1930 SAINT SAENS SYM 3 ORGAN Collier HERBRECHT Petijean

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A series of great Violin, Piano and Orchestra records on rare labels, from 1902 Monarch to 1940 War Germany recordings.

Great FIRST REDCORDING of Camille Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3 with Organ Op. 78 in C minor (recorded 1930)
Denise Herbrecht & Lucien PEtitjean Piano, Alexander Cellier at the Cavaille Coll organ of the Salle Pleyel

with a French Orchestra cond by Piero Coppolla,

Original issue orthophonic album M-100 with patterened sleeves and booklet complete on 4x12" records

Condition: EXCELLENT, light short scratch start of 7, light surface noise. Album close to new condition.

Coppola conducting Saint Saens timeless Organ Symphony. The recording dates  from 1930 and was made with the "Gramophone Symphony Orchestra- La Voix De Son Maitre" in Paris. Coppola was the artistic director of the French arm of HMV - The Gramophone Company for the better part of the 1920's and 1930's.

I'm really glad that I transferred this record. You will not believe that this record was set down in 1930. It's so vivid, the balancing is superb and details jump out of the speakers. Combine great sonics with a superb performance and you have an absolute winner. This was probably the finest recording of the Saint Saens on the market until the stunning stereo spectacular of Munch in Boston, nearly 30 years later!

Featured performers for this symphony are Alex Cellier on organ, Lucien Petitjean on piano and Denise Herbrecht on piano. I cannot help but wonder if the Gramophone Symphony Orchestra is indeed the Paris Conservatory, Lamoureux or Pasdeloup in recording disguise.

Alexandre Eugène Cellier (Molières-sur-Cèze, June 17, 1883 – March 4, 1968 in Paris) was a French organist and composer.

Cellier studied organ with Alexandre Guilmant until 1908. In 1908 he won the first prize for organ at the Conservatoire de Paris. Before that he also studied with Henri Dallier and Charles-Marie Widor. He was the organist/Titulaire of the Temple de l'Étoile in Paris from 1910 until his death in 1968. The organ he used was a 3-manual Cavaillé-Coll organ with 32 stops, which was extended by Mutin in 1914.

In Louis Vierne's biography Mes Souvenirs, he describes Alexandre Cellier as a highly "cultivated musician" with perfect skills in improvisation. He must have been very virtuous on the organ, as he also made a career as concert organist in France but also abroad. His music is typical modern French style (in the view of Vierne) and "highly aesthetic".

He wrote a book about organ registration and is known as the French translator of the texts of the Bach Chorales.

Piero Coppola (October 11, 1888 – March 17, 1971), was an Italian conductor, pianist and composer.

 Life and careerEditCoppola was born in Milan; his parents were both singers.[1] He studied at the Milan Conservatory, graduating in piano and composition in 1910.[1] By 1911 he was already conducting opera at La Scala opera house in Milan.[1] That year he heard Debussy conduct his own compositions Ibéria and Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune in Turin, an experience that "had a decisive influence on his career".[2] He then worked in Brussels, Belgium before spending the duration of World War I in Scandinavia.[1]

In 1921 Coppola resided in London[3] and he later later moved to France. Between 1923 and 1934 he was the artistic director of La Voix de son Maître, the French branch of The Gramophone Company. In 1924 he was asked by Sylvia Beach to make a recording of James Joyce reading from Ulysses: Coppola replied that the recording would have to be made at Beach's expense, would not have the HMV label on it and would not be listed in the catalog.[4] In the late 1920s and 1930s Coppola conducted recordings of many works of Debussy and Ravel, including the first recordings of Debussy's La mer and Ravel's Boléro. Coppola's conducting enjoyed the admiration of Debussy, although the composer never actually heard Coppola perform any of his works.[2] His work in French repertoire has been widely praised. His recordings of Debussy have been described as "without rival for the period", with his 1938 recording of Nocturnes eulogized as a "masterpiece"[5] and among the early recordings "closest to Debussy's thought".[6] His recording of Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin won the Grand Prix du Disque in 1932.[5] Coppola also conducted the first recording of Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, with Prokofiev himself as soloist, in June 1932.

From 1939 onwards Coppola worked in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he died.

 CompositionsEditCoppola composed two operas, a symphony, and some shorter works.[1] According to a 1921 article in the Musical Times, his music "is all nerves, and always has a decisive rhythmic character". The article went on to describe Coppola as "[a] very strong musician, [who] loves to translate musically certain grotesque and gruesome poses which he succeeds in making very impressive."[3]

 FamilyEditDespite many unsubstantiated claims, there is no known family relationship between Piero Coppola and Carmine Coppola or Carmine's son Francis Ford Coppola.[7]

 Recording premieresEditDebussy, La mer, orchestra, 1928[8]
Ravel, Shéhérazade, Marcelle Gerar (soprano), orchestra, The Gramophone Company, November 1928, Paris
Ravel, Boléro, orchestra, The Gramophone Company, January 8 1930, Paris[9]
Prokofiev, Third Piano Concerto, Sergei Prokofiev (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, HMV, June 27-28 1932, London
Ravel, Daphnis et Chloé suite number 1, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, The Gramophone Company, 1934, Paris

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