Urania CDs
David Leonard
short-lived Urania label. This isn't the current Urania, which
specialises in historical reissues, but an earlier label which
recycled material from the 1950s Urania LP label.
So far I have the following titles: can anyone add to them, please?
Thanks.
David.
US 5144-CD Rossini-Respighi Boutique
US 5146-CD Tcherepnin/Villa Lobos/Ibert Harmonica Concertos
US 5149-CD Beethoven Sonatas
US 5150-CD Bach-Vivaldi Organ Concertos
US 5151-CD Rimsky-Korsakov/Prokofiev
US 5152-CD Massenet/Meyerbeer
US 5153-CD Weber Abu Hassan
US 5154-CD Khachaturian/Galynin/Prokofiev
US 5155-CD Bach/Schumann Gieseking
US 5156-CD Popov/Amirov/Liadov/Dargomyzhsky
US 5157-CD Szymanowski/Bartok/Hindemith Violin Concertos
US 5158-CD Schubert/Mehul
US 5159-CD Buxtehude Cantatas
tomdeacon
Well, probably.
I purchased almost the entire series in Los Angeles when they first
appeared.
But what a lot of work!
This would take time.
TD
Paul Ilechko
I have a Urania Martinu CD that might fit your bill, but I'm traveling
right now and can't check it. However, it contains:
Double Concerto (Czech Philharmonic, Sejna)
Oboe Concerto, Piano Concerto no. 4 (Hantak-Oboe, Palenicek-Piano; Brno
State Phil., Turnovsky & Pinkas)
Paul Goldstein
Dvorak The Midday Witch, The Golden Spinning Wheel, The Wood Dove/Czech
PO/Zdenek Chalabala Urania 5172
Schubert Symphony No. 9 (w/Wagner Prelude to Act I of Tristan und Isolde)/Czech
PO/Franz Konwitschny Urania 5168
Frank Berger
"David Leonard" <ara...@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:tlifn2t4dpdgn9iak...@4ax.com...
Based on the the similarity in the caralog numbers, my database shows these:
5165-Martinu Symphony Orchestral 4 Czech PO Turnovsky 1965
Martinu Sinfonietta Giocosa Orchestral Prague SO Smetacek Knor
1965
5140-
Balakirev Overture on Three Russian Themes Orchestral Kansas City
PO Schweiger 1959
5171-
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (Piano version) Chamber
Richter 1958
sjha...@comcast.net
Just off the top of my head (and record shelf):
US 5140-CD: TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony 1, "Winter Dreams" + BALAKIREV:
Overture on Russian Themes
US 5142-CD: TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony 2, "Little Russian" + GLAZOUNOV:
Symphony 4
US 5145-CD: SAINT-SAENS: Organ Symphony + MENDELSSOHN: Reformation
Symphony
US 5161-CD DVORAK: The Water Goblin; The Hussites; The Spectre's
Bride, Prelude + SMETANA: Macbeth and the Witches
US 5172-CD DVORAK: The Golden Spinning Wheel; The Wood Dove; The
Midday Witch (I think someone already mentioned one of the Dvorak CDs,
but that's on a different screen)
US 7175-CD HUMPERDINCK: Hansel & Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, The King's
Children, suites + MENDELSSOHN: Trumpet Overture
sjha...@comcast.net
my bad, that last one should of course be 5175...
tomdeacon
US 5140 - Tchaikovsky # 1/Balakirev Overture/Swarowsky/Schwieger
US 5141 - Mozart No. 40/Witt "Jena" Symphony/Barshai/Schwieger
US 5142 - Tchaikovsky # 2/Glazulov # 2/Swarowsky/Schwieger
US 5143 - Boccherini Symphony E flat/Gluck/Cimarosa.Barshai.Peer Lukas
Graf/Rado Tschupp
US 5145 - Saint-Saens Symphony # 3/Mendelssohn # 5/Swarowsky/Goosens
US 5147 - Johann Strauss Marches, Waltzes and Polkas/Hans Hagen
US 5148 - Prokofiev LK/Suk/Rubinstein/Josef Vlach/Marco Gregory/Nicolai
Anosov
US 5149 - Beethoven Appassionata/Chopin Etudes/Liszt Mephisto
Waltz/Josef Fidelman
US 5160 - Beethoven # 9/Abendroth
US 5161 - Smetana/Dvorak/Smetacek/Chalabala
US 5162 - Shostakovich # 12/Moussorgsky Dawn/Glinka Russlan and
Ludmila/Mravinsky
US 5163 - Prokofiev # 6/Glazulov # 10(fragment)/Liadov Baba
Yaga/Mravinsky
US 5164 - Khatchaturian Pico/Borkovec Pico # 2/Jemelik/Klima/Ancerl
US 5165 - Martinu # 4 & Sinfonietta
Giocosa/Turnovsky/Smetacek/Stanislav Knor
US 5166 - Martinu Les Fresques & Tre Ricercari/Janacek Taras
Bulba/Ancerl/Turnovsky
US 5167 - Beethoven # 3/Cornelius Barber of Bagdad/Von Matacic/Bohumil
Gregor
US 5168 - Schubert # 9/Wagner Tristan and Isolde Prelude/Konwitschny
US 5169 - Martino Oboe Concerto, Pico # 4, Double
Concerto/Sejna/Turnovsky/Jiri Pinkas
US 5170 - Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Suite/Ancerl
US 5171 - Tchaikovsky Pico # 1/Moussorgsky Pictures/Richter/Mravinsky
US 5172 - Dvorak/Symphonic Poems/Zdenek Chalabala
US 5174 - Smetana Bartered Bride, Richard III, Wallenstein's Camp,
Wedding Scenes, The Secret/
Chalabala/Sejna
US 5175 - Humperdinck Orchestral Suites/Mendelssohn Trumpet
Overture/Swarowsky
US 5176 - Kabalevsky Pico # 3/Jirko Pico # 3/Martinu Piano
Quintet/Klima/Maxian/Ancerl/Svihlikova/
Prague Quartet/Bernathova
I have not duplicated the titles you have listed, except to correct one
of the repertoire lists.
All these CDs were produced by Tom Null in the late 1980s.
TD
sjha...@comcast.net
Damn, I should have thought of 5174 (Smetana), I have that one too...
tomdeacon
Addendum:
US 5173 - Liszt Pormetheus, Hungarian Fantasy, HR # 2/Brahms Hungarian
Dances/Rajter/Lehel
TD
Paul Ilechko
>> US 5169 - Martino Oboe Concerto, Pico # 4, Double
>> Concerto/Sejna/Turnovsky/Jiri Pinkas
OK, this must be the one that I have. It's very good, IMO.
David Leonard
Many thanks to everyone who replied, particularly Tom Deacon.
Assuming 5140 was the first and 5176 the last, I think I now have a
full list.
What a pity that having done Leibowitz's wonderful Boutique Fantasque
they never got round to his equally fine Gaité Parisienne.
David.
bob.h...@comcast.net
Paul Goldstein wrote:
(snip)
> Schubert Symphony No. 9 (w/Wagner Prelude to Act I of Tristan und Isolde)/Czech
> PO/Franz Konwitschny Urania 5168
To my taste, one of the greatest performances of the Schubert ever
recorded.
Bob Harper
Matthew B. Tepper
typed in news:1165512891....@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com:
> tomdeacon wrote:
>>
>> All these CDs were produced by Tom Null in the late 1980s.
>>
>> TD
>
> Damn, I should have thought of 5174 (Smetana), I have that one too...
I've met Tom Null; last I heard, he lives in the San Fernando Valley, and a
cousin of his is a good friend of mine. Maybe I could ask him if need be.
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Paul Goldstein
bob.h...@comcast.net says...
Mine too; in fact, this is my top recommendation for Schubert 9. And Tom Null's
transfer is brilliant.
Dontait...@aol.com
On Dec 7, 2:37 pm, "Matthew B. Tepper" <oyþ@earthlink.net> wrote:
> sjhall...@comcast.net appears to have caused the following letters to be
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> > tomdeacon wrote:
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> >> All these CDs were produced by Tom Null in the late 1980s.
>
> >> TD
>
> > Damn, I should have thought of 5174 (Smetana), I have that one too...I've met Tom Null; last I heard, he lives in the San Fernando Valley, and a
> cousin of his is a good friend of mine. Maybe I could ask him if need be.
Yes, do! Give us a report if you do. This was a great series.
Don Tait
Sol L. Siegel
>US 5161-CD DVORAK: The Water Goblin; The Hussites; The Spectre's
>Bride, Prelude + SMETANA: Macbeth and the Witches
>
>US 5172-CD DVORAK: The Golden Spinning Wheel; The Wood Dove; The
>Midday Witch
The Smetana is with Prague SO/Smetacek and Spectre's Bride Prelude
with Krombalc/Czech PO. The rest are Chalabala/Czech PO. All are
pretty much unbeatable.
The four folk-tale tone poems with Chalabala were later issued on one
CD by Supraphon, but were speeded up to make them fit! I have long
since culled that one.
- Sol L. Siegel, Philadelphia, PA
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david...@aol.com
I'm reasonably certain the following recording of Boito's
Mefistofele, recorded or released in 1952, was available on Urania
CD's:
Margherita: Rosetta Noli
Elena: Simona Dall'Argine
Marta: Ebe Ticozzi
Faust: Gianni Poggi
Mefistofele: Giulio Neri
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
Franco Capuana, conductor
This was originally issued on LP by Urania and later reissued on LP in
a Vox Box. It's currently available on CD on Preiser. And quite a
respectable performance it is. Capuana is persuasive on the podium,
Gianni Poggi sings reasonably smoothly and sensitively as Faust -- this
recording predates this tenor's precipitous decline -- Neri is a
reasonable facsimile of the right kind of basso for the title role and
less prone to coarse diablerie than many a Mefistofele, and Noli is a
modest and affecting Margherita. I'm not entirely convinced by any
of the recordings of this opera, but this is a stylistically consistent
souvenir of the Italian opera performances of the era long on both
charm and conviction.
-david gable