(12" 33 rpm / ACETATE) TECHNICHORD RECORDING SERVICE, NEW YORK (1958)

(no number, private issue, with taped contents on labels)

ULTRA-RARE, VERY PROBABLY UNPUBLISHED:
 RECORDED LIVE (IN SANDERS THEATRE, BOSTON),
APRIL 23, 1958.

NADIA BOULANGER CONDUCTS:

Michal SPISAK: "Hymne olympique"

Antoni SZWALOWSKI:
Petit concerto pour orchestre à cordes
(Little concerto for strings orchestra, also called "Concertino")

HGC (Harvard Glee Club) & RCS (Radcliffe Choral Society) & Bach Society Orchestra,
April 23, 1958.

Claudin de SERMISY (ca 1490-1562): song

Anonymous, XIII° century, 2 songs:
"Consilium" ; untitled (could be "S'on me regarde")

DEBUSSY:
2 Madrigals

Lili BOULANGER
"Vieille prière bouddhique"

LULLY, CHARPENTIER:
2 orchestral pieces.

Recorded April 23, 1958.

ULTRA-RARE ACETATE PRESSING, CAN BE UNIQUE OR AT VERY FEW COPIES.
These performances are different of those recorded on May 11, 1958, Potsdam, N.Y., with partly similar contents.
This record comes from a musician beeing at this time close to this context, perhaps featured on this record.

Nadia BOULANGER as always conducts, in the same spirit, from medieval songs to modern music (featuring two of her polish pupils, with this very grave and dramatic concertino of SZALOWSKI).
As written the day after by the critic Paul A. BUTTENWEISER: The essence of Mlle. Boulanger's greatness is her complete affinity with the spirit, and more especially with the rhythm of the music. Conducting a program which consisted of an almost bewildering array of styles, she shifted in and out with complete ease and sureness. (…) The orchestra was unusually rich and warm in Lili Boulanger's Vieille Priere Bouddhique, and the chorus sang with beautiful tone as always. (…) The participants in last night's concert were a select number of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Bach Society Orchestra. Most of the members of these groups have a technical competence on the professional level, and musical capacities far above many professionals, enabling them to respond fully to Mlle. Boulanger's wishes. 

VERY GOOD CONDITION: CLEAN SURFACE, NICE SOUNDING
despite usual defects of these pressings, but still very acceptable with regards to the common condition and the well known fragility of acetates.
This document is in enough good condition for transcription, with some professional sound cleaning.

SLEEVE/BOX CONDITION: original US cover, VG

RECORD(S) CONDITION : Nice surface, visually mostly VG+ (clean and mostly glossy except often seen blemishing spots, but very light) /// playgrading: background is mostly quiet but has light frying by places (locally average, as on the adagio of the Concertino), local cracks (mostly single and light but few are average), all current problems on this kind of wax.

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