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For some of us, 1968 doesn't seem too long ago, but reading the Billboard release Tom so kindly dredged up was like opening a volume of ancient history, when trade papers devoted such space to the activities of minor classical labels. Sincere thanks for this. DDR On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Thomas Stern <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Billboard Nov 16, 1968 > Los Angeles - Everest Records has acquired the catalog of Oceanic Records, > Inc., > of New York, which has been dormant for some years. Included are seven > operatic > titles and instrumental albums, including performances featuring pianist > Paul > Badura-Skoda, cellist Maurice Gendron, organist Gustav Leonhardt and > conductor > Rene Leibowitz. > Bernard Solomon, Everest presitdet, explained that the first albums of > Oceanic > material will be issued on Everest, including Everest's Opera Series early > next > year. Some of the one-LP operatic sets smay be packaged with other operas > by the > same or similar composers to create multiple sets which are more > economical for the > boxed series. > Leibowitz conducts three of the operas, including a three-LP package of > Gluck's > "Alceste," a title not currently in the catalog. Featured are Ethel > Semser, Enzo Seri, Jean M<ollien, > Bernard Demigny, and Jean Hoffman with the ParisPhilharmonic Chorus and > Orchetra. > The other Leibowitz operas, both one-LP sets, are Mussorgsky's "The > Marriage" with Nicolas Agroff > Charlotte Des,azures, Mollien, and Alexadre Popovvitsky with the Paris > Radio Symphony, and > Rimsky-Korsakov's "Mozart and Salieri" with <ollien, Jacques Linsolas, > Paul Jacobs, > and the symphony orchestra odf Paris Radio and TV. > Also included is Josef Keilberth conducting the Saxon State Orchestra and > the chorus > of the Dresden Opera State in a two-record set of Richard Strauss' > "Salome" with Christel Goltz i > in the title role with Bernd Aldenhoff and Kurt Boehme. Another operatic > title is > Telemamn's "Pimpinone (The Unequal Marriage)" on one disk. Featured are > Helen Fuchs, > Erich Lassner, the Salzburg String Quartet, and harpsichordist Jonathan > Sternberg, Wolfgang > Messer conductiong. > A three-record package of Beethoven's "Fidelio" with Gerhard Pfluger > conductiong the > chorus and orchestra of Mitteldeutsche Radio of Leipzig, Margarete > Bauemer, Heinz Sauerbaum > and Manfred Hubner are among the featured vocalissts. > Completing the operatic titles is a two-record package of Nichlai's "The > Merry Wives of > Windsor." Rolf Kleinert conducts the chorus and orchestra of > Mittledeutsch Radio and > soloists including Theodor Horand and Boehme. > One Leibowitz instrumental album has the Paris Philharmonic in Corelli's > "Concerto fo > Oboe and Strings," and the Paris Radio Symphony in Gluck's "Flute Concerto > in G" with > Rampal and Haydn's "Toy Symphony." > Leibowits also is the conductor in two choral albums: Faure's Requiem > with Nadine Southreau, > Dem,igny and the Paris Philharmonic Chorus and orchestra, and Liszt's > "Missa Choralis" with > the Paris Select Choir and organist Giuseppe Englert. > Leibowitz's other instrumental albums are a pairing of Bizet's "Symphony > in C" and > Schubert's "Symphony No.1" with the Paris Radio Symphony; a coupling of > Beethoven piano > concertos with pianist Paul Jacobs and the Paris Radio Symphony; and a > Beethoven orchestral > program > Jonathan Sternberg conducts the Vienna Academy Choir and the Vienna State > Opera Orchestra > in Rossini's "Stabat Mater" with tenor Anton Dermota, baritone Paul > Shoeffler, soprano > Ilona Steingruber and alto Dagmar Hermann as the quartet of soloists. > Gendron is the soloist in a pairing of Haydn's "Cello Concerto in D" and > Saint-Saens' > "Cello Concerto" with Sternberg and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. > Sternberg conducts > the Vienna Symphony in a coupling of Mozart's "Piano Concertos No. 14 and > 22" with Badura-Skoda > as soloist. > Leonhardt is the soloist in Handel's "Oboe Concertos Nos. 3 and 4" in an > album with Ernst Kuyler > and the chamber orchestra of the Vienna State Opera. > Brahms' "Liebeslieder Waltzes, Opp.52 and 65" are performed on an album > with soprano Erna Hassler, > alto Hetty Plumacher, tenor Albert Weikenmeier, bass Franz Kelch, and > pianists Hans Priegnitz > and Hans Michael. > Completing the Oceanic titles is an album of three Handel Italian > cantatas featuring soprano > Agnes Giebel, harpsichordist Helma Eisner, recorder Alfred Mann, cellist > Helmut Reinmann, and > Stuttgart's Tanstudio Orchestra under Rudolf Lamy. > > > > Billboard May 20, 1950 > The first complete recording of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, has been > scheduled for June release by Vox Records. The work, cut by the Central > German > Broadcasting System, with Gerhard Pfleuger conduction, will be released on > three long playing disks, and will retail at $18.95. Vox licensed the > production from OCEANIC Records, and American0owned indie. > > Billboard Oct 15, 1955 550G Oceanic Oscar suit. > > Billboard Feb 2, 1952 > ...Period Music, producer of Renaissance, Period and Oceanic records here, > is having > it's LP's distributed in France under the Classic label, and in England by > the > Nixa Record Company. > .... > > > 1974 quad releases on Everest Olympic label > 1950 Richard Strauss' Salome > 1951 Rossini's Stabat Mater > 1952 Gluck Alceste > > Best wishes, Thomas. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Steven Smolian > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 12:22 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Oceanic Records > > > It was originally owned by Arthur whose last name escapes me at the moment. > I knew him. > > He told me a story about the Rossini Stabat Mater with Dermota. D had a > cold. He sang a line and then schnochled- not an everyday word. He > breathed in and cleared the mucus from his nose. The resultant tape was > edited to remove the non-Rossinian pauses. It's still a pretty good > performance by him. And the bass, whose name I also forget, who does a > great job with the chorus on the instrumentally unaccompanied "Quando > corpus." > > My files don't show a successor but I think their stuff came out in England > on Saga and I think they kept some of the line in print for a while after > Oceanic ceased. I assume they sent $$ to some American outfit and, should > their paper records survive, they may well have this data. > > Steve Smolian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dennis Rooney > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 11:27 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [ARSCLIST] Oceanic Records > > Dear List, > > Renaissance was a label that lately engendered quite a bit of discussion re > ownership. I recently had a query re Oceanic, a coeval independent LP > label. > Does anyone have any information on its succession of interest, present > owner, etc., etc? > > Thanks, > > DDR > > -- > Dennis D. Rooney > 303 W. 66th Street, 9HE > New York, NY 10023 > 212.874.9626 > -- Dennis D. Rooney 303 W. 66th Street, 9HE New York, NY 10023 212.874.9626