POLYPHONY2#AOL - Polyphony Recordings

LP's: Conductors - continued
1522.*DORATI: Stravinsky - Firebird. Detroit Sym. [dig] London 410 109-1. A- to A(Dutch press) ........................... 8.00
DORATI: See also #577, 597, 603, 614, 616, 619, 622, 813, 844, 1102 & 1320.
1523. ENESCO: Tchaikovsky - Symphony #4. Enesco - Roumanian Rhapsody #1. USSR Sym. [Live, 1946;
Enesco adds cymbal crash (a la Scherchen) at start of final chord of the symphony, but then adds
another as chord cuts off! Suprisingly good sound for the time and place.] Melodiya M10-49209
004. A- ........................................................................................................................................................... 32.00
1524.*FIEDLER: Bach - "Symphonic Bach." Nine works arranged variously by Walton, Stokowski, Holst,
Bachrich, etc. BPS. [Wonderful sound! The high point, appropriately ending the disc, is a
spectacular performance of Lucien Cailliet's arrangement of the "Little" Fugue in G, with
Symphony Hall organ entering in final bars.] DGG 2584 001. A- to A(demo copy) ................................... 20.00
1525. FIEDLER: Brahms - Hungarian Dances #1 - #6. BPS. [10-inch] RCA LM-67. B++ .......................................... 10.00
1526. FIEDLER: Gilbert & Sullivan Overtures (5). BPS. [10-inch] RCA LM-7006. B+/B ............................................ 9.00
1527. FIEDLER: Grieg - Peer Gynt Suites #1 & #2. BPS. [10-inch] RCA LM-7002. B/B- ............................................ 7.00
1528. FIEDLER: Strauss Waltzes - Blue Danube; Treasure; Tales from the Vienna Woods. BPS. [10-inch]
RCA LM-68. B ................................................................................................................................................ 7.00
1529.*FIEDLER: Strausses - New Vienna, Fairy Tales from the Orient & Emperor Waltzes; Chinese Galop;
Tritsch-Tratsch & In a Viennese Park Polkas; Perpetuum Mobile; March from Gypsy Baron. BPS.
DGG 2584 008. A- to A(demo copy) ............................................................................................................ 12.00
1530. FIEDLER: A Boston Pops Program - Capriccio Espagnole; Marche Slave; Fingal's Cave Overture.
BPS. [10-inch] RCA LM-164. B................................................................................................................... 10.00
1531.+FURTWANGLER: Beethoven - Symphony #9. Schwarzkopf; Hongen; Hopf; Edelmann; Bayreuth
Festival Orchestra & Chorus. [Live; July 29, 1951; German-only notes; complimentary copy
from Continental Bank, in commemoration of the opening of their Munich branch] Electrola
1C047-00811/12(2). A- to A ......................................................................................................................... 20.00
1532. FURTWANGLER: Haydn - Symphony #94. Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. VPO. [only in print
8/52 - 3/56] RCA LHMV-1018. B/B+ .......................................................................................................... 20.00
1533. FURTWANGLER: Honegger - Mouvement Symphonique #3. Ravel - Rapsodie Espagnole. Debussy -
Two Nocturnes. Live concerts: VPO (Ravel, 1951); BPO (Honegger, 1952; Debussy, 1951). Fonit
Cetra FE-15. A- to A...................................................................................................................................... 25.00
1534. FURTWANGLER: Karl Holler - Cello Concerto (Hoelscher). Wolfgang Fortner - Violin Concerto
(Taschner). BPO. [Live, Berlin; 1949] Fonit Cetra FE-31. A- to A ............................................................ 25.00
1535.+FURTWANGLER: Meistersinger Prelude; Moldau; Les Preludes; Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. VPO.
[German-only notes] Electrola SHZE-105. A- to B+...................................................................................... 8.00
1536. FURTWANGLER: Schubert - Symphony #8. Nicolai - Merry Wives of Windsor Overture. Weber -
Oberon Overture. Schubert - Rosamunde Ballet Music #2 & Entr'acte #3. VPO. [only in print from
8/52 - late 1956; one of the scarcest of the LHMV's in my experience] RCA LHMV-1020. A-
(unusually fine copy) ..................................................................................................................................... 45.00
1537. FURTWANGLER: Strauss - Death & Tranfiguration. Smetana - The Moldau. Schumann - Manfred
Overture. VPO. [only in print 12/52 - 8/56] RCA LHMV-1023. A--(tiny scr beg Manfred: increase
anti-skate)....................................................................................................................................................... 20.00
1538. FURTWANGLER: Strauss - Don Juan; Till Eulenspiegel. Weber - Euryanthe & Freischutz Overtures.
VPO. [In print from May or June of 1955 until February 1957; insert print, an original woodcut by
John Ross, is untitled, but the subject is clearly Till!] RCA LHMV-19. A-/A--(lgt blems snd
occasionally, Till; box superb)....................................................................................................................... 59.00
1539. FURTWANGLER: Wagner - Siegfried's Rhine Journey & Funeral Music; Siegfried Idyll; Dance of the
Apprentices; Ride of the Valkyries. VPO. [only in print 11/53 - 2/57] RCA LHMV-1049. A-(nice
copy!)............................................................................................................................................................. 45.00
FURTWANGLER: See also #188, 301, 305, 309, 311, 316, 321, 354-55, 698, 902,
1160, 1162 &1280.
1540.*GERDES: Brahms Symphony #4. Wagner Meistersinger Prelude. BPO. DG 139 423. A- to A .......................... 8.00