UNTANGLE: "Songs of Debussy and Ravel" "Recital NO. 2"

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GERARD SOUZAY RECITAL NO. 2 / GERARD SOUZAYS SINGS CLASSIC AIRS
Handel: from Berenice: Demetrio's aria, Si, tra i ceppi
Beethoven: In questa tomba oscura
[Monteverdi:] from Orfeo: Elle est morte (Tu se' morta)
Lully: from Persée: Air des songes (O tranquille sommeil)

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Debussy: from Ballades de François Villon: Ballade que feit Villon à la requeste de sa mère pour prier Nostre Dame
Debussy: from Chansons de France: La Grotte (text: Tristan l'Hermite), orch. Louis Beydts
Debussy: Mandoline (text: Verlaine), orch. Louis Bedts
    Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (text: Paul Morand)
          Chanson romanesque – Chanson épique – Chanson à boire

Édouard Lindenberg, conductor; Gérard Souzay, baritone

DESCRIPTION: 1 disc, 33 1/3 rpm. 12 in. [but see 78 rpm issues, below]  mono

NOTES: Recorded 2 June 1949 Handel, Beethoven, Monteverdi, Lully, Maison de la Mutualité and 14 February 1950 (Ravel). Orfeo excerpt wrongly attributed to Gluck. Matrix numbers FAR 76 (handel) 77 Beethoven 78 Monteverdi 79 Lully.

Decca  LXT 2568 UK   ARL 557 (Beethoven-Lully), 558  (Debussy, Ravel)

 = London LLP 194 US P 1951 @Discogs

=London 9091 LD 9091 (US, Canada) LW  5078 (UK)   P 1954 @ Discogs

• See Decca cat F037

• Decca K 2290 Handel/Beethoven (December 1949)

•  Decca LXT 2568 (d. l. 1952) May 1951

  • Also:

    • London LLP 194. Program notes by E. C. Stone on container. $5.95. [1950; rev. April 1951ff.] July 1951

  • 78s:

    • Decca K 2333      FAR.102  Debussy Ballade No,. 2 from Trois b de FB FAR 103 La Grotte from Tois Chanson de France; Mandoline from.     STREAMING: BnF Gallica.  P June 1950 side 1: Ballade / villon // side 2: La Grotte 

    • 78: Ravel released as 78 rpm, 10 in. Decca AG 21,232. Matrix numbers: DEDR 104-1 (side 1: Chanson romantique; Chanson à boire), FDR 105-1. (d. l. 1951).

    • 78: Beethoven and Handel apparently released on 78 rpm. [rev. September 1950ff.]

  • Other LPs:

    • LP: Debussy and Ravel issued as London LD 9091 (Classics for Pleasure CP 9091), 33 1/3 rpm, 10 in. $2.95. [rev. July 1950ff.]

  • CDs:

    • CD: Ravel, in Gérard Souzay: The Early Recordings, Dutton Laboratories CDLX 7036, tr. 23. July (Europe), October (US) 1999.

    • CD: Gerard Souzay / Schubert, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel. Pearl 0159. With Songs by Fauré & Schubert (Jacqueline Bonneau, piano). Transfers by Roger Beardsley. Diapason d'Or, 2002. January (Europe), February (US) 2002.

    • CD: Debussy, Ravel in Gérard Souzay / Ravel, Debussy, Chausson, Duparc. Testament SBT 1312. November 2003.

    • Gala GL 100573 Feb 2002.

    • ALL, in Gerard Souzay (1918-2004): Classical Aris and Songs,  Preiser Records 93440 (2005), tr. 7-16

    • STREAMING: YouTube (Preiser Records)
      
      

INDEX: 50~070 1949-06-02