30 October 2010

Constant Lambert conducts... Lambert / Rawsthorne / Bliss - Columbia/HMV 1930-1950


Lambert:  "Horoscope".  Dance for the Followers of Leo ~ Valse for the Gemini ~ Invocation to the Moon, & Finale    Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
Rec: 15 May 1945. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool   (Columbia DX 1567/8) 
Lambert:  "Horoscope".  Saraband for the Followers of Virgo ~ Bachannale for the Followers of Leo   (LP: Columbia SX 1003).    
Liszt, arr: Lambert, orch: Jacob:  "Apparitions"  - Galop ~ Cave Scene (Mephisto Waltz, no.3)    (Columbia DX 1568/1560)    Rec: 13/14 January 1949  - EMI Studio 1, Abbey Rd. 
Chabrier, orch: Lambert:  "Ballabile".   Rec: 27 Sept 1950. Kingsway Hall.  (Columbia DX 1736)         The Philharmonia Orchestra  
Lambert:  "The Rio Grande" - Kyla Greenbaum, piano - Gladys Ripley, Contralto - Chorus.  The Philharmonia Orchestra    Rec: 13 Jan.1949  -  EMI Studio 1, Abbey Rd.      
Lambert:  "The Rio Grande" - Sir Hamilton Harty, piano - St.Michael's Singers (A.W.Whitehead, Contralto) - The Hallé Orchestra.  
Rec: 11 January 1930. Central Hall, Westminster.  (Columbia L 2374/5)
Alan Rawsthorne:  "Symphonic Studies"   (HMV C.3543-4)    /    "Street Corner"   (HMV C.3502) 
Bliss: March - "The Phoenix"  (HMV C.3518)       The Philharmonia Orchestra.    Rec: 28/29 March 1946 - Kingsway Hall.                          9 files zip FLAC  Mega Download 
HMV  HQM 1078   Reissued 1967  Matrix: XAX 180 -5   /   EMI   MFP 2089   Reissued 1967.  Matrix: 2XEA 641 -2    /    HMV  EH 29 1343    Reissued 1988.  Matrices: 2/2  
MFP Tippett is c/w the 1952 BLISS PC (Mewton-Wood) >>>    1955 ARGO  Lambert Piano Concerto/8 Li-Po Poems >>>       Other HQM 1078 items + LXT Irving/LSO: Walton/Lambert >>>    HMV  EH / HQM sleeve-notes >>>


8 comments:

  1. Thank you for continuing to feed my 'weakness'

    for British music.

    I must confess I've yet so hear any of Constant

    Lambert's work so I'm looking forward to this.

    Novak.

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  2. Hello Novak. More Constant Lambert (very nice) just uploaded on the main blog.

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  3. Thanks again - I'm looking forward to hearing this - Jerry

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  4. I have been a huge Lambert fan every listening to a chandos release of his score for the documentary "Merchant Seamen"..thanks!

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  5. I can highly recommend the Lyrita (now on CD) of his ballet 'Romeo & Juliet' - ECO/del Mar (coupled with 'Pomona').

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  6. I have been meaning to get this ballet, I neglected to mention a Hyperion release I have of Summer's Last Will And Testament...it's a bit too intense for me I think, but what a riveting work. Also includes The Rio Grande which you have covered, and Aubade Heroique : ).

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  7. The amount of Lambert issued during the LP-era was minimal - though do have Robert Irving's LSO 'Horoscope' - but only as the original 1953 Decca LXT (not too keen to spend time on that one) also Irving's LSO 'Patineurs'.
    Irving's New SO Gretry arrangement is, however, on the main blog..
    R.R.Bennett's performance of the Piano Concerto on Polydor is now available on CD: thus not too much more I can offer - except for some of his conducting (Shellackophile blog also has some 78 material)

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  8. Very interesting music, distinct and imaginative. Thank you very much for these rarities!

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