Willem van Otterloo 13CD set coming
Kenneth Kwan
http://www.challenge.nl/
Challenge Classics
CC72142
13 CD-Box
100 Page Booklet
608917214222
Willem van Otterloo
Residency Orchestra
The Original Recordings 1950-1960
Willem van Otterloo was by no means a dictatorial conductor, nor was he
a glamour-seeker or showman. The music itself had the highest priority.
His thorough knowledge of each and every score was legendary, and he
conducted nearly all the larger works from memory. But above all he was
a true orchestral trainer. From this legendary conductor we now have an
unique document in our hands. It consists of 38 works (from a total of
125) which where recorded for Philips in the years 1950-60 with the
Residency Orchestra The Hague. Also there are two DGG recordings of
Haydn symphonies from 1962. The 13 cd's are all digitally remasterd
and a 100-page booklet is written by Otto Ketting. This box is a real
event: here musical history is written ánd immortalized.
13 cd box | digitally remastered | 100 page booklet
CD 1
Hector Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique
Carl Maria von Weber / Hector Berlioz - Aufforderung zum Tanz
Johan Wagenaar - De Getemde Feeks (Overture) (The Taming of the Shrew)
Johan Wagenaar - Cyrano de Bergerac (Overture)
CD 2
Max Reger - Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart
Max Reger - Eine romantische Suite
Alphons Diepenbrock - Music to Sophocles' Tragedy Elektra
CD 3
Maurice Ravel - Valses nobles et sentimentales
Maurice Ravel - Suites No.1 and No.2 from Daphnis et Chloé (Nederlands
Kamerkoor)
Modest Moussorgsky / Maurice Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition
CD 4
Joseph Haydn - Symphony No.45
Joseph Haydn - Symphony No.55
Joseph Haydn - Symphony No.92
Robert Schumann - Overture Manfred
CD 5
Franz Schubert - Symphony No.8 'Unfinished'
Franz Schubert - From Rosamunde:
Entr'acte No.3, Balletmusic No.2
Gustav Mahler - Kindertotenlieder (Herman Schey, baritone)
CD 6
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No.4 (Teresa Stich- Randall, soprano)
Sergey Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Abbey Simon,
piano)
CD 7
Anton Bruckner - Symphony No.4 'Romantic Symphony'
Anton Bruckner - Overture in G Minor
CD 8
Maurice Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte
Manuel de Falla - Three dances from El sombrero de tres picos
Morton Gould - Interplay 'American Concertette' (Cor de Groot,
piano)
Morton Gould - Spirituals
Sergey Prokofiev - Concerto No.3 for piano and orchestra (Alexander
Uninsky, piano)
CD 9
Léon Orthel - Symphony No.2 'Piccola sinfonia'
Sem Dresden - Dansflitsen (Dance flashes)
Hendrik Andriessen - Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Kuhnau
Hendrik Andriessen - Ricercare
Henk Badings - Symphony No.3
CD 10
Edvard Grieg - 4 Norwegische Tänze (4 Norwegian Dances)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus
CD 11
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.8
Ludwig van Beethoven - Overture Die Weihe des Hauses (The consecration
of the House)
Johannes Brahms - Symphony No.1
CD 12
Johannes Brahms - Tragische Ouvertüre (Tragic Overture)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.9 (Erna Spoorenberg, soprano, Maria
von Ilosvay, alto, Frans Vroons, tenor, Herman Schey, bass,
Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam)
CD 13
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.4
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.4
This CD box is an initiative of the Willem van Otterloo Foundation and
was made possible through generous contribution of the ThuisKopie
Fonds, the Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds, Buma and the Kersjes van de
Groenekan Fonds.
Gerard
> http://www.challenge.nl/
>
> Challenge Classics
>
> CC72142
>
> 13 CD-Box
> 100 Page Booklet
>
> 608917214222
>
>
> This CD box is an initiative of the Willem van Otterloo Foundation and
> was made possible through generous contribution of the ThuisKopie
> Fonds, the Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds, Buma and the Kersjes van de
> Groenekan Fonds.
Since 1 or 2 weeks available.
Have a look at http://www.kuijperklassiek.nl/ (at the bottom of that page).
sidoze
Uninsky, piano)
Did Uninsky ever record this commercially?
sidoze
Nevermind. I went straight to the track listing and ignored the (on
this occasion useful) preamble.
Rolf
me) is that the cd's are not overlapping with what I had planned to put
at my website. Only the Beethoven 9th was something I posted a couple
of weeks ago. Nice to see some exact record dates, don't need Tom's
catalogues anymore......
Rolf
Tom Deacon
On 10/3/05 1:45 PM, in article
1128361508.4...@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "sidoze"
<sid...@gmail.com> wrote:
That IS a commercial recording, for Philips.
TD
Tom Deacon
On 10/3/05 3:08 PM, in article
1128366499.3...@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com, "Rolf"
<78...@angelfire.com> wrote:
The catalogues, unfortunately, do not provide exact recording dates. Those
are ONLY available on the tapes themselves and on a cardfile in Baarn.
TD
Roland van Gaalen
What is so special about the recordings by Van Otterloo and his orchestra?
I should add that I haven't heard any.
But let's not assume that all conductors who have been dead for several
decades are automatically in the same league with Furtwangler etc.
--
Roland van Gaalen
Amsterdam
r.p.vangaalenATchello.nl (AT=@)
Simon Roberts
says...
>
>If I may ask an ungracious question:
>
>What is so special about the recordings by Van Otterloo and his orchestra?
>
>I should add that I haven't heard any.
>
>But let's not assume that all conductors who have been dead for several
>decades are automatically in the same league with Furtwangler etc.
How dare you: the blurb quoted in the first post in this thread says he's a
"legend"!
By the way, if you want to try his conducting without buying 13 discs, Philips
released his Mahler 4 fairly recently (though I must confess I bought it for
Stich-Randall's singing rather than the conducting).
Simon
Tom Deacon
On 10/3/05 4:45 PM, in article bb912$4341987f$1884fe40$7...@news.chello.nl,
"Roland van Gaalen" <SeeSig...@deadspam.com> wrote:
> If I may ask an ungracious question:
>
> What is so special about the recordings by Van Otterloo and his orchestra?
>
> I should add that I haven't heard any.
>
> But let's not assume that all conductors who have been dead for several
> decades are automatically in the same league with Furtwangler etc.
You ask a very good question, Roland.
To some, each and every recording never reissued on CD is made of gold,
until, that is, it is released, critiqued, and then discarded.
The Van Otterloo recordings - I had no idea there were so many, in fact -
were never suggested by any of the operating companies of Philips for urgent
reissue. Neither, of course, were any of the recordings included in the now
defunct - at least I believe so - Dutch Masters series. The exceptions were
the Van Beinum recordings, I would say, although even there no real market
could be found for them.
As for Van Otterloo, there was a Berlioz performance, the Symphonie
fantastique, which was supposed to be OK. I just don't recall the nature of
the performance or the playing. The rest are terra incognita for me, and
must be for most.
Oh, I forgot. The Abbey Simon Rhapsody I do own on LP. It's ok. Sans plus.
TD
gggg...@gmail.com
Terry
Frank Berger
hiker_rs
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:)
Frank Berger
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Frank Berger
> Naturally, RMCR fractions and enemies should also have their contempt handed down to offspring i.e. Hatfields and McCoys.
>
and get in the last word.
Frank Berger
>
was a revealing error, but who knows?
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"Willem van Otterloo dirigiert Brahms Symphony Nr. 1"