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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Mozart: Airs célèbres d'opéras (Mono Version)
Jacqueline Brumaire, Orchestre du Theatre National De L'Opera De Paris, Manuel Rosenthal
Classica - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1958
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Ravel: La valse & Valses nobles et sentimentales (Mono Version)
Manuel Rosenthal, Paris Opera Orchestra
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1958
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Lyrinx Archives (1958·61·75) Zino Francescatti, New York, Dec. 16, 1975: The Last Performance
Zino Francescatti, New York Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Manuel Rosenthal
Musica concertante - Pubblicato da Lyrinx il 16 dic 2023
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De Falla: El Amor Brujo / El Sombrero de Tres Picos
Manuel Rosenthal, Orquesta del Teatro Nacional de la Ópera de París
Generi vari - Pubblicato da MARFER il 8 mag 1965
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Rosenthal: Offenbachiana (Mono Version)
Orchestre du Theatre National De L'Opera De Paris, Manuel Rosenthal
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1960
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Albéniz: Iberia - de Falla: Le tricorne (Mono Version)
Manuel Rosenthal, Théâtre national de l'Opéra de Paris
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1959
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Les Caprices de Marianne
Opere integrali - Pubblicato da Solstice il 1 set 1993
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Rosenthal, Offenbach: Gaîté parisienne (Mono Version)
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Manuel Rosenthal
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1956
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Ravel: La valse, Alborada del Gracioso & Ma mère l'Oye (Mono Version)
Orchestre du Theatre National De L'Opera De Paris, Manuel Rosenthal
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1962
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Ravel: L'œuvre symphonique intégral, vol. 2 (Mono Version)
Orchestre du Theatre National De L'Opera De Paris, Manuel Rosenthal
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1959
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Ravel: L'œuvre symphonique intégral, vol. 4 (Mono Version)
Orchestre du Theatre National De L'Opera De Paris, Manuel Rosenthal
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1959
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Puccini: Tosca (French Version, Mono Version)
Orchestre du Theatre National De L'Opera De Paris, Manuel Rosenthal, Jane Rhodes, Albert Lance
Classica - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1961
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Orchestre Philharmonique de la RTF - Manuel Rosenthal
Opere integrali - Pubblicato da INA Mémoire vive il 7 feb 2012
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Désormière, J. Strauss II: Le beau Danube, musique de ballet (Mono Version)
Manuel Rosenthal, Orchestre du Theatre National De L'Opera De Paris
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1959
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Ravel: L'œuvre symphonique intégral, Vol. 3 (Mono Version)
Classica - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1959
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Debussy: La mer & Jeux (Mono Version)
Manuel Rosenthal, Orchestre du Theatre National De L'Opera De Paris
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1959
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Debussy: Orchestral Works (Mono Version)
Manuel Rosenthal, Orchestre du Theatre National De L'Opera De Paris
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1959
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Debussy: La damoiselle élue & Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons - Caplet: Messe (Stereo Version)
Maîtrise De La Radiodiffusion Française, Manuel Rosenthal, Anne-Marie Blanzat
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1962
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Georges Bizet: Les Pecheurs De Perles
Choeurs De La Radio-Lyrique De La Rtf, Orchestre de la Radio-Lyrique de la RTF, Manuel Rosenthal
Classica - Pubblicato da Cantus Classics il 1 gen 2011
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Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas: Le songe d'une nuit d'ete
Choeurs Radio-Lyrique De Paris, Orchestre Radio-Lyrique De Paris, Manuel Rosenthal
Classica - Pubblicato da Cantus Classics il 7 mag 2010
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Brahms, Debussy, Delage, Duruflé (Live du 24/01/1955)
Orchestre national de la RTF and Manuel Rosenthal featuring Lelia Gousseau
Musica sinfonica - Pubblicato da Ina, musique(s) il 3 ago 2016
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