Albert Coates (Great Conductors of the 20th Century)

Albert Coates (Great Conductors of the 20th Century)

Albert Coates (Great Conductors of the 20th Century)
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Composer: Carl Maria von Weber
Composer: Franz Liszt
Composer: Alexander Borodin
Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Composer: Modest Mussorgsky
Composer: Maurice Ravel
Composer: Richard Wagner
Composer: Engelbert [Classical] Humperdinck
Composer: Richard Strauss
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-02-11
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Oberon: Overture - Albert Coates
  2. Mephisto Waltz No.1, S110 No.2 - Albert Coates
  3. I. Allegro - Animato Assai - Albert Coates
  4. II. Scherzo. Prestissimo - Allegretto - Albert Coates
  5. III. Andante - Albert Coates
  6. IV. Finale. Allegro - Albert Coates
  7. Mlada: Procession Of The Nobles - Albert Coates
  8. Francesca Da Rimini, Op.32 - Albert Coates
  9. Sorochintsy Fair: Gopak - London Symphony Orchestra
  10. La Valse - London Symphony Orchestra
Music CD 2
  1. Tannhauser: Overture - London Symphony Orchestra
  2. Das Rheingold: Einzug Der Gotter - London Symphony Orchestra
  3. Die Walkure: Feuerzauber - London Symphony Orchestra
  4. Gotterdammerung: Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt - London Symphony Orchestra
  5. Tristan Und Isolde: Love Duet From Act II - Lauritz Melchior
  6. Hansel Und Gretel: Prelude - Albert Coates
  7. Tod Und Verklarung, Op.24 - London Symphony Orchestra

Music reviews of Albert Coates (Great Conductors of the 20th Century)

Music Review: A wonderful find: taking one's hat off to Coates
Rating: 5 Stars

If you are not already familiar with the amazing conducting art of the Russian-born Albert Coates (1882-1953), then you should not pass up this two-CD set devoted to him in the "Great Conductors of the Twentieth Century" series. All of the recordings are from 1926-1930 period and are of a stunning quality not just sonically but artistically as well. I liked what I heard all the way through the largely Russian fare that made up the first disc, but the final track was a Ravel "La Valse" that really set me off. This is a piece whose opening is often almost inaudible or else done so softly on more contemporary recordings, but with Coates leading the London Symphony Orchestra in this take from 1926 it opens with growling pulsations that set the stage for a performance that is as sensitive as it is electrical. This is music-making done with as little manneristic effect as possible, and the result is like hearing the work again for the first time.

The second disc is a generous helping of Wagner done with the brisk tempi that Coates seemed to prefer and which he was able to employ to such powerful effect. This is Wagner deliberately done but not at all lacking in depth or feeling: the reading of the "Tannhauser Overture" reminds you once more why this really is such magnificent music; the "Entry of the Gods into Valhalla" benefits here too from an unusual arrangement that may puzzle some purists but which allows the conductor and orchestra to explore the excerpt musically; the "Magic Fire Music" is a stunning combination of real pathos and even more real majesty; and the "Rhine Journey" is a finely nuanced performance which made me think that even Toscanini could have learned a thing or two from it about how to approach this score. The "Tristan und Isolde" Act 2 Love Duet with Lauritz Melchior and Frida Leider speaks for itself. In Coates these two giants have a real collaborator, a man who makes the orchestra (the Berlin Staatsoper band) an integral part of the ecstasy unfolding before you. I was amazed at how 'connected' the two vocalists seemed to be with the orchestral sound around them, a level of connection not always apparent or even present in the recordings done since the 1960s.

The final selection is a 1928 "Tod und Verklarung" that is all painful simplicity: it is the most organic unravelling of this work that I have ever heard on CD (the others, for the sake of comparison, being Mengelberg, Furtwangler, Rodzinski, Horenstein, Kempe, and Karajan): it is an awesome example of emotion and control holding each other in check.

I very much recommend these recordings to anyone who is interested in hearing a great conductor make this music say what he knew it could utter.
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