{"product_id":"fistoulari-tchaikovsky-swan-lake-1952-pasc022","title":"FISTOULARI Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (1952) - PASC022","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eTCHAIKOVSKY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003ewan Lake\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e1952\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e: 1hr 30:37\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eAlfredo Campoli, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eviolin \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eWillem de Mont,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e cello\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e London Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eConductor: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eAnatole Fistoulari \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fBill Rosen's Review578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f90 minutes of joy578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eWith\nhumble apolologies to both Stravinsky and Prokofiev, I must state that\nTschaikowsky is the greatest composer of ballet music and, further, that\n\"Swan Lake\" is his greatest ballet. Before Tschaikowsky, ballet music\nwas written, like children, to be seen and not heard. Anyone enduring\nthe dullness of the complete music of Gluck's \"Don Juan\", Beethoven's\n\"The Creatures of Prometheus\" or Adam's \"Giselle\" without the\naccompanying mise en scene will quickly understand. Admittedly, Delibes'\nSylvia and Coppelia have greater standalone musical interest, but even\nthese do not sustain interest through their 90 minute durations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eWhat\nis different about \"Swan Lake\" is its symphonic qualities: themes are\nintroduced and developed; they reappear. For, example, that most\nhaunting of all oboe melodies representing the swans comes back in many\nguises. There are transition passages instead of stop-and-go dance\naccompaniments. The themes and their moods are related to the action of\nthe melodrama rather than just the gymnastics of the dancers. In short,\none can listen to the music by itself without necessarily seeing the\nstage action, although knowing what is going on greatly enhances one's\nunderstanding and pleasure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eI have\nowned this Fistoulari recording for 53 years. When stereo came out and I\ngave away hundreds of monaural recordings, this one stayed. But I doubt\nif I knew how great a recording it was until I heard it in Pristine\nAudio's remastering. Although primarily a ballet conductor, Fistoulari\nbrings out that \"symphonic\" quality I so prize in \"Swan Lake\". The drive\nis tremendous, but there is such delicate attention to detail. There is\nnever a crude moment in a score that other conductors have played\ncrudely. There is unfailing freshness and elegance. Tschaikowsky's\nmastery of orchestration is awesome and so is the LSO's playing; the\nfront desks are incomparable. There are perhaps rivals in the Dorati\nMercury mono and the Rozhdestvensky stereo, but this performance for me\noccupies one of the heights.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eThere is some undefinable magic for me in the sound which I cannot analyze. All I know is that it was 90 minutes of joy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC022.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnatole Fistoulari\u003c\/strong\u003e made two recordings of \u003cem\u003eSwan Lake \u003c\/em\u003efor Decca: in 1961 a single stereo disk of extracts with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw; and this two-LP mono set with the LSO in 1952, now offered here.  We have been unable to trace a CD reissue of this earlier recording which is remarkable in many ways and deserves to be heard again.  First, one might comment on the recorded sound - wide-range in frequency response and vast in dynamics.  Then the violin soloist - not, as usual, the leader of the 1st violins but here no less a figure than \u003cstrong\u003eAlfredo Campoli\u003c\/strong\u003e, making mini-concertos of his two sections.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003eAlso remarkable is the 'version' - if such it can be called - of the Lake that is presented here. It is reported to be that of the performance score as used in the Covent Garden production of the period and, as such, the definitive 'Record Guide' described it as 'Complete' when it made its first (1953) appearance in that publication.  By the next edition that had been changed to 'Almost Complete', and subsequently it was downgraded to 'Extracts from'.  One has only to compare this version with a modern 'complete' recording, such as Dutoit's, to realise that 'almost complete' was optimistic.  Almost 60 minutes of music is missing!  Also, here you will find items in different orders (even in different acts), telescoped, extended, or plain hacked about.  The three extra numbers added by Drigo for the revised 1895 production are here included, though major items such as No 19, Pas de Six, and No 22 with its excellent cornet solo, are missing. (One wonders about the integrity of the plot-line in such a performance...)  Probably no other recorded performance has used precisely this version of Tchaikowsky's music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003eIdentifying and labelling the CD tracks of this ballet is always a major headache for the discographer.  We have chosen to use the numbering scheme (there are at least five others) that has been used for some other 'complete' CD recordings of the Lake, thus allowing easier comparisons by the eager listener.  A simple solution?  Far from it.  Even at the very first track we run into problems: is this, as we have labelled it, an Introduction that precedes Act I; or is it, as other reference works have it, Act I  No 0? And how are the three extra 'Drigo' pieces to be labelled?  We have made an attempt: probably incorrect, and we invite corrections.  We hope these difficulties don't detract from your enjoyment of a unique recording: the music, after all, is what these reissues are all about.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Harrison\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFootnote: Since writing these notes we've been made aware of a third recording of Swan Lake by Fistoulari - a 1973 Decca Phase Four issue with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Ruggiero Ricci taking the solo violin part.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTCHAIKOVSKY \u003c\/b\u003eS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003ewan Lake, Op. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded 21, 22, 29, 30 January \u0026amp; 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