Belgian Music

[Elroel]

Jan Decadt (1914-1995) -  Musical Monograph on a Great Painter (1964)for orchestra.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?c6bq67bydiqbe8t

National Orchestra of Belgium
Jean Louël, conductor

The Painter in casu is the Flemish O. Landuyt.
The parts:
1. Largo 'An artists universe'
2. Allegro 'Picural Rapture'
3. Mysterioso 'Obsession'
4. Allegro Presto 'Untiring creative force'
5. Moderato 'Loneliness'
6. Calmo moderato 'Slow and Illusive Awareness'
7. Vivace 'Triumph of Mastery over the Sunstance.


from lp Cultura 5069-10

The composition was made for the 10th anniversary of the cultural convention between Belgium and South Africa. It was 1st performed in 1964 in Johannesburg South Africa and conducted by Daniel Sternefeld.

[Elroel]

Jef Maes (1905-1998)  - Tristan - Orchestral Suite (1963-4)

Maes wrote this orchestral suite from the original music of the Ballet Music 'Tristan en Isolde' He followed roughly the development as indicated by the subject of the ballet.

First act: On Tristan's ship:
Land on the horizon - Dance of the sailor's - Tristan and Isolde drinking the magic love-potion - Dance of Tristan and Isolde
Second act: At the court of kinf Marke:
Entry of the king and his suite - Dance of the ladies-in-waiting with Isolde - Tristan's Dance - Dance of Tristan and Isolde - The grief and danger of king Marke - Tristan and Isolde's seizure and escort to imprisonment.
Third act: Tristan and Isolde rais from the dead and advance towards the eternal light

Nationaal Orkest van België (National Orchestra of Belgium)
Léonce Gras, conductor

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?cjtao53d90dmfjp
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ignogrg1hbw7ziu

from lp Cultura 5.066/4

[Elroel]

Pierre Moulaert (1907-1967)  - Sequences en Trois Mouvements

National Orchestra of Belgium
René Defossez, conductor

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?h4px4h4p3hpxftv

The Suite was requested by André Cluytens, a wellknown Belgian conductor, after having researched earlier compositions. The title sequences is in fact another name for a suite.

from lp Cultura 5.067/4

[Elroel]

Victor Legley (1915-1994)  - Overture to a comedy of Goldoni, op 53 (1958-59)
The play wherefore it was written: Lo Spirito di Contradizzione

It is divided in three parts: Allegro vivace - Moderato expressivo cantabile - Allegro vivace (a variation of the first part).

National Orchestra of Belgium
Léonce Gras, conductor

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?77fahn2b5bsn42s

from lp Cultura 5.066/4

[Elroel]

Lodewijk Mortelmans (1868-1952)  - In Memoriam (for String Orchestra)

Nationaal Orkest van België (National Orchestra of Belgium)
Leonce Gras, conductor

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?m7b2d23b89w6lp4

from lp Decca 173.019
(The recording was actually made in 1956)

One the most important Flemish composers of the first half of the 20th century.
He was taught by Peter Benot and Jan Blockx. He won de Prix de Rome with his cantata 'Lady Macbeth'. In 1899 he had his own festival in Antwerp and his compositions were greatly appreciated.
From then on he became one of the motors in Flemish music life. He was teacher, later director of the Royal Flemish Conservatory. Among his many pupils we find Jef van Hoof, jan Broeckx and Lodewijk De Vocht.
Mortelmans aim was to create poetry and beauty. Many of his songs used the poetry of the famous Flemish poet  Guido Gezelle.

[Elroel]

René Defossez (1905-1988) -  Le Pecheur et Son Ame (1965)  -Ballet-Cantata for soli, chorus and orchestra. (after the text of Oscar Wilde).
English title: The Fisherman and his Soul.

The performers:
Ysel Poliart, mezzo soprano, as La Sirène
Adrien Debacquer, speaking voice as Le Récitant
Yvonne Garden as La Sorcière (The Witch)
Henri Billin as Le Pêcheur (The Fisherman) and as L'Ame du Pêcheur (The Soul of the Fisherman
Ralph Darbo as Le Prêtre (The Priest)

Ensemble Vocal Fritz Hoyois
Liège Symphony Orchestra
René Defossez, conductor

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?b4pqbhqvjsj8a86
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wggpp8skbxhv7fo
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?hp364hqjxp3f36r

the scan with the english text:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/?8wponw5uodauuox

from lp Alpha 3071-F1

ATTN Splitted rar-files. After download, unpack rar file .part1 only! This will unfold the rest automatically.

[Elroel]

Jacqueline Fontyn (b 1930)  -  Trio for piano, violin and cello (1956)
The movements are: Allegretto - Adagio assai - Scherzo: fugue - Allegro risoluto

Jacques Genty, piano
Robert Hosselet, violin
Désiré Derissen, cello

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?9qayqx6xk90a34w

from lp Alpha DB 93

Fontyn was born in Antwerp and studied with Marcel Quinet and later with Max Deutsch. (With the latter in Vienna and Paris).
She received quite a number of prizes. In 1963 she became a member of the staff at the Royal Flemish Conservatoire as a teacher in counterpoint.
From her Trio was said that she more or less saveguarded the classicla forms.

[Elroel]

Willem Kersters (1929-1998)  -  String Quartet Nº 2, op 32 (1964)

Quatuor Bartok
Peter Komlós (1st violin), Sándor Devich (2nd violin),Géza Németh (viola), Karoly Botvay (cello).

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?o2mfxpaapdb8ffi

from LP Alpha DBM 125-C

[Elroel]

Jacques Leduc (b 1932)  - Oboe Concertino, op 10 (1962)

André Antoine, oboe
L'Orchestre de Chambre des Solistes de Liège
Gery Lemaire, conductor

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?r0d7zq653d09s3i

from lp Alpha DB 89


For comparison: this concerto was also released, on cd, on the Phaedra label (# 92029) in the Series "In Flanders' Fields Vol 29. With another orchestra, solist and conductor of course.
Still available, I'm told: e-mail luc.famaey@pandora.be

[Elroel]

Georges Lonque (1900-1967)  -  String Quartet, op 24  (1937)

het Belgisch Strijkkwartet (The Belgian String Quartet)
the names of members are not shown on the sleeve

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bhga6w5mif3ify6

[Elroel]

Gaston Brenta (1902-1969)  - Air variés pour des belles écouteuses (1963)
Title in English: Various tunes for beautiful female listeners

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?6x9iwbex3au5kci

Paul-Baudouin Michel (b 1930)  - Inframorphoses for String Orchestra

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?t81zpni3bn8d4jk


L'Orchestre de Chambre des Solistes de Liège
Gery Lemeire, conductor

From lp Alpha DB 89

As far as i know, these works were never released in digital form

[guest54]

André-Jean Smit was born in France in 1926, but during the greater part of his life has resided in Belgium. Here are his Mouvements Symphoniques for orchestra, composed in 1976:

    http://www.mediafire.com/?6xsecdubdw4v0r9

From a wireless broadcast of a public concert; duration seventeen minutes. The composer's name is absent from Grove's Dictionary, but a work-list and further information may be found HERE.

[jowcol]

Symphony #2 of Peter Cabus. 

Belgian RSO
Irwin Hoffman, Conductor.  Date unknown.
Radio broadcast.

From the collection of Karl Miller.

http://www.mediafire.com/?13daykfncqrhvfu

If that doesn't work, paste this in your browser:  http://www.mediafire.com/?13daykfncqrhvfu

Although it says it has 76 downloads, I'm still hearing of people having trouble with the link. So here is a duplicated upload, and I rebuilt the zip file.

http://www.mediafire.com/?rawv617d9072pfy


PETER CABUS
(1923-2000) BELGIUM

Born in Mechelen. Encouraged initially by Godfried Devreese, he continued his musical education at the Lemmens Institute where his teachers were Flor Peeters and Marinus De Jong for organ and piano. He then went on to the Royal Conservatory in Brussels to study composition and fugue with Jean Absil and Léon Jongen). He held several teaching posts and eventually succeeded his first teacher Devreese as director of the conservatory in Mechelen. Cabus was an extremely prolific composer in practically all genres with many of his more than 200 works composed for educational purposes. Orchestral works comprise a substantial part of his output including many Concertos for various instruments and Symphonies. In the latter category are the following unrecorded works: Symphony No. 1 (1946), No. 2 (1957), No. 3 (1961), No. 5 (1987), No. 6 "Sinfonia Breve" (1993), Sinfonia for Chamber Orchestra (1964), Sinfonia Concertante for Harpsichord, Piano and String Orchestra (1973) and Sinfonietta (1951).

(From Michael Herman's Benelux Discography on Musicweb)

[A.S]

  Raymond Moulaert (1875-1962) : Piano Corerto (1938)
  http://www.mediafire.com/?iy8z3sxnu6sj6dm

  Diane Anderson , piano / Mendi Rodan / Belgian RTV Symphony Orchestra


  Broadcast recording from my friend

[shamus]

http://www.mediafire.com/?suqh7h206fx8d

Francois Rasse (1873-1955)
  Concerto en ut (c) majeur pour violon et orchestre
    Robert Hosselet, Violon, L'Orchestre National de Belgique, Rene Defossez

From LP Cultura 5074-1

Edgar Tinel (1854-1912)
  Feest in de Tempel van Jupiter, Op. 21 Nr. 3 (1881)
    "De Philharmonie" von Antwerpen, Daniel Sternefeld

From LP Cultura 5070-V 1

Willem Kersters (1929-1998)
  Symfonie Nr. 3, Op. 39
    National Orkest van Belgie, Daniel Sternefeld