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Ansermet, Ernest - Ravel (Decca) 1947

by: Ernest Ansermet, cond.; O.S.R.; O.S.C.C.

Publication date: 1947

Topics: 78rpm orchestra, Decca, Ravel, Ansermet Ernest, O.S.R., O.S.C.C.

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 did not like Arnold Schoenberg and his 12-tone technique.

Maurice Ravel:

1 Alborada del Gracioso

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande c.b. Ernest Ansermet

78rpm 30 cm: Decca K.1609

Matrix nrs.: ARS.107-2 / 108-1

Recorded: 1947 02 04

2 La valse

Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris c.b. Ernest Ansermet

78rpm 30 cm: Decca AK.1867/8

Matriox nrs.: AR.11617-1; 18-1; 19-1; 20-1

Recorded: 1947 10 06