George Antheil
Antheil Plays Antheil: The Rare SPA Recordings and Private Audio Documents 1942-1958 (2CD+Booklet)
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The rare SPA recordings and private audio documents, 1943-1958. Composer George Antheil (1900-1959) is most remembered for his mechanistic piano music hailed by 1920s Paris, but by 1948, when he’d become the third most-played American-born composer of orchestral music, his style reflected a more emotional, more mature personality. This centennial collection highlights selections from Antheil’s later “neo-romantic” period and includes the only recordings of Antheil himself at the piano. A 60-page booklet by Charles Amirkhanian, illustrated with previously unpublished photos, accompanies this 2-CD set.
Release notes
The Rare SPA Recordings & Private Audio Documents 1942-1958 All recordings digitally reconstructed from surviving monaural analog audio material of variable quality, except for the SPA interview, which is in stereo Recorded: • October 18, 1951, Gold Star Recording Studios, Hollywood, California; released on SPA 36, November 1952 (tracks 1-1 to 1-11) • 1951, Los Angeles, California; released on SPA 36, November 1952 (tracks 1-12 to 1-19) • 1952, Vienna, Austria; released on SPA 47, probably in…
| The Music | |||
| Valentine Waltzes (1949) | |||
| 1-1 | No. 1 | 2:11 | |
| 1-2 | No. 2 | 1:28 | |
| 1-3 | No. 3 | 1:11 | |
| 1-4 | No. 4 | 0:44 | |
| 1-5 | No. 5 | 1:33 | |
| 1-6 | No. 6 | 0:46 | |
| 1-7 | No. 7 | 1:36 | |
| 1-8 | No. 8 | 1:53 | |
| 1-9 | No. 9 | 1:13 | |
| 1-10 | No. 10 | 1:48 | |
| 1-11 | No. 11 | 2:27 | |
| Eight Fragments From Shelley (1950) | |||
| 1-12 | When Soft Winds | 1:39 | |
| 1-13 | To The Moon | 1:17 | |
| 1-14 | When The Lamp Is Shattered | 4:59 | |
| 1-15 | I Stood Upon A Heaven Cleaving Turret | 2:43 | |
| 1-16 | A Dirge | 3:11 | |
| 1-17 | To-Morrow | 1:24 | |
| 1-18 | Sonnet To Byron | 2:02 | |
| 1-19 | I Faint, I Perish With My Love | 4:03 | |
| 1-20 | McKonkey's Ferry Overture (1948) | 10:15 | |
| Symphony No. 5, "Joyous" (1947-48) | |||
| 1-21 | Allegro | 8:25 | |
| 1-22 | Adagio Molto | 8:09 | |
| 1-23 | Allegretto Giocoso | 7:59 | |
| Speech And Stories | |||
| Two Odes Of John Keats (1950) | |||
| 2-1 | Ode On A Grecian Urn | 4:10 | |
| 2-2 | To A Nightingale | 7:02 | |
| 2-3 | "The Prostitute", From The Ballet Capital Of The World (1953) | 1:22 | |
| 2-4 | Peter Pokes A Pig (Story For Peter, 1942) | 3:04 | |
| 2-5 | Mu-uh-uch In The Moonlight (Story For Peter, 1942) | 3:23 | |
| Prediction Of Allied Invasion Of North Africa (1942) | |||
| 2-6 | Part One: Signposts To The Future | 2:03 | |
| 2-7 | Part Two: The Defense Of Stalingrad | 4:24 | |
| 2-8 | Biggest Muscles Waltz (Story For Peter, 1942) | 3:23 | |
| 2-9 | Captain Peter Shoots Down Nazi Air Ship (Story For Peter, 1942) | 3:35 | |
| 2-10 | George Antheil Speaks (1958) | 17:50 | |
| 2-11 | The SPA Interview (1981) | 20:00 | |
- Roger Wagner Chorale
- Chorus (1-12 to 1-19)
- George Antheil
- Composed By (1-1 to 1-23), Illustration [Self-portrait On Cover, Drawing On Booklet (p. 7: " Picasso ")], Piano (1-1 to 1-19)
- F. Charles Adler
- Conductor (1-20)
- Herbert Haefner
- Conductor (1-21 to 1-23)
- Jim Newman
- Design
- Joe Tarantino
- Engineer [Audio Restoration]
- Carl Stone
- Executive Producer
- Miguel Covarrubias
- Illustration [On Booklet (p. 1): George Antheil, 1927]
- Mari Hatta
- Liner Notes [Booklet Editor]
- Ron Rigler
- Mastered By [And Sonic Solutions Processing]
- Vienna Philharmonia Orchestra
- Orchestra (1-21 to 1-23)
- William Claxton
- Photography By [Antheil's Photo On Booklet Cover (mid 1950s)]
- Charles Amirkhanian
- Producer, Liner Notes
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Words By [Poems] (1-12 to 1-19)
