Representative anthology, rich in treasures, but few true unpublished rarities and many are still sleeping in the cave Decca

Representative anthology, rich in treasures, but few true unpublished rarities and many are still sleeping in the cave Decca

The Decca Sound: Mono Years 1944 - 1956 (CD)

Customer Review

The kit comes as a cubic box of about 13 cm, quune hatch opens from the top.
The fifty-three CDs are each packed in cardboard box, reproducing the cover of the original vinyl, at least for main LOEUVRE. Other hedges are inset on the back.
The booklet includes an index classified by composer, and two introductory texts translated into French, "the sound ffrr", "developing a directory of artists and create a catalog," all complemented by somewhat dated pictures.

After the Golden Age stereo in an "analogous Years" box set, here is another anthology, bounded between 1944-1956, monophonic -the legacy "full frequency range".
The marketing department had to think that this selection please the greatest number of music lovers: we offer a representative sample without vampirize other active veins Decca.
We are told a lot of "international release first" but global dune lheure marketing via internet, some of these editions were and remain available in the collections Original Masters, Eloquence (especially meritorious albums released in Australia under the aegis of Cyrus Meher-Homji) The Dutton Testament and labels, and Japanese imports, which have already explored this fund-without exhausting far from it. Also include craft enterprises as Forgotten Records, which had already transplanted some furrows Decca.
This raises the question of the balance between the real and unreleased back catalog, potentially duplicating what the customer already has or can obtain elsewhere.
No songs or will boost here, perhaps not to encroach on the recent "most wanted recital" series.
Only in the orchestra and chamber music.

Certainly hard to deadlock on pillars such Ansermet (three CDs), Curzon, Lympany, Nelsova Ricci, Campoli, Katchen, Beinum, Kleiber father Münchinger, the young Solti, Martinon ... but we had already been able to acquire via the above-named alternatives.

We salute however many rarities: ballet Kresimir Baranovic and Fran Lhotka directed by themselves; Liturgical dHonegger Paris directed by Robert Denzler; Viola Concerto Conrad Beck led by Jean Meylan; Concertos and Rodrigo Elizalde played by Christian Ferras; Grétry led by Robert Irving; Scandinavian quartets by Koppel Quartet; Bizet, Chabrier by Edouard Lindenberg; Handel by the Boyd Neel Orchestra bows (an integral of Lopus 6!); Boccherini, Shostakovich, Brahms by Quintetto Chigiano; Beethoven and Brahms by the Trio di Trieste; Prokofiev and Sibelius conducted by Thomas Jensen; Smetana, Kodaly and Schubert by Vegh Quartet ...
The inventory leaves still think Decca sest essentially merely compile interpretations already exploited in his past or local collections or granted under license, rather than make the effort to look at the treasures of its cellars.
Thus, the Quartets No. 1-4 Bloch captured in June-July 1954 (already emerged in "Original Masters") we visited but not earlier engravings by the same Griller Quartet, who had entrusted to micro Quartet No. 2 in June 1947, and No. 3 June 16, 1953 (five days before the public creation).
35 On the CD, there is the Khachaturian Concerto by Moura Lympany (piano) and Anatole Fistoulari with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (November 1952), but we would have preferred the rarest testimony captured in May 1945, with the same two artists Orchestre symphonique London.
A regrettable deficiency: no Charles Munch whose 1946 to 1947 sessions in London and Paris were exhumed in particular in Japan and by the late Lys label (see below).

The most avid collectors have dreamed of two boxes, for example devoted to the period 1950-1956 and 1944-1950 (poorly represented here, and it conceals absolute rarities).
This concludes my review with some disappointment, which costs a star The assessment.
Betrayed hopes? Missed opportunity? Or my requirements-they are too greedy?
Many still unreleased on CD slumber in the cellars of Decca. Since the production team asked the British Library to flush out some kits, the "sourcing" could have left in search of precious tapes which one wonders if the dream Art Direction still there. They become so difficult to locate?

Here is a chronological list (far from being exhaustive!) Of these missing records from 1944 to 1950 in this case, left to the abandonment, and threaten to disappear from memory. Fewer sellers? Not necessarily quon would find the brilliant interpretations, but this literature will certainly make fans salivate darchive. Note the incredible fertility of the first three years DAfter war, which alone could have filled fifty discs.

Tchaikovsky: Symphony 5 / National Symphony Orchestra, Sidney Beer (June 1944)
Fauré: Quartet Op 45 No 2 / London Belgian Piano Quartet (November 1944).
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Schubert: Symphony No. 8 / National Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari (December 1944)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 / National Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent (January 1945)
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet / National Symphony Orchestra, Albert Coates (February 1945)
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 / National Symphony Orchestra, Karl Rankl (February 1945)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, Mozart Symphony No. 39 / National Symphony Orchestra, Walter Goehr (February-March 1945)
Grieg: Piano Concerto / Lympany Moura, National Symphony Orchestra, Sidney Beer (March 1945)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 / National Symphony Orchestra, Albert Coates (July 1945)
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 / National Symphony Orchestra, Heinz Unger (July 1945)
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, Schubert: Symphony No. 4 / National Symphony Orchestra, Karl Rankl (July 1945)
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Lympany Moura, National Symphony Orchestra, Warwick Braithwaite (July 1945)
Ravel: Ma Mere Loye / National Symphony Orchestra, Sidney Beer (July 1945)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 / National Symphony Orchestra, Heinz Unger (September 1945)
Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto / Ida Haendel, National Symphony Orchestra, Enrique Jorda, Malcolm Sargent (September 1945)
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 / National Symphony Orchestra, Basil Cameron (October 1945)
Debussy: Nocturnes / Luton Choral Society, National Symphony Orchestra, Sidney Beer (October 1945)
Elgar: Enigma Variations / National Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent (November 1945)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Nicolas Orloff, National Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari (November 1945)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 / National Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent (November 1945)
Haydn: Symphony No. 88 / National Symphony Orchestra, Enrique Jorda (January 1946)
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 / London Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent (February 1946)
Beethoven: Concerto No. 4 / Lympany Moura, London Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent (February 1946)
Dvorak: Cello Concerto / Maurice Gendron (cello), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Rankl (March 1946)
Bartok: Quartet No. 6 / Gertler Quartet (March 1946)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Grzegorz Fitelberg (April 1946)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Grande / National Symphony Orchestra, Enrique Jorda (April 1946)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Sibelius: En Saga / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Victor de Sabata (May 1946)
Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 2 / Eileen Joyce London Philharmonic Orchestra, Grzegorz Fitelberg (May 1946)
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf (July 1946)
Schumann: Symphony No. 1 / National Symphony Orchestra, Piero Coppola (July 1946)
Schumann: LAmour and the life of a woman / Astra Desmond (alto), Phyllis Spurr (piano) (September 1946)
Schumann: Piano Concerto, Ravel: Bolero, Daphnis Suites, Franck: Symphony in D minor / Nicole Henriot (piano), Orchestra of the League of Conservatory Concerts, Charles Munch (October 1946)
Lalo: Cello Concerto / Guilhermina Suggia, London Symphony Orchestra Pedro de Freitas Branco (November 1946)
Sibelius Tapiola / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Basil Cameron (February 1947)
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8 / Quartet of Amsterdam (March 1947)
Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean Martinon (May 1947)
Bizet: Games denfants / National Symphony Orchestra, Roger Désormière (May 1947)
Bizet: Symphony in C, Roussel: Suite in F, Feast spider (Continued) Schumann: Symphony No. 4 / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Munch (June 1947)
Beethoven: Concerto No. 4 / Clara Haskil (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Zecchi (July 1947)
Dvorak: Violin Concerto / Ida Haendel, National Symphony Orchestra, Karl Rankl (July 1947)
Liszt: Concerto No. 1 / Lympany Moura, National Symphony Orchestra, Royalton Kisch (September 1947)
Schumann: Symphony No. 2 / London Philharmonic Orchestra, George Enescu (September 1947)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 Debussy: Iberia / Paris Conservatory Orchestra, Charles Munch (September-October 1947)
Schumann: Piano Concerto / Lympany Moura, London Symphony Orchestra, Royalton Kisch (October 1947)
Mozart: Symphony No. 39 / London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips (October 1947)
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 / Symphony Orchestra Turin, Mario Rossi (November 1947)
Strauss: Death and Transfiguration / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Clemens Krauss (December 1947)
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Basil Cameron (December 1947)
Schubert: Symphony No. 6 / London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips (April 1948)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sergiu Celibidache (July 1948)
Haydn: Symphony No. 104 / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Josef Krips (April 1949)
Schumann: The Romance Poet / Suzanne Danco (soprano), Guido Agosti (piano) (April 1949)
Bloch: Schelomo / Zara Nelsova (cello), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ernest Bloch (November 1949)
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Frank Phillips (reciting), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicolai Malko (December 1949)
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Basil Cameron (December 1949)

And now a few records over the period from 1950 to 1956, I would have also liked to find in this package:

Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas No. 3, 4 and 8 / Robert Kornman (March 1953)
Grieg: Piano Concerto / Winifred Atwell, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanford Robinson (December 1954)
Mozart: Piano Sonatas No. 4, 7, 12 / Paolo Spagnolo (February 1955)
Vaughan Williams: Sonata for violin and piano / Frederick Grinke Michael Mulliner (March 1955)
Boccherini: Trios and Quartets / Carmirelli (February 1956)

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