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More Camerata Köln recordings - that Saturday concert sure inspired me to pull their CDs from the shelves. It's rare for such an ensemble to stay together that long, and with four founding members still on board! All other ensembles founded in the 1960's or 1970's have been dissolved or have changed personnel completely, and thus changed performance concepts and, IMHO, their level of playing has decreased. I saw the most recent edition of Concentus Muscius Vienna on TV recently and was disappointed. Camerata Köln still plays as vividly as in their early years, only wiser and more relaxed. 

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A download of William Steinberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony playing in 1952 Darius Milhaud's remarkable 20-minute suite Protee (1917). Far more radical than anything else by Milhaud, it's like a cross between Le Sacre and Varese, and this to my knowledge is its best recording. I also have one on EMI by Abravanel (somewhat bland) and one from 1945 with Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony (I had high hopes, but it's rather dimly recorded and rushed). A highlight is the movement where the seals that disport around Neptune (Protee) are evoked by a choir of blaring, moaning tubas, a sound that once heard will not be forgotten. When the work was premiered in Paris in 1921, it provoked a riot that was said to have eclipsed the one that the premiere of Le Sacre set off. Sadly, there is no in-print modern recording AFAIK. Protee was originally conceived as the score for a ballet of that name conceived  by Milhaud and his friend the poet-diplomat Paul Claudel when both men were living in Brazil, but the ballet was never staged and Milhaud drew his suite from it.

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4 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

A download of William Steinberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony playing in 1952 Darius Milhaud's remarkable 20-minute suite Protee (1917). Far more radical than anything else by Milhaud, it's like a cross between Le Sacre and Varese, and this to my knowledge is its best recording. I also have one on EMI by Abravanel (somewhat bland) and one from 1945 with Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony (I had high hopes, but it's rather dimly recorded and rushed). A highlight is the movement where the seals that disport around Neptune (Protee) are evoked by a choir of blaring, moaning tubas, a sound that once heard will not be forgotten. When the work was premiered in Paris in 1921, it provoked a riot that was said to have eclipsed the one that the premiere of Le Sacre set off. Sadly, there is no in-print modern recording AFAIK. Protee was originally conceived as the score for a ballet of that name conceived  by Milhaud and his friend the poet-diplomat Paul Claudel when both men were living in Brazil, but the ballet was never staged and Milhaud drew his suite from it.

Can you recommend any essential recordings ?

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4 hours ago, Referentzhunter said:

Can you recommend any essential recordings ?

Yes -- The Steinberg download of Protee can be found here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?u1jecvxczzj

It's the only recording AFAIK that does the work justice, though it would be nice to have a performance of Protee that's this good and that was in top-flight modern sound. Though the Steinberg's sound is OK for its time (it's a live performance BTW), the work is, as some record label used to say, a "sonic spectacular." There may be a modern recording around somewhere, but I don't know of it. BTW the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1952 was quite a band.

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cd 1, Claude Debussy's Preludes Book 1 & 2 beginning.

'Dino Ciani'. Alfred Cortot called him miraculously gifted.

'Brilliant Classics', budget label that keeps improving. Little booklet included, nice cover also, cd's in seperate covers with information all conceiled in a nice clamshell-box. Found this in thriftshop for only 1.50 euro and i am very happy with it.

Did forget to mention that the sound on these Brilliant boxes is really good !

 

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2 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

Yes -- The Steinberg download of Protee can be found here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?u1jecvxczzj

It's the only recording AFAIK that does the work justice, though it would be nice to have a performance of Protee that's this good and that was in top-flight modern sound. Though the Steinberg's sound is OK for its time (it's a live performance BTW), the work is, as some record label used to say, a "sonic spectacular." There may be a modern recording around somewhere, but I don't know of it. BTW the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1952 was quite a band.

Thank you for the link. Will have a listen for sure. My introduction to this composer.

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1 hour ago, Referentzhunter said:

cd 1, Claude Debussy's Preludes Book 1 & 2 beginning.

'Dino Ciani'. Alfred Cortot called him miraculously gifted.

'Brilliant Classics', budget label that keeps improving. Little booklet included, nice cover also, cd's in seperate covers with information all conceiled in a nice clamshell-box. Found this in thriftshop for only 1.50 euro and i am very happy with it.

Did forget to mention that the sound on these Brilliant boxes is really good !

 

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Love Ciani - what a brilliant, brilliant pianist! (And also my introduction to these Weber sonatas).

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Mozart Symphony 29 from this set.

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Another brilliant Brilliant budget box.

cd 2, Rachmaninov pianoconcert No. 1, Kondrashin & Moscow Philharmonic orchestra / Prokofiev pianoconcerto No. 3, Kondrashin & The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

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A beauty ....

Nice one !

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On ‎9‎/‎17‎/‎2019 at 7:53 AM, Larry Kart said:

Yes -- The Steinberg download of Protee can be found here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?u1jecvxczzj

It's the only recording AFAIK that does the work justice, though it would be nice to have a performance of Protee that's this good and that was in top-flight modern sound. Though the Steinberg's sound is OK for its time (it's a live performance BTW), the work is, as some record label used to say, a "sonic spectacular." There may be a modern recording around somewhere, but I don't know of it. BTW the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1952 was quite a band.

The original record is given as being on the "ASCAP" label...Google search returns nothing for this. What's the deal with that?

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30 minutes ago, JSngry said:

The original record is given as being on the "ASCAP" label...Google search returns nothing for this. What's the deal with that?

Ah, it's likely AFM, not ASCAP, and it can be found here: https://www.popsike.com/Pittsburgh-International-Contemporary-Music-Festival-complete-20-record-set/231404166470.html

Talk about something to find in a used bin somewhere for not too much money...eyes wide open going forth!

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20 LPs!

Record #1 - Drinking Song from Sir John in Love / Vaughan Williams ; We Fight Not For Glory from The Testament of Freedom / Thompson (University of Pittsburgh Men’s Glee Club); Psalm XXIII : My Shepherd Will Supply My Need / Thomson ; Immortal Autumn / Finney (Heinz Chapel Choir); Cherubic Hymn / Hanson (The Bach Choir and Carnegie Institute of Technology Student Orchestra and Chorus)

Record #2 - Piano Quintet, Op. 57 / Shostakovich (Juilliard String Quartet) ; Piano Quintet / Piston (New Music String Quartet)

Record #3 - Serenade, for Tenor Solo, Horn and Strings, Op. 31 / Britten ; Music for String Instruments, Percussion, and Celesta / Bartók (String Sinfonia - Pittsburgh Symphony, William Steinberg conductor)

Record #4 - Rispetti e Strambotti, String Quartet / Malipiero ; Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 / Webern ; String Quartet No. 1 / Piston (Juilliard String Quartet)

Record #5 - Symphony for Strings / Schumann ; Concerto Grosso / Bloch (String Sinfonia - Pittsburgh Symphony, William Steinberg conductor)

Record #6 - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra / Berg (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conductor) ; String quartet no. 1 / Thomson ; Trio, for violin, viola, violoncello, op. 45 / Schoenberg (New Music String Quartet)

Record #7 - Piano Quartet / Martinu (Walden Quartet of the University of Illinois) ; String Quartet No. 4 / Bartók (New Music String Quartet)

Record #8 - String Quartet, A Minor / Walton ; Sonata for Flute and Piano, D Major, Op. 94/ Prokofieff ; Four Sonnets A Cassandre / Martin (Walden Quartet of the University of Illinois)

Record #9 - Bachianas Brasileiras no. 1 for 8 violoncelli / Villa-Lobos ; Protée : Symphonic Suite No. 2 / Milhaud (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conductor)

Record #10 - Symphony for wind instruments / Stravinsky ; Suite for band / Milhaud ; Commando march / Barber ; To you, America / Still ; Bolero / Ravel (arr. by Captain E. Resta) - (United States Military Academy Band, Captain Francis E. Resta conductor)

Record #11 - Quartet no. 2 in A minor (The Walden Quartet of the University of Illinois) / Walton ; Quartet no. 1 / Virgil Thomson (The New Music String Quartet)

Record # 12 - Symphony for band / Harris ; Toccata marizale / Vaughan Williams ; Symphony for band / Hindemith (United States Military Academy Band, Captain Francis E. Resta conductor)

Record #13 - Symphony no. 5 / Honegger ; Lincoln portrait / Copland (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conductor)

Record #14 - Partita for violin, viola and organ / Piston ; Sonata no. 1 / Hindemith ; Sonata / Krenek (Organ and Choral Concert)

Record # 15 -  Tudor portraits / Vaughan Williams (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)

Record # 16 - Concerto for piano 4 hands, op. 56 / Persichetti ; Six pieces, for piano, op. 19 / Schoenberg ; Quaderno musicale de Annalibera / Dallapiccola (Piano and Percussion Concert)

Record #17 - Toccata for percussion / Chavez ; Sonata, for piano, 1952 / Ginastera (Piano and Percussion Concert. Conducted by Roy Harris.)

Record #18 - Fugue and chorale / Honnegger ; La nativite du seigneur / Messiaen ; Three chorale preludes / Sessions (Organ and Choral Concert)

Record #19 - Symphony of Psalms / Stravinsky ; Symphony no. 5 / Harris (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)

Record #20 - Alabanzas del adviento, op. 30 / Santa Cruz ; Song of the pioneers / Chajes ; Psalm 103 / Freed ; Dance with me / Ahe ; Passer mortuus est (da Catulla) / Malipiero ; Svenska folkvisor / Rosenberg ; The golden harp, op. 93 / Read ; Shepherd's farewell, op. 35 / Saeverud ; Two French Canadian folk songs. Sainte Marguerite ; Le navire de bayonne / Willan ; Lendas amerindias / Villa-Lobos ; Vocalise (in modo russo) / Lopatnikoff ; A bucket of water / Phillips ; Ave verum corpus / Poulenc ; An immortality / Copland. (All Community Program)

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