{"product_id":"weingartner-berlioz-and-liszt-1925-40-pasc758","title":"WEINGARTNER Berlioz and Liszt (1925-40) - PASC758","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBERLIOZ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eTrojan March\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBERLIOZ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphonie fantastique\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eLISZT \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eLes Préludes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eLISZT \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eMephisto Waltz No. 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1925-1940\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 77:23\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eLondon Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eOrchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eFelix Weingartner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC758.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\nThe present release brings together all of Felix Weingartner’s recordings of\nthe music of Berlioz and Liszt, excepting the latter’s two piano concertos.\nThe choice in repertoire might seem unusual for a Classicist admired for his\nBeethoven performances; yet, Weingartner was also a champion of Berlioz,\nparticularly before the First World War, when he co-edited the first\npublished edition of all of the composer’s works. Although he continued to\nperform Berlioz until nearly the end of his career, the two works presented\nhere constitute his complete legacy of the composer’s works on disc.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nWeingartner had first recorded the \u003cem\u003eSymphonie Fantastique\u003c\/em\u003e\nacoustically during four sessions in March, 1925. However, that version was\nnever released due to the arrival of electrical recording, which was by then\nalready being used by English Columbia’s American affiliate. The performance\nheard here, recorded in October and November, 1925, appears to be the\nearliest issued Classical electrical recording made by English Columbia,\nalthough the label had previously released some electrics made by American\nColumbia.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nWhile there is cramped sound from the small Petty France Studio, limited\nfrequency range, and audible variation in sonic detail over the three\nsessions, Weingartner’s flexible tempi in this score belie his reputation\nfor (as critic Jonathan Woolf put it) “patrician imperturbability”. Perhaps\nthe only really troublesome moment in the performance is the beginning of\nthe final movement, which is taken at a ridiculously fast tempo that blurs\nthe opening measures.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nHis second and final foray into Berlioz on disc was the brief, exciting\n“Trojan March” from the composer’s opera, \u003cem\u003eLes Troyens\u003c\/em\u003e, captured in\nmuch more impactful sonics fourteen years later. This was one of an\nextensive series of recordings he made in Paris with the Conservatoire\norchestra during the 1938-39 season; and his energy and control here, as in\nthe Liszt recordings which followed, is amazing for someone in his 76th\nyear.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nWeingartner’s legacy of Liszt recordings was not quite as slim as those of\nBerlioz: the two Piano Concertos with Emil von Sauer as soloist (Paris,\nDecember 1938) and the tone poems presented here. The latter were recorded\nat the same session in February, 1940, with a young Walter Legge as\nproducer. The orchestra was, again, the London Symphony, although the London\nPhilharmonic was credited on the labels of the \u003cem\u003eMephisto Waltz\u003c\/em\u003e.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nEven though the LSO was probably at that time considered the least of\nLondon’s three major orchestras (behind Beecham’s LPO and Boult’s BBC SO),\ntheir playing is at a notably higher level than it had been fifteen years\nearlier for the \u003cem\u003eSymphonie Fantastique\u003c\/em\u003e. This was a testament, at\nleast in part, to the rising orchestral standards brought on by the\ndissemination of electrical orchestral recordings and the comparisons they\nenabled to such first-rate ensembles as those found in Amsterdam,\nPhiladelphia and Boston, a revolution that was helped along by that very\nsame pioneering 1925 recording.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe sources for the transfers were American Columbia “microphone” label\npressings for \u003cem\u003eLes Pr\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eé\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eludes\u003c\/em\u003e and the “Trojan\nMarch”, English Columbia pressings for the \u003cem\u003eMephisto Waltz\u003c\/em\u003e (which\nwas only issued in the UK and Argentina), and American Columbia “Viva-Tonal”\npressings for the \u003cem\u003eSymphonie Fantastique\u003c\/em\u003e.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMark Obert-Thorn\u003c\/strong\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\u003eWEINGARTNER \u003c\/b\u003econducts Berlioz and Liszt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eLISZT Les Pr\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eé\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eludes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e,\nS97\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e(14:44)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 28 February 1940 in Kingsway Hall, London ∙ Matrices: CAX\n8733-2, 8734-2, 8735-2 \u0026amp; 8736-2 ∙ First issued on Columbia LX 877\/8\n\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n2. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eLISZT Mephisto Waltz\nNo. 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e,\u003c\/strong\u003e S110, No. 2\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e(10:35)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 28 February 1940 in Kingsway Hall, London ∙ Matrices: CAX\n8737-3, 8738-2 \u0026amp; 8739-2 ∙ First issued on Columbia LX 897\/8\n\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n3.\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBERLIOZ Trojan March from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eLes Troyens\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\n(4:47)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 21 July 1939 in the Théâtre Pigalle, Paris\n∙ Matrix: CLX 2187-1 ∙ First issued on Columbia LX 861\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eOp.\n14\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e4. 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