WESTMINSTER LP XWN-18406: JANIGRO Plays Haydn & Boccherini Cello Concs 1960s USA

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Background -

Italian-born conductor and cellist Antonio Janigro is best known to contemporary audiences for his many recordings with the chamber orchestra I Solisti di Zagreb, an ensemble he founded in 1954. Staples of the record-store Baroque section for many years, they helped build the enormous popularity that has since come to the music of Vivaldi and his contemporaries, and they still hold up well as widely available reissues. Janigro came to Baroque music fairly late in life, however. His recordings as a conductor capped a musical career touched by two world wars.

Janigro once described the atmosphere of his childhood as musical but tragic. He was born in 1918 in Milan to a pianist father whose career had ended when he lost an arm to a sharpshooter in World War I. Janigro started out on piano but switched to the cello at age eight, winning admission to the Verdi Conservatory a year later. At age 11 he performed for Pablo Casals, who recommended Janigro for admission to the prestigious Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. Studying there in the mid-1930s, he had Casals and Nadia Boulanger as teachers, Dinu Lipatti and Ginette Neveu as classmates, and Stravinsky as an eminence. His repertoire as a performer would range from early music to brand-new compositions. Practicing his cello on a train from Paris to Milan, Janigro was heard by a talent agent, and his career was launched.

After a promising start as a recitalist, Janigro took a vacation to Zagreb, Yugoslavia, just as World War II broke out. Essentially stranded, he began a new career as professor of cello at the Zagreb Conservatory. He continued to tour internationally and to teach cello after the war, with a stint at the conservatory in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 1965 to 1974. In Yugoslavia, however, he worked increasingly often as a conductor. At the behest of the government he formed the Zagreb Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, serving as its conductor from 1954 to 1964. Taking advantage of  Yugoslavia's relative independence from the Soviet domination, he also conducted several top Western European orchestras, but his most extensive touring came with I Solisti di Zagreb. That group, although not affiliated with the historical performance practice movement, offered crisp readings of Baroque orchestral works that sharply diverged from the bloated symphony performances that were the norm at the time. - James Manheim

• LP made by WESTMINSTER Records, in the USA
  

• LP released in circa 1960s
  

• LP recorded in MONO

• Record Catalog Number: XWN 18406

• Record Labels are primarily BLACK with SILVER & WHITE lettering, and has the "WESTMINSTER Swirl" logo on the record labels.
  

This listing is for a rare, out of print LP - an OPENED and in Excellent Plus condition set PRESSED and ISSUED by WESTMINSTER Records of a highly collectible title from their catalog - a superb title featuring -

Haydn / Boccherini // Antonio Janigro

LP Title & Music on this rare item -

JANIGRO Plays Haydn & Boccherini Cello Concertos

Track Listing -

Haydn: Cello Concerto In D Major, Op. 101
A1. Allegro Moderato
A2. Adagio
A3. Rondo - Allegro

Boccherini: Cello Concerto In B Flat Major
B1. Allegro Moderato
B2. Andantino Grazioso
B3. Rondo - Allegro
Performers / Credits -
• Cello – Antonio Janigro
• Composed By – Joseph Haydn (tracks: A1-A3), Luigi Boccherini (tracks: B1-B3)
• Conductor – Felix Prohaska
• Orchestra – Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper
Other Information -
Front Cover: 
Westminster Hi-Fi logo, with catalog number XWN 18406 
Janigro Plays Haydn Cello Concerto in D Major, Op. 101 / Boccherini Cello Concerto in B Flat Major 

Back Cover: 
XWN 18406 in top right corner 
Notes in English with headings: The Music, The Artist, and The Record. 

Bottom right corner of back cover contains: 
Westminster Recording Co., Inc., 
A Subsidiary of Am-Par Record Corp. 
1501 Broadway, New York 36, N. Y. 
Printed in U.S.A. 

Spine: 
XWN 18406 / Haydn: Cello Concerto in D; Boccherini: Cello Concerto in B Flat -- Janigro / Westminster XWN 18406 

Labels: 
Catalog number appears on Side 1 and 2 labels as XWN-18406 
Westminster -- A Subsidiary of AM-PAR Record Corp.

CONDITION Details:

The LP Jacket is in excellent condition! The jacket has a small seam split along the bottom seam, no crushed corners. It does show some shelf wear primarily at the seams and corners. The front of the jacket shows some color flaking, nothing serious.

The LP is in excellent plus condition! Westminster records, like Remington's, were never made from outstanding audiophile vinyl. They did however, have some of the finest recording artists in their catalog. In saying this, we found that the vinyl looked excellent on this vintage LP. There are no significant marks and the LP retains much of the original gloss and sheen! There are a couple of light spider marks, caused by sliding the LP in and out of the inner sleeve. There may be a bit of dust and perhaps a finger print or two on the vinyl so it should be cleaned before playing. There are NO serious spindle marks on the record labels either. Acquiring a vintage LP like this is for the performance and rarity of the LP, not necessarily for the sound quality.

A Short Note About LP GRADING -

• Mint = Only used for sealed items.
• Near Mint = Virtually flawless in every way.
• Near Mint Minus = Item has some minor imperfections, some audible.
• Excellent = Item obviously played and enjoyed with some noise.
• Very Good Plus = Many more imperfections which are noticeable and obtrusive.

For best results, always properly clean your LPs before playing them.

The LP is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).

Do not let this rarity slip by!

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