01 - 03 Claude Debussy: La Mer. Three Symphonic Sketches* [22'57]
04 - 07 Ernest Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer, op.19^ [28'05]
08 - 10 Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade. Three Poems ~ [16'06]
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent *; Janet Baker- mezzo, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov ^; Margaret Price- soprano, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent ~
Carlton Classics (originally BBC Radio Classics 1565691742) [recorded September 1963 *, April 1975 ^ and August 1965 ~; original CD release 1996, this download 2000]
[digital download; flacs, cover scan and poor-quality booklet from the original issue derived from internet]
Recording venues: BBC Promenade Concerts, Royal Albert Hall *~ and Royal Festival Hall ^, London
Recording engineers: BBC Transcription Service; Producers: Paul Reding *^ and James Burnett ~
Carlton Classics originally issued this collection on their BBC Radio Classics CD label in 1996. Some how they appear to have retained rights to these BBC recordings for download. The booklet pages included here are for the original CD issue.
01 - 21 Robert Schumann: Carnaval, op.9. Scènes Mignonnes sur Quatre Notes [28'24]
22 Georges Bizet (arr. Méndez): Carmen, Act 1- Habanera [3'56]
23 Leroy Anderson: Belle of the Ball [2'53]
24 Nigel Westlake: Cudmirrah Fanfare [1'54]
25 George Dreyfus: Rush [2'30]
26 Bruce Smeaton: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith [2'47]
27 Bizet: L'Arlésienne. Suite No. 1- Prélude
28 Stuart Greenbaum: 90 Minutes Circling the Earth [5'09]
29 Holst: The Planets, op.32: - IV. Jupiter. The Bringer of Jollity [7'11]
30 Franz Lehar: Gold and Silver Waltz, op.79 [8'06]
31 Johann Strauss II: Freikugeln, op.326 'Magic Bullets Polka' [2'27]
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley [01 - 21], Jean-Louis Forestier [22], Paul Mann [23], Philip Green [24], George Dreyfus [25], Bruce Smeaton [26], John Lanchberry [27], Brett Kelly [28], Malcolm Sargent [29] and Ola Rudner [30, 31]
ABC Classics 476 6341 [recorded 1966 to 2007; issued 2007]
[digital download; flacs, cover and booklet scans]
Recording venues: Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University [01 - 21], Iwaki Studio, ABC Southbank Centre, Melbourne [22, 23,25], Allan Eaton Studios, Melbourne [26], South Melbourne Town Hall [27], Melbourne Town Hall [29], Arts Centre, Hamer Hall, Melbourne [30, 31]
Recording engineers: Gerry McKechnie [25], Robin Gray [26], Nick Mierisch [30, 31], others not given. Producers: David Harvey and Lydia Warren [25], Paul Petran [26],Stephen Snelleman [30, 31], others not given.
I think it is stretching things to call many of these tracks Popular Classics, even in Australia. And the booklet gives no information about the orchestration for the ballet in Vernon Handley's 1993 performance of Carnaval. Would anybody know whose of the many orchestrations this is? My guess is Gordon Jacob but I will be happy to be corrected.
Sergei Rachmaninov:
01 (orch. Malcolm Sargent) Prelude in C-sharp minor, op.3 no.2 ^ [4'30]
02 - 04 Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, op.18 * [32'32]
05 - 07 Symphony No. 3 in A minor, op.44 ~ [39'03]
Cyril Smith- piano and Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra*, London Symphony Orchestra^, BBC Symphony Orchestra~, all conducted by Malcolm Sargent
Guild GHCD 2423 [recorded September 1931 ^, June 1947 * and May 1953 ~; issued 2014]
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venues: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool *, Queen's Hall ^ and Abbey Road Studios ~, London
Recording engineers and Producers: not given
Recordings from the collection of Edward Johnson remastered by Peter Reynolds.
Britten and Rubbra Piano Concertos:
01 - 03 Edmund Rubbra: Piano Concerto in G major, op.85 * [27'25]
04 - 05 Benjamin Britten: Prelude and Fugue for 18-part string orchestra, op.29 ^ [9'05]
06 - 09 Benjamin Britten: Piano Concerto in D major, op.13 ~ [31'21]
Denis Matthews- piano, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent *; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar ^; Jacques Abram- piano, Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert Menges ~
EMI CDZ 5747812 [recorded January ~ and August * 1956 and July 1964 ^; CD issued 2001]
[CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venues: No.1 Studio *~, Abbey Road and Kingsway Hall ^, London
Recording engineers: Christopher Parker *~ and unknown ^
Producers: Raymond Leppard *, Ronald Kinloch Anderson ^, and Lawrance Collingwood ~
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04 - 07 Ernest Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer, op.19^ [28'05]
08 - 10 Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade. Three Poems ~ [16'06]
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent *; Janet Baker- mezzo, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov ^; Margaret Price- soprano, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent ~
Carlton Classics (originally BBC Radio Classics 1565691742) [recorded September 1963 *, April 1975 ^ and August 1965 ~; original CD release 1996, this download 2000]
[digital download; flacs, cover scan and poor-quality booklet from the original issue derived from internet]
Recording venues: BBC Promenade Concerts, Royal Albert Hall *~ and Royal Festival Hall ^, London
Recording engineers: BBC Transcription Service; Producers: Paul Reding *^ and James Burnett ~
Carlton Classics originally issued this collection on their BBC Radio Classics CD label in 1996. Some how they appear to have retained rights to these BBC recordings for download. The booklet pages included here are for the original CD issue.
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. 100 Years: Popular Classics
01 - 21 Robert Schumann: Carnaval, op.9. Scènes Mignonnes sur Quatre Notes [28'24]
22 Georges Bizet (arr. Méndez): Carmen, Act 1- Habanera [3'56]
23 Leroy Anderson: Belle of the Ball [2'53]
24 Nigel Westlake: Cudmirrah Fanfare [1'54]
25 George Dreyfus: Rush [2'30]
26 Bruce Smeaton: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith [2'47]
27 Bizet: L'Arlésienne. Suite No. 1- Prélude
28 Stuart Greenbaum: 90 Minutes Circling the Earth [5'09]
29 Holst: The Planets, op.32: - IV. Jupiter. The Bringer of Jollity [7'11]
30 Franz Lehar: Gold and Silver Waltz, op.79 [8'06]
31 Johann Strauss II: Freikugeln, op.326 'Magic Bullets Polka' [2'27]
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley [01 - 21], Jean-Louis Forestier [22], Paul Mann [23], Philip Green [24], George Dreyfus [25], Bruce Smeaton [26], John Lanchberry [27], Brett Kelly [28], Malcolm Sargent [29] and Ola Rudner [30, 31]
ABC Classics 476 6341 [recorded 1966 to 2007; issued 2007]
[digital download; flacs, cover and booklet scans]
Recording venues: Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University [01 - 21], Iwaki Studio, ABC Southbank Centre, Melbourne [22, 23,25], Allan Eaton Studios, Melbourne [26], South Melbourne Town Hall [27], Melbourne Town Hall [29], Arts Centre, Hamer Hall, Melbourne [30, 31]
Recording engineers: Gerry McKechnie [25], Robin Gray [26], Nick Mierisch [30, 31], others not given. Producers: David Harvey and Lydia Warren [25], Paul Petran [26],Stephen Snelleman [30, 31], others not given.
I think it is stretching things to call many of these tracks Popular Classics, even in Australia. And the booklet gives no information about the orchestration for the ballet in Vernon Handley's 1993 performance of Carnaval. Would anybody know whose of the many orchestrations this is? My guess is Gordon Jacob but I will be happy to be corrected.
Sergei Rachmaninov:
01 (orch. Malcolm Sargent) Prelude in C-sharp minor, op.3 no.2 ^ [4'30]
02 - 04 Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, op.18 * [32'32]
05 - 07 Symphony No. 3 in A minor, op.44 ~ [39'03]
Cyril Smith- piano and Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra*, London Symphony Orchestra^, BBC Symphony Orchestra~, all conducted by Malcolm Sargent
Guild GHCD 2423 [recorded September 1931 ^, June 1947 * and May 1953 ~; issued 2014]
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venues: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool *, Queen's Hall ^ and Abbey Road Studios ~, London
Recording engineers and Producers: not given
Recordings from the collection of Edward Johnson remastered by Peter Reynolds.
Britten and Rubbra Piano Concertos:
01 - 03 Edmund Rubbra: Piano Concerto in G major, op.85 * [27'25]
04 - 05 Benjamin Britten: Prelude and Fugue for 18-part string orchestra, op.29 ^ [9'05]
06 - 09 Benjamin Britten: Piano Concerto in D major, op.13 ~ [31'21]
Denis Matthews- piano, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent *; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar ^; Jacques Abram- piano, Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert Menges ~
EMI CDZ 5747812 [recorded January ~ and August * 1956 and July 1964 ^; CD issued 2001]
[CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venues: No.1 Studio *~, Abbey Road and Kingsway Hall ^, London
Recording engineers: Christopher Parker *~ and unknown ^
Producers: Raymond Leppard *, Ronald Kinloch Anderson ^, and Lawrance Collingwood ~
Download from Mega.