Jean Martinon: The Philips Legacy: The Complete Philips Recordings 1953–1956

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Release Date: 10th Nov 2014
Catalogue No: ELQ4805588
Label: Eloquence
Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Mozart: Symphony No. 31 in D, K.297 - "Paris"

Work length18:38

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Orchestre Lamoureux
Jean Martinon
Recorded: 1956
Recording Venue: Salle Apollo, Paris

1. Allegro assai

Track length8:03

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2. Andante

Track length6:50

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3. Allegro

Track length3:45

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Mozart: Symphony No. 32 in G, K.318 (Overture in G)

Work length8:14

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Orchestre Lamoureux
Jean Martinon
Recorded: 1956
Recording Venue: Salle Apollo, Paris

Allegro - Andante - Tempo I

Track length8:14

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Mozart: Symphony No. 33 in B flat, K.319

Work length20:43

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Orchestre Lamoureux
Jean Martinon
Recorded: 1956
Recording Venue: Salle Apollo, Paris

1. Allegro assai

Track length7:20

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2. Andante moderato

Track length5:55

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3. Menuetto

Track length2:39

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4. Finale (Allegro assai)

Track length4:49

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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D, Op. 25 "Classical Symphony"

Work length13:07

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Lamoureux Konzert Orchester Paris
Jean Martinon
Recorded: 1953-06-29
Recording Venue: Salle Apollo, Paris

1. Allegro

Track length3:43

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2. Larghetto

Track length3:30

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3. Gavotta (Non troppo allegro)

Track length1:24

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4. Finale (Vivace)

Track length4:30

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Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges, Symphonic Suite, Op. 33 bis

Work length17:03

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Lamoureux Konzert Orchester Paris
Jean Martinon
Recorded: 1953-06-29
Recording Venue: Salle Apollo, Paris

1. The Ridiculous People

Track length3:17

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2. Infernal Scene

Track length3:29

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3. March

Track length1:40

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4. Scherzo

Track length1:26

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5. The Prince and the Princess

Track length4:53

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6. The Escape

Track length2:18

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Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Work length9:42

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Orchestre Lamoureux
Jean Martinon
Recorded: 1953-02
Recording Venue: Unknown, Paris

Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50

Work length5:56

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Orchestre Lamoureux
Jean Martinon
Recorded: 1953-02
Recording Venue: Unknown, Paris

Roussel: Le Festin de l'Araignée, Op. 17

Work length17:02

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Orchestre Lamoureux
Jean Martinon
Recorded: 1953-02
Recording Venue: Unknown, Paris

Prélude

Track length4:11

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Entrée des fournis

Track length0:41

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Les fourmis découvrent un pétale de rose tombé

Track length0:17

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Rentrée en scene des fournis

Track length0:13

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Danse du papillon

Track length2:12

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L'araignée invite le papillon a danser plus pres du fond

Track length0:32

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Mort du papillon

Track length2:12

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Danse de l'éphémère

Track length3:13

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Funérailles de l'éphémère

Track length2:11

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La nuit tombe sur le jardin solitaire

Track length1:20

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Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane - Ballet Suite No. 1, Op. 43

Work length16:31

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Orchestre Lamoureux
Jean Martinon
Recorded: 1954-10-05
Recording Venue: Salle Apollo, Paris

1. Prélude - Jeux des Ephèbes et des Vierges

Track length3:35

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2. Danse du labyrinthe - Thésée mime sa lutte contre le Minotaure

Track length3:42

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3. Meno allegro

Track length0:26

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4. Bacchus apparait. La danse est interrompue

Track length0:25

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5. Meno allegro - Ariane, curieuse, s'approche de Bacchus - Il fait tournoyer son manteau au dessus d'Ariane

Track length1:15

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6. Thésée et ses compagnons se précipitent sur Bacchus. Bacchus se dévoile

Track length7:08

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Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane - Ballet Suite No. 2, Op. 43

Work length18:59

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Orchestre Lamoureux
Jean Martinon
Recorded: 1954-10-05
Recording Venue: Salle Apollo, Paris

7. Prelude. Ariane dort - Réveil d'Arianne

Track length3:09

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8. Elle regarde avec étonnement de tous côtés

Track length3:56

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9. Le baiser - L'enchantement dionysiaque

Track length6:26

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10. Danse d'Ariane et de Bacchus - Bacchanale - Le Couronnement d'Ariane

Track length5:28

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Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Work length11:58

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Orchestre Lamoureux
Jean Martinon
Recorded: 1953-02
Recording Venue: Unknown, Paris

Honegger: Pastorale d'été

Work length7:43

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Orchestre Lamoureux
Jean Martinon
Recorded: 1953-02
Recording Venue: Unknown, Paris

Falla: Noches en los jardines de España

Work length23:12

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Eduardo del Pueyo (piano)
Orchestre Lamoureux
Jean Martinon
Recorded: 1955-11

1. En el generalife

Track length10:07

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2. Danza lejana

Track length4:44

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3. En los jardines de la Sierra de Cordoba

Track length8:21

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Falla: El Amor Brujo

Work length24:26

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Orchestre Lamoureux
Jean Martinon
Recorded: 1955-11

Introducción y escena - En la cueva - Canción del amor dolido - El Aparecido - Danza del terror

Track length6:10

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El circulo mágico...A media noche. Los sortilegios

Track length2:40

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A media noche - Danza ritual del fuego

Track length4:24

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Escena - Canción del fuego fatuo

Track length2:40

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Pantomima - Danza del juego de amor - Final

Track length8:32

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Jean Martinon’s career in the recording studio got under way after World War II when, in 1947–48, he and the London Philharmonic Orchestra when he recorded music by Mozart, Ravel, Tchaikovsky and Chabrier. Between then and April 1960 he recorded extensively for Decca. Brilliant as many of these recordings are, they have completely overshadowed the parallel legacy of the recordings Martinon made for Philips between 1953 and 1956.

From 1951 to 1957 Martinon was principal conductor with the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, an outfit that at the time ranked as one of the best in France, alongside the Orchestre national de la Radiodiffusion française, and as is demonstrated by the different musical landscapes traversed in the Philips sessions, he made his mark in a wide variety of repertoire.

The revelation of his versions of three Mozart symphonies, Nos. 31–33, made in the composer’s bicentenary year of 1956 for Philips’s French operation and completely neglected until this release, makes a lasting impression. Martinon here is literally glowing, breathing the music with disarming ease, just as in Haydn. He unerringly grasps all the visceral energy and inherent hedonism of the works, and he conveys its late-eighteenth century theatrical leanings and sunny lyricism.

Martinon had a passion for Russian music, here represented by his recording of the suite from The Love of Three Oranges (‘like a bolt of electricity’ Pierre-Yves Lascar) and a fizzing account of the composer’s ‘Classical’ Symphony.

He had already established a formidable reputation as a seasoned interpreter of French music in the 1950s, and this part of the repertoire occupies a select place in this retrospective of his Philips recordings. Devotees of the stereo versions that appeared on Erato will be astonished by his first Roussel recordings (the suite from Le Festin de l’araignée on 9 and 11 February 1953, and Bacchus et Ariane on 4 and 5 October 1954).

Spontaneity and enthusiasm, warmth and fluidity are equally the characteristics that emerge from a hearing of the four other great pieces of French music in this anthology: Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Dukas’s L’Apprenti sorcier, Fauré’s Pavane and Honegger’s Pastorale d’été.

It was as the head of the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux that Martinon completed his official exploration of the works of Falla in 1955. He never returned to the composer’s music again in the recording studio. He had a passion for this music and the microphones of the Salle Apollo in Paris caught his impassioned account of Nights in the Gardens of Spain with the Saragossa-born pianist Eduardo del Pueyo, followed by a fiery El amor brujo.

Issued as a companion set is Martinon’s Deutsche Grammophon legacy (480 8926) including collaborations with Pierre Fournier and Nicanor Zabaleta (with the first release on CD of Ginastera’s Harp Concerto) and Martinon’s own Second Violin Concerto.

ALL FIRST RELEASES ON CD except Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain.

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[His] Mozart is stylish, Falla exciting...yet best of all is his Roussel...full of freshness or virtuosity.

Jean Martinon: The Philips Legacy

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