Concertgebouw Lollipops

Haitink’s sane if not intoxicating choices provide firm ballast. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2018, 3 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 18th Aug 2017
Catalogue No: ELQ4825650
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

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Schubert: Marche Militaire, D733 No. 1

Work length4:03

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Paul van Kempen
Recorded: 1951-12-05
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Strauss, J, I: Radetzky March, Op. 228

Work length2:33

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Paul van Kempen
Recorded: 1951-12-05
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Clarke, Jeremiah: Trumpet Voluntary 'Prince of Denmark's March'

Work length2:50

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum
Recorded: 1952-05-19
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Excerpt, Nicolai, C O: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor

Work length7:46

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum
Recorded: 1956-04-12
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Overture

Track length7:46

Excerpt, Thomas, Ambroise: Mignon

Work length8:18

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum
Recorded: 1956-04-12
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Overture

Track length8:18

Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34

Work length8:26

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum
Recorded: 1958-05-03
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam

1. Heart-Wounds

Track length3:03

2. The Last Spring

Track length5:23

Berlioz: Le carnaval romain Overture, Op. 9

Work length8:08

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum
Recorded: 1956-09-25
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam

Sibelius: Finlandia, Op. 26

Work length8:04

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum
Recorded: 1957-06-07
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam

Glinka: Ruslan And Lyudmila / Act 1

Work length5:23

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink
Recorded: 1964-12

Overture

Track length5:23

Rimsky Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36

Work length14:20

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Igor Markevitch
Recorded: 1964-09
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Borodin: Prince Igor / Act 2

Work length11:06

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Igor Markevitch
Recorded: 1964-09
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Polovtsian Dances

Track length11:06

Excerpt, Verdi: La forza del destino

Work length7:15

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink
Recorded: 1964-12

Overture (Sinfonia)

Track length7:15

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini Overture

Work length10:10

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink
Recorded: 1968-10

Franck, C: Les Eolides - Symphonic Poem

Work length8:36

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Willem van Otterloo
Recorded: 1964-01
Recording Venue: Unknown, Amsterdam

Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40

Work length7:12

Herman Krebbers (violin)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink
Recorded: 1962-09
Recording Venue: Unknown, Amsterdam

Dvořák: Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 66

Work length12:00

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink
Recorded: 1963-10

Excerpt, Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier

Work length18:20

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eugen Jochum
Recorded: 1960-09

Waltz Sequence No. 1

Track length11:05

Waltz Sequence No. 2

Track length7:15

Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, Op. 39 No. 1

Work length6:43

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Antal Dorati
Recorded: 1959-09-25
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Sousa: Semper Fidelis

Work length3:11

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Antal Dorati
Recorded: 1959-09-25
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever

Work length3:17

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum
Recorded: 1958-09-27
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

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This highly appealing collection of light-orchestral classics gathers up eighteen years in the history of one of the world’s most celebrated orchestras during the golden age of the LP.

Ever since its foundation in 1883, the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam has been blessed with a hall that, to all intents and purposes, belongs to them. Unlike many of their rivals, they not only perform but rehearse and record in the hall. The hall’s own superb acoustic has always been a further attraction for record companies, and between 1950 and 1968 microphones were frequently set up to record the orchestra.

Those microphones mostly belonged to Decca and to the fledgling local Philips company, and on the podium were not only its music directors – during this period, Eduard van Beinum and, from 1961, Bernard Haitink – but also celebrated guest conductors. There were long-established maestros and friends of the orchestra such as Eugen Jochum, Paul van Kempen and Willem van Otterloo, but also younger, dynamic maestros including Antal Doráti.

When recording sessions went well, and the main works were in the can ahead of schedule, the time was not wasted, but filled with shorter pieces. These would both conveniently fill out a short-measure LP and be guaranteed enticements to the ever-growing market of consumers, though in some cases, the reserve pieces were only released on a 45-rpm record, which sometimes disappeared from the catalogue after a short period.

Many of those recordings, often made on the hoof with a delightful spontaneity that shines through even now, are gathered on this set for the first time. Typical of them is The Stars and Stripes Forever. This was put on tape one day in September 1958 without rehearsal, played straight through, and at the end Van Beinum addressed the orchestra: ‘Now that, gentlemen, is a recording!’

Sometimes the juxtapositions of conductor and repertoire are immediately arresting: not only Van Beinum in Sousa but Haitink in Glinka and Verdi. The waltz-suites from Der Rosenkavalier play to Jochum’s under-rated strengths as an operatic conductor. Igor Markevitch conducts the Polovtsian Dances and Russian Easter Festival Overture to the manner born.

The booklet includes an informative and insightful note by Niek Nelissen, as well as cover illustrations of the LPs and EPs that gave rise to this unique collection.

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Christmas Issue 2018

Haitink’s sane if not intoxicating choices provide firm ballast.

Concertgebouw Lollipops

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