Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake & Nutcracker Suite

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Fistoulari’s high-octane conducting has the LSO and Paris Conservatoire orchestra responding in soaring style. The Swan Lake excerpts include most of the ballet. Decent mono sound. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 5 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 30th Nov 2018
Catalogue No: ELQ4825225
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20

Work length1:30:44

$35.20

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London Symphony Orchestra
Anatole Fistoulari
Recorded: 1952-01-21
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Introduction (Moderato assai) - No.1 Scène (Allegro giusto)

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No.4a Pas de trois: Intrada (Allegro)

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No.4c Pas de trois: Allegro semplice

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No.4d Pas de trois: Moderato

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No.4e Pas de trois: Allegro

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No.4f Pas de trois: Coda (Allegro vivace)

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No.6 Pas d'action (Andantino quasi moderato - Allegro)

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No.7 Sujet

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No.8 Danse des coupes (Tempo di polacca)

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No.10 Scène (Moderato)

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No.11 Scène (Allegro moderato)

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No.12 Scène (Allegro)

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No.13a Danse des cygnes: Valse

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No.13b Danse des cygnes: Odette solo / Première danse de la reine des cygnes (Moderato assai)

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No.13d Danse des petits cygnes (Allegro moderato)

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No.13c Danse des cygnes: Valse

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No.13e Danse des cygnes: Pas d'action: Odette et le prince / Deuxième danse de la reine des cygnes (Andante)

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No.13g Danse des cygnes: Coda (Allegro vivace)

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No.14 Scène (Moderato)

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No.15 Danse de fançailles (Allegro giusto)

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No.17 Scène: Entrée des invités (Fanfares) et la valse (Allegro)

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No.18 Scène (Allegro)

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No.21 Danse espagnole (Allegro non troppo. Tempo di bolero)

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Polka - Allegro

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No.20 Danse hongroise (Czárdás)

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No.23 Mazurka

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Pas de deux: Introduction (Moderato) - Variations I & II - Coda

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No.24 Scène (Allegro - Valse - Allegro vivo)

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No.27 Danses des petits cygnes (Moderato)

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Valse - bluette

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Un poco di Chopin (Tempo di mazurka)

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No.28 Scène (Allegro agitato)

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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a

Work length21:25

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Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Anatole Fistoulari
Recorded: 1951-06-21
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

Miniature Overture

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March

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Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy

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Russian Dance (Trepak)

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Arabian Dance (Coffee)

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Chinese Dance (Tea)

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Dance of the Reed-Pipes

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Waltz of the Flowers

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Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, No.2

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Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Anatole Fistoulari
Recorded: 1951-06-21
Recording Venue: La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris

Act I Scene & Coda

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Pas de Deux (Permission de dix heures) - Scene & Dance of The Grandfather

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Pas de deux (Andante maestoso)

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Waltz Of The Snowflakes

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Scene - Prelude to Act 2

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Spanish Dance

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Final Waltz & Apotheosis

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According to legend, Anatole Fistoulari (1907–1995) conducted an orchestra for the first time at the age of seven. Having moved to France in his twenties, he escaped to England after the fall of France in 1939 and based the rest of his career in the UK as a ballet specialist who became something of a house conductor for Decca, especially in Russian repertoire: a safe pair of hands, but also more than that, as this beautifully pointed version of Swan Lake reveals. Fistoulari returned to Swan Lake for Decca on two separate occasions, with the Concertgebouw in highlights and then in 1973 with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic in Decca’s ‘Phase 4’ phase. However, deriving from Kingsway Hall sessions in January 1952, the attractions of this first version are considerable, not least the violin solos by Alfredo Campoli, who had been brought in at the insistence of the producer, John Culshaw, as a late replacement for the LSO’s leader of the day, George Stratton. A version of the complete ballet is used, abridged by Riccardo Drigo for the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. Condensed to under 90 minutes, this edition is more familiar than Tchaikovsky’s original score to many ballet-goers even now.

Thus there is room on this 2-CD set for another reissue of a complete Decca LP, excerpts from The Nutcracker recorded with the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra in June 1951. Fistoulari included not only the familiar ‘First’ Suite but a Second Suite of his own confection, featuring more music from the First Act such as the Waltz of the Snowflakes as well as the Spanish Dance from the Second-Act divertissement and the sublime Final Waltz and Apotheosis.

‘Fistoulari, who conceives the work on a broader scale [than a Prague-based recording], gives the music a more imposing sweep; it is the grand pattern than counts for him, and in achieving this pattern he gives us the feel of an actual ballet performance rather than a ballet recording … [the LSO] have been recorded with rare skill – sound that is resonant, clear and luminous.’ High Fidelity, October 1954 (Swan Lake)

‘His way with the ubiquitous Suite No. 1 is put in the shade only by Beecham’s – generally relaxed, danceable tempos, as if he can see the choreography transpiring before him, and he brings the same balletic feel to the other Nutcracker pieces, leaving out some repeats so he can squeeze in more music.’ Fanfare, July/August 2009 (Suites from The Nutcracker)

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March 2019

Fistoulari’s high-octane conducting has the LSO and Paris Conservatoire orchestra responding in soaring style. The Swan Lake excerpts include most of the ballet. Decent mono sound.

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake & Nutcracker Suite

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