1930 BOLERO Maurice Ravel GYMNOPEDIE Serge Koussevitzky Boston Symphony M-352
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A series of great Orchestra Records by great conductors on 78 rpm records
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Great recording of Maurice Ravel's famous Bolero
This is the third recording after the Piero Coppola/ Ravel recording for French HMV
APRIL 14. 1930, SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.
CONDUCTING THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Ravel: Bolero. Released 5/30. 78 rpm: 725112 (without album number), M-352 (725112), DM-
352 (18434/5), DB 1859/60, AW 175/6 (coupled with Satie Gymnopedie No. 1, listed directly
below, as 4th side filler). 78 rpm matrix and take numbers:
side # matrix and take # side #
1 CVE-56820-lA,-3 (3) 3
2 CVE-56821-2,-2A (3)
matrix and take#
CVE-56822-2,-2A (3)
See note about this recording at end of this section.
Satie: Gymnopedie No. 1. Orchestrated and renumbered by Debussy. Original Satie No. 3. 78
rpm: 4th side filler in Ravel Bolero albums
here in a stirring interpretation of the Boston Pops Orch under Serge Koussevitzky recorded only weeks after Ravel's own recording in Paris.
Please see top of the page for condition
In 1930, the Bolero was recorded no less than 4 Times !!! (Coppola, Ravel, Mengelberg, Koussevitzky).
It is one of the ironies of recording history, that the first recording was made by the gifted HMV in-house conductor Piero Coppola on Jan 8 1930 under the supervision of Ravel, who had him redo the finale because of a slight acceleration in the beat. Ravel, who was more gifted of a pianist than a conductor, waxed his own version for Polydor with the Lamoureux Orchestra on Jan 9 1930
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