英國偉大作曲家與指揮家Anthony Collins的DECCA錄音大全集 (原始封面收納)

From the earliest days of his career, Anthony Collins (1893–1963) earned a reputation as a musician of parts: violist, conductor, arranger and composer. He had led the viola section of the London Symphony Orchestra under Beecham and Mengelberg before swapping bow for baton in the 1930s, and by then had already begun to promote the music of Sibelius. Then Hollywood came calling, and he spent the War in the US as an Oscar-nominated film composer writing for RKO Studios.

He began to record for Decca directly after the War, first of all with the London Mozart Orchestra which he had founded shortly before leaving for the US. Renowned by then as a Mozartian of natural gifts, securing shapely and stylish performances independently of either the grand Viennese tradition or the period-instrument movement in its infancy, he accompanied the pianist Friedrich Gulda – a kindred spirit of similarly mercurial imagination – in concertos and concertante works by Mozart and Strauss, and then Peter Katin in Mendelssohn, and Moura Lympany in Rachmaninov. He re-established a close rapport with the LSO, conducting them in several albums of Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Delius that have rarely been equalled for their directness of expression and intensity.

These virtues still distinguish the cycle of Sibelius symphonies and tone-poems, made in the mid-50s with the LSO, from later interpretations. A generation of English and American listeners learnt their Sibelius from these recordings, and Collins’s deep fellow-feeling for his music stands the test of time. The Decca recordings included a Tchaikovsky album of Capriccio Italien and Francesca da Rimini as well as a pair of his own compositions, and other masterpieces of English light music by Walton – a complete Façade – Sullivan and Grainger. Items never previously issued on CD include dance suites from Hänsel und Gretel and Der Rosenkavalier, as well as the Mozart Symphony No.33 which began his relationship with the label. The booklet offers full discographical details as well as an essay on Collins’s life and career by Peter Quantrill.

曲目:

CD 1
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
Symphony No. 33 in B flat major, KV 319*
Menuetto (from Divertimento in D major, KV 334)*
London Mozart Orchestra
ANTHONY COLLINS

Clarinet Concerto in A major, KV 622
Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, KV 191
Gervase de Peyer, clarinet
Henri Helaerts, bassoon
London Symphony Orchestra
ANTHONY COLLINS
*FIRST CD RELEASE ON DECCA

CD 2
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
Piano Concerto No. 14 in E flat major, KV 449
Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, KV 503
Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, KV 537 ‘Coronation’
Friedrich Gulda, piano
London Symphony Orchestra (No. 14)
New Symphony Orchestra (Nos. 25 and 26)
ANTHONY COLLINS

CD 3
FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809–1847)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40
Peter Katin, piano
London Symphony Orchestra
ANTHONY COLLINS

CD 4
SERGEI RACHMANINOV (1873–1943)
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Moura Lympany, piano
New Symphony Orchestra
ANTHONY COLLINS

RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Burleske in D minor for Piano and Orchestra
Friedrich Gulda, piano
London Symphony Orchestra
ANTHONY COLLINS

CD 5
NICCOLÒ PAGANINI (1782–1840)
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 6
Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 7
Ruggiero Ricci, violin
London Symphony Orchestra
ANTHONY COLLINS

CD 6
GEORGES BIZET (1838–1875)
Carmen Suite No. 1 (excerpts)*
MANUEL DE FALLA (1876–1946)
El amor brujo – Suite*

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893)
Capriccio Italien, Op. 45
Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32
London Philharmonic Orchestra (Bizet, Falla)
London Symphony Orchestra (Tchaikovsky)
ANTHONY COLLINS
*FIRST CD RELEASE ON DECCA

CD 7
JEAN SIBELIUS (1865–1957)
Karelia Overture, Op. 10
Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39
Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105
London Symphony Orchestra
ANTHONY COLLINS

CD 8
JEAN SIBELIUS (1865–1957)
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43
Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52
London Symphony Orchestra
ANTHONY COLLINS

CD 9
JEAN SIBELIUS (1865–1957)
Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Op. 63
Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82
London Symphony Orchestra
ANTHONY COLLINS

CD 10
JEAN SIBELIUS (1865–1957)
Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104
Pohjola’s Daughter, Op. 49
Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 46 – Suite (excerpts)
Nightride and Sunrise, Op. 55
London Symphony Orchestra
ANTHONY COLLINS

CD 11
SIR EDWARD ELGAR (1857–1934)
Falstaff – Symphonic Study, Op. 68
Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47
Serenade for String Orchestra in E minor, Op. 20

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872–1958)
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Fantasia on Greensleeves
London Symphony Orchestra (Elgar: Falstaff)
Members of the New Symphony Orchestra of London
ANTHONY COLLINS

CD 12
FREDERICK DELIUS (1862–1934)
The Walk to the Paradise Garden (Intermezzo, from A Village Romeo and Juliet)
A Song of Summer
Brigg Fair – An English Rhapsody
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Paris (The Song of a Great City)
London Symphony Orchestra
ANTHONY COLLINS

CD 13
FREDERICK DELIUS (1862–1934)
In a Summer Garden
Summer Night on the River
London Symphony Orchestra
ANTHONY COLLINS

SIRWILLIAM WALTON (1902–1983)
Façade – An Entertainment
Sir Peter Pears and Dame Edith Sitwell, reciters
English Opera Group Ensemble
ANTHONY COLLINS

CD 14*
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Der Rosenkavalier – First Suite of Waltzes

ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK (1854–1921)
Dream Pantomime (from Hänsel und Gretel)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
ANTHONY COLLINS

SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN (1842–1900)
Overture di Ballo

HENRY BALFOUR GARDINER (1877–1950)
Shepherd Fennel’s Dance

PERCY GRAINGER (1882–1961)
Shepherd’s Hey
New Symphony Orchestra of London
ANTHONY COLLINS

ANTHONY COLLINS (1893–1963)
Vanity Fair
With Emma to Town
London Promenade Orchestra
ANTHONY COLLINS
*FIRST CD RELEASE ON DECCA