Barbirolli: Halle Favourites Vol.2
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Label: Barbirolli Society
Cat No: SJB1041
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 23rd November 2009
Contents
Works
EspanaElegiac Melodies (2), op.34
Peer Gynt: Suite no.1, op.46
Gold und Silber (Gold and Silver), op.79
Valse triste, op.44 no.1
Die schone Galathee (The Beautiful Galatea)
Les Patineurs, op.183
Artists
Halle OrchestraConductor
John BarbirolliWorks
EspanaElegiac Melodies (2), op.34
Peer Gynt: Suite no.1, op.46
Gold und Silber (Gold and Silver), op.79
Valse triste, op.44 no.1
Die schone Galathee (The Beautiful Galatea)
Les Patineurs, op.183
Artists
Halle OrchestraConductor
John BarbirolliAbout
Franz Lehár's name was first made, in 1902, with the concert waltz Gold-und-Silber (Gold and Silver) which he wrote for the Princess Metternich-Sandór’s Gold and Silver Ball. Soon it was being played everywhere. It marvellously captures the feel of a great ball. J.B. liked to conduct it at the Hallé Balls held in the 1950s, sometimes with a balloon tied to his baton. But he never treated the music in a cavalier fashion. He regarded it as a great piece which deserved the best from him and his players. As Richard Osborne has written in his biography of Karajan: “If all Sir John Barbirolli’s recordings were lost except that of Lehár’s Gold and Silver waltz, there would be reason enough to say ‘Now, there was a conductor”. This performance was recorded in April 1952.
Turina's Danzas fantásticas date from 1920 and are exactly what their title implies. The recording, in January 1952, was the first to be made commercially in the rebuilt Free Trade Hall, Manchester. Emil Waldteufel composed over 250 dances, particularly waltzes, so it’s no surprise that his Skaters’ Waltz (Les Patineurs) Opus 183, should have become one of the most famous examples of its kind, heard in many arrangements but never so effectively as in its own orchestration.
The Elegiac Melodies by Grieg are transcriptions for strings of two of the 12 songs in his Op.33. Their titles, Heart’s Wounds and Last Spring, tell us all we need to know about these poignant pieces, so magically conducted here by J.B. when he recorded them in August 1957 at the same session as the First Suite from the incidental music to Ibsen’s extraordinary play Peer Gynt.
Contents:
Suppe: Overture - The Beautiful Galatea
Free Trade Hall, Manchester 11 February 1954
Turina: Danzas fantásticas
Free Trade Hall, Manchester 19 December 1951
Chabrier: Espańa
Free Trade Hall, Manchester 2 January 1954
Lehar: Gold and Silver Waltz
Free Trade Hall, Manchester 5 April 1952
Sibelius: Valse triste
Free Trade Hall, Manchester 29 June 1957 (stereo)
Waldteufel: The Skaters’ Waltz
Free Trade Hall, Manchester 3 May 1957
Grieg:
- Two Elegiac Melodies
- Peer Gynt: Suite No.1
Free Trade Hall, Manchester 9 – 10 August 1957 (stereo)
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