The
French record label Concerteum produced several recordings with
French artists and orchestras. They also released recordings of
various foreign labels. Among these were Vox and Remington recordings.
The
Vox recordings had PL as prefix. Remington records had CR as prefix
for 12" records and TCR for 10" discs. Jazz records had JCR as prefix.
Some of the recordings of Sarah Vaughan from 1944 and 1945 released
on Remington RLP-1024 were issued in France on Concerteum JCR
258.
A release containing more than one record was indicated as Alb.
(album).
For the recordings original Remington-matrixes were used.
The vinyl had a better quality than the kind used by Don Gabor,
hence there was less hiss and also the signal was generally of a
better quality.
The label mentioned 'Une production DON GABOR'. Instead of the crown
there was a small logo picturing instruments or a conductor.
The
reference-numbers and titles in the list below are taken from
'Disques de longue durée - Catalogue complet permanent
- automne 1955' (Long Playing Records - Complete current catalog
- Fall 1955).
In the listings the addition "ème" as in "7ème"
(7th) is written as "e". Thus Seventh is "7e".
The names of orchestras like L'orchestre de la société
symphonique de Vienne (Symphony Orchestra of the Viennese Symphonic
Society), L'orchestre symphonique autrichienne (Austrian Symphony
Orchestra), L'orchestre des Tonkuenstler (Lower Austrian Tonkunstler
Orchestra), RIAS Symphony Orchestra, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra,
are mentioned as: "orch. autrichien", "orch. symph.",
"orch. RIAS", "orch. Cincinnati".
This catalogue
did already list several Musirama recordings like the Renardy Caprices
recordings and the recording of the Liszt Concerto by Kilenyi.
For Remington
R-199-156
with Beethoven's First Symphony with the Austrian Symphony Orchestra
and conductor 'X',
the name
of Holstein is given as the people from Concerteum were well
aware of the fact that a record with a conductor
named 'X' (as the original Remington release mentioned)
would not be regarded as a serious release. It was only found out
later that conductor "X", alias conductor Holstein was
Arthur Rodzinski.
Although it is clear that many Remingtons originating from Austria
were produced by Marcel Prawy, they were all labeled as a Remington
disc. There were Prawy productions which were not selected and not
acquired by Gabor for release in the US. Probably because they were
more suited for the European market, or they were produced in late
1953 when Donald Gabor had already decided to go to Berlin to make
recordings. The later Prawy productions were released in France
on the Counterpoint label. An example is the release in the series
Viennese Operettas (Opérettes viennoises) of Oscar Strauss's
'Rêve de valse' (Ein Walzertraum, Dreamwaltz) on Counterpoint CMC
120.001, the composer conducting the 'Tonkünstlerorchester'.
The
Remington-Concerteum discs were not released in the same order as
original Remingtons. This also indicates that Concerteum only started
to issue Remington recordings in France around 1954 or just somewhat
earlier.
Not all Remington recordings were released by Concerteum. For example
R-149-37 with Eva Hitzker playing KV 219, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's
5th Violin Concerto, Fritz Weidlich conducting.
CR 204 Beethoven:
3e Symphonie - Fritz Busch, chef d'orchestre
Alb.205 Haendel: Messiah - Josef Messner, chef d'orchestre
CR 206 Beethoven: Concerto n° 5 - Felicitas Karrer, piano
CR 207 Bach: Toccata, Scarlatti Sonatas, Couperin: Les folies françaises
- Sylvia Marlowe, clavecin
CR 208 Beethoven: 8e Symphonie, Haydn 101e Symphonie - Fritz
Busch
TCR 211 Beethoven: 5e Symphonie - Hans Wolf
CR 212 Rachmaninoff: 2e Concerto - Felicitas Karrer, piano
TCR 213 J. Strauss: Valses - Kurt Wöss
CR
214 Brahms: Danses hongroises - Albert Spalding, violon
CR 215 Tchaikowsky: Symphonie n° 4 - H. Arthur Brown
CR 216 Brahms: Concerto - Albert Spalding, violoniste
CR 217 Paganini: Caprices 1-12 - Ossy Renardy, violoniste
CR 218 Beethoven: Concerto - Albert Spalding, violoniste
CR 219 Bruch: Concerto, Kol nidrei - Michèle Auclair,
violon
CR 220 Haydn: 93e Symphonie, Schubert: 3e Symphonie - George
Singer
CR 221 Mozart: Requiem - Hilde Gueden, Rosette Anday, Julius Patzak,
Josef Greindl - Josef Messner
CR 222 Beethoven: Sonates nos 4 et 5 - Paul Kling, violoniste
CR 223 Bruckner: 3e Symphonie - Zoltan Fekete
CR 224 Dvorak: Danses slaves Op. 46 - George Singer
CR 225 Beethoven: Sonate n° 2 - Walter Schneiderhan,
violon; Sonate no 8 - Helen Airoff, violon
CR 226 Chopin: Sonates nos 2 et 3 - Edouard (Edward) Kilenyi,
piano
CR 227 Chopin: Valses - Edouard (Edward) Kilenyi, piano
CR 228 Haydn: 88e, 100e Symphonies - Paul Walter
CR 229 Beethoven: Waldstein et Les adieux - Edouard (Edward)
Kilenyi, piano
CR 230 Mussorgski (Moussorgski): Tableaux d'une exposition - Sari
Biro, piano
CR 231 Tchaikowsky: Concerto piano-orchestre - Hermann Schwertmann,
piano
CR 232 Beethoven: 6e Symphonie - Kurt Wöss
CR 234 Schumann: Concerto piano-orchestre - Céliny (Céline)
Chailley-Richez, pianiste
CR 235 Mozart: Symphonie concertante - Kurt Wöss, 20e Concerto
- Fritz Weidlich
CR 236 Debussy: Préludes - Edouard (Edward) Kilenyi, piano
CR 237 Franck: Symphonie - Hans Wolf
CR 239 Beethoven: Sonates nos 30 et 31 - Jörg Demus,
piano
CR 240 Beethoven: 7e Trio - Jilka Trio
CR 241 Bach: Partita no 1, Suite française - Jörg Demus,
piano
CR
242 Chopin: Etudes op. 10 - Edouard (Edward) Kilenyi, piano
CR 245 Dvorak: 5e Symphonie - George Singer
CR 247 Tchaikowsky: Concerto violon-orchestre - Michèle
Auclair, violoniste, Kurt Wöss
CR 248 Tchaikowsky: Symphonie n°. 6 - H. Arthur Brown
CR 249 Tchaikowsky: Symphonie n° 5 - Kurt Wöss
CR 250 Beethoven, Chopin - Alexander Jenner, piano
TCR 255 Tchaikowsky: Casse-noisette - Kurt Wöss
TCR 256 Schubert: Inachevée - H. Arthur Brown
TCR 257 Mozart Symphonie Haffner (N. 35) - Hans Wolf
TCR 259 Mendelssohn: Concerto violon-orchestre - Walter Schneiderhan,
violoniste
TCR 262 Mozart: 41e Symphonie (Jupiter) - Kurt Wöss
TCR 266 Rimsky-Korsakov: Suite Le coq d'or - George Singer
CR 267 Haendel: Triomphe de la Vérité
TCR
269 Enesco: Rapsodie Roumaine n° 2 - Enesco, Smetena: Moldau
- George Singer
TCR 270 Beethoven: 7e Sonate - Walter Schneiderhan, violon
TCR 271 Brahms: Sonate pour violoncelle - Gaspar Cassado,
violoncelle
TCR 272 Franck: Variations symphoniques, Debussy: Prélude - Frieda
Valenzi, piano - Jean Moreau
TCR 273 Mozart: 13e Serenade, Ouverture Thamos - Fritz Weidlich
CR 280 Liszt, Schumann, Chopin - Simon Barere, piano
CR 281 Corelli, Tartini: Sonates - Albert Spalding, violon
CR 282 Dvorak: Concerto - Gaspar Cassado, cello
Alb.284 Haydn: Les sept dernières paroles de Jésu Christ - Josef
Messner
CR 285 Franck: Sonate, Ravel Sonate - Ossy Renardy, violon
- Eugene List, piano
CR 286 Haendel: Watermusic, Mozart Overtures - Hans Koslik
CR 287 Bach: La passion selon St. Jean - Josef Preinfalk
CR 289 Bartok: Pièces pour le piano - Bela et Ditta Bartok
au piano
CR 290 Verdi: Requiem - Hans Koslik
CR 291 Rossini: Stabat mater - Josef Messner
CR 292 Mozart: Concertos K216 et 218 - Gérard Poulet,
violon
CR 293 Mussorgski: Une nuit sur le mont chauve - Hans Koslik;
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capricio Espagnol - Mehlich; Borodine: Danses
Polovetsiennes - Hans Koslik
CR 295 Mozart: Fantaisie pour orgue, version pour orchestre - Zoltan
Fekete
CR 298 Beethoven: 1re Symphonie - Holstein
CR 297 Liszt: 1re Concerto, Danse macabre - Edouard (Edward)
Kilenyi, piano - Jonel Perlea
CR 299 Debussy: La boîte a joujoux - Jonel Perlea
CR 301 Dvorak: 4e Symphonie (8) - Thor Johnson
CR 302 Lehar et Strauss - Gerhard Becker
CR 304 Offenbach: Gaité parisienne - Manuel Rosenthal
TCR 304 Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin - Frieda Valenzi, piano
CR 309 Bach: Partita n° 6, Préludes nos 15 et 16 - Jörg
Demus, piano
CR 310 Schubert: Sonata n° 21 - Jörg Demus, piano
CR 312 Chopin: 1re Concerto piano-orchestre - Edouard (Edward)
Kilenyi, piano
CR 313 Mendelssohn: Songe d'une nuit d'été - H. Arthur Brown
CR 314 Haydn: 7e Symphonie - Karl Randolph
CR 315 Mozart: Cosi fan tutte, Enlèvement du serail - Josef Dunwald
CR 321 Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - Hans Grischkat
CR 325 Liszt: Etudes de concert - Simon Barere, piano (there
is no listing in the French catalog of the Sonata performed by Simon
Barere, recorded on acetates in 1947 and transferred to Lp)
CR 326 Bartok: Suite d'orchestre - Zoltan Fekete
CR 328 Liszt, Balakirev, Rachmaninoff - Simon Barere, pianiste
CR 329 Haydn: Cello Concerto - Gaspar Cassado, violoncelliste
The contract
for licensing was effective after many a Remington recording had
already been made. This explains why the list does not show the
releases of the recordings in order of production/release by Remington.
Concerteum
also released several popular Remington recordings. One of these
was the release of the Selah Jubilee Quartet on TCR 265. But there
was no mention of "The Dixiaires" who sang four of the
eight selections.
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R.A.B. May,
2003
