{"product_id":"goossens-cincinnati-symphony-orchestra-vol-1-vaughan-williams-walton-delius-194146-pasc654","title":"GOOSSENS Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 1: Vaughan Williams, Walton, Delius (1941\/46) - PASC654","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eVAUGHAN WILLIAMS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e  A London Symphony\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWALTON  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eViolin Concerto\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eDELIUS  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eThe Walk to the Paradise Garden\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1941\/46\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 76:18\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eJascha Heifetz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, violin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eCincinnati Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eEugene Goossens\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC654.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\n\nThis first volume in a series which will present the complete\nrecordings of Eugene Goossens and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra\nfocuses on Twentieth Century British music, including some rarely-heard\neditions of scores that were later replaced by revised versions. Among\nthese is the 1920 version of Vaughan Williams’ \u003cem\u003eLondon Symphony\u003c\/em\u003e\n, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s 1872 birth.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nGoossens was born into a musical family in London in 1893. His Belgian\ngrandfather had been a conductor; his father, a violinist; his mother, an\nopera singer; and his siblings all noted instrumentalists (oboist Léon,\nharpists Sidonie and Marie and hornist Adolphe). After studying violin and\nplaying in various London orchestras and chamber ensembles, Goossens became\nan assistant to Beecham in 1916. By 1921, he had taken up conducting\nfull-time, forming his own orchestra, and making a particular specialty of\nnew music. In the same year, he gave the British concert première of\nStravinsky’s \u003cem\u003eThe Rite of Spring\u003c\/em\u003e.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nAt the invitation of George Eastman, Goossens served as music director of\nthe Rochester Philharmonic and taught at the Eastman School of Music from\n1923 to 1931, splitting his time between the USA and Britain, where he\ncontinued to conduct in the concert hall and at Covent Garden. He led the\nHollywood Bowl Orchestra frequently during his years in America, and made\nrecordings there in 1928. From 1931 through 1946, he headed the Cincinnati\nSymphony before moving to Australia to conduct the Sydney Symphony\n(1947-56) and lead the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music, where\namong his students were Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge. He was\nknighted in 1955; but his career suffered from a scandal the following year\nwhich caused his return to the UK. He died in 1962.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe Cincinnati Symphony had already enjoyed an illustrious history before\nGoossens’ arrival. Its previous music directors had included Leopold\nStokowski (1909-12), violinist-turned-conductor Eugene Ysaÿe (1918-22) and\nFritz Reiner (1922-31). Although the ensemble had recorded acoustically\nunder Ernst Kunwald and Ysaÿe in 1917-19, they had not made any discs in\nover two decades until the February, 1941 sessions that produced the Walton\nand Vaughan Williams works presented here.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nVaughan Williams’s \u003cem\u003eA London Symphony\u003c\/em\u003e, had been premièred in 1914;\nbut after the Great War, the composer cut it by about a third for a version\npublished in 1920. Further cuts were made for a final 1936 edition that has\nbeen the standard performed ever since. However, the 1920 parts were still\nbeing circulated in America when Goossens made his recording, and that is\nwhat is heard here. Among several passages missing from the later version\nare about two minutes of music toward the beginning of the Epilogue. Other\nthan the two acoustic sets of the score made by Sir Dan Godfrey (one\nseverely truncated, the other with a large cut in the last movement), it\nis, to my knowledge, the only complete recording of the 1920 version (and\neven here, a repeat in the Scherzo is omitted in order to fit it on a\nsingle side).\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe Walton concerto was premièred by Heifetz with Rodziński and the\nCleveland Orchestra in December, 1939; but since the conductor and ensemble\nwere under contract to Columbia and Heifetz was with Victor, the first\nrecording had to wait a little over a year until the violinist performed it\nwith Goossens in Cincinnati. The original version heard here differs from\nthe one performed today (which Heifetz re-recorded under the composer’s\ndirection in 1950) primarily in the use of percussion, where the increased\npresence of the xylophone, cymbals and side drum lend a greater brilliance\nto the final two movements.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n“The Walk to the Paradise Garden” is perhaps the most well-known excerpt\nfrom Delius’ 1907 opera, \u003cem\u003eA Village Romeo and Juliet\u003c\/em\u003e. It is heard\nhere in Sir Thomas Beecham’s arrangement, made, according to the publisher,\n“in order to bring the original work for large orchestra within the scope\nof a smaller orchestra.” While the Cincinnati Symphony probably had enough\npersonnel for the original version, perhaps Goossens used the arrangement\nin homage to his former mentor. As the Walton was from Goossens’ first\nrecording session in Cincinnati, the Delius was from his last, bringing our program\nfull circle.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMark Obert-Thorn\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_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\u003eEUGENE GOOSSENS\u003c\/b\u003e and the Cincinnati Symphony: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003eComplete Recordings ∙ Volume 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. \u003cstrong\u003eDELIUS (arr. 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