Columbia Record Catalog (1942)

COLUMBIA — WEEDE, ROBERT—Continued Weede appeared in the stage productions and in many of the broadcasts of the Music Hall. In 1937, Weede was engaged for the supplementary spring season of the | Metropolitan Opera, making his debut in Pagliacci. He was so favorably received that the following season he was engaged for the regular winter schedule. His performance in Rigoletto at the Metropolitan was greeted with acclaim. The critics were unanimous in their praise. . In 1939, Weede appeared in the world premiere of the radio opera ’’The Old Maid and the Thief’’ by Gian Carlo-Menotti and scored a personal triumph for his engaging and effective characterization of the Thief. Weede Recordings: Unftit=(leschemacher-Sanderson)< oie cee ces ess nn ee ee 17282-D Yours Is A Heart’Alone*(Lethiar xm. cessk sehen ote oe ee 17282-D WEINGARTNER, FELIX (Conductor) Weingartner’s career has been an endless series of triumphs as a result of letting music flow. His secret is to revitalize a score rather than to sensationalize it. Weingartner performances are wholly honest, vigorous, direct and exciting. In them the music of Beethoven sounds as Beethoven wrote it, and the music of Brahms, as Brahms wrote it. Weingartner was born in Dalmatia in 1863. He Liszt. Court Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. director of the famed Basle Conservatory and leader of the concerts of the In 1927 he became Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft. Besides his conducting activities that have extended throughout the world, he has written voluminously and his essay on Beethoven’s nine symphonies is virtually the final word on the subject. Weingartner is best known among his countless conducting achievements for his Beethoven and Brahms cycles and in presenting him on Columbia Records, special attention is called to his superb performances of eight Beethoven and three Brahms symphonies—interpretations that are without peer in the history of music and recording. Weingartner Recordings: Alcina Suite (Handel)....set X-164 Leonore Overture No. 2 studied at the Conservatory of Weimar and with Later on Re conducted the Royal Orchestra in Berlin, at the Vienna — 420 Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D (Beethoven) >. ea ce set X-96 (Randel Op. = 6a seaeher set M-142 Marche Troyenne (Berlioz).70089-D Concerto Grosso No. 6 in G in set X-169 minor, Op. 6, No. 6 On the Beautiful Blue (Handel) Byori set X-154 Danube (J. Strauss)... .69275-D Concerto No. 1 in E-flat for Prometheus Overture..:... 68220-D Piano and Orch. (Beethoven) in set M-197 (LE SZ1a) Se ees ouaee cs eee eens fe set M-371 Prometheus Overture...... 68560-D Consecration of the House (Beethoven) in set M-260 Overture (Beethoven). .set X-140 Rienzi Overture Death of Clarchen— (Wagner se ee set X-169 EGmont kee Sela fee .69657-D Ruins Of Athens Overture Z ines aver) sRoeneta ens in set X-140 (Beethoven)x i... eae. s : 11558-D gmon verture ; ; x (Beethovenjane & > Mae 69195-De eee co gape Oe aac ame Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Bach) ie t M-428 (Mozart }o. ott eran Set! X= 18 Fie ore a ee as ee ae Eleven Viennese Dances Symphony No. 1 in C (Beethoven) ....'...4%. set X-133 (Beethoven) ......... set M-321 Fidelio Overture Symphony No. 1 in C (Beethoven)ie%. os. ..8 69545-D minor «{Brahms) . 2°)... set M-103 Introduction Act II|—TannSymphony No. 1 in C 7 hauser (Wagner) ....... 69793-D minor (Brahms)... <=. set M-383 Larghetto—Egmont ...... 69596-D Symphony No. 2 in D (Beethoven) in set X-133 (Beethoven) ......... set M-377 Les Preludes (Liszt)..... set X-198 Symphony No. 3 in A Minuet (from Quintet In E minor (‘’Scotch’’) Major) (Boccherini) ..... 70674-D (Mendelssohn) ....... set M-126 ae a de