Listing of Albums and Record Recordings Owned by Richard Nickel
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Listing of albums and record recordings owned by Richard Nickel, Collection of the Richard Nickel Committee, Chicago, Illinois (These recordings located by John Vinci in 2011 from his collections and given to the Richard Nickel Committee) Compiled by Ward Miller, Executive Director of the Richard Nickel Committee - for The Art Institute of Chicago, Burnham & Ryerson Libraries, December 2011 Albeniz, Iberia, Turina, Danzas Fantasticas, L’Orchestra de las Suisse Romande Ansermet, London Records, Inc. New York, NY (Cover: John Singer Sargent “El Jaleo”, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston) Bach, Johann Sebastian. Anthony Newman Plays J.S. Bach on the Pedal Harpsichord and Organ, Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582 (Pedal Harpsichord), Trio Sonata No. 1 in E-Flat Major, BWV 525 (Organ), Fantasy and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 537 (Pedal Harpsichord), Prelude and Fugue in B Minor, BWV 544 (Pedal Harpsichord), Prelude and Fugue in G Major “Great” BWV 541 (Organ) and Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 (Pedal Harpsichord and Organ), Produced by Steven E. Paul, Columbia Records/CBS, Inc, New York, NY (Cover photo of Anthony Newman by Columbia Records) Bach, Johann Sebastian. Die Violinkonzerte – The Violin Concertos with Zino Francescatti, Regis Pasquier, Violine, Festival Strings Lucerne and Rudolf Baumgartner, Deutsche Grammophon, Germany (Cover photo by Urs F. Kluyver, Hamburg) Bach, Johann Sebastian. Bach Organ Favorites played by E. Power Biggs, recorded on the Flentrop (D.A. Flenthrop-1958) Organ in the Busch-Reisinger Museum of Harvard University Toccata and Fugue in D Minor/Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major and Fugue in G Minor (The “Little”)/Fugue in G Major (The “Jig”), Columbia Masterworks, USA (Cover photo: Columbia Records Studio- Henry Parker) Bach, Johann Sebastian. J.S. Bach: Chorale Preludes, Edouard Commette, playing the Great Organ of the Cathedral Saint-Jean De Lyon, France, Angel Records Bach, Johann Sebastian and Janos Starker, Suites for Unaccompanied Cello Complete, (Suite 1 in G, Suite No. 2 in D minor, Suite No. 3 in C, Suite No. 4 in E-Flat, Suite No. 5 in C Minor, Suite No. 6 in D), Mercury Records, USA (3 record-album set – 6 recorded sides in a box, with a pamphlet with cover and all photos by Mary Morris) Bach, Johann Sebastian, The Bach Suites-Four Orchestral Suites, Muncchinger, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, London Recordings, London, England. Bartok, The Six String Quartets, The Juilliard String Quartet, produced by Paul Myers, Columbia Records, New, NY. –two record-album set with text and box cover. Richard Nickel Committee, Listing of Record-Album Collections belonging to Richard Nickel Page 1 of 10 (typewritten note enclosed with albums: “WFMT Monday, May 12, 69, Harry Bouras on Bartok & De Kooning—Bartoks compactness and lack of spatialness De Kooning’s Europeaness, Inverted Lyrical poets--Kiss the young lips to feel the skull underneath-- Greatness rests on the flaw of the bitterness of their nature”) Bartok, Bela. Geza Anda - Ferenc Fricsay, Bartok: Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra and Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 1, Geza Anda, Piano, Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay Conductor. Deutsche Grammaphon Gesellschaft, Germany (Cover photo of Anda and Fricsay by Werner Neumeister, Munich) Berlioz, Benevenuto Cellini. Le Carnaval Romain, Beatrice Et Benedict, Le Corsaire, Le Damnation De Faust, with Ernest Ansermet, conducting L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, The Decca Record Company. Ltd, London and New York, 1965 (Cover image of composer Berlioz) Berlioz Requiem, Charles Munch, Boston Symphony Orchestra with the New England Conservatory Chorus, Lorna Cooke DeVaron, Conductor, Soloist, Leopold Simoneau, Tenor, RCA Victor, USA (two record-albums -4-sides of recordings in a box with an elaborate color book designed by Albert Skira for the Soria Series of the RCA Victor and printed in Switzerland at the Skira color Studios, Lausanne, first edition, completed February 1st, 1960, A limited edition of 200 copies. Also, news clipping from HiFi/Stereo Review form September 1968-recording of special merit enclosed) Berlioz, Symphonie Funebre Et Triomphale, Op. 15, - Prelude to “The Trojans”-“Les Troyens a Carthage” Hamlet Funeral March-Marche Funebre, Op. 18, No. 3 Pour La Derniere Scene D’Hamlet, London Symphony Orchestra, John Alldis Choir and Colin Davis, Phillips Recordings, Phonographic Performances Ltd, London Berlioz, Te Deum, Op. 22, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis, Conductor, Franco Tagliavini, tenor, Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir with Chorus master, John Alldis; Nicholas Kynaston, Organist, Phillips Recordings and Phonographic Performance, Ltd, London Berlioz, Te Deum, Op. 22, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham, Bart., Conductor, Alexander Young, Tenor; London Philharmonic Choir (Chorus Master, Frederick Jackson) and the Dulwich College Boys Choir, Dennis Vaughan, Organist, Columbia (Masterworks) Records, Inc. USA (Cover drawing by Ben Shafer-sp?) Block, Ernest. Concerto Grosso, No. 1 (1925) and Concerto Grosso, No. 2 (1952), Howard Hanson conducting the Eastman-Rochester Symphony, Mercury Records, USA (Cover design by George Ries) Boulez, Pierre: Le Marteau sans maitre and Karlheinz Stockhausen: Nr. 5 Zeitmasse for Five Woodwinds, “New Directions in Music 1,” Conducted by Robert Craft, Columbia Records Richard Nickel Committee, Listing of Record-Album Collections belonging to Richard Nickel Page 2 of 10 Brahms, Johannes, Edvard Grieg and Gustav Mahler, Orchesterlieder, Brahms (1833- 1897)-Rhapsodie Op. 53 fur Alt-Solor Mannerchor und Orchester. Grieg (1843-1907), and Mahler (1860-1911), Funf Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Ruckert, Deutsche Grammophon, Hamburg. Britten, Benjamin. Two Chamber Works, Sting Quartet No. 1 in D Opus 25 and A Fantasy for Oboe and Strings, Opus 2 with Harold Gomberg, Oboe, Felix Galimir, Violin, Karen Tuttle, Violin and Seymour Barab, Cello (Fantasy) and The Galimir String Quartet composed of Felix Galimir, 1st Violin, Leon Zawisza, 2nd Violin, Karen Tuttle, Viola and Seymour Barab, Cello, Counterpoint /Esoteric Records, Hollywood, California (cover design by Cynthia Pennell) - unopened record album. Boulez: Le Soleil Des Eaux, Pierre Boulez conducting and Messiaen: Chronochromie for Orchestra, Koechlin: Les Bandar-Log, Op. 176, based on Kipling’s “Jungle Book” Conducted by Antal Dorati and Pierre Boulez, with Josephine Nendick (soprano), Barry McDaniel (tenor), Louis Devos (bass), BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Angel Records Bumbry, Grace. Casta Diva, Opera arias in the grand manner (Cherubini, Verdi, Bellini, Ponchielli, Giordano, Mascagni and Puccini) -Bavarian State Opera Orchestra, Aldo Ceccato conducting. Capital Records, Hollywood, California (Cover photo by Hiro) – unopened record album Chausson, Ernest. Chausson, Symphony in B Flat Major, Op.20, Franck (Cesar) Les Eolides, l’Orchestre de las Suisse Romandem Ansermet. Decca Record Company Ltd. London, 1967 – unopened record album. Crespin, Regine. Ravel: Scheherazade-, Berlioz: Nuits d’ete-, L’orchestre de las Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet, London “Cymanfa Ganu 1969.” Massed Choirs of South Wales (The Tabernacle Choir, Morriston Orpheus, New Siloh Choir, Swansea Male Voice Choir, Dunvant Male Voice Choir, Morriston Ladies Choir, St. David’s Church Singers, Morrison Aelwyd Choir). Newly recorded in the famous Tabernacle Congregational Chapel, Morriston, Glamorgan, Wales, “A hymn-signing festival from Morriston, Glamorgan, in the presence of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.” Conducted by Alun John and organist Eurfryn John, BBC Records, London, (Cover design by Roy Curtis-Bramwell) Debussy, Claude. Fifteen Piano Pieces played by Walter Gieseking, Angel Records, New York, NY. (Cover is a portrait of Claude Debussy by Marcel Baschet from the Musee de Versailles) Dusik: Concerto in B flat for 2 Pianos & Orchestra and Schumann: Andante & Variations for 2 Pianos, 2 Celli & Horn. Toni and Rosi Grunschlag, Pianists and the Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper, Paul Angerer, Conductor, Turnabout Vox, Universal Richard Nickel Committee, Listing of Record-Album Collections belonging to Richard Nickel Page 3 of 10 Elgar: Sea Pictures Op. 37 and Mahler: Five Songs from Ruckert, with Janet Baker and Sir John Barbirolli, New Philharmonic Orchestra, Angel and Capital Records, Los Angeles Fleisher, Leon. Piano Works by Copland and Kirchner, Sessions and Rorem, Aaron Copland Piano Sonata and Leon Kirchner, Piano Sonata and Roger Sessions, from My Diary and Ned Rorem, Three Barcarolles, Epic Records/A product of CBS, 1963 (Cover has an image of a piece by artist Moholy Nagy ’43) Handel-The Dettingen Te Deum, conducted by Wolfgang Gonnenwein, Angel Records, London, 1964 – (unopened record album) Haydn, Joseph. Quartets, op.54 (complete) and Allegri String Quartet, Quartet No. 1 in G Major, Quartet No. 2 in C Major and Quartet No. 3 in E Major, Recorded in Mozart Hall, Vienna, July 1964, Westminster Recording Company, ABC-Paramount Records, Inc. New York, NY. Haydn, Joseph. Quartet in E flat Op. 33/2 “Joke” and Quartet in F, Op.3/5 “Serenade” and Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76/2 “Flutes”, Janacek Quartet, Decca Records Company, Ltd, London, 1964 (unopened record album) Haydn, Joseph: Te Deim C-dur, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurerische Trauermusik c-moll KV 477 (Masonic Funeral Music in C Minor), Adagio und Fuge c-moll KV 546 (Adagio and Fugue in C minor), Missa brevis Nr. 11 C-dur KV 259 (Orgelsolo-Messe) Missa brevis in C major (Organ