Ernest Ansermet: The Mono Years Box Set
$185.99
Ships on: September 11, 2024
As a conductor, philosopher, mathematician and composer, Ernest Ansermet occupied an exceptional position in the world of music. At the frontier of modernity, he offered up recordings of music by several composers whom he counted among his friends: Debussy, Ravel, Roussel and Stravinsky but also Honegger, Frank Martin, Bartók and Prokofiev – all of whom are represented in this collection of recordings made for Decca between 1929 and 1955. The collection opens with a recording of six of Handel’s Op. 6 Concerti Grossi made with a specially formed band of London musicians, the ‘Decca String Orchestra’ in 1929, the year in which the label was founded. Ansermet returned to the studio to record for the label from 1946 and from then on became one of its most frequently recorded conductors. Fortunately, the music of his friend Igor Stravinsky is strongly represented in this collection. Of other composers Ansermet knew personally, several landmark recordings of works by Maurice Ravel are significant. 1952 was a particularly busy year for the conductor and his Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - with recordings of Handel, Prokofiev as well as his famous interpretation of Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande". An orchestral version of Mussorgsky's two-minute "Gopak" was recorded as the last work in this collection. The stereo recording from 1955 was only available as a test pressing - this box presents it as a veritable world premiere.
Boxset Dimensions: 6.1" x 4.8" x 6.4"
Boxset Dimensions: 6.1" x 4.8" x 6.4"
Tracklist:
CD 1
1. HANDEL Concerti Grossi Op.6 Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 12
CD 2
1. VIVALDI Bassoon Concerto RV 481, HANDEL Organ Concertos HWV 289 & 290, MARCELLO Oboe Concerto
CD 3
1. MOZART Symphony No. 38 “Prague”, Serenade No. 10, Exsultate, jubilate
CD 4
1. HAYDN Symphony No. 101 “Clock”, SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1 “Spring”, SCHUMANN Genoveva Overture
CD 5
1. SCHUMANN Piano Concerto ∙ Cello Concerto, TCHAIKOVSKY Rococo Variations
CD 6
1. MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition [1947], RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
CD 7
1. RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio espagnole, The Golden Cockerel – Introduction, Bridal procession & Suite, MUSSORGSKY Gopak (Sorochintsy Fair – mono & stereo)
CD 8
1. VILLA-LOBOS Piano Concerto No. 1, CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2
CD 9
1. RAVEL Alborada del gracioso [1947], DEBUSSY La Mer [1947], RAVEL La Valse [1947] · Shéhérazade, DEBUSSY Petite suite
CD 10
1. ROSSINI/RESPIGHI La Boutique fantasque, FALLA El sombrero de tres picos, RAVEL 3 Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
CD 11
1. DEBUSSY Images, RAVEL L’Heure espagnole
CDs 12–13
1. DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande
CD 14
1. RAVEL Piano Concerto in G, Piano Concerto in D for the Left Hand
CD 15
1. DEBUSSY Nocturnes · RAVEL Rapsodie espagnole, Valses nobles et sentimentales · Le Tombeau de Couperin
CD 16
1. RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé
CD 17
1. DEBUSSY La Mer [1951], Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, RAVEL Ma mère l’Oye Suite · Alborada del gracioso [1951], PROKOFIEV March from The Love for Three Oranges Suite, STRAVINSKY Circus Polka
CD 18
1. PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 6, BIZET Symphony in C
CD 19
1. PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1 “Classical”, GLINKA Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture, BORODIN In the Steppes of Central Asia, MUSSORGSKY Night on the Bare Mountain, DEBUSSY Jeux · Six Épigraphes antiques
CD 20
1. BARTÓK Piano Concerto No.3, PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No.3, MARTIN Violin Concerto
CD 21
1. MARTIN Petite Symphonie Concertante, STRAVINSKY Divertimento from Le Baiser de la fée, SAINT-SAËNS Danse macabre · Le Rouet d’Omphale, CHABRIER Joyeuse marche · España, RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte
CD 22
1. MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition [1953], RAVEL La Valse [1953] · Boléro · HONEGGER Pacific 231, DUKAS L’Apprenti sorcier
CD 23
1. BLOCH Schelomo, Voice in the Wilderness, OBOUSSIER Antigone, GEISER Symphony No.1
CDs 24–26
1. STRAVINSKY Petrushka (1911) [1946] · Firebird Suite (1910/1919) [1946], Symphony of Psalms, Petrushka (1911) [1949] · The Rite of Spring, Firebird Suite (1919) [1950], Oedipus Rex