Download: Two performances of the Faure Requiem from 78's (Columbia and RCA Victor)
Bill Anderson
Indian summer weekend, though it will be warm for the runners in
today’s Chicago Marathon.
The discovery of a fascinating new (to me) blog spurred me to revisit
a couple of projects – more on website in a bit.
Here are two early recordings of The Faure Requiem, a favorite work .
They are:
Chanteurs de Lyon
Trigintour Instrumental Lyonnais
E. Bourmauck, conductor
Edouard Commette, organist
M. Didier, baritone
Suzanne Dupont, soprano
From American Columbia Set M 354
Recorded in the Cathedral Saint-Jean
May 31. 1938.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bp9v5ifvh2paggn
Les Disciples de Massenet
Montreal Festivals Orchestra
Wilfred Pelletier, conductor
Roland Roy, organist
Mack Harrell, baritone
Marcelle Denya, soprano
From RCA Victor Set M 844
Recorded at the Collège de Montréal
Recorded ca. 1941
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?thg2b3r74n23esi
The Lyon performance was available for a short time on an English LP.
The Montreal was on a '50's RCA LP (Camden I think).
Both performances have their strengths, but I am drawn more towards
the Lyon recording, something more intimate in that reading to my
ears.
The blog that I mentioned earlier is a trove of unusual recordings
from Europe.
http://satyr78lp.blogspot.com/
On his September postings, the host posted the premier recording of
the Requiem, performed by Bach Choral Society led be Gustave Bret. The
file and particulars can be found on this page:
http://satyr78lp.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.html
Hope that others find these recordings of interest...
- Bill
Dontait...@aol.com
The Lyon recording was issued in the USA on Columbia LP ML 4529.
Don Tait
Bill Anderson
>
> The Lyon recording was issued in the USA on Columbia LP ML 4529.
- thank you, Don.
And according to this Canadian website the Montreal was on a withdrawn
LP issue
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002428
"A souvenir of the era may be found on two recordings (78s) produced
in 1941 by RCA Victor at the Collège de Montréal under Pelletier by
the Disciples de Massenet, the Montreal Festivals Orchestra, and
singers Marcelle Denya and Mack Harell: Fauré's Requiem and Mozart's
Ave verum K618 (DM-844) distributed worldwide and reissued on LP
(LCT-7003, later withdrawn from the catalogue), and Mozart's Agnus Dei
K427 (V-185112).
I forgot to mention that the Mozart was a filler for the set, and is
included in the download files
- Bill
Dontait...@aol.com
> And according to this Canadian website the Montreal was on a withdrawn
> LP issue
>
> http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1AR...
>
> "A souvenir of the era may be found on two recordings (78s) produced
> in 1941 by RCA Victor at the Collège de Montréal under Pelletier by
> the Disciples de Massenet, the Montreal Festivals Orchestra, and
> singers Marcelle Denya and Mack Harell: Fauré's Requiem and Mozart's
> Ave verum K618 (DM-844) distributed worldwide and reissued on LP
> (LCT-7003, later withdrawn from the catalogue), and Mozart's Agnus Dei
> K427 (V-185112).
>
> I forgot to mention that the Mozart was a filler for the set, and is
> included in the download files
>
> - Bill
LCT-7003! I'd forgotten that number. Yes, a 10" Victor LP transfer
of the Montreal performance. Neither I nor my late friend Fred Heft,
both of us obsessive Victor collectors, ever located copies of that
record. Which doesn't mean that it wasn't issued, of course. In Canada
only and for a limited time, perhaps? You wrote "later withdrawn from
the catalogue."
Don Tait
Bill Anderson
Another search revealed an excerpt from the book "Choral music on
record" by Alan Blyth. Page 293 lists the LP as a Canadian Victor LCT
7003.
- Bill
CharmNick
wrote:
And I recently bought a remastering on CD, which includes the Mozart,
issued by the Canadian Fonovox label, cat. no. VOX 7805-2, p.1995.
At my instigation, the Bourmauck set was transferred by CHARM from LX
773-77 and is available on the website.
Thanks again, Bill!
Nick