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May I add my thanks, with a question? Does anyone know to whom the rights to this catalog now belongs? I believe the Everest stereo masters resided briefly at Vanguard where they received their best-sounding CD releases. When Vanguard was sold to Artemis the Everest recordings were not included. I believe a British firm has issued some of the Everest stereo masters, but I don't know anything about their qaulity. It's the early stuff I'm wondering about. I hope they are not owned by a landfill. Al Lesitsky [log in to unmask] > From: Dennis Rooney <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List > <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 10:18:16 -0400 > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Oceanic Records > > 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