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	Classical Music :: The Classical Source :: Ernest Ansermet :: Classical Music
		Ansermet’s recordings of the central Germanic repertoire placed him alongside all the great conductors and orchestras — and his recordings were never greatly admired at the time of their release.
		Ansermet was a mathematician and there is a sense that his mathematical mind sometimes worked too hard in the Romantic repertoire.
		Ansermet was the opposite of the flashy showman conductor: the excitement of listening to an Ansermet performance is more in the subtle nuances than overtly showy brilliance.
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	Ernest Ansermet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ernest Alexandre Ansermet (November 11, 1883 – February 20, 1969) was a Swiss conductor.
		Ansermet was one of the first in the classical music field to take jazz music seriously, and in 1919, he wrote an article praising Sidney Bechet.
		After World War II, Ansermet and his orchestra rose to international prominence through a long-standing contract with Decca Records, and between then and his death, he recorded most of his repertoire, often two or three times.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ernest_Ansermet (504 words)

	Ernest Ansermet - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Ernest Ansermet was born in Vevey, Switzerland, on November 11, 1883.
		Leading their orchestra, Ansermet made his North American debut in New York in 1916 and appeared in South America for the first time in 1917.
		Ansermet died in Geneva on February 20, 1969.
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	Classical Net Review - Ravel - Orchestral Works
		London Jubilee's Ansermet Edition is off to a grand start, and these two releases bring together nearly all of his stereo Ravel recordings, made between 1957 and 1965.
		Ansermet's Daphnis is among the most dramatic performances on record.
		Ansermet's uncanny ability to find the melodic richness inherent in every bar insures that this version is never dull or uninteresting, even when the musical material is particularly thin.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/l/lon33716a.html (627 words)

	Ernest Ansermet
		Ansermet was born in Vevey, Switzerland and was originally a mathematics professor.
		Ansermet è stato sopportato in Vevey, Svizzera ed era originalmente un professore di matematica.
		Dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, Ansermet e la sua orchestra sono aumentato alla protuberanza internazionale con un relatonship di 25 anni con le annotazioni di Decca.
	www.classicalconducting.com /ansermet.html (567 words)

	De Ansermet
		In 1918, Ansermet gave the world premiere of the "Histoire du Soldat" and, in 1920, those of the "Chant du Rossignol" and "Pulcinella", all by Stravinsky.
		In spite of the differences which by then opposed the two men, Ansermet accepted to conduct the new work, which is marked by a robust austerity, and is inspired by the great works of the Ars Nova.
		The balance, the precision, the beauty of the style, and the warmth of the performance are the keys to the interpretations of Ansermet, and it is for that reason that his art touches us.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /de_ansermet_ernest.html (998 words)

	Ernest Ansermet's Biography
		Besides his activities with the OSR, Ernest Ansermet didn't neglect his brilliant career.To name but a few of the salient events there was the founding of the Lucerne Festival.
		Ansermet's definition his art could be that of the "poet of precision".
		From the end of the war, Ernest Ansermet was preoccupied by the new tendencies of contemporary musical creation.
	www.geocities.com /laosw/Classical_Html/ansemmetBio.htm (1000 words)

	Amazon.com: Ernest Ansermet: Decca Recordings 1953-1967: Music: Johann Sebastian Bach,Ludwig van Beethoven,Alexander ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Ernest Anserment (1883-1969) was born in Switzerland and was a contemporary of both Furtwängler and Klemperer, although he was of a far different school of music than either German.
		Ansermet's strengths were clarity in execution and delivery, strict adherence to original scoring (he opposed Stravinsky's tendency to revise his own works), and a romantic bent that was in vogue in the postwar years.
		Ansermet's combination of score adherence, clarity in orchestral detail, and blooming romance in interpretation led to my most satisfying performances of the most recorded symphonies in history during the period when the greatest conductors of the recording era were all represented in this repertoire.
	www.amazon.com /Ernest-Ansermet-Decca-Recordings-1953-1967/dp/B000JU7N7Y (2883 words)

	ArkivMusic \| Great Conductors Of The 20th Century - Ernest Ansermet
		Just about everybody's had a shot at the Bartók, so Ansermet's version with a less-than-virtuoso orchestra and a tendency toward understatement is at a disadvantage when set against the idiomatic Bartók of Dorati (Philips), the warmth and personal flair of Bernstein (Sony), and the mysteries of Kubelik (Orfeo).
		Ansermet long championed Stravinsky, and his version of the Chant du Rossignol rivals Reiner's classic Chicago version; and in its color, inner detail, and boldly projected rhythms it beats out Stravinsky's own recording of the complete opera from which it derives.
		Despite the date, the sound remains remarkably good and Ansermet captures all the moods and colors of the work, from the tensions of the outer movements to the rich vein of languorous Orientalisms that are found throughout.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=53002 (667 words)

	Ernest Ansermet (Conductor) - Short Biography
		The Swiss conductor, Ernest Ansermet, came from a musical family; he successively studied the clarinet, violin and brass instruments, which he used in fanfares; later he wrote military marches for the Swiss army which he did not consider important.
		Ernest Ansermet received the publicly advertised post of director of the Spa concerts in Montreux.
		Ernest Ansermet was a particular advocate of the Swiss composers Arthur Honegger and Frank Martin.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Ansermet-Ernest.htm (550 words)

	Fanfare Magazine - Ernest Ansermet: ERNEST ANSERMET DECCA RECORDINGS 1953–1967 on DECCA
		It is surely not by accident that Ansermet’s Tchaikovsky discography consists almost entirely of the ballets and two of the orchestral suites; there is a recording of the “Pathétique,” but I have never heard it.
		Ansermet’s own tasteful orchestration of the Six épigraphes antiques from 1953 is the earliest, and the only mono, item in the set.
		Rossiniana, another one of those pieces right up Ansermet’s alley, was probably one of his last recordings (February 1967); and, the Frank Martin Concerto is given an incisive and committed performance, another example of Ansermet’s support of his friends and compatriots.
	www.fanfaremag.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20496&Itemid=10161 (1546 words)

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		Ernest Ansermet’s long friendship with Igor Stravinsky enabled him to witness the birth of some of the composer’s most important creations.
		This proved to be of incalculable worth in his interpretation of the works he premiered for Stravinsksy.Here Ansermet directs the OSR in a performance of Stravinsky’s The Firebird.
		Ernest Ansermet’s competence as an interpreter is evident throughout.
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	ArkivMusic \| Ravel: The Orchestral Masterpieces / Ernest Ansermet, Suisse Romande
		Ernest Ansermet's Boléro and La Valse have always stood with the best, offering strikingly clear, linear transparency of texture with no holding back at the volcanic climaxes.
		Ansermet correctly treats the chorus as an integrated, coloristic background, and not soloistically, and if the final Bacchanale doesn't have quite the lift of some other favorite versions (Munch or Boulez, say), the scene in the pirate's camp and the threatening apparition of Pan never have been done better.
		Finally, although the disc claims that Ansermet plays Ma Mère l'Oye complete, he actually uses his own version, which includes the Prélude and first dance from the complete ballet, followed by Ravel's five-movement suite in its original (non-ballet) order without the connecting material composed for the stage presentation.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=56370 (297 words)

	Peter. Buckley - 080372392X - Victor Plarr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Ernest Amory Codman: The End Result of a Life in Medicine.
		Ernest Dowson, 1888-1897 : reminiscences, unpublished letters and marginalia.
		Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition Harvard Historical Studies No 132.
	www.howtowrite.net /137206ernest.html (72 words)

	Fricsay / Golovanov / Ansermet
		Ansermet was a featured Decca artist during the first years of stereo in the mid-'50s, famous at the time for his Stravinsky, Debussy and Ravel.
		Ansermet conducted the premiere of La Valse in 1920, but this recording made in Paris in 1953 is one of the most boring interpretations I've ever heard.
		Ansermet takes 13:03, a good minute more than most other conductors, two minutes longer than Munch.
	classicalcdreview.com /emigcff.htm (697 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ernest Ansermet (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Ernest Ansermet, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
		Ernest Ansermet[ernest´ ANserme´] Pronunciation Key, 1883–1969, Swiss conductor.
		Ansermet was noted for his interpretations of modern French and Russian music, especially Debussy and Stravinsky, and made many concert tours.
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	Amazon.com: Ernest Ansermet: Music: Bela Bartok,Emmanuel Chabrier,Claude Debussy,Sergey Rachmaninov,Maurice ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Ansermet captures all its moods and colors, from the tension of the first movement to the flowing, languorous Orientalisms throughout.
		Ernest Ansermet was Decca's house French conductor, even though he was Swiss, preceding the rise of Charles Dutoit to that post.
		A mathematician prior to his life as a conductor, Ansermet had his critics as he was virtually self-taught, though he did study music as a youth.
	www.amazon.com /Ernest-Ansermet-Bela-Bartok/dp/B00005UUOY (1402 words)

	Stravinsky Collection./Ansermet
		But this set has tremendous documentary importance as well, preserving the recorded legacy of one of the last century's enduring artistic associations, even if the recordings were undertaken after its end.
		Ernest Ansermet introduced Stravinsky's three early "big" ballets to the U.S. on the 1916 tour by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
		With his passion for precision, he became, over time, one of the composer's most trusted interpreters, giving the premiËres of the Capriccio for piano and orchestra (1929, with Stravinsky at the keyboard) and the Symphony of Psalms (1930).
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	Abbedd's Top Ten Musicians Of The 20TH Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		But Ansermet did not use this ability to "reinterpret" the Music to massage his own ego.
		Whatever tempo Ansermet chose always sounded as if that was they way the Music should go.
		Ansermet is known most for his vast legacy of recordings, most of which were performed with his hand picked and trained orchestra, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande of Geneva Switzerland which he founded in 1918.
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	Buywell Just Classical - 'Debussy: Orchestral Works' CD Label: Decca Legends, Cat. No. 470 255-2 (or 4702552) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Ernest Ansermet was not only the most important conductor from Decca's early years but also one of the leading interpreters of French repertoire.
		Therefore it was only a matter of time to present a suitable item in the Legends series to prove both points.
		It was the strength of Ansermet and his Swiss Orchestra to bring out the poetic content of musical works, and that is exactly how Debussy's music needs to be handled.
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	Ernest Bloch Summary
		Ernest Bloch was born in Geneva on July 24, 1880.
		Ernest Bloch (July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American Jewish composer.
		He was born in Geneva and studied music at the conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included Eugène Ysaÿe; and later he also studied at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt.
	www.bookrags.com /Ernest_Bloch (863 words)

	Classical Net Review - Rossini-Respighi/Stravinsky - La Boutique Fantasque/Petrushka
		This wonderful CD includes some of the finest recordings Ansermet ever made in his early stint with Decca.
		The accompanying Petrushka recording is the second of three Ansermet made for Decca between 1947 and 1959.
		I happen to have the other two versions and can safely report that the second is not substantially different from the others although the later reading is in splendid sound.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/s/som00027a.html (234 words)

	Ansermet = HAYDN: Symphony No. 85; DEBUSSY: Three Nocturnes; Iberia; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 4; BARTOK: Concerto for ...
		Mathematician as well as musician, Ansermet eschewed romantic sentimentality in his interpretations, preferring the clear, understated style he admired in Felix Weingartner.
		In his execution of the so-called "pairs" section of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra (28 August 1958) from Edinburgh, for instance, we can hear a precision and intervallic clarity of articulation between clarinet, flute, harp and brass, as well as the later string and percussion riffs that well point to the deconstructionist character of Pierre Boulez.
		Ansermet was conducting in Paris 1928-29 with Forrestier.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=2730 (899 words)

	Jazz Groove » Ernest Ansermet
		In the case of Sidney Bechet - who was always a freelance musician, an independent, like a novelist - his contribution to the artistic life of the last century is as important as anything achieved by Ernest Hemingway, or Scott Fitzgerald.
		And I know I’ve used the Hemingway analogy before with regard to Louis Armstrong, where I put Armstrong’s early seminal solos alongside Hemingway’s early short stories, but Bechet’s playing from the 1920s and 30s - each solo - is more akin to a longer Hemingway work, such as Death in the Afternoon, serialised.
		That’s where I met the Swiss conductor, Ernest Ansermet [born in 1883, Ansermet, at the time of meeting Bechet, was the conductor with Diaghilev Ballet.
	www.jazz-groove.com /category/ernest-ansermet (415 words)

	Sensible Sound: Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan, suite; May Night, overture; Russian Easter Festival Overture. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Glittering highs, wide dynamics, solid impact, and deep bass highlight this 24K disc of short works by Rimsky-Korsakov.
		Ernest Ansermet was Decca/London's star conductor in the first days of full frequency range reproduction and early stereo.
		He recorded practically the whole of the basic Romantic repertoire for the company twice over.
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	Ernest Ansermet - best artist, best album, free mp3's Download : Great Conductors Of The 20Th Century - Ernest Ansermet ...
		Ernest Ansermet - best artist, best album, free mp3's Download : Great Conductors Of The 20Th Century - Ernest Ansermet (Cd 1), Stravinsky: Chant Du Rossignol - Marche Chinoise, Rimsky-Korsakov: Scherherazade, Op.
		Ernest Ansermet Concerto For Orchestra Sz116; Andante, Non Troppo mp3
		Ernest Ansermet Concerto For Orchestra Sz116; Andante, Non Tropo mp3
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	Angel Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		This Decca- Great Conductors of the 20th Century title focuses on composers that Arnest Ansermet knew and was closely associated with throughout his life- Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky and Bartok as well as highlighting his Russian connections with Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninov.
		The Stravinsky Chant de Rossignol (from 1956) and the Ravel La Valse (from 1953) were both given their premieres by Ansermet.
		The majority of the recordings (all from Decca) date from 1954 to 1956, a period when both Ansermet together with his orchestras, the Paris Conservatoire and the Suisse Romande, were in top form.
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