LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA 1954-1958 complete releases 32 LPs
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LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA 1954-1958 complete releases 32 LPs
Complete Louisville Orchestra recordings, 1954-1958
Here are 32 LPs in 5 very badly battered boxes, containing the first five years of recordings in the Louisville Orchestra's famed Philharmonic Society Commissioning Series. Louisville records are a cornucopia of riches for collectors of 20th century music, many of them first recordings of new works commissioned by the orchestra. Many (probably most) of these works have had no other recordings. The contents of each box are listed separately below. All of the boxes are pretty severely trashed, and the LPs all need cleaning, but the vinyl appears to all be in decent shape, ranging from VG+ to VG++.
In addition to these 5 years worth of recordings, I will also throw in 10 extra Louisville LPs that were just lying around loose: LOU 561, 586, 5458 (2 copies), 604, 605, 571, 564, 636, and LS 725. Several of these are duplicates of items in the boxes, but the duplicate copies may be in better condition.
Please note that the full package weighs 25 pounds, so overseas shipping would be quite expensive.
Louisville LOU 5451-5456. The Louisville Orchestra Commissioning Series, 1954. Heitor Villa-Lobos: Dawn in a Tropical Forest / Halsey Stevens: Triskelion / Paul Creston: Invocation and Dance / Henry Cowell: Symphony #11 "Seven Rituals of Music" / Alexander Tcherepnin: Suite / Bernard Wagenaar: Concert Overture / Peter Mennin: Symphony #6 / Wallingford Riegger: Variations for Piano and Orchestra / Ernst Toch: Notturno / Alan Hovhaness: Concerto # 7 for Orchestra / Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Overture to "Much Ado About Nothing" / Carlos Surinach: Sinfonietta Flamenca / Jacques Ibert: Louisville Concerto / Gardner Read: Toccata Giocosa / Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky: Rhapsodic Variations for Tape Recorder and Orchestra / Peggy Glanville-Hicks: The Transposed Heads, complete opera. Louisville Orchestra conducted by Robert Whitney. Mono, 1955. This is a 7-disc set (actually 6.5; the Glanville-Hicks covers three sides with a blank fourth), packaged in an oversized album-style box, containing the entire 1954 season series of releases. Vinyl VG+, light flaws, needs cleaning. Cover Poor, very beat up and missing pieces.
Louisville LOU 5457-54512. The Louisville Orchestra Commissioning Series, 1955. Vincent Persichetti: Symphony for Strings / Robert Sanders: Little Symphony #2 / Boris Blacher: Studie im Pianissimo / Luigi Dallapiccola: Variazioni Per Orchestra / Jose Pablo Moncayo: Cumbres / Ulysses Kay: Serenade for Orchestra / Darius Milhaud: Ouverture Mediterraneenne / Gottfried von Einem: Meditation / Karol Rathaus: Prelude / George Perle: Rhapsody / Alberto Ginastera: Pampeana #3 / Henri Sauget: Les Trois Lys / Robert Ward: Epiphany / William Bergsma: A Carol on Twelfth Night / Gian-Francesco Malipiero: Fantasie di Ogni Giorno / Vittorio Rieti: Introduction and Game of the House / Ernst Bacon: The Enchanted Island / Richard Mohaupt: Double Trouble, one-act comic opera. Louisville Orchestra conducted by Robert Whitney. Mono, 1955. This is a 6-disc set, packaged in an oversized album-style box, containing the entire 1955 season series of releases. Vinyl VG+ to VG++, needs cleaning. Cover Poor, very beat up and missing pieces.
Louisville LOU 561-566. The Louisville Orchestra Commissioning Series, 1956. Hilding Rosenberg: Louisville Concerto / Chou Wen-Chung: "And the Fallen Petals," a Triolet for Orchestra / Camargo Guarnieri: Suite IV Centenario / Alexandre Tansman: Capriccio / Felix Borowski: The Mirror / Ingolf Dahl: The Tower of St. Barbara / Ernst Krenek: Eleven Transparencies / Roberto Caamano: Magnificat / George Antheil: The Wish, complete 1-act opera / Juan Orrego-Salas: Serenata Concertante / Harold Shapero: Credo for Orchestra / Robert Muczynski: Piano Concerto #1 / Henk Badings: Symphony #7 "Louisville" / Ben Weber: Prelude & Passacaglia / Leo Sowerby: All On A Summer's Day. Robert Muczynski, piano, Louisville Orchestra conducted by Robert Whitney. Mono, 1956. This is a 6-disc set, packaged in an oversized album-style box, containing the entire 1956 season series of releases. Vinyl VG+ to VG++, needs cleaning. Cover Poor, very beat up and missing pieces.
Louisville LOU 571-576. The Louisville Orchestra Commissioning Series, 1957. Paul Nordoff: Winter Symphony / Paul Muller-Zurich: Cello Concerto / Andre Jolivet: Suite Transoceane / John Vincent: Symphony in D / Rolf Liebermann: School for Wives, complete opera / Roger Sessions: Idyll of Theocritus for Soprano and Orchestra / Ned Rorem: Design for Orchestra / Bernard Reichel: Suite Symphonique / Edmund Rubbra: Improvisation for Violin and Orchestra / Irving Fine: Serious Song: A Lament for String Orchestra / Harold Morris: Passacaglia, Adagio and Finale. Grace Whitney, cello, Audrey Nossaman, soprano, Sidney Harth, violin, Louisville Orchestra conducted by Robert Whitney. Mono, 1957. This is a 7-disc set (actually 6.5; the opera covers three sides with a blank fourth), packaged in an oversized album-style box, containing the entire 1957 season series of releases. Vinyl VG+, light flaws, needs cleaning. Cover Poor, very beat up and missing pieces.
Louisville LOU 581-586. The Louisville Orchestra Commissioning Series, 1958. Alexei Haieff: Ballet in E / Nicolas Nabokov: Symboli Chrestiani for Baritone and Symphonic Orchestra / Lou Harrison: Four Strict Songs for Eight Baritones and Orchestra / Peter Jona Korn: Variations on a Tune from "The Beggar's Opera" / Elliot Carter: Variations for Orchestra / Everett Helm: Piano Concerto #2 / Arthur Berger: Polyphony for Orchestra / Carlos Surinach: Overture, Magic Fair / Meyer Kupferman: Symphony #4 / Roger Goeb: Concertino II / Gail Kubik: Symphony #2 / Walter Piston: Serenata / David Van Vactor: Fantasia, Chaconne and Allegro / Niels Viggo Bentzon: Pezzi Sinfonici. William Pickett, baritone, Benjamin Owen, piano, Louisville Orchestra conducted by Robert Whitney. Mono, 1958. This is a 6-disc set, packaged in an oversized album-style box, containing the entire 1958 season series of releases. Vinyl VG++. Cover Poor, very beat up and missing pieces.
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Condition Notes:
Records are generally graded on visual inspection.
Mint: A brand new, SEALED record, never played.
NM: Near Mint. An unsealed record that looks as good as new.
VG++: Excellent. Light cosmetic flaws that should not affect the sound.
VG+: May have cosmetic flaws, mild surface noise or short patches of ticking, but should sound fine overall.
VG: May have moderate noise throughout or one or two bad patches from scratches. Still fine for general listening.
Good: Noisy, but plays through. I will only sell very rare or unusual items in this condition.
Please contact me for a refund if a record plays worse than described.
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