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Claude Debussy, Joseph Haydn
La Mer - London Symphony

Album US 1952 on Royale label
Classical (Impressionist, Classical)

"Recorded in Europe" As usual for the Royale label the artist names are pseudonyms. "The performance of the Haydn symphony is identical to a performance released in 1975 "for the first time" on Melodiya 33M-1037145-46 under Furtwängler's name, subsequently dubbed by Discocorporation on RR-441 in 1976, and released again by Deutsche Grammophon on CD 427 776-2, using one of those German war-time tapes which had been stored in Moscow, copies of which the Berlin radio stations SFB had received back from Moscow for their archives. In fact, this performance is identical to the one on Mercury MG 10050. Mercury credits the performers as being the Bavarian Radio Orchestra under Alfons Dressel (1900 - 55). Inaccurate labelling of the tape or similar deficencies may have been the reason for Melodia's wrong attribution to Furtwängler and the spreading of this inauthentic Furtwängler performance. As a result of this author's research, which had been made known to Alfred Kaine, head of the classic department at that time, DGG withdrew their disk a short while after its release. Thus far, the live performance of Debussy's La mer is unidentified. Compared to performances of other conductors, it is one of the fastest accounts of this work. (It may be the live performance broadcast in February 1952 with Hans Rosbaud conducting the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra. Alas, a tape of this broadcast does no longer exists in the archives, so a comparison and definite attribution are impossible.)" Source: Ernst A. Lumpe (Soundfountain.com)

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	Claude Debussy p, 1862-1918 FR album by, composed by
	Joseph Haydn p, 1732-1809 AT album by, composed by
	Karl List , conductor
	The Berlin Symphony Orchestra , orchestra

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