Anatole Fistoulari
A conductor of wide-ranging authority in a varied repertory, Anatole Fistoulari is nonetheless remembered most vividly for the several ballet recordings he made for Mercury Records. The son of a noted conductor, Fistoulari maintained that he had made his debut before an orchestra at the age of seven. Beyond dispute is his broad exposure to Russian musical culture, thoroughly absorbed before he concentrated his activities in Europe and, eventually England, where he became a British subject. Fistoulari learned most of his technique and repertory from his father, Gregor Fistoulari, a student of Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and Anton Rubinstein. The work allegedly conducted by the seven-year-old Anatole in Kiev was Tchaikovsky's "Pathétique" Symphony, a score of enormous depth and complexity. In 1933, he leapt into the fire with an appointment to conduct for the Grand Opéra Russe in Paris, a company assembled around the famously temperamental Russian bass baritone Feodor Chaliapin. His ability to maintain a cool head there led to a 1938 engagement with Leonid Masim's Ballets Russes; with that company, Fistoulari toured the Continent and America, where his work was much admired. During WWII, Fistoulari became a popular figure in England. After conducting a 1942 production of Mussorgsky's unfinished Sorochintsï Fair, he was made principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1943. In 1954, he returned to ballet as guest conductor of the Royal Ballet and, in 1956, led the London Philharmonic in a tour of Russia that brought enthusiastic audiences to the halls of Moscow and Leningrad. Other guest engagements took Fistoulari to several other parts of the world, notably New Zealand and the Mideast, but he continued to base his activities in England. Active in the recording studio, Fistoulari built a substantial discography. In addition to his much-praised Mercury recordings of Delibes' Sylvia and Adam's Giselle, he recorded excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty; Alexandre Luigini's short, but effective Ballet Egyptien; and several works by Khachaturian. Fistoulari's direction of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies was praised, as were recorded collaborations with pianists Vladimir Ashkenazy, Earl Wild, and Shura Cherkassky, as well as violinists Nathan Milstein (Brahms) and Ruggiero Ricci (Khachaturian).
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Khatchaturian: Gayne (Ballet Suite) (Transferred from the Original Everest Records Master Tapes)
London Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari
Clásica - Editado por Everest el 6 oct. 2017
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Károly Goldmark: Violin Concerto No. 1 - Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto
Nathan Milstein, The Philharmonia, Harry Blech, Anatole Fistoulari
Música concertante - Editado por Praga Digitals el 1 nov. 2013
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Khachaturian: Piano Concerto/Violin Concerto, etc.
Aram Ilyitch Khatchaturian, Anatole Fistoulari, Stanley Black, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Clásica - Editado por Decca Music Group Ltd. el 5 feb. 1996
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos.2 & 3
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin, London Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari
Clásica - Editado por Decca Music Group Ltd. el 1 ene. 1999
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Giselle : un ballet d'Adolphe Adam
Natalie Dessay, Orchestre Symphonique de Londres, Anatole Fistoulari
Stories and Nursery Rhymes - Editado por Didier Jeunesse el 25 oct. 2019
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Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Tchaikovsky & Bruch: Concertos for Violin
Nathan Milstein, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, William Steinberg, Anatole Fistoulari, Leon Barzin
Clásica - Editado por Urania Records el 27 may. 2016
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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari
Clásica - Editado por Decca Music Group Ltd. el 1 ene. 1973
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Leo Delibes : Coppélia & Sylvia
Minnesota Orchestra, Antal Doráti, London Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari
Ballets - Editado por Decca Music Group Ltd. el 1 ene. 1992
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Adam: Giselle/Offenbach: Gaité Parisienne; Strauss, J. II: Graduation Ball
London Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari, Minnesota Orchestra, Antal Doráti
Clásica - Editado por Decca Music Group Ltd. el 1 ene. 1996
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Tchaikovsky : Ballet Suites - Serenade
Música sinfónica - Editado por Decca el 6 mar. 2020
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Khachaturian: Violin Concerto; Sibelius: Violin Concerto; Tchaikovsky: Sérénade mélancolique; Souvenir d'un lieu cher (Ruggiero Ricci: Complete Decca Recordings, Vol. 3)
Ruggiero Ricci, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Oivin Fjeldstad, Anatole Fistoulari
Clásica - Editado por Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. el 8 oct. 2021
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Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1; Piano Concerto No. 2 (Wilhelm Kempff: Complete Decca Recordings, Vol. 9)
Wilhelm Kempff, London Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari
Clásica - Editado por Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. el 13 may. 2022
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Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Swan Lake (Ruggiero Ricci: Complete Decca Recordings, Vol. 8)
Ruggiero Ricci, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean Fournet, Anatole Fistoulari
Clásica - Editado por Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. el 8 oct. 2021
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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake; The Nutcracker
Anatole Fistoulari, London Symphony Orchestra, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Clásica - Editado por Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. el 26 oct. 2018
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Campoli: The Bel Canto Violin, IV (Lalo, St-Saëns, Sarasate...)
Alfredo Campoli, Eduard van Beinum, Piero Gamba, Anatole Fistoulari, Ataulfo Argenta
Conciertos para violín - Editado por Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. el 1 ene. 1953
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Tchaikovsky : Sleeping Beauty - Symphony No. 4
Anatole Fistoulari, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Música sinfónica - Editado por Decca el 11 ene. 2019
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker; The Sleeping Beauty - highlights
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Antal Doráti, London Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari
Clásica - Editado por Decca Music Group Ltd. el 1 ene. 1994
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Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 58: I. Andante (Live)
Rohan de Saram, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari
Clásica - Editado por First Hand Records el 7 may. 2021
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Berlioz: La damnation de Faust; Massenet: Werther – Excerpts (Opera Gala – Volume 2)
Írma Kolássi, London Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari
Clásica - Editado por Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. el 13 nov. 2020
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Tchaikovsky Ballet Music
John Hollingsworth, Efrem Kurtz, Anatole Fistoulari
Ballets - Editado por Editions Audiovisuel Beulah el 12 ene. 2024
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The Symphony Lounge, Vol. 8: Delibes – Sylvia (Remastered 2019)
London Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari
Clásica - Editado por Jube Classic el 15 mar. 2019
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