stereo Recordings Vol.1: Brahms & Saint-Saens - Concertos; R Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel
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Label: First Hand Records
Cat No: FHR058
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 5th October 2018
Contents
Works
Violin Concerto in D major, op.77Cello Concerto no.1 in A minor, op.33
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op.28
Artists
Endre Wolf (violin)Paul Tortelier (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductors
Walter GoehrHerbert Menges
Norman Del Mar
Works
Violin Concerto in D major, op.77Cello Concerto no.1 in A minor, op.33
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op.28
Artists
Endre Wolf (violin)Paul Tortelier (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductors
Walter GoehrHerbert Menges
Norman Del Mar
About
Included in this first issue is Richard Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel, a recording which, for some reason, was never released on LP or any other format before this FHR release. This recording, with the LSO conducted by Norman Del Mar, is in fact, the earliest known surviving EMI stereo recording of a complete work, recorded on 23 July 1954.
Paul Tortelier was a star cellist for HMV and was the most charismatic of an exceptional generation of French cellists. Tortelier gives an athletic account on this ‘lost’ stereo recording of Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto no.1 and Herbert Menges supports him admirably. There is an extraordinary difference between the well-known mono recording, and this stereo version, where the soloist is much more sympathetically placed within the orchestral texture. In the Brahms Violin Concerto, Hungarian Endre Wolf displays an effortless, fine style and lovely tone free of the wide ‘Hubay vibrato’ affected by many of his compatriots. Wolf’s playing here is a good example of the Hungarian Brahms tradition.
Transferred and remastered in 24bit, 96kHz.
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