Ferras: Bando Concerto Hongrois for Violin & Orch - Pathé DTX 326 (ds)
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ITEM DESCRIPTION:
This beautiful and rare LP from Pathé (DTX 326, French pressing, green silver label, “baguette”-style heavy jacket / dowel spine, mono) features Christian Ferras’ brilliant account of Gyula Bando’s Concerto Hongrois (magyar hegedüverseny) for Violin and Orchestra, recorded in the warm acoustics of the Salle Wagram, Paris on 11 June 1963 with Alan Lombard conducting l’Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire.
Incidentally, the striking cover art reproducer photographer Gyorgy Szeberényi’s “View of Budapest”, while the liner notes on the reverse side of the jacketin French only, are uncredited.
Wrote the critic M.M. in his review for the April 1965 issue of The Gramophone: “Gyula Bandó was once a member of the Gertler Quartet; and he has pursued through Belgium, Hungary, France, Holland, and Venezuela a career as a conductor. You would therefore expect a violin concerto of his to declare a love for the sound of soloist and accompanists alike; and this Concerto Hongrois most certainly does so, offering in fact a gloriously rich sound in both directions. You would expect, too, a Hungarian composer writing a Concerto Hongrois to sound as if he meant the ascription, even in 1958; and Bandd does that, too, with fiery music which has its resemblances both to early Bartok and to the folk music from which both these idioms originally stem.
“The concerto is exciting, helped to that end by a splendid performance on the part of Ferras and the orchestra alike. The Paris Conservatoire Orchestra has always had most of the virtues; here it adds to them the extremely unwonted one of steady brass playing, horns, trumpets and trombone alike. Yet another strong contribution to the sound is made by the recording, which (in mono, all I have heard) is rich, brilliant and sonorous. And so perhaps it should be, with one side of the twelve-inch disc playing for just ten minutes; the whole concerto, both sides, is only just over 27. But they are twenty-seven minutes well spent.”
CONDITION – PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:
The gradations of condition I use are as follows: MINT, Near-Mint, Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair, Poor.
The condition of the “baguette”-style heavy cardboard jacket is EXCELLENT. There is a 2 ½” seamsplit to the lower-right edge, slight bumping/wear at corners, as well as a small bit of writing and mild discoloration to the rear panel, but that is all. There are no other seamsplits, bends, or other defects, and the album remains solid, bright, and extremely attractive in appearance – overall, a fine collector's copy.
The condition of the dowel spine is near-MINT. It is free of seamsplits or tears, the dowel is perfectly solid, and the gold text along the spine perfectly legible.
The condition of the LP itself is EXCELLENT. Although the surfaces are not absolutely silent, really this is a very fine copy and the playback is superb. Those requiring CD silent surfaces are kindly advised to look elsewhere. Overall, this rates as a truly excellent collector's copy.
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