{"product_id":"mengelberg-columbia-concertgebouw-recordings-volume-2-1926-32-pasc616","title":"MENGELBERG Columbia Concertgebouw Recordings, Volume 2 (1926-32) - PASC616","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWAGNER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eTannhäuser Overture - Lohengrin Prelude\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBRAHMS \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 3 - Academic Festival Overture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eGRIEG \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eTwo Elegiac Melodies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eRAVEL \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBoléro\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eJ STRAUSS II\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e Perpetuum Mobile\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003emusic by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSuppé, Bizet, Mahler, Tchaikovsky\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1926-32\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 2hr 18:29\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eConcertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam\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;\"\u003eWillem Mengelberg\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC616.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\nThis release, along with our first volume (Pristine PASC 595) and the\nTchaikovsky works featured on PASC 511, present Willem Mengelberg’s\ncomplete recordings with his Concertgebouw Orchestra for the Columbia\nlabel. Mengelberg’s Columbias are significant in several respects: they\ninclude his earliest recordings with the Concertgebouw, an ensemble whose\npartnership with the conductor dated back to 1895; they feature the works\nof some contemporary composers with whom Mengelberg had personal\nfriendships and special insights, such as Mahler; and they present some\nclassic interpretations, like Liszt’s \u003cem\u003eLes Préludes\u003c\/em\u003e in our previous\nvolume, which have never been bettered on disc.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe present collection focuses on works from the Romantic era through the\nmusic of the conductor’s contemporaries. Mengelberg only recorded a handful\nof Wagner orchestral works; yet the \u003cem\u003eTannhäuser\u003c\/em\u003e Overture which\nopens our program stands among the finest ever made. Critic Rob Cowan has\nwritten that it “vies with \u003cem\u003eLes Préludes\u003c\/em\u003e as the perfect show-case\nfor Mengelberg’s striking personality.” Aided by Columbia’s superb\nengineering in one of his last recordings for the label, Mengelberg\nachieves in the final pages the same overwhelming sense of glory he evoked\nin the Liszt tone poem. Hardly less noteworthy is the \u003cem\u003eLohengrin\u003c\/em\u003e\nPrelude, which highlights the string portamenti that were a hallmark of\nMengelberg’s interpretations.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nMengelberg only recorded three of the Brahms symphonies – the Second and\nFourth for Telefunken, and this Columbia version of the Third. (A live\nbroadcast of the First, on PASC 221, was released after his death.) As\nthere was already a recent Weingartner recording of the First in the\nColumbia catalog, Mengelberg had to make do with only a single movement as\na filler side for his expansive performance of the \u003cem\u003eAcademic Festival\u003c\/em\u003e Overture. In the Third Symphony, the \u003cem\u003eAndante\u003c\/em\u003e is taken at a surprisingly fast tempo. But lest one think\nthis was done solely to fit the movement onto a side and a half, he takes a\nsimilar approach in a 1944 broadcast.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe next selections display Mengelberg’s deft touch with lighter music. A\nhighlight of the Suppé overture is the beautifully played solo by longtime\nConcertgebouw principal cellist Marix Loevensohn. The Johann Strauss work\nis a showcase for the various sections of the orchestra, each displaying a\nmemorable individuality. The Bizet again draws attention to the portamenti\nof the Concertgebouw strings, as they work up to an expertly paced\ncrescendo.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThree composers Mengelberg knew personally follow in our program. Both\nGrieg and Ravel expressed admiration for the conductor; and Mahler was a\nclose friend whose works Mengelberg championed for years, both before and\nafter the composer’s death. The \u003cem\u003eAdagietto\u003c\/em\u003e from Mahler’s Fifth\npresented here is perhaps the most important document in this set; for in\naddition to being the conductor’s only commercial recording of a Mahler\nwork, its notably faster pacing reveals it in a much different light than\nthat of subsequent interpreters.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe Ravel was one of the four earliest recordings of the work, made between\nJanuary and May of 1930, after those of Piero Coppola, the composer himself\nand Serge Koussevitzky. Though it drives to an impressively loud\nconclusion, the performance is somewhat hobbled by the players’ requirement\nto stop every four minutes to start a new matrix, with tempi and volume\nlevels becoming inconsistent from side to side.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe final work is an unpublished take of the Waltz from Tchaikovsky’s \u003cem\u003eSerenade for Strings\u003c\/em\u003e, which was omitted from our earlier\nall-Tchaikovsky set. There is some untidy ensemble around 2:50, which may\nhave been the reason Mengelberg recorded another two takes before he\napproved the result. 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