French 78 rpm record.

Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Willem Mengelberg: The Ruins of Athens, Incidental Music, Op. 113: IV. Turkish March, Leonore Overture No. 1 in C Major, Op. 138, Coriolan, Op. 62: Overture и другие песни.

Willem Mengelberg And His Concertgebouw Orchestra ‎– Lohengrin - Introduction, Act 1. Label: Columbia ‎– L 1948. Lohengrin - Introduction, Act 1, Part 2. Companies, etc. Record Company – Columbia Graphophone Company Ltd. Recorded At – Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Composed By – Wagner.

Tannhäuser, opera, WWV 70. 2. Dresden Version. Academic Festival Overture, for orchestra in C minor ("Akademische Festouvertüre"), Op. 80. Willem Mengelberg. blue highlight denotes track pick.

Lohengrin: Prld To Act I. Tannhauser: Ov (Dresden Version). 3. Sym N. in F, O. 0: I. Allegro Con Brio. Older music lovers may know that these early electric Columbia records (which used to bear the caption "Willem Mengelberg and His Concertgebouw Orchestra) offered wonderfully full and vivid sound for their time. Details of balance, and the overall warm acoustic of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw are made even clearer in these excellent transfers. So clear is the focus, in the Bach Suite, that it is now possible to be certain that an old rumour is true, namely that Mengelberg used not one but five flutes for this work.

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is a symphony orchestra in the Netherlands, based at the Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw (concert hall). Considered one of the world's leading orchestras. Queen Beatrix conferred the "Royal" title upon the orchestra in 1988. The Concertgebouw opened on 11 April 1888. The Concertgebouw Orchestra was established several months later, and gave its first concert in the Concertgebouw on 3 November 1888, conducted by the orchestra's first chief conductor, Willem Kes.

Joseph Willem Mengelberg (28 March 1871 – 21 March 1951) was a Dutch conductor, famous for his performances of Mahler and Strauss with the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Mengelberg was the fourth of fifteen children of German-born parents in Utrecht, Netherlands. His father was the well-known Dutch-German sculptor Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is one of the very best orchestras in the world. But what makes the orchestra so special? Time and time again, critics have lauded its unique sound. While the exceptional acoustics of The Concertgebouw also play an important role in this respect, no other orchestra sounds like the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in the Main Hall. The influence exerted on the orchestra by its chief conductors - of which there have been only six since 1888 - and of the musicians themselves is also important. Het Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest.

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra during a performance of Sibelius's Symphony No. 2 (photo: Milagro Elstak). The seven chief conductors. The young Willem Mengelberg. Partnerships with composers. During Willem Mengelberg’s fifty-year tenure, leading composers conducted the orchestra on more than one occasion. Through the years, the orchestra has continued its collaboration with composers such as John Adams, Thomas Adès, George Benjamin and Tan Dun, who over the last few years have followed in the footsteps of other conducting composers like Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Bruno Maderna, Witold Lutosławski, Otto Ketting, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez and Hans Werner Henze.

Willem Mengelberg conducting the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra's 1927 performance of Prelude to Wagner's 'Lohengrin'". com/watch?v F8Hi0wNwDhc. Recorded December 14, 1928. com/watch?v XU387XqefYs.