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 […]
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Franz André conducts Suppé overtures
Posted by Damians78s on January 1, 2023
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Franz André conducts Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite and Serenade for Strings
It’s been some time since my last update, but we were due something for Christmas. This is another Franz André LP on Telefunken, with works by Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky – Nutcracker Suite Op.71 I. Miniature Overture II. March III. Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy IV. Russian Dance (Trepak) V. Arabian Dance VI. Chinese Dance VII. Dance […]
Posted by Damians78s on December 25, 2012
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Carl Schuricht – Die Fledermaus overture; Franz André – Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers, Suppé’s Poet and Peasant overtures
To welcome in the New Year, I’ve transferred Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus overture in an early recording by Carl Schuricht, and as an extra, a pair of overtures by Suppé and Offenbach, conducted by Franz André. J. Strauss II – Die Fledermaus – Overture Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Carl Schuricht (credited on label as “New […]
Posted by Damians78s on January 1, 2012
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Franz André – Carnival of the Animals, Daphnis and Chloe Suite No.2; François Ruhlmann – Chabrier’s España; Maurice Maréchal, Philippe Gaubert – Lalo’s Cello Concerto; W.H. Squire, Hamilton Harty – Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto; Arnold Földesy – Bruch’s Kol Nidrei; Antonio Janigro, Dean Dixon – Dvorak’s Cello Concerto
The themes this month are the cello and French composers. A number of recordings will fall into both categories. We begin with Franz André conducting Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals and Ravel’s second Daphnis and Chloe suite. The early 1950s Telefunken sound is generally good, particularly in the Saint-Saëns, with its sparer textures. The Ravel, […]
Posted by Damians78s on February 19, 2010
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Franz André – Bizet’s Arlèsienne Suites; Ivanov, Gauk, Golovanov – Balakirev; Henry Wood – Purcell, Mendelssohn; Hamilton Harty – Tchaikovsky; Mengelberg – Johann Strauss II; The Virtuoso String Quartet – Debussy’s Quartet, Mendelssohn; Robert Carr – “The trail of the lonesome pine”, “When love creeps in your heart”
To begin the New Year, I’m looking back as well as forwards. Mendelssohn and Purcell had anniversaries in 2009, so you can hear works by them, conducted by Henry Wood. There’s also a movement from one of Mendelssohn’s String Quartets, as a filler for the Virtuoso Quartet’s recording of the Debussy String Quartet. There will […]
Posted by Damians78s on January 3, 2010
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Landon Ronald – Tchaikovsky 5; Franz André – French overtures, Bolero, Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Rhapsodie Dahoméenne, Coppélia, Sylvia; Theo Olof – Mozart Violin Concerto No.5, Walter Goehr; Carl Bamberger – Mozart Symphony No.32; Frank Titterton – Schubert Lieder in English
Thanks to a recent email containing a substantial, though unfinished Franz André discography, I now know that a number of his stereo recordings are out of copyright, so it seemed apt to post a selection of mainly French music. Also, there’s more Tchaikovsky from Landon Ronald, a Mozart Violin Concerto with Theo Olof, and two […]
Posted by Damians78s on August 13, 2009
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Franz André conducts Tchaikovsky, Glazunov & Meyerbeer; Landon Ronald conducts Tchaikovksy
Yet more from Franz André – the contents of two mid 1950s 10” Telefunken LPs, with music by Tchaikovsky, Glazunov and Meyerbeer. Mediafire link for Tchaikovsky, Glazunov and Meyerbeer – Franz André (This is a zip file – left click the link, download the file, then unzip when downloaded) Tchaikovksy – Capriccio Italien Op.45 Tchaikovksy […]
Posted by Damians78s on July 10, 2009
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Franz André conducts Beethoven’s 7th Symphony
Today brings another recording by the little remembered Franz André – his mid 1950s recording of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony. Beethoven – Symphony No.7 in A major Op.92 Mediafire link for Beethoven – Symphony No.7 – Franz André (This is a zip file – left click the link, download the file, then unzip when downloaded) Telefunken […]
Posted by Damians78s on June 7, 2009
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