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MARCEL DARRIEUX (BORDEAUX, 18 OCTOBER, 1891 – SAINT-JEAN-DE-LUZ, 2 SEPTEMBER, 1989)

 

 

 

 

Born in Bordeaux, Darrieux graduated from the Conservatoire de Bordeaux (1906) then from the Conservatoire de Paris (1912). Henri Berthelier and Lucien Capet were among his teachers. From 1921 he belonged to the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique. Simultaneously, in the early 1920s he was concertmaster of the Concerts Koussevitzky orchestra under the direction of Serge Koussevitzky. He is best known as the first interpreter of Prokofiev’s 1st Violin Concerto premiered on 18 October 1923. After the refusal of several well-known violin virtuosos (in particular, Bronisław Huberman) to approach this concerto, the composer entrusted the soloist part to the first solo violin of the orchestra. In the second half of the 1920s, Darrieux collaborated with the conductor Walther Straram. From 1926, he was the first violin of his orchestra (Orchestre des concerts Straram). On 11 June 1925, Darrieux and Straram premiered Kurt Weill’s Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, Op. 12. Similarly, on 24 February 1927, they premiered Dimitrios Levidis’s Poème pour violon et orchestre. In the 1930s, Darrieux was part of the Concerts Colonne. In 1937, he was a member of the jury of the Queen Elisabeth Competition. With the flutist Marcel Moyse and violist Pierre Pasquier, he recorded Ludwig van Beethoven’s Serenade for flute, violin and viola in D major Op. 25. These three musicians participated in the recording of Manuel de Falla’s Harpsichord Concerto. Accompanied on piano, he also recorded isolated pieces by Robert Schumann, Isaac Albéniz, Gabriel Pierné and others in the 1920s. Darrieux died in Saint-Jean-de-Luz on 2 September 1989.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

Marcel Darrieux, Marcel Moyse, Pierre Pasquier – Serenade, Op. 25

Label: Decca – K. 582, Decca – K. 583

Format: 2 x Shellac, 12″, 78 RPM

Country: UK

Released:

Genre: Classical

Serenade, Op. 25

A 1st Side

B 2nd Side

C 3rd Side

D 4th Side

Record Company – The Decca Record Company Limited

Composed By – Beethoven

Matrix / Runout (Label side A): SA.50

Matrix / Runout (Label side B): SA.51

Matrix / Runout (Label side C): SA.52

Matrix / Runout (Label side D): SA.53

 

Igor Stravinsky – The Soldier’s Tale – Musique De L’Histoire Du Soldat

Label: Columbia – LX.197, Columbia – LX.198, Columbia – LX.199

Format:

3 x Shellac, 12″, 78 RPM, Album, Mono

Country: UK

Released: Feb 1933

Genre:  Classical

The Soldier’s Tale – Musique De L’Histoire Du Soldat

A Part 1. (a) Soldier’s March; (b) The Soldier’s Violin

B Part 2. (a) Royal March; (b) The Devil’s Dance

C Part 3. Music To Scene 2

D Part 4. (a) Tango (b) Waltz (c) Ragtime

E Part 5. Little Concert

F Part 6. (a) Great Choral (b) Triumphal March Of The Devil

Bassoon – Gustave Dhérin

Clarinet – Emile Godeau

Conductor – Igor Stravinsky

Double Bass – M. Boussagol

Percussion – Jean-Paul Morel

Trombone – Raphaël Delbos

Trumpet – Eugène Foveau

Violin – Marcel Darrieux

Review in Gramophone magazine February 1933