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June 12, 2025

20,000 vinyl LPs 386: Eugene Ormandy ~ 1812 Overture

Eugene Ormandy ~ 1812 Overture

vinyl LP front cover

photo of album cover by Styrous®

On June 12, 1812, the French invasion of Russia led by Napoleon began; the invasion became known as The War of 1812.

Eugene Ormandy ~ 1812 Overture

vinyl LP back cover

photo of album cover by Styrous®

I also did an entry about the 1812 Overture conducted by Antal Doráti that included real life cannons and bells (links below).

Eugene Ormandy ~ 1812 Overture

vinyl LP side 1 & 2

photos by Styrous®

Tracklist:

Side 1:

A1 - Tchaikovsky* – Overture "1812", Op. 49, composed by Tchaikovsky*

A - Borodin* – In The Steppes Of Central Asia, composed by Borodin*

Side 2:

Borodin* - Polovtsian Dances (From "Prince Igor"), composed by Borodin*
B1a - Dance No. 1
B1b - Dance No. 2
B1c - Dance No. 3
B1d - Dance No. 4
B2 - Moussorgsky*– Night On Bald Mountain, composed by Moussorgsky*

Companies, etc.

Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Hollywood

Credits:

Conductor – Eugene Ormandy
Orchestra – The Philadelphia Orchestra

Notes:

Jacket back lower right corner has "6" printed.
Pressed by Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Hollywood identified by the etched H in the deadwax.
Deep groove pressing rings, 69 / 71mm.
Gray 6-eye Columbia Masterworks labels, ɴᴏɴʙʀᴇᴀᴋᴀʙʟᴇ to the left of the spindle hole, in use from 6/1955- 6/1962

LP title located above spindle hole on the labels on both sides.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Other (Jacket back bottom right corner): 6
Pressing Plant ID (Runout etched): H
Matrix / Runout (Label side A): x"Lp" 45887
Matrix / Runout (Label side B): x"Lp" 45888
Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, side A): XXLP45887-1F I
Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, side B): XXLP45888-1AC H /
Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, side A): XXLP45887-1AD I
Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, side B): XXLP45888-1F H /IIIII
Matrix / Runout (Variant 3, side A): XXLP45887-1G H II
Matrix / Runout (Variant 3, side B): XXLP45888-1AL H I

The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy / Tchaikovsky*, Borodin*, Mussorgsky* – 1812 Overture
Label: Columbia Masterworks – ML 5392
Format: LP, Album, Mono, Hollywood Pressing
Country US
Released: Sep 1959
Genre:Classical
Style:Romantic

Viewfinder links:

1812 Overture articles

Alexander Borodin

Antal Doráti

Antol Dorati ~ 1812 Overture

Eugene Ormandy

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Net links:

Steve Hoffman ~ 1812 Overture with Real Cannons

Ravinia Backstage ~ How Hi-Fi Popularized Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture (with cannons)

YouTube links:

Antol Dorati ~ 1812 Overture

Eugene Ormandy ~ 1812 Overture

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July 18, 2024

Titian ~ Rest on the Flight into Egypt

A painting by Titian, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c. 1508, sold for a record-breaking sum (£17,560,000 or $22,178,280) on the 28th of June, 2024, during Christie's Classic Week in London, England.

The artwork, oil on panel, roughly 10 feet by 5 feet, portrays Joseph, Mary, and Jesus as they stop to rest during their flight into Egypt. It depicts the biblical voyage of the newborn Jesus, along with Mary and Joseph as described in the Gospel of Matthew. The Gospel describes the Holy Family fleeing as the result of a vision from an angel, who told Joseph to bring them to Egypt since King Herod would be coming to kill the baby Jesus.

The amazing thing is it has been estimated Titian was only in his late teens or early twenties when he painted Rest on the Flight into Egypt!

Andrew Fletcher, Christie's global head of the Old Masters department, said:

"This is the most important work by Titian to come to the auction market in more than a generation and one of the very few masterpieces by the artist remaining in private hands. "It is a picture that embodies the revolution in painting made by Titian at the start of the 16th century and is a truly outstanding example of the artist's pioneering approach to both the use of colour and the representation of the human form in the natural world, the artistic vocabulary that secured his status as the first Venetian painter to achieve fame throughout Europe in his lifetime, and his position as one of the greatest painters in the history of Western art."

Rest on the Flight into Egypt first appears in documentation in the collection of a Venetian spice merchant, Bartolomeo della Nave whose collection of Venetian Renaissance masterpieces included some 15 Titians spanning his career. The artworks in his collection are known from an inventory dated 1636. When Della Nave died in 1632, the collection was sold, almost in its entirety, to James, 3rd Marquess of Hamilton (later 1st Duke of Hamilton), but sold again soon after because Hamilton was executed by the English Parliament for high treason in 1649 a few weeks after the execution of King Charles I.

King Charles I - 1632
painting by Anthony van Dyck

It was then bought, similarly en bloc, by the Habsburg Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and it was owned by Habsburg archdukes and emperors until 1809, when it was stolen from Belvedere Palace in Vienna by French troops during the Napoleonic Wars; Napoleon took it to Paris during his Egyptian campaign.

Six years later (1878), it returned to Vienna and it entered the collection of John Alexander Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath, at Longleat House in Wiltshire, when he purchased it from Christie's. In 1995 the painting was stolen, but it was recovered seven years later by private detective Charles Hill in a bag at a bus stop in London (??????). It remained back in Wiltshire until it was consigned to the auction last month.

Viewfinder links:

Napoleon Bonapart
Titian

Net links:

The Art Newspaper ~Flight into Egypt a little masterpiece

BBC ~ Titian's Rest On The Flight Into Egypt

Christie’s

YouTube links:

ABS-CBN News ~ Previously stolen Titian work: Flight into Egypt

Christie’s ~ Titian masterpiece stolen not once, but twice

misc. Titian links




Styrous® ~ Thursday, July 18, 2024