Suite, Opus 19

Small "o" above the Nipper logo = Oakland pressing. Manual sequence: Sides 1/2, 3/4, 5/6. Recorded December 18-19, 1928 at Goodman Theatre, Chicago. Matrix & take numbers: CVE-48769- 2, CVE-48772- 3, CVE-48770- 1, CVE-48773- 2, CVE-48771- 2, CVE-48774- 2. Instrumentation: 14 first violins, 12 second violins, 8 violas, 8 cellos, 8 basses, 3 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 bassoons, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, contra-bassoon, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, 5 horns, tuba, harp, tympani, and 2 percussion. 78s: Victor album AM/M-47 (6916/8; 6991/3) and HMV AB-712/4, D-1902/4, D-7367/9 (6-0682, 6-0690, 6-0688, 6-0684, 6-0689, 6-0683). "At a time when not all of the Beethoven and Brahms symphonies were yet represented in the Victor catalog, it was an adventurous choice to record Dohnányi’s 1909 Suite in F-sharp, a work whose wide range (from a Brahmsian set of variations to a bravura, castanet-accompanied finale) seems to fit Stock and his ensemble to a “T”. " - [a=Mark Obert-Thorn] (from PASC684)