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Background: This 2-CD set marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Sir John Barbirolli (1899-1970) and features recordings ranging from boy cellist in 1911 to international conductor 1969 - in both ‘live’ and studio recordings.

John Barbirolli was born in Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, on 2 December 1899, a Cockney as he proudly boasted. Or, to be accurate, Giovanni Battista Barbirolli was born, son of an Italian émigré violinist and his French wife. English-born with Italo-French parentage - a wonderful pedigree for a musician. And so it proved, for he conducted Elgar, Verdi and Debussy, Vaughan Williams, Puccini and Ravel, with equal sensitivity and perception and intuition.

This album of recordings forms a kind of musical biography; and Michael Kennedy’s notes (with many rare photos) trace that life alongside the recordings. A special bonus is the 1947 Austrian Radio recording of two works, Weber’s Euryanthe overture and Delius’s Walk to the Paradise Garden, from the Salzburg Festival concert on 20 August at which he conducted the Vienna Philharmonic. Was this, Michael Kenneday asks, the first time this orchestra had played the Delius?

Two rare mementos of the New York period are included in this album. Anthony Collins had long been a friend of Barbirolli (they played in the LSO together) and worked in the USA from 1936 to 1945 and his Sir Toby and Sir Andrew, based on the two comic characters in Twelfth Night, is an example of his overlooked talent.

Another composer almost forgotten today is the Czech-born Jaromir Weinberger whose opera Schwanda the Bagpiper enjoyed inter-war popularity. His Christmas for organ and orchestra was composed in 1929. In 1939 he dedicated his Variations and Fugue on an old English tune, ‘Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree’ to Barbirolli and the New York Philharmonic.

CATALOGUE NR: SJB1999
RECORD LABEL: Barbirolli Society
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 10.25
RELEASE DATE: 26-Jul-2010

COMPOSER: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Glorious John
TRACKS: Kutcher Qt - String Quartet in E flat K428 : Menuetto (Mozart). John Barbirolli cello - The Broken Melody (van Biene). Lilian Stiles-Allen - Cavalleria Rusticana : Santuzza’s Aria (Mascagni). Renato Zanelli - Otello : Niun me tema (Verdi). Giovanni Inghilleri - Tosca : Tre sbirri una carozza (Puccini). Die Fledermaus : Brother dear and sister dear (Strauss II). Yvonne Arnaud - Valse caprice op.76 (Saint-Saens). The Bohemian Girl : Overture (Balfe). Sir Toby and Sir Andrew : Overture (Collins). Christmas (Weinberger). Euryanthe : Overture (von Weber). The Walk to the Paradise Garden (Delius). Concerto in D (Stravinsky). Cassation in G K63 : Andante (Mozart). Divertimento No.11 in D K251 : Minuet (Mozart). Secret (Grieg arr. Barbirolli). Bachianas Brasileiras No.4 (Villa Lobos). Seguidilla murciana (de Falla arr. Halffter). Gold and Silver Waltz (Lehar). Sheep may safely graze (JS Bach arr. Barbirolli). REHEARSAL SEQUENCE - The Damnation of Faust op.24 (Berlioz). INTERVIEW - Sir John Barbirolli and R Kinloch Anderson The complete interview recorded by EMI 1964.
ORCHESTRA: Vienna Philharmonic and Halle Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: John Barbirolli

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 1911-1964

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