Mendelssohn - Overtures; Schubert - Rosamunde
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4824955
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 30th November 2018
Contents
Works
Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage), op.27Ruy Blas: Overture, op.95
The Fair Melusine Overture, op.32
The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', op.26
Die Zauberharfe, D644
Artists
Wiener PhilharmonikerConductors
Carl SchurichtPierre Monteux
Works
Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage), op.27Ruy Blas: Overture, op.95
The Fair Melusine Overture, op.32
The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', op.26
Die Zauberharfe, D644
Artists
Wiener PhilharmonikerConductors
Carl SchurichtPierre Monteux
About
This he did throughout a distinguished career, which included relationships with all the great European orchestras, including a ready understanding with the Vienna Philharmonic. Working with them he was observed by the young Seiji Ozawa, who reflected later that ‘his music did not let me feel his age, or rather it sounded more vividly than that by any younger conductors’.
Schuricht had a flair for Mendelssohn, and conducted the overtures throughout his career, including late recordings with a German radio orchestra, but these Decca sessions from June 1954 surpass them for refinement of execution as well as deftness of conception. Originally coupled with excerpts from A Midsummer Night’s Dream on an RCA LP, Pierre Monteux’s recording of incidental music from Rosamunde was belatedly repatriated to Decca in the 1970s as part of the label’s familiar ‘World Of’ series. The Ballet Music No.1 was omitted on previous CD reissues and is now duly restored for this Eloquence release.
‘Schuricht and the Vienna Philharmonic make a first-rate job of the performances, while Decca have left no stone unturned in the accurate and admirable recording of this great orchestra.’ - Gramophone, December 1954 (Mendelssohn)
‘This stereo version of Monteux’s enchanting conducting is as attractive as I found its mono predecessor ... The conducting and the Vienna Philharmonic’s playing are a continual delight ... he conducts the Rosamunde pieces with such real affection.’ - Gramophone, June 1959 (Schubert)
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