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Ansermet Ernest, OSR - Mozart KV 361 (Decca LXT 5121) 1955

by: Ansermet Ernest, cond.; OSR

Publication date: 1955

Topics: Ansermet Ernest, OSR, Mozart, Decca, LP mono

Ernest Ansermet (Vevey, 11.11.1883 - Geneva, 20.02.1969): Swiss conductor. Became a mathematics teacher in Lausanne. Studied music in Lausanne, Paris and Geneva with Ernest Bloch and others.

1911: debut as conductor in Lausanne.

1912: conducted at the Casino of Montreux.

1915-1923: conducted les Ballets Russes (Diaghilev). Advocate of contemporary music: Satie, Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky, Honegger. He was a friend of Stravinsky.

1918-1968: Conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR), which he himself helped to found in 1918.

Ansermet made records for Columbia (1929), Odeon (1942) and Decca (1929, and after the war). In May 1954, he released the first commercial stereo record with his OSR.

Ansermet loved jazz, wrote an article in 1919 praising Sidney Bechet.

He disliked Arnold Schoenberg and his 12-tone technique.

Mozart: Serenade no. 10 in B lat major for 13 wind instruments KV 361

1 Largo - Allegro molto

2 Minuet

3 Adagio

4 Minuet

5 Romanze (Adagio)

6 Tema con variazioni

7 Rondo (Allegro molto)

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande c.b. Ernest Ansermet

LP 30 cm: Decca LXT 5121

Recorded: 1955 may