Date:         Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:57:36 +0100
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Thanks a lot
FM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Villa-Lobos on Everest


> In checking the "liner notes" of the LP in my collection, I find the 
> copyright year to be 1959.   Also, on the back cover, it discusses 
> Villa-Lobos' "Fantasia Concertante" which is the companion piece on the 
> album with the Bach, "The "Fantasia Concertante" was given its world 
> premiere by thirty-two members of  The Violoncello Society, under the 
> direction of Villa-Lobos, at Town Hall in New York on December 10, 1958, 
> and shortly thereafter, these same artists recorded it for Everest."   
> So, it would seem that perhaps the Bach "Preludes and Fugues" 
> transcriptions were also recorded during that session, although it 
> doesn't state that.
> 
> I hope that I've helped in establishing some kind of a closer 
> approximation of the recording date.
> 
> Rod Stephens
> 
> David Lennick wrote:
> 
>> The disc (SDBR 6024, LPBR 3024) is in the April 1959 Schwann, but I 
>> can't narrow it down further.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Francesco Martinelli wrote:
>>
>>> Does anybody happen to know when Villa Lobos recorded his Bach 
>>> transcriptions with the Violoncello Society?
>>> FM
>>>
>>>
>>
>