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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everest_Records The Everest masters were located in a California vault in 1993 by Seymour Solomon, president of Omega Records and founder of Vanguard Classics. In recent years, some of Everest's audiophile recordings of the Belock/Whyte era have been reissued on compact disc by Collectables Records, DCC Compact Classics, Omega, and Vanguard Classics and on CD, DVD-Audio and LP by Classic Records. [1] Is that helpful at all? Ben Roth -----Original Message----- From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alan Lesitsky Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 10:52 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Oceanic Records 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