{"product_id":"sir-dan-godfrey-a-sesquicentennial-salute-1927-34-pasc534","title":"SIR DAN GODFREY A Sesquicentennial Salute (1927-34) - PASC534","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eMOZART \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 41, “Jupiter”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eOvertures, marches and short works by\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eAlford, Auber, German, Handel, Meyerbeer, Mozart, Offenbach, Suppé, Wagner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1927-1934\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 74:38\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eSymphony Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eBournemouth Municipal Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eSir Dan Godfrey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC534.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\nThe present release celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir\nDan Godfrey (20 June 1868 – 20 July 1939), founder of the ensemble known\ntoday as the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Godfrey was the son of a\nhighly-esteemed bandmaster of the Grenadier Guards. When the elder Godfrey\nshowed little interest in an offer to organize a series of summer concerts\nat the seaside resort town of Bournemouth in 1893, his son applied in his\nplace and won the post. By that time, the 25-year-old Godfrey had already\ncompleted studies at the Royal College of Music, conducted the London\nMilitary Band for two years, and served as musical director of an opera\ncompany in South Africa.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe summer season proved to be an immediate success, and Godfrey worked to\nhave the ensemble established on a permanent basis. Over the following 41\nyears, he built the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra into one of Britain’s\nfinest ensembles. His efforts to champion British music in particular led\nto his knighthood in 1922, following a campaign organized by composer Ethel\nSmyth.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nIn his monograph \u003cem\u003eSir Dan Godfrey \u0026amp; the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra\u003c\/em\u003e (1970),\nStuart Upton writes that Godfrey was “a spectacular showman” who “had a\nstar-quality of a rare order, similar in certain ways to that of Arthur\nFiedler” of the Boston “Pops”, but that Godfrey was “in certain respects a\nmuch finer artist” who was “as much at home with the greatest music in the\nsymphony concerts as with a novelty foxtrot on Saturday night.”\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nA bit of the former can be glimpsed in Godfrey’s 1927 recording of the\n“Jupiter” Symphony. During a period in which Columbia was recording Mozart\nsymphonies with Beecham, Harty, Weingartner and Walter, it was a particular\nvote of confidence in Godfrey’s abilities to allot the “Jupiter” to him.\nThe “Symphony Orchestra” employed both here and in the Wagner march was\nmost likely the LSO, which had recently switched allegiance to HMV and so\ncould not be credited on Columbia’s discs. Godfrey’s approach is in some\nways the antithesis of Albert Coates’ supercharged performance recorded\nwith the same ensemble a few months later (Pristine PASC 455).\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe Handel and Meyerbeer coupling was Godfrey’s last recording, made two\nmonths before his final concert. That same performance featured the Edward\nGerman dances, which Godfrey had played at his Bournemouth première and had\nalso filmed for a Pathé short in 1931 (currently on YouTube). The three\novertures are good examples of Godfrey’s stylish and energetic way with\nlight Classics. And no Godfrey program would be complete without the\ninclusion of one of his “novelty” numbers, often written by and\/or\nfeaturing soloists from the orchestra.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nVery little of Godfrey’s recorded legacy has been available since the 78\nrpm era. Aside from a couple tracks in EMI Bournemouth SO anniversary\ncollections and others in a Guild “Light Music” CD series, the only\nprevious reissue devoted to Godfrey of which I am aware was a Symposium\ndisc featuring his acoustic recordings of Vaughan Williams’ \u003cem\u003eLondon Symphony\u003c\/em\u003e. Nearly all the items in the present collection\nare appearing in extended play form for the first time, most surprisingly\nin the case of the Mozart “Jupiter”.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMark Obert-Thorn\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSIR DAN GODFREY: A Sesquicentennial Salute\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eMOZART: Symphony No. 41 in C major, K551, “Jupiter”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n1. 1st Mvt.: Allegro vivace (8:12)\u003cbr\u003e2. 2nd Mvt.: Andante cantabile (7:09)\u003cbr\u003e3. 3rd Mvt.: Menuetto: Allegretto \u0026amp; Trio (3:51)\u003cbr\u003e4. 4th Mvt.: Finale: Molto allegro (7:03)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 4 February 1927 ∙ Matrices WRAX 2432\/9 (Columbia L 1938\/41)\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e5. \u003cstrong\u003eHANDEL: Largo from \u003cem\u003eXerxes\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e (4:41)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 22 July 1934 ∙ Matrix CAX 7231 (Columbia DX 620)\n\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. \u003cstrong\u003eMEYERBEER: Coronation March from \u003cem\u003eLe Prophète\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n(4:12)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 22 July 1934 ∙ Matrix CAX 7230 (Columbia DX 620)\n\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. \u003cstrong\u003eWAGNER: Homage March (\u003cem\u003eHuldigungsmarsch\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003c\/strong\u003e(5:59)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 23 March 1927 ∙ Matrices WRAX 2524\/5 (Columbia L 2002)\n\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEDWARD GERMAN: Three Dances from \u003cem\u003eHenry VIII\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e8. 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