{"product_id":"pasc776-cd","title":"MENGELBERG The Concertgebouw Telefunken Recordings, Vol. 6 (1942-43) - PASC776 - CD","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSCHUBERT \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 8 'Unfinished'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSCHUBERT \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 9 'The Great'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBEETHOVEN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eThe Creatures of Prometheus - Excerpts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBERLIOZ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eThe Damnation of Faust - Excerpts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBRAHMS \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eTragic Overture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eMOZART \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eEine Kleine Nachtmusik\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWAGENAAR \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eCyrano de Bergerac Overture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1942\/43\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 2hr 25:52\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eConcertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eWillem Mengelberg\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC776.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003eThis release concludes Pristine’s six-volume survey of Willem Mengelberg’s complete Telefunken recordings with the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, begun in 2021 to mark the 150th anniversary of the conductor’s birth (28 March 1871). Telefunken was the label for which Mengelberg made the bulk of his commercial discs, and they are presented here in chronological order.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis final volume features some of his rarest recordings. The notes for a 1995 Pearl CD release claimed that only two copies of \u003cem\u003eEine Kleine Nachtmusik\u003c\/em\u003e were known to exist, while Mengelberg’s recording of Schubert’s \u003cem\u003e“Unfinished”\u003c\/em\u003e has long been a sought-after holy grail among collectors. These and other rarities have been newly transferred directly from original Telefunken shellac 78s.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOur program begins on April 16, 1942, the day after the session that produced Mengelberg’s remake of the Beethoven Fifth which concluded our previous volume. It opens with three dances from Berlioz’s \u003cem\u003eDamnation de Faust\u003c\/em\u003e. Although Mengelberg reversed the order of the first two in a concert broadcast eleven months later, the matrix numbers show that Mengelberg recorded the works in the order reproduced here. The “Hungarian March” is given complete, unlike the abbreviated version he recorded for Columbia in 1926 (PASC 595). He then returned to native Dutch composers for the final time on disc with Johan Wagenaar’s overture \u003cem\u003eCyrano de Bergerac\u003c\/em\u003e, a work strongly reminiscent of Strauss’s \u003cem\u003eDon Juan\u003c\/em\u003e. These recordings, as with most of the April 1942 sessions, have the finest sound Telefunken provided for his Concertgebouw discs.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe following day brought Schubert’s \u003cem\u003eMarche Militaire\u003c\/em\u003e, issued only in a sonically compromised dubbing, presumably to reduce the volume of loud passages to avoid wear, and Brahms’s \u003cem\u003eTragic Overture\u003c\/em\u003e. Mengelberg’s broad, brooding reading of the latter contrasts sharply with the propulsive urgency heard in the four earlier recordings by Boult, Beecham, Toscanini, and Mengelberg’s former Cologne Conservatory classmate, Frederick Stock.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe next sessions from November 1942 began with three sides of Beethoven. The first two contain music from \u003cem\u003eThe Creatures of Prometheus\u003c\/em\u003e, including the number whose theme Beethoven later used in the finale of the “Eroica” Symphony. Telefunken did not issue these sides on 78s; they first appeared in dubbed form on Capitol in the early 1950s and are transferred here from a Capitol LP pressing. The rare overture to \u003cem\u003eThe Ruins of Athens\u003c\/em\u003e, originally issued as the filler for Eugen Jochum’s \u003cem\u003eParsifal\u003c\/em\u003e “Good Friday Spell,” has been taken from the same LP.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFour days later came Mengelberg’s unusually swift \u003cem\u003eEine Kleine Nachtmusik\u003c\/em\u003e. Like the Beethoven selections and the two Schubert symphonies recorded seven months later, it suffers from peak distortion at louder moments inherent in the original recording, rather than from disc wear. Given Telefunken’s excellent results in April, this is puzzling. Because the distortion resembles that sometimes heard on early magnetic tape, I suspect these final sessions may have been recorded on tape and dubbed to wax masters. Due to the destruction of Telefunken’s archives in a 1950s Elbe River flood, we may never know.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMengelberg’s final sessions, held over two days in June 1943, focused on Schubert’s last two symphonies. The “Great” C Major came first, appropriately enough since it was still generally known as the Seventh. Mengelberg again confounds expectations, taking a faster-than-usual introduction in the first movement but more measured tempi in the third. The uncut third movement was spread over three sides, with its da capo repeat requiring the listener to replay the opening side*. The \u003cem\u003eluftpause\u003c\/em\u003e I have left before the trio follows Mengelberg’s December 1940 live broadcast.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the “Unfinished,” critic Rob Cowan has noted that the exposition repeat heard in Mengelberg’s November 1939 broadcast is omitted here, while the string portamenti are more restrained. Previous transfers relied on tape dubs of discs from a private collector and a Dutch archive. For this edition, I worked directly from a complete original 78 set, supplemented by two single discs from other sets, in the hope of achieving better results.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Obert-Thorn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e*From the matrix sequence, it appears that a separate final side of the Scherzo was recorded but not issued in order to save an extra disc.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMENGELBERG \u003c\/b\u003eTelefunken Recordings, Volume 6\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCD 1 (72:15)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBERLIOZ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eLa damnation de Faust, Op. 24\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n1.    Menuet des Follets (5:50)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n2.    Danse des Sylphes (2:40)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n3.    Marche hongroise (4:21)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 16 April 1942 ∙ Matrices: 026409\/11 ∙ First issued on Telefunken SK 3243\/4\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n4.    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWAGENAAR \u003c\/b\u003eCyrano de Bergerac, Overture, Op. 23\u003c\/span\u003e (13:33)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 16 April 1942 ∙ Matrices: 026412\/5 ∙ First issued on Telefunken SK 3744\/5\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n5.    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSCHUBERT \u003c\/b\u003eMarche militaire No. 1, D733\u003c\/span\u003e (4:33)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 17 April 1942 ∙ Matrix: 026416 ∙ First issued on Telefunken SK 3244\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n6.    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBRAHMS \u003c\/b\u003eTragic Overture, Op. 81\u003c\/span\u003e (14:37)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 17 April 1942 ∙ Matrices: 026417\/20 ∙ First issued on Telefunken SK 3327\/8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBEETHOVEN \u003c\/b\u003eThe Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n7.    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