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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. 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