Glorious John: Barbirolli Anniversary Set
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Label: Barbirolli Society
Cat No: SJB1999
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 26th July 2010
Contents
Artists
Conductor
John BarbirolliArtists
Conductor
John BarbirolliAbout
John Barbirolli was born in Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, on 2 December 1899, a Cockney as he proudly boasted. Or, to be accurate, Giovanni Battista Barbirolli was born, son of an Italian émigré violinist and his French wife. English-born with Italian-French parentage – a wonderful pedigree for a musician. And so it proved, for he conducted Elgar, Verdi and Debussy, Vaughan Williams, Puccini and Ravel, with equal sensitivity and perception and intuition.
This album of recordings forms a kind of musical biography; and Michael Kennedy’s notes (with many rare photos) trace that life alongside the recordings.
A special bonus is the 1947 Austrian Radio recording of two works, Weber’s Euryanthe overture and Delius’s Walk to the Paradise Garden, from the Salzburg Festival concert on 20 August at which he conducted the Vienna Philharmonic. Was this, Michael Kennedy asks, the first time this orchestra had played the Delius?
Two rare mementos of the New York period are included in this album. Anthony Collins had long been a friend of Barbirolli (they played in the LSO together) and worked in the USA from 1936 to 1945 and his Sir Toby and Sir Andrew, based on the two comic characters in Twelfth Night, is an example of his overlooked talent.
Another composer almost forgotten today is the Czech-born Jaromir Weinberger whose opera Schwanda the Bagpiper enjoyed inter-war popularity. His Christmas for organ and orchestra was composed in 1929. In 1939 he dedicated his Variations and Fugue on an old English tune, ‘Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree’, to Barbirolli and the New York Philharmonic.
Contents:
CD 1 [76:16]
Van Biene: The Broken Melody
John Barbirolli (cello), 1911
Mozart: String Quartet in E flat K.428 – Menuetto
Kutcher Quartet, 1925
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana – Santuzza’s Aria
Lilian Stiles-Allen, 1927
Verdi: Otello – Niun me tema
Renato Zanelli, 1928
Puccini: Tosca – Tre sbirri, una carozza
Giovanni Inghilleri, 1929
J Strauss: Die Fledermaus – Brother dear and sister dear
CGOC, 1930
Saint-Saens: Valse caprice Op.76
Yvonne Arnaud September, 1932
Balfe: The Bohemian Girl – Overture
Symphony Orchestra, 1933
Collins: Sir Toby and Sir Andrew – Overture
22 March 1942, ‘live’ in Carnegie Hall, New York
Weinberger: Christmas
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, 24 December 1939, ‘live’ in Carnegie Hall, New York
Weber: Euryanthe – Overture
Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, 20 August 1947 ‘live’ in the Festspielhaus, Salzburg
CD 2 [78:29]
Stravinsky: Concerto in D
Hallé Orchestra, 1948
Mozart: Cassation in G, K.63 – Andante
Hallé Orchestra, 1950
Mozart: Divertimento No.11 in D, K251 – Minuet
Hallé Orchestra, 1952
Grieg (arr: Barbirolli): Secret
Hallé Orchestra, 1953
Villa Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No.4
Hallé Orchestra, 1955
Falla (arr: Halffter): Seguidilla murciana
Marina de Gabarain, 1957
Lehar: Gold and Silver Waltz
Hallé Orchestra, 1966
J S Bach (arr: Barbirolli): Sheep may safely graze
Hallé Orchestra, 1969
Rehearsal Sequence:
Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust, Op.24
Hallé Orchestra, 1957
Interview: Sir John Barbirolli and R Kinloch Anderson
The complete interview, recorded by EMI in 1964
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