Manuel Rosenthal
Manuel Rosenthal's life overlapped pretty near perfectly with the arrival and passing of the twentieth century. He was born in 1904, the illegitimate son of a Russian immigrant woman and a wealthy Frenchman whose name he never knew, and grew up in dire poverty in Paris. He loved music sufficiently to teach himself the violin, and when his stepfather passed away in 1918, the 14 year old proved good enough on the instrument to support his mother and sister, playing in cafés and accompanying silent films. He enrolled in the Paris Conservatory at 16 to formalize his musical knowledge, but he was so far along that he was already manifesting talent as a composer. A sonatina that he submitted in 1921 not only passed muster with a committee that included Stravinsky, Bartók, Ravel, and Prokofiev, but received a public performance two months later. In addition to the violin, he also took up the sursoprano, a stringed instrument 1/4 higher than the violin, for which he wrote music.
In 1926, he became only the third student ever taken on by Maurice Ravel. It was through Ravel's efforts in securing a concert performance for one of his works that Rosenthal made his debut as a conductor. Never having studied conducting, and not even knowing how a traditional orchestra was arranged, Rosenthal led the performance on instinct. He was impressive enough at that engagement to receive encouragement -- and, eventually, an assistant's post -- from Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht, the conductor of the Orchestre National de France, in 1934.
Rosenthal was later selected to direct a radio orchestra, a post through which he became one of the nation's leading exponents of modern music. He continued to compose, primarily for the theater and occasionally for film. In 1938, he inherited a commission originally intended for Roger Desormiere, to orchestrate Offenbach's music into a full-length ballet for choreographer Léonide Massine. The latter initially rejected Rosenthal's work and the impasse was broken when Stravinsky was called in to mediate and praised the piece. The resulting ballet, the Gaîté Parisienne, went on not only to become one of the most popular ballets of the twentieth century, but also the vehicle by which millions of listeners were introduced to Offenbach's music.
Rosenthal's spent most of the Second World War as a prisoner of war. He resumed his work in 1946 and, for the next several decades was mostly known as a concert conductor. Rosenthal made very few recordings because he objected to the notion that technological limitations should alter a piece of music. Thus, his recorded legacy is limited to a few sides for EMI and Remington in the early '50s, several done for the Ades label at the end of that decade, and in the late '90s for Naxos. Rosenthal enjoyed decades as an elder statesman of French music, and on his death in 2003, just days before his 99th birthday, he was among the last links with the world of ballet and the concert hall of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Erik Satie: Oeuvres pour piano, Parade
Christoph Deluze, Orchestre National de France, Manuel Rosenthal
Classica - Pubblicato da Praga Digitals il 1 giu 2013
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Ravel: Complete Orchestral Works by Manuel Rosenthal
Manuel Rosenthal, Orchestre de l'Opera National de Paris, Choeurs de Radio France
Classica - Pubblicato da Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording il 31 dic 2021
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Isaac Albéniz: Iberia (for Solo piano & Orchestrated Version) & Other Piano Works
Alicia de Larrocha, Jean-Joël Barbier, Orchestre du Theatre National De L'Opera De Paris, Manuel Rosenthal
Classica - Pubblicato da Praga Digitals il 1 giu 2013
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Orchestral Music Of Eric Satie
French National Radio And Television Orchestra, Manuel Rosenthal
Classica - Pubblicato da Everest Records il 25 mar 1968
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Concert du 14 juin 1960
Manuel Rosenthal and Orchestre national de la RTF
Classica - Pubblicato da Ina, musique(s) il 28 mar 2014
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La Gaîté Parisienne
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Manuel Rosenthal
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 8 lug 1999
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Debussy: La Mer, Images, Nocturnes & Orchestral Works
Manuel Rosenthal, Orchestre de l'Opera National de Paris, Choeurs de Radio France
Classica - Pubblicato da Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording il 29 dic 2021
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Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune, Images & La Boîte à joujoux
Orchestre du Theatre National De L'Opera De Paris, Manuel Rosenthal, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
Sinfonie - Pubblicato da Praga Digitals il 1 dic 2012
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Claude Debussy: La Mer, Nocturnes, Jeux, Marche écossaise, Salut Printemps, Évocation
Nadine Sautereau, Michel Caron, Orchestre du Theatre National De L'Opera De Paris, Choeurs De La Radio Télévision Française, Manuel Rosenthal
Sinfonie - Pubblicato da Praga Digitals il 30 ott 2012
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Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No.3; Vieuxtemps: Violin Concertos Nos.4 & 5
Arthur Grumiaux, Orchestre Lamoureux, Manuel Rosenthal
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 1 gen 2013
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Offenbach, Rosenthal: Gaîté parisienne
Classica - Pubblicato da Warner Classics il 9 nov 2021
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Erik Satie, morceaux choisis
Jean-Joël Barbier, Jean Wiener, Orchestre National de France, Manuel Rosenthal
Classica - Pubblicato da Universal Music Division Decca Records France il 17 set 2000
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Vive Offenbach ! Pomme d'api, Monsieur Choufleuri & Mesdames de la Halle
Classica - Pubblicato da Warner Classics il 3 mar 2003
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Albéniz: Iberia / De Falla: Noches en los jardines de España
Yvonne Loriod, Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris, Manuel Rosenthal
Classica - Pubblicato da Universal Music Division Decca Records France il 18 gen 2019
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Offenbach: La belle Hélène, extraits (Mono Version)
Jane Rhodes, Bernard Plantey, Orchestre Du Theatre National De L'opera-comique, Manuel Rosenthal
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1962
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Offenbach: La belle Hélène, extraits (Stereo Version)
Jane Rhodes, Bernard Plantey, Orchestre Du Theatre National De L'opera-comique, Manuel Rosenthal
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1962
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Albert Roussel : Evocations - Ravel : L'Enfant et les sortilèges (Semaines musicales de Paris - 27 novembre 1962)
Musica vocale profana - Pubblicato da Ina, musique(s) il 28 ott 2013
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Hector Berlioz : Les Troyens (24 mai 1956)
Orchestre National de la RTF - Manuel Rosenthal
Classica - Pubblicato da Ina, musique(s) il 28 ott 2013
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Concert du 25 octobre 1960
Manuel Rosenthal and A. Focheux
Classica - Pubblicato da Ina, musique(s) il 15 apr 2014
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Symphonie Fantastique-L'apprenti sorcier
Manuel Rosenthal, Louis Fourestier, Orchestre Des Cento Soli, Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris
Classica - Pubblicato da Universal Music Division Decca Records France il 1 gen 2006
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Debussy: La mer & Nocturnes (Mono Version)
Orchestre du Theatre National De L'Opera De Paris, Manuel Rosenthal
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1963
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