The
French record label Concerteum released recordings of various foreign
labels. Among these were Vox and Remington recordings. Vox recordings
had PL as a prefix. Remington records had CR as a prefix for 12
inch records, and TCR for 10 inch discs. A release containing more
than one record was indicated as Alb. (Album).
Jazz records were indicated with the prefix JCR. 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 curiosity is CR 326 on which Zoltan Fekete conducts "Orchestral
Suite" (Suite d'orchestre) by Béla Bartók. Although
the reference number has the prefix CR, this recording was not released
in the US by Remington, but on Colosseum (CLPS 1010).
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At
the basis was a collaboration between Concerteum and Remington which
resulted in the production of a few French recordings: Georges Enesco
conducting his Romanian Rhapsody, and Jean Allain conducting Symphony
in C by Georges Bizet. The recordings with Céliny Chaillez-Richez,
especially the performances of Schuman's Piano Concerto (recorded
in Vienna) and the recording of Enesco's Violin Sonata No. 2, could
have found their origin in this contract. However, a release
on the Concerteum label of Enesco's Sonata could not be found. The
contract for licensing to Concerteum was effective after many a
Remington recording
had already been made and the label had established itself in the
US. This explains why the list does not show the releases of the
recordings in order of production/release by Remington at the time.
For
the pressings original Remington-matrixes were used.
The vinyl had a somewhat better quality than the kind used by Don
Gabor, hence there was less hiss and also the signal was generally
of a better quality.
In a few cases the label mentioned 'Une production DON GABOR' and
instead of the crown the label was adorned with a small logo picturing
instruments or a conductor. The label mentioned Pressé
sous license "REMINGTON RECORDS INC." New- York.
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
from 1955 did already list several Musirama recordings like the
ones of the Renardy Caprices and the recording of the Liszt Concerto
and Todtentanz by Kilenyi.
For Remington
R-199-156
with Beethoven's First Symphony by the Austrian Symphony Orchestra
led by conductor X,
the name
of Holstein is given. The people from Concerteum were well
aware of the fact that a record with 
conductor '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.
There are several recordings not listed in the Fall of 1955: Jorge
Bolet playing Chopin's Four Scherzi and Prokofiev's Secnd Concerto
Op. 16; Etelka Freunds rendering of Sonata No. 3 of Brahms; the
recordings of Alec Templeton, those of pianist Alfred Kitchin are
missing as well.
Recordings
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 Donald Gabor for release
in the US. And of course there were records produced by Prawy after
his contract with Remington had ended. A few early Prawy-productions
were released in the US on Gabor's Masterseal label. These recordings
were not issued in France on Concerteum, but on Counterpoint. 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', in the USA released as Masterseal
MW-47.
On
several occasions Don Gabor travelled to Europe and also visited
Paris to confer with Marcel Prawy, his European representive, and
with the people of the Concerteum label.. Concerteum started issuing
Remington recordings in France around 1953 or just somewhat earlier.
Not all Remington recordings were released by Concerteum. For example
R-149-37 with violinist Eva Hitzker playing KV 219, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart's 5th Violin Concerto, with Fritz Weidlich conducting is
missing from the catalog. A
release on the Concerteum label of George Enesco playing his own
Sonata No. 2 and Schumann's Sonata (both with pianist Celiné
Chailley-Richez) were not released in France or were deleted long
before the Fall 1955 French catalog was printed.
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, Erich Berg, piano; Sonate no 8 - Helen Airoff, violon
et Céliny Chailley-Richez, piano
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
CR 254 Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites No. 1 et 2, Orchestre Symphonique
Autrichien, H. Arthur Brown, Max Schönherr
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 Bartók: 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; Rimski-Korsakov's Scheherazade
with Karl Rucht conducting the RIAS Symphony Orxchestra is not listed.
There are two Rucht recordings of Scheherazade, both with the Orchestra
of Radio Berlin on Chant du Monde LDX-A-8016 and Urania URLP 7133.
The Concerteum people did not want a third recording with Rucht
and the RIAS Orchestra to compete with the other recordings.
CR 295 Mozart: Fantaisie pour orgue K 608, version pour orchestre
(Fantasy for Organ) - arranged by Fekete - 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
(Frieda Valenzi playing selections from Goyescas were not listed)
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 Grieg: Concerto pour piano et orchestre - Felicitas Karrer;
the3 recording of Haydn's 7th Symphony conducted by Karl
Randolph is also listed as CR 314, and the Pierre Luboshutz
& Genia Nemenoff recording of Mozart's K 448 has the same reference
number.
CR 315 Mozart: Cosi fan tutte (3x 30 cm) - Josef Dunwald
CR 321 Pergolèse: 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
Concerteum
also released several popular Remingtons. One of these was the recording
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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text written by Rudolf A. Bruil. Page first published May, 2003
