Clair de Lune (Orchestral Favourites) & Waldteufel: Waltzes

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Release Date: 14th Jun 2019
Catalogue No: ELQ4827339
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

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Massenet: Thais / Act 2

Work length4:30

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New Symphony Orchestra of London
Raymond Agoult
Recorded: 1958-05-31
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

Meditation

Track length4:30

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Tchaikovsky: Chant sans paroles, Op.2, No.3

Work length2:44

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New Symphony Orchestra of London
Raymond Agoult
Recorded: 1958-05-31
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50

Work length5:34

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New Symphony Orchestra of London
Raymond Agoult
Recorded: 1958-05-31
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

Elgar: Dream Children, Op. 43

Work length7:47

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New Symphony Orchestra of London
Raymond Agoult
Recorded: 1958-05-31
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

Excerpt, Debussy: Suite Bergamasque

Work length4:24

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New Symphony Orchestra of London
Raymond Agoult
Recorded: 1958-05-31
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

Clair de lune

Track length4:24

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Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV645 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme'

Work length5:29

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New Symphony Orchestra of London
Raymond Agoult
Recorded: 1958-05-31
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

Excerpt, Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11

Work length8:21

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New Symphony Orchestra of London
Raymond Agoult
Recorded: 1958-05-31
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

2. Andante cantabile

Track length8:21

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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice / Act 2

Work length7:58

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New Symphony Orchestra of London
Raymond Agoult
Recorded: 1958-05-31
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

Ballo (Andante)

Track length7:58

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Massenet: La Vierge / Scene 4: The Assumption

Work length5:05

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New Symphony Orchestra of London
Raymond Agoult
Recorded: 1958-05-31
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

Le dernier sommeil de la Vièrge (The Last Sleep of the Virgin)

Track length5:05

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Excerpt, Adam: Si j'étais roi

Work length7:00

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New Symphony Orchestra of London
Raymond Agoult
Recorded: 1957-02
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture

Track length7:00

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Auber: Les diamants de la couronne

Work length7:20

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New Symphony Orchestra of London
Raymond Agoult
Recorded: 1957-02-05
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture

Track length7:20

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Suppe: Leichte Kavallerie Overture

Work length6:10

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New Symphony Orchestra of London
Raymond Agoult
Recorded: 1957-02
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Suppe: Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna

Work length7:30

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New Symphony Orchestra of London
Raymond Agoult
Recorded: 1957-02
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Suppe: Overture "Pique Dame"

Work length7:20

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New Symphony Orchestra of London
Raymond Agoult
Recorded: 1957-02
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Hérold: Zampa - Overture

Work length7:50

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New Symphony Orchestra of London
Raymond Agoult
Recorded: 1957-02
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Waldteufel: Les Patineurs - Valse, Op. 183

Work length6:06

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Douglas Gamley
Recorded: 1974-04-30
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Waldteufel: Mon rêve, waltz Op.151

Work length8:05

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Douglas Gamley
Recorded: 1974-04-30
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Waldteufel: Toujours ou jamais - Waltz, Op. 156

Work length7:05

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Douglas Gamley
Recorded: 1974-04-30
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Waldteufel: Les Grenadiers - valse militaire, Op.207

Work length4:40

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Douglas Gamley
Recorded: 1974-04-30
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Waldteufel: Espana, Op. 236

Work length4:59

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Douglas Gamley
Recorded: 1974-04-30
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Waldteufel: Dolores - Waltz, Op. 170

Work length7:05

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Douglas Gamley
Recorded: 1974-04-30
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Waldteufel: Pomone, Op. 155

Work length6:10

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Douglas Gamley
Recorded: 1974-04-30
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

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Three Decca albums of popular Romantic classics remastered complete for CD and compiled for the first time.

Recorded at London’s Kingsway Hall early in 1957 and first released in the US by RCA Victor, ‘Overtures in Spades’ was a collection of operatic openers that enjoyed more popular currency then than they do now: Suppé’s Light Cavalry still features on radio playlists, less so his overtures to Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna or The Queen of Spades, while three 19th-century pieces of polished craftsmanship by Adam, Auber and Hérold are hardly known today.

Reissued as ‘Overture! Overture!’ the album took another 12 years to be incorporated within the Decca catalogue, though the reviewers had enjoyed the dynamic Decca sound of the original recording as well as the full-bodied, exciting performances of a London studio band under the directorship of Raymond Agoult, a seasoned, Hungarian-born conductor of popular and light classics.

In 1958 Agoult and the New Symphony Orchestra made a second record for RCA/Decca – ‘Clair de lune’, featuring gentle Andantes and tender Adagios – by the likes of Debussy, Elgar, Tchaikovsky and Massenet.

Newly remastered from the original tapes, both albums are coupled on this Eloquence reissue with a rare LP of Waldteufel waltzes under the direction of another experienced, British-based session musician, the Australian-born Douglas Gamley. Waldteufel’s art lay in combining the easygoing feel and nostalgic pull of the Viennese waltz with a more brilliant, French style of orchestration: a synthesis that endeared him to English audiences in particular. This collection fills out a portrait of the composer beyond the ubiquitous Skaters’ Waltz to present six further waltzes and a Grenadiers march scored with surprising delicacy.

‘The recording … is a humdinger, with a resounding lower region, unbelievably powerful dynamics, excellent balance and marvellously sweet string tone.’ High Fidelity, August 1958 (Overtures in Spades)

‘There is plenty of care and musical feeling in the performances … Particularly successful are the Méditation, the Andante cantabile and the Dernier sommeil, in all of which the intense but really quiet string playing is highly commendable.’ Gramophone, June 1960 (Clair de lune)

‘The playing has marvellous life and flair and its spirit is essentially French … the National Philharmonic in spanking form.’ Gramophone, October 1982 (Waldteufel)

Clair de Lune (Orchestral Favourites) & Waldteufel: Waltzes

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