1932 Live SCHOENBERG GURRELIEDER Stokowski Philadelphia Orch 78

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A series of great  classical orchestral and instrumental performances by major conductors, composers and instrumentalists.

This MONUMENTAL recording is the FIRST and only complete  recording of

SCHOENBERG's  GURRELIEDER

Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orch live in Concert

This April 11, 1932 performance, as well as the April 8 and 9 performances took place in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House, so as to accommodate the large forces, said to number 532 musicians, and an expanded audience.  The recording reproduced here is from the April 11, 1932 performance.  The performers were:
 
Jeanette Vreeland, soprano - Tove
Rose Bampton, mezzo-soprano - Waldtaube
Paul Althouse, tenor - Waldemar
Robert Bette, tenor - Klaus-Narr/Klaus the Jester
Abrasha Robofsky, bass - Bauer/Farmer
Benjamin de Loache - narrator
Princeton Glee Club, Alexander Russell, director
Fortnightly Club - Henry Gordon Thunder, director
Mendelssohn Club - Bruce Carey, director
The Chorus of the Philadelphia Orchestra - an eight part mixed chorus

M-127 on fourteen 12 inch (30 cm) Red Seal disks, 27 sides, plus one side of Stokowski's analysis.  Disks were Victor 7524-7537. 

THIS SET HAS THE FOLLOWING PRESSINGS:
Most are quiet PRE WAR GOLD LABEL

Side 23/24 is VINYL VICTROLAC

Side 13/14 is Z SHELLAC

Condition:

EXCELLENT rarest scuffs, plays very quiet to superquiet. The victrolac side has light surface noise

BUT Side 1/2 is cracked from tim to dead wax. Album is great, tape repair on top

The selection of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder by Stokowski reflects two interests of Stokowski during his career.  First is the attraction of producing a massive, new and unknown score to generate public excitement and to showcase a new work as well as the orchestra.  It was said at the time that Stokowski was seeking to reproduce the dramatic success of his 1916 US premiere of the massive Mahler Symphony no 8 , the 'Symphony of a Thousand'.
 
Second was Stokowski's attraction to the lushly scored music of the late romantic era, of which Gurrelieder was one of the last examples.  This was linked also to the story of a legendary love.  Gurrelieder is based on the Danish poem by Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847-1885) recounting the tragic medieval love story of the Danish King Valdemar IV (1320-1375), with Gurrelieder having clear reflections of the love story of Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde'.  In fact, as we see below, Stokowski did in fact also record extensive excerpts from 'Tristan und Isolde' during this month of April, 1932.
 
This April 11, 1932 performance, as well as the April 8 and 9 performances took place in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House, so as to accommodate the large forces, said to number 532 musicians, and an expanded audience.  The recording reproduced here is from the April 11, 1932 performance.  The performers were:
 
Jeanette Vreeland, soprano - Tove
Rose Bampton, mezzo-soprano - Waldtaube
Paul Althouse, tenor - Waldemar
Robert Bette, tenor - Klaus-Narr/Klaus the Jester
Abrasha Robofsky, bass - Bauer/Farmer
Benjamin de Loache - narrator
Princeton Glee Club, Alexander Russell, director
Fortnightly Club - Henry Gordon Thunder, director
Mendelssohn Club - Bruce Carey, director
The Chorus of the Philadelphia Orchestra - an eight part mixed chorus
 
A note on the choruses: Stokowski does not seem to have been as scrupulous as might be the practice today as to the quality of the singing of his choruses, even though early in his career, he was a church chorus master.  However, the chorus preparation and performances here seem, by today's standards, to verge on the amateur.  this is in contrast with the professionalism and excellence required by Stokowski from his other musicians.
 

This recording was issued by Victor in album M-127 on fourteen 12 inch (30 cm) Red Seal disks, 27 sides, plus one side of Stokowski's analysis.  Disks were Victor 7524, 7525, 7526, 7527, 7528, 7529, 7530, 7531, 7532, 7533, 7534, 7535, 7536 and 7537.  In other sets, the disk numbers were Victor 11-8061, 11-8062, 11-8063, 11-8064, 11-8065, 11-8066, 11-8067, 11-8068, 11-8069, 11-8070, 11-8071, 11-8072, 11-8073 and 11-8074.  In Europe, HMV issued the recording on DB 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781 and 1782.
 

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