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Notes and Editorial Reviews
''Personally, I think that, along with Stokowski, Mengelberg was the greatest conductor I've ever heard on record.'' -- Glenn Gould
In a conversation with the French musician and film-maker, Bruno Monsaingeon, in 1976, Glenn Gould remarked: ''Personally, I think that, along with Stokowski, Mengelberg was the greatest conductor I've ever heard on record''... [This] record of Dutch music is of particular interest. The Wagenaar Overture has always led a reasonably successful independent life, and there is the elegiac Giaconna Gotica by Cornelius Dopper (1870–1939) who had been Mengelberg's deputy at the Concertgebouw from 1908–31. The two charming Dutch dances by Roentgen are music after the manner of Respighi's Ancient
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airs and dances. Jo Vincent is rather distantly recorded in the Andriessen but it is interesting to hear snippets of music from the early twentieth century flowering of the Dutch Catholic choral tradition... [T]here is plenty of evidence to suggest that Mengelberg, both as technician and interpreter, is someone younger musicians lose sight of at their peril.
-- Richard Osborne, Gramophone [9/1989]
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Works on This Recording
1.
Magna res est amor by Hendrik Andriessen
Performer:
Jo Vincent (Soprano)
Conductor:
Willem Mengelberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1919; Netherlands (Holland
Date of Recording: 04/1940
Venue: Live Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Length: 4 Minutes 3 Secs.
Language: Latin
2.
Ciaconna gotica by Cornelis Dopper
Conductor:
Willem Mengelberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1920; Netherlands (Holland
Date of Recording: 04/1940
Venue: Live Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Length: 19 Minutes 23 Secs.
3.
Salve Regina, Op. 20 by Rudolf Mengelberg
Performer:
Jo Vincent (Soprano)
Conductor:
Willem Mengelberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1940; Netherlands (Holland
Date of Recording: 05/1940
Venue: Live Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Length: 11 Minutes 1 Secs.
Language: Latin
4.
Early Netherlands Dances (6), Op. 46: no 5, Bergerette by Julius Röntgen
Conductor:
Willem Mengelberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1904; Netherlands (Holland
Date of Recording: 11/1940
Venue: Live Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Length: 4 Minutes 27 Secs.
5.
Early Netherlands Dances (6), Op. 46: no 6, Pavane by Julius Röntgen
Conductor:
Willem Mengelberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1904; Netherlands (Holland
Date of Recording: 11/1940
Venue: Live Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Notes: This selection shares a timing with the previous track.
6.
Wilt heden nu treden by Adriaen Valerius
Conductor:
Willem Mengelberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Date of Recording: 11/1938
Venue: Live Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Length: 1 Minutes 52 Secs.
Notes: Arranged: Johann Wagenaar
7.
Cyrano de Bergerac Overture, Op. 23 by Johan Wagenaar
Conductor:
Willem Mengelberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Date of Recording: 04/1942
Venue: Live Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Length: 13 Minutes 25 Secs.
8.
Wilhelmus van Nassouwe by Anonymous
Conductor:
Willem Mengelberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Renaissance
Written: Netherlands (Holland
Date of Recording: 11/1938
Venue: Live Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Length: 2 Minutes 12 Secs.
Notes: Orchestrated: Rudolf Mengelberg
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