Anthony Collins - Anthony Collins: Complete Decca Recordings [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Including several recordings new to CD, the complete published Decca legacy of noted Sibelius conductor Anthony Collins is collected for the first time on disc and is presented with ORIGINAL JACKETS - LIMITED EDITION.rr

Highlights include:r- the Sibelius symphonies and selected orchestral works with r the London Symphony Orchestrar- British music: Elgar, Walton, Vaughan Williams, the two r Delius LPs and music by Anthony Collins himselfr- Concertos with Moura Lympany, Ruggiero Ricci, Friedrich r Gulda, Gervase de Peyer and othersr- Orchestral showpieces by Tchaikovsky, Falla, Humperdinck r and Bizetrr

From the earliest days of his career, Anthony Collins (1893u20131963) earned a reputation as a musician of parts: violist, conductor, arranger and composer. He had led the viola section of the London Symphony Orchestra under Beecham and Mengelberg before swapping bow for baton in the 1930s, and by then had already begun to promote the music of Sibelius. Then Hollywood came calling, and he spent the War in the US as an Oscar-nominated film composer writing for RKO Studios. rr

He began to record for Decca directly after the War, first of all with the London Mozart Orchestra which he had founded shortly before leaving for the US. rr

Renowned by then as a Mozartian of natural gifts, securing shapely and stylish performances independently of either the grand Viennese tradition or the period-instrument movement in its infancy, he accompanied the pianist Friedrich Gulda u2013 a kindred spirit of similarly mercurial imagination u2013 in concertos and concertante works by Mozart and Strauss, and then Peter Katin in Mendelssohn, and Moura Lympany in Rachmaninov. rr

He re-established a close rapport with the LSO, conducting them in several albums of Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Delius that have rarely been equalled for their directness of expression and intensity. rr

These virtues still distinguish the cycle of Sibelius symphonies and tone-poems, made in the mid-50s with the LSO, from later interpretations. A generation of English and American listeners learnt their Sibelius from these recordings, and Collins's deep fellow-feeling for his music stands the test of time. rr

The Decca recordings included a Tchaikovsky album of Capriccio Italien and Francesca da Rimini as well as a pair of his own compositions, and other masterpieces of English light music by Walton u2013 a complete Facade u2013 Sullivan and Grainger. rr

Items never previously issued on CD include dance suites from Hansel und Gretel and Der Rosenkavalier, as well as the Mozart Symphony No.33 which began his relationship with the label. The booklet offers full discographical details as well as an essay on Collins's life and career by Peter Quantrill. rr

'The performances are in the best sense traditional, and in the Introduction and Allegro Anthony Collins has been at pains to make the quartet of soloists clearly distinguishable from the main body of players' The Record Guide, 1955 (Elgar)rr

'The recording is a superb example of London's sound at its best. Under the direction of Collins, a very knowledgeable musician in media like these, there emerge performances that glow with an inner light. There is faultless balance, fine pace, a high finish.' High Fidelity, January 1953 (Elgar, Vaughan Williams)

WA MOZART: Symphony No. 33 In B Flat Major, KV 319

WA MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 14 In E Flat Major, KV 449

FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Piano Concerto No. 1 In G Minor, Op. 25

SERGEI RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 3 In D Minor, Op. 30

NICCOLO PAGANINI: Violin Concerto No. 1 In D Major, Op. 6

GEORGES BIZET: Carmen Suite No. 1

JEAN SIBELIUS: Karelia Overture, Op. 10

JEAN SIBEILIUS: Symphony No. 2 In D Major, Op. 43

JEAN SIBEILIUS: Symphony No. 4 In A Minor, Op. 63

JEAN SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 6 In D Minor, Op. 104

SIR EDWARD ELGAR: Falstaff u2013 Symphonic Study, Op. 68

FREDERICK DELIUS: The Walk To The Paradise Garden

FREDERICK DELIUS: In A Summer Garden

RICHARD STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier u2013 First Suite Of Waltzes

MANUEL DE FALLA: El Amor Brujo u2013 Suite

Symphony No. 1 In E Minor, Op. 39

Introduction And Allegro For Strings, Op. 47

A Song Of Summer

Summer Night On The River

HUMPERDINCK: Dream Pantomime (from Hansel Und Gretel)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45

Serenade For String Orchestra In E Minor, Op. 20

Brigg Fair u2013 An English Rhapsody

SIR WILLIAM WALTON: Facade- An Entertainment

SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN: Overture Di Ballo

Menuetto (from Divertimento In D Major, KV 334)

Piano Concerto No. 25 In C Major, KV 503

Piano Concerto No. 2 In D Minor, Op. 40

RICHARD STRAUSS: Burleske In D Minor For Piano And Orchestra

Violin Concerto No. 2 In B Minor, Op. 7

Francesca Da Rimini, Op. 32

RVW: Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis

On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring

HENRY BALFOUR GARDINER: Shepherd Fennelu2019s Dance

Clarinet Concerto In A Major, KV 622

Piano Concerto No. 26 In D Major, KV 537 u2018Coronationu2019

Symphony No. 3 In C Major, Op. 52

Symphony No. 5 In E Flat Major, Op. 82

Pohjolau2019s Daughter, Op. 49

Paris (The Song Of A Great City)

PERCY GRAINGER: Shepherd's Hey

Symphony No. 7 In C Major, Op. 105

Pelleas Et Melisande, Op. 46 u2013 Suite (excerpts)

ANTHONY COLLINS: Vanity Fair

Nightride And Sunrise, Op. 55

With Emma To Town

Bassoon Concerto In B Flat Major, KV 191

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