The Goldschmidt Album
Passacaglia - Commedy of Errors Overture
Ciacona Sinfonica - Chronica
Les Petits Adieux - Rondeau
Francoix Le Roux baritone
Simon Rattle
Charles Dutoit
Yakob Kreizberg
Berthold Goldschmidt
London Entartete Musik 1996
Cello Concerto
Violin Concerto
Clarinet Concerto
Yo Yo Ma cello
Sabine Meyer clarinet
Chamtal Juillet violin
Charles Dutoit
Yakob Kreizberg
Berthold Goldschmidt
London Entartete Musik 1997
Berthold Goldschmidt (1903-1996) could well be a poster boy for one kind of composer in exile. A rising superstar in Germany, his move to England certainly ensured his survival and opened up many opportunities. However, he toiled as a composer, mostly in obscurity, for decades after his emigration. By the late 1950’s he had stopped composing entirely, devoting himself instead to conducting, where he played a vital role in Mahler’s ascendancy in Great Britain. Then around the age of 80, with the growing interest in “Entartete Musik” he had a kind of fourth career, as an increasingly venerated (and productive) figure, composing once again until his death at 93....You can read more here
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Tracks 1, 3, 8, 10, 12 & 14 Announcements
Comedy of Errors Overture
Goldsbrough Orchestra (Leader Emanuel Hurwitz)
BBC Third Programme 26 XII 55
F. J. Haydn
Symphony No. 96
BBC Northern Orchestra (Leader Reginald Stead)
BBC Third Programme 25 VII 56
Beatrice Cenci excerpts
Beatrice Arda Mandikian soprano
Bernardo Monica Sinclair mezzo-soprano
Lucrezia Jean Grayston contralto
Count Cenci Arnold Matters baritone
Cardinal Camillo Martin Lawrence bass
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Performed 13 IV 53 for broadcast on BBC Third Programme 14 IV 53
Berthold Goldschmidt
Symposium 2010
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