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The music on this pair of CDs falls into one of two categories: ballet music from an opera, or ballet music that was not originally intended for dancing at all, but that was subsequently adapted for that purpose. (The exception is Don Quixote, a full-length ballet with an original score.)
Many famous conductors had unusual lives, but the life of Anatole Fistoulari (1907-1995) was more unusual than most. When he was just seven, he conducted a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony in his native city of Kiev. At thirteen, he conducted Saint-Saëns’s Samson and Delilah in Bucharest. While a young man, he travelled throughout Europe and North America, accompanying bass Feodor Chaliapin and conducting the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Escaping the European mainland in World War II, he came to England, where he soon married Gustav Mahler’s sole surviving daughter, Anna, and was named principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He became a British citizen in 1948. Under a reciprocal arrangement between Decca and RCA, the Verdi, Mussorgsky, Saint-Saëns and Rossini items – all ‘opera-ballets’ – first appeared on RCA in 1960. Their first Decca release (under the title ‘The World of Ballet’) was not until 1972. Likewise, the Lecocq and Walton items were published in 1959 by RCA but in 1971 by Decca.
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Swan Lake, Op. 20, TH 12 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski)
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Ray Minshull, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Alan Abel, Recording Engineer
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Swan Lake, Op. 20, TH 12 / Act 1 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski)
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Ray Minshull, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Alan Abel, Recording Engineer
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Ray Minshull, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Alan Abel, Recording Engineer
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Ray Minshull, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Alan Abel, Recording Engineer
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Swan Lake, Op. 20, TH 12 / Act 2 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski)
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Ray Minshull, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Alan Abel, Recording Engineer
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Ray Minshull, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Alan Abel, Recording Engineer
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Ray Minshull, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Alan Abel, Recording Engineer
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam (Steven Staryk, Violin - Phia Berghout, Harp - Tibor de Machula, Cello) - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Ray Minshull, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Alan Abel, Recording Engineer
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Swan Lake, Op. 20, TH 12 / Act 3 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski)
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam (Steven Staryk, Violin) - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Ray Minshull, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Alan Abel, Recording Engineer
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Ray Minshull, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Alan Abel, Recording Engineer
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam (Steven Staryk, Violin) - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Ray Minshull, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Alan Abel, Recording Engineer
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Swan Lake, Op. 20, TH 12 / Act 4 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski)
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam (Steven Staryk, Violin) - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Ray Minshull, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Alan Abel, Recording Engineer
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam (Steven Staryk, Violin) - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Ray Minshull, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Alan Abel, Recording Engineer
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Serenade for String Orchestra in C Major, Op. 48, TH 48 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski)
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1963 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1963 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1963 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1963 Universal International Music B.V.
The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a, TH 35 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski)
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1963 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1963 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1963 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1963 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1963 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1963 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1963 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1963 Universal International Music B.V.
The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66, TH 13 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski)
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1962 Universal International Music B.V.
The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66, TH 13 / Act 1 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski)
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1962 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1962 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1962 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra (Hugh Maguire, Violin) - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1962 Universal International Music B.V.
The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66, TH 13 / Act 2 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski)
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1962 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1962 Universal International Music B.V.
The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66, TH 13 / Act 3 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski)
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1962 Universal International Music B.V.
The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66, TH 13 / Prologue (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski)
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1962 Universal International Music B.V.
The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66, TH 13 / Act 3 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski)
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1962 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1962 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1962 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1962 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1962 Universal International Music B.V.
London Symphony Orchestra - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Vittorio Negri, Recording Producer & Balance Engineer
℗ 1962 Universal International Music B.V.
Album review
The music on this pair of CDs falls into one of two categories: ballet music from an opera, or ballet music that was not originally intended for dancing at all, but that was subsequently adapted for that purpose. (The exception is Don Quixote, a full-length ballet with an original score.)
Many famous conductors had unusual lives, but the life of Anatole Fistoulari (1907-1995) was more unusual than most. When he was just seven, he conducted a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony in his native city of Kiev. At thirteen, he conducted Saint-Saëns’s Samson and Delilah in Bucharest. While a young man, he travelled throughout Europe and North America, accompanying bass Feodor Chaliapin and conducting the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Escaping the European mainland in World War II, he came to England, where he soon married Gustav Mahler’s sole surviving daughter, Anna, and was named principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He became a British citizen in 1948. Under a reciprocal arrangement between Decca and RCA, the Verdi, Mussorgsky, Saint-Saëns and Rossini items – all ‘opera-ballets’ – first appeared on RCA in 1960. Their first Decca release (under the title ‘The World of Ballet’) was not until 1972. Likewise, the Lecocq and Walton items were published in 1959 by RCA but in 1971 by Decca.
Details of original recording : Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22–23 February 1961 (Swan Lake); Wembley Town Hall, London, UK, 10–13 January 1962 (Sleeping Beauty), 13–14 November 1962 (The Nutcracker, Serenade)
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 40 track(s)
- Total length: 02:32:00
- Main artists: Anatole Fistoulari
- Composer: Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski
- Label: Decca
- Area: Russie
- Genre: Classical Symphonic Music
- Period: Romantic Music
- Collection: Eloquence
© 2020 Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd. This Compilation ℗ 2020 Decca Music Group Limited
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