It’s time for the customary Viennese fare to welcome in the New Year, and a return to the site for the Belgian conductor Franz André. His recording career was almost exclusively on Telefunken, and in the early 1950s several items were issued on Telefunken Füllschrift records – 78rpm with a variable groove pitch which meant that side lengths of over 9 minutes were feasible.
The two Suppé overtures here each took one side of a disc, and both last more than 6 minutes.
Suppé – Die schöne Galathée – Overture – L’Orchestre Symphonique de la Radiodiffusion National Belge, Franz André
Telefunken VE 9020
Matrices 9-036855-II R, 9-036856-II R
Recorded 5th and 3rd October 1952, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
Franz André conducting L’Orchestre Symphonique de la Radiodiffusion Nationale Belge
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