Rare radio transcription Edith Lejet Devy Erlih Honegger Poulenc Messiaen ORTF

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I am listing records that are all hopefully interesting to audiophiles and lovers of classical music, I could not find a few online so some may be rare. I have done my best to describe them and have spent the last three days preparing the auctions. I have not cleaned any of them so they may need a gentle dust off before playing. I have examined each wearing gloves and under bright light - when I had to I would play and listen to either a whole album or parts with a clean needle. I have included many images of each lot but if you have any questions or requests please just let me know. I will do what I can on my end to answer any questions. I can combine to some extent with shipping but I will want to pack them well. I understand that with records condition is everything so I will do everything I can to assure that they arrive as they are now. I will be able to send them out three to four days after the auctions end. If I can I will send them sooner but most likely it will be 4 days after. They will be sent with tracking and insurance and well packed. Thank you and good luck bidding!

This auction is for two records that belong togther - they are original French radio transcriptions for North America and would have two programs on two records - this way the engineer could cue up program without having to turn the record over.I will be listing about 120 separate lots of these programs which are all from the French Broadcasting System In North America. They are all to some degree related to classical music with some programs containing avant-garde and experimental music. I believe these records were from programs dating from 1969 to 1972. I have about 250 records I will be listing beginning tonight and ending in early December so if any of the record auctions are of interest please check back. These records were made in pairs so there would be two programs on two records. That way the radio station engineer could cue up the programs second half without having to interrupt the show by turning the record over. Many of these recordings are rare and obscure and I believe very few were pressed and even fewer surviving. I could find no reference online to many of them and I have just begun to go through them. Many performances were recording using various conductors and soloists at the Paris L'O.R.T.F. (The Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF) was the national agency charged, between 1964 and 1974, with providing public radio and television in France.) These records would be sent to participating radio stations with a paper transcript. Unfortunately I do not have these transcripts so I have had to carefully listen to the introductions to discern what the performances are - as well as referring to the labels. Each program has a short English language introduction before the piece is played - each side of each record is 13 to 15+ minutes in length. The records are in their original simple white sleeve - they were not issued with traditional covers. For the most part the records are sharp and clean with very light signs of handling or wear. I cannot clean records so they may have light dust etc.. - you may have to gently wipe them off or clean them as you see fit. I visually inspect them carefully - and have , when needed listened to them using a clean needle. I believe they are in Very Good plus or better condition and when there is a condition or sound issue I try to include that in the description. So please ask questions. I would like to have fun listing these because they are so rare but it will also be quite time consuming so I am unsure how long it will take to list all of them. Please feel free to ask any questions!

Both records are clean and sound great - light surface noise at times which is likely just light dust which needs to be cleaned. Records I believe are Very Good+ or better.
5. The French Broadcasting System In North America - GRC 12030 A & B / GRC 12031 A & B
Processed by the Gotham Recording Corporation New York City, New York
33 1/3 RPM Long Playing
French Music and French Musicians Program No. 179 Arthur Honegger / Francis Poulenc
Honegger - Sonatine for Clarinet and Piano - Clarinet by Maurice Gabai , Piano - Henriette Puig-Roget
Poulenc - Concerto for organ, strings and kettle drums (composed 1938) - L'O.R.T.F. Chamber Orchestra Organ by Pierre Gazin.

French Music and French Musicians Program No. 180 - Olivier Messiaen / Edith Lejet
Messiaen - Dieu Parmi Nous / God Among Us - Organ by Marie-Claire Alain
Lejet - her first work for orchestra - Monodrame , for violin and orchestra / pour violon et orchestre - composed in 1968 - 1969 commissioned by l'ORTF - the violinist is Devy Erlih. This work is truly amazing in my opinion! This may be the only recording of this piece.
Here is a note about it's creation -- "Monodrame was composed in 1969 in Madrid (Casa de Velazquez).
In this piece, the orchestra is not designed as an accompaniment but as a partner antagonistic to the violin.
Several ideas borrowed from dramatic art are combined to give the shape. All of them deal with the anguish provoked by loneliness [the violin] within masses (the orchestra with 15 wind instruments, 1 harp, percussion (1 xylo, 1 marimba, 1 vibra, 1 glockenspiel, 1 celesta, various drums, metallic items etc.), and 24 string instruments].
The melodic lines of the violin are expressive and lyric. Inspired by the human voice’s inflexions, they are not always cast on a tempered scale.
Therefore the micro-intervals are not used for serial or spectral purposes. This music is essentially intuitive.
In this work the instruments of orchestra have a chamber-music-like treatment. The research on colour, movement or sound block is instrumentation rather than orchestration.
Eventually the soloist will be drowned in the sound stream.
This piece was commissioned by the Department of Relationship with foreign countries of the old ORTF (now Radio-France).
It was recorded in september 1969 with the « Orchestre de Chambre de l’ORTF » conducted by Daniel Chabrun ; Devy Erlih is the violinist.
It was played in a public concert in Reims on april 28, 1970, with the « Orchestre Philarmonique de l’ORTF » (same artists)."

Arthur Honegger - 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which was inspired by the sound of a steam locomotive.

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc -(7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist, and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed art song, solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music.

Olivier Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex (he was interested in rhythms from ancient Greek and from Hindu sources); harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations. Messiaen also drew on his Catholic faith.
 
He travelled widely and wrote works inspired by diverse influences such as Japanese music, the landscape of Bryce Canyon in Utah and the life of St. Francis of Assisi. He said he perceived colours when he heard certain musical chords, particularly those built from his modes (a phenomenon known as synaesthesia in its literal manifestation); combinations of these colours, he said, were important in his compositional process. For a short period Messiaen experimented with the parametrisation associated with "total serialism", in which field he is often cited as an innovator. His style absorbed many exotic musical influences such as Indonesian gamelan (tuned percussion often features prominently in his orchestral works).
 
Messiaen entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 11 and was taught by Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré, among others. He was appointed organist at the Église de la Sainte-Trinité in Paris in 1931, a post held until his death. He taught at the Schola Cantorum de Paris during the 1930s. On the fall of France in 1940, Messiaen was made a prisoner of war, during which time he composed his Quatuor pour la fin du temps ("Quartet for the end of time") for the four available instruments—piano, violin, cello and clarinet. The piece was first performed by Messiaen and fellow prisoners for an audience of inmates and prison guards. He was appointed professor of harmony soon after his release in 1941, and professor of composition in 1966 at the Paris Conservatoire, positions he held until his retirement in 1978. His many distinguished pupils included Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Yvonne Loriod, who became his
 second wife.
 
He found birdsong fascinating, notating bird songs worldwide and incorporating birdsong transcriptions into his music. His innovative use of colour, his conception of the relationship between time and music, and his use of birdsong are among the features that make Messiaen's music distinctive.

Édith Lejet (born July 19, 1941 in Paris) is a French composer and music educator.
Lejet studied with Marcel Beaufils (aesthetic), Henri Challan (harmony), Marcel Bitsch (counterpoint and fugue), Jean Rivier and Andre Jolivet (composition) at the Paris Conservatory. She lived at the Casa Velasquez in Madrid from 1968 to 1970. She began teaching harmony at the Sorbonne (1970–1972) and then became professor at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris. In 2004 she was appointed professor of composition at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot.

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