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STRAUSS II\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e Artist’s Life - Waltz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWEBER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eEuryanthe - Overture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eplus piano solos by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eChopin, Jensen, Liszt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eMendelssohn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1923-1930\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 79:01\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eRudolph Ganz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, conductor and piano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eSt. Louis Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC739.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003ePianist, conductor, composer and music educator Rudolph Ganz was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1877.  He first performed publicly as a cellist at the age of ten, and as a pianist two years later.  After studying at the conservatories of Zurich, Lausanne and Strasbourg, he went to Berlin for further training under Ferruccio Busoni from 1899 to 1900.  At that time, he made his mature debut as a pianist with the Berlin Philharmonic, and shortly afterward as their conductor in a performance of his own Symphony No. 1.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGanz then embarked on a major tour as a pianist of Europe and ultimately the United States, where he would make his home, becoming head of the piano faculty of the Chicago Music College from 1901 through 1905.  During this period, he also made his debut as soloist with the Chicago Symphony (1903) and the New York Philharmonic (1906).  He continued to tour throughout the U.S. and Canada over the following two decades before becoming the fourth music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in 1921.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe orchestra, which traced its roots back to 1880, is the second oldest symphonic ensemble in the U.S. after the New York Philharmonic.  In 1923, during Ganz’s third season there, the St. Louis Symphony was signed to a recording contract by the Victor Talking Machine Company.  For three consecutive winters, engineers from Victor traveled to Missouri to record the ensemble, at first using the acoustical process, and later the new microphone-based electrical recording technology for their final discs in 1925.  All sixteen published sides from those sessions are included here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBesides the expected “calling cards” of standard repertoire typical of recordings of the time, these also include several less well-known works, like the Festival Overture of Danish-born Belgian composer Eduard Lassen; three dances from British composer Edward German’s incidental music to Anthony Hope’s play, \u003ci\u003eNell Gwyn\u003c\/i\u003e; and the overture to the opera \u003ci\u003eDer Improvisator\u003c\/i\u003e by another virtuoso pianist-turned-composer, Eugen d’Albert.  Ganz’s conductorial style favored swift but flexible tempi, with string portamenti still the norm during this era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGanz left the St. Louis Symphony in 1927, returning to the Chicago Music College in 1929.  He would remain there as director until his retirement in 1954.  During the 1930s and 1940s, he would conduct series of Young People’s Concerts with the New York Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony.  He also continued to appear as a pianist in recitals, concerts and on the new medium of radio.  Ganz had already recorded over forty sides acoustically for the Pathé label in New York between 1917 and 1921 before he made his first electrical piano discs for Victor in 1930.  They display the old-school high Romantic approach to interpretation in which Ganz was raised, particularly in the Chopin and Liszt sides.  Their addition to this release completes his Victor recordings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout his career, Ganz was interested in contemporary music, although this was not reflected in his discography.  Ravel dedicated the “Scarbo” movement from his \u003ci\u003eGaspard de la nuit\u003c\/i\u003e to Ganz, a reflection both of the pianist’s commitment to new works as well as to his technical prowess.  Late in life, he was said by one of his pupils to have had a score by Boulez on his piano.  Ganz died in Chicago where he had lived most of his life in 1972 at the age of 95.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBesides the Pathé acoustics and four Victor electric sides, Ganz left behind few other piano disc recordings:  an album of his own Animal Pictures for music publisher Carl Fischer’s label around 1932; a 1944 American Decca set of solo works by Edward MacDowell, a composer he particularly championed; and a 1956 two-piano recital with his student Parthenia Vogelback on the obscure Chicago-based Tiffany label.  He made dozens of piano rolls, however, some of which have been transferred to LP and CD.  His only other recording as a conductor was a 1946 set of Grieg’s Holberg Suite with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, a New York pickup group unrelated to the opera company, for the short-lived Pilotone label.  As far as could be researched, none of the recordings on the present release have been available since the 78 rpm era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Obert-Thorn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRUDOLPH GANZ\u003c\/b\u003e The Complete St. Louis Symphony Recordings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e1. \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e \u003cb\u003e WEBER \u003c\/b\u003eEuryanthe - Overture\u003c\/span\u003e (8:08)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 29 October 1923 ∙ Matrices: C 28852-2 and 28853-4 ∙ First issued on\nVictor 55229\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e \u003cb\u003e LASSEN \u003c\/b\u003eFestival Overture\u003c\/span\u003e (8:47)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 30-31 October 1923 ∙ Matrices: C 28857-4 and 28858-6 ∙ First issued\non Victor 55202\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n3. \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSINDING \u003c\/b\u003eRustle of Spring\u003c\/span\u003e (2:52)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 31 October 1923 ∙ Matrix: B 28859-5 ∙ First issued on Victor 45389\n\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eD’ALBERT\u003c\/b\u003e The Improvisator - Overture\u003c\/span\u003e (3:20)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 31 October 1923 ∙ Matrix: B 28860-1 ∙ First issued on Victor 45389\n\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. 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Country Dance (4:06)\u003cbr\u003e10. Pastoral Dance (2:35)\u003cbr\u003e11. 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