Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition (2nd recording Ravel version)- Melichar/Berlin скачать в хорошем качестве

Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition (2nd recording Ravel version)- Melichar/Berlin

Recorded in 1931 - Berlin Philharmonic. Found at satyr78lp.blogspot.com, a great site with many wonderful downloads available. Thanks to Rolf for his many fine, hard to find transfers. Paintings by Viktor Hartmann, no attempt to line up with music. Alois Melichar (1896-1976): Austrian conductor, composer and music critic. Studied in Vienna and Berlin with Franz Schreker and others (1920-1923). 1923-1926: Conductor, choirmaster and teacher in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and Turkestan 1926-1927: music editor of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . 1927-1933: the first conductor and musical director of the Deutsche Grammophon . After 1933 he worked mainly as a film composer, thanks to help from the conductor Erich Kleiber. He composed music for films including the "Waltz of Krieg" and four films with the tenor Beniamino Gigli. He also had a part in propaganda films for the Nazis. After 1945 Melichar tried to hide his role in the Nazi period. 1945-1949: Conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna Symphony 1946-1949: worked as leader of the classical music station in the Austrian Rot-Weiss-Rot After 1949 worked mainly as a film composer Melichar again. In total he wrote music for 61 movies. He composed in the neoclassical style (Reger, Pfitzner). He performed fierce polemics against the music of Schoenberg and his followers. Works other than film scores include a symphonic poem Der Dom (1934). This version of the Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) uses the orchestration by Ravel. The tempos are different than we're used to, sometimes faster, sometimes much slower. The Ravel version had not been "standardized" yet. Ravel wrote his orchestration in 1922 by commission of the conductor Sergei Koussevitzky who conducted the first recording in 1930 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Dozens of people tried an orchestration of the piano part of the Pictures at an Exhibition orchestrated. Sir Henry J. Wood (1915) withdrew his version when he heard Ravel's. The conductors Leopold Stokowski (1939) and Walter Goehr (1942) made orchestrations but not up to the standard of Ravel's.