In a Chinese Temple-Garden: oriental phantasy Back to list of works index
This
piece was first advertised in
Musical Opinion (January 1923) as "even better than In a Persian
Market". That turned out to be
merely publisher’s hype, as this work has had only a fraction of the number of
recordings – audiences probably find the whole-tone sections daunting, other
melodies lack catchiness, and it is only the Lovers’ Melody which can compete with
the best of Ketèlbey.
However, musically it is a tight-knit piece, with whole-tone harmony
unifying the introduction and procession, a descending chromatic scale linking
the introduction with the incantation and incense, pentatonic phrases occurring
in both lovers’ music and disturbance, and a gong punctuating the beginning,
middle and end.
Composer’s synopsis
After a few bars characteristic introduction, -
The incantation of the priests in the Temple, - the perfume of incense floats
on the air, - melody (given to cello, viola and oboe with pizzicato accompaniment)
represents two lovers, - a Manchu wedding-procession passes noisily by, - a
street disturbance ensues amongst the coolies, (founded on an actual Chinese
scale,) - the beating of the gong in the Temple restores quietude, - the
incantation of the priests is heard again, and the lovers' song (amidst the
singing of birds) with a brief quotation from the Temple and Coolies' music
brings the piece to a conclusion.
In a Chinese
Temple-Garden - orchestral
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Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
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|
Pathé Concert Orchestra |
Pathé 5783 |
94568 |
12” 78 |
UK |
[Feb
24] |
BL |
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Re-issue |
-
Actuelle 15156 |
12” 78 |
|
[Feb
24] |
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|
Court
Symphony Orchestra, Ketèlbey |
AX
99 |
12” 78 |
UK |
[Mar
24] |
BL,
TM, (TM CD) |
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|
Re-issue |
- Columbia 5067-M |
|
US |
|||||
|
Jenö Fesca and his String Orchestra |
Homochord HB 2093 |
? |
12”
78, 2 sides |
UK |
[Sept
24] |
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|
Edith Lorand Orchestra |
Parlophone P 1648 |
? |
12” 78 |
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|
|
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|
Re-issue |
- Parlophone E 10198 |
7576 |
12” 78 |
UK |
[Dec 24] |
Dec 24 p.262 |
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|
Re-issue |
-
Parlophon P 1807
|
|
Germany |
[Dec
24] |
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Re-issue |
-
Odeon 3161 |
|
12” 78 |
US |
[Aug
25] |
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|
Coliseum Orchestra |
Coliseum
1719 |
G
1087 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[1925] |
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|
Re-issue (Empire
Orchestra) |
-
Citizen 872 |
G
1087 |
10” 78 |
UK |
|
|
|
|
|
Grosvenor Orchestra |
Aco G 15616 |
C
6719 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Feb 25] |
BL |
||
|
Re-issue (Sutherland
Orchestra) |
-
Beltona 654 |
C 6719 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Jan
25] |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue (Warwick Orchestra) |
- Duophone B 5015 |
C 6719? |
10” 78 |
UK |
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|
Re-issue? (Garrison Orchestra) |
- Ludgate 2903 |
? |
10” 78 |
UK |
[1926?] |
|
|
|
|
American
Concert Orchestra |
Edison
80853 |
10564 A12 |
10” 78 |
US |
rec.Sept 25 |
BL |
||
|
Court
Symphony Orchestra, Leggett |
Columbia
968R |
WAX
1677-1 |
12” 78 |
UK |
[Aug
26] |
WC |
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|
Re-issue |
- Columbia 5067-M |
1677 |
12” 78 |
US |
[1927] |
|
WC |
|
|
International
Concert Orchestra, Shilkret |
Victor 35777 |
CVE 35735-1 |
12” 78 |
US |
rec.
July 26 |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
HMV C 1304 |
A 35735, 4-0934 |
12” 78 |
UK |
[Jan
27] |
Feb
27 p.374 |
BL |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
HMV EB 4 |
0110504 |
12” 78 |
Australia |
[1927] |
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|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Gramophone L 867 |
|
12” 78 |
France |
|
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue (perhaps different
recording)
(Ferdy Kauffman & sein Orchester) |
Gramophone
|
40934 R |
12” 78 |
France |
? |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
HMV FKX 114 |
|
12” 78 |
|
|
|
PD |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Evergreen Melodies C 62 |
CD |
UK |
[1999] |
PD,
TM |
|||
|
Albert
W. Ketelbey’s Concert Orchestra, male chorus, Ketèlbey |
WAX
4524, 4525 |
12” 78, 2 sides |
UK |
[Oct
29] rec.Jan 29 |
Oct
29 p.208 |
BL,
(TM CAS) |
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|
Re-issue |
Columbia
J 3185 |
WAX
4524, 4525 |
12” 78, 2 sides |
Japan |
[1931] |
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Re-issue |
- Columbia DXX 1346 |
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Germany |
MMU |
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|
Re-issue |
- Columbia SEDQ 695 |
|
EP |
Spain |
1963 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Naxos 8.110174 |
CD |
UK |
2001 |
BL,
NX, TM |
|||
|
Re-issue |
- Revivendo. RVPC 004 |
|
CD |
Brazil |
|
|
|
|
|
New
Empire Orchestra |
Decca
K 523 |
MA 1456-3 |
12” 78 |
UK |
[Aug
30] |
Oct
30 p.234 |
BL |
|
|
Symphonie-Orchester, chorus, organ, Weissmann |
Odeon
O 6787 |
xxQU 286 |
12” 78 |
Germany |
? |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Odéon 171515 |
|
12”78 |
France |
? |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue (Orquesta Sinfónica de Berlin) |
- Odeón 173222 |
XXQU 286 |
12” 78 |
Spain |
[1931] |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue (Grand Symphony
Orchestra) |
-
Parlophone E 11167 |
XXQU 286-1 |
12” 78 |
|
[Nov
31] |
Nov
31 p.230 |
BL |
|
|
Grosses
Symphonie-Orchester, chorus, organ, Weissmann |
Odeon
O 11453 |
Be
9941 |
10” 78 |
Germany |
[1931] |
MMU, cat.1936 |
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Odeon A 161176 |
Be
9941 |
10” 78 |
Austria |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Odeon 168697 |
Be
9441 |
10” 78 |
|
[Mar
31] |
|
WC, (TM CD) |
|
|
Ernest
Leggett’s Orchestra |
Sterno 772 |
S 1732, 1733 |
10” 78, 2 sides |
UK |
[Oct
31] |
Oct
31 p.186 |
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|
Re-issue (Orchestre Symphonique
Solex) |
- Solex B24 |
S 1732, 1733 |
10” 78, 2 sides |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Victor
Concert Orchestra, Shilkret |
RCA
Victor L 24002 B |
LBVE 69731 |
10” 78 |
US |
[1931?] |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-isssue (Victor Concert Orchestra, Bourdon) |
-
Victor L24002 |
|
10” 78 |
US |
? |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Victor L24002 |
transcription record |
10” 33 |
US |
|
|
PD |
|
|
Phil
Anderson’s Orchestra |
Eclipse
SC 80 |
1107 |
8” 78 |
UK |
[1932?] |
|
|
|
|
Grand
Symphony Orchestra, chorus, organ |
Parlophone R 1877 |
? |
10” 78 |
UK |
[Aug
34] |
Aug
34 p.99 |
||
|
Louis
Voss Grand Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1107 |
CP 780 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[1941] |
WC |
||
|
Re-issue |
-
Bosworth BOCD 162 |
CD |
UK |
1989 |
BL,
TM |
|||
|
Re-issue |
-
Bosworth BPM 217 |
CD |
UK |
2001 |
TM |
|||
|
Re-issue |
-
Guild Light Music GLCD 5115 |
CD |
UK |
July
05 |
BL,
TM |
|||
|
Albert
W. Ketelbey & his Concert Orchestra, male chorus, Ketèlbey |
DR
4756 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[Nov
40] |
Dec
40 p.154-5 |
BL,
PD, (TM CD) |
||
|
New
Promenade Orchestra, Wardour Singers, Robertson |
London
R 10018 |
DR
12250-1 |
10” 78 |
US |
[1948?] |
WC |
||
|
Re-issue |
- Decca BEP 6086 |
|
EP |
Spain |
1962 |
|
TM |
|
|
Wilhelm
Stephan mit seinem grossem Konzert-Orchester |
Deutsche
Grammophon 79376 |
5999 LHN |
10” 78 |
Germany |
? |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Polydor 49376 |
5999 LHN |
10” 78 |
Sweden |
[1954] |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Polydor DP 1016 |
|
10” 78, SP |
|
? |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Polydor 22376 |
|
SP |
Germany |
[1954] |
|
|
|
|
New
Symphony Orchestra of London, male chorus, Robinson |
Decca
LK 4080 |
LP |
UK |
[June
54] |
July
54 p.73, Mar 55 p.464-465 |
BL |
||
|
Re-issue |
- Decca LW 5140 |
10” LP |
UK |
[Dec 54] |
PD |
|||
|
Re-issue |
- Decca 6835 654 |
|
LP |
Netherlands |
1960 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Ace of Clubs ACL 1044 |
LP |
UK |
[1961] |
BL,
(TM CD) |
|||
|
Re-issue |
-
Eclipse ECS 2016 (+ECM) |
LP |
UK |
1969 |
Feb
70 p.1332 |
BL,
PD, TM |
||
|
Re-issue |
-
Decca DDX 190039 |
|
LP |
Netherlands |
1969 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Decca NUX 390044 |
|
LP |
Netherlands |
1969 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Decca 220014 |
|
LP |
France |
1969 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- London
ECL 105 |
|
LP |
Brazil |
1977 |
|
|
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|
Re-issue |
- London LL
985 |
|
LP |
US |
|
|
||
|
Re-issue |
- London
LLC 5047 |
|
LP |
Brazil |
|
|
||
|
Re-issue |
- Richmond B 20083 |
|
LP |
US |
|
|
|
|
|
Rochester
Pops Orchestra, Gould |
Columbia
CL 560 |
|
10” LP |
US |
[1954] |
|||
|
Re-issue |
-
Columbia AL 47 |
|
10” LP |
US |
[1954] |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Philips GO 6605 |
|
10” LP |
France |
[1959] |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Columbia Masterworks LPCB
27003 |
|
10” LP |
Brazil |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Coronet KLL 002 |
|
10” LP |
Australia |
|
|
|
|
|
Heinrich Riethmüller (Polychord-Konzertorgel), seine Instrumentalsoloiten
[Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks], chorus, [cond. Schmidt-Boelke] |
Opera 3116 |
|
10” LP |
Germany |
1956 |
|
Pfälzische Landesbibliothek |
|
|
Vienna
State Opera Orchestra, organ, Aliberti |
Westminster
WP 6082 |
|
LP |
|
[1958]rec.June 57 |
|
(TM
CD) |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Westminster WST 15005 |
|
LP |
|
|
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Sonotape SWB 7019 |
|
2-track
tape |
|
1957 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Westminster WGWS 18071 |
|
LP |
Australia |
1958 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Westminster WTP 132 |
|
4-track tape |
US |
1960 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
World Record Club TP 359 |
|
LP |
UK |
1963 |
|
BL,
PD |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Clave
18-1246 S |
|
LP |
Spain |
1971 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue (Orquesta sinfónica
de Baviera, Jenssen) |
- Dial Discos/Nevada ND 501312 |
|
LP |
Spain |
1978 |
|
WC, TM |
|
|
Re-issue (Orquesta sinfónica de
Baviera, Jenssen) |
- Dial Discos NC 501312 |
|
CAS |
Spain |
[1978] |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Westminster WGS 8139 |
|
LP |
US |
1981 |
|
TM |
|
|
Re-issue (Orquesta sinfónica de Baviera, Jenssen) |
- Dial Discos/Doblon 102048 |
|
CAS |
Spain |
[1986] |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue (Orquesta sinfónica de Baviera, Jenssen) |
-
Dial 960139 |
|
CD |
Spain |
1991 |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Voix de son maître 2CO 59392502 |
|
LP |
France |
|
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Westminster IWA 930558 |
|
LP |
Japan |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Westminster WST 16003 |
|
LP |
US |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- World Record Club S 4743 |
|
LP |
Australia |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Voix de son maître C 24592502 |
|
CAS |
France |
|
|
WC |
|
|
New
Symphony Orchestra of London, male chorus, Sharples |
Decca
SKL 4077 |
|
LP |
UK |
[1959] |
Feb
60 p.434 |
BL,
PD |
|
|
Re-issue |
- London CM. 9041 |
|
LP |
Canada |
[1959] |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- London LL 3141 |
|
LP |
US |
[1959] |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- London PS 186 |
|
LP |
US |
[1959] |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Axis 6326 |
|
LP |
Australia |
[1959] |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Decca LXT 4329 |
|
LP |
Spain |
[1960] |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Decca DFE 6665 |
|
SP |
UK |
[1961] |
May 61 p.603 |
||
|
Re-issue |
-
Decca DFE STO 149 |
|
SP |
UK |
[1961] |
May 61 p.603 |
||
|
Re-issue |
-
Decca SKC 4077 |
|
CAS |
Spain |
[1969] |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Decca SPA 187 |
|
LP |
UK |
1971 |
July
72 p.253 |
BL,
PD |
|
|
Re-issue |
- London SPA 4036 |
|
LP |
Canada |
1971 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Decca SPL 3046 |
|
LP |
South
Africa |
1977 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Decca 65 94 156 |
|
LP |
Spain |
1981 |
|
|
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|
Re-issue |
- Decca LPD 253 Y |
|
LP |
Belgium |
? |
|
|
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|
Re-issue |
- Westminster WGS 8139 |
|
LP |
Brazil |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Decca 841203 |
|
CAS |
Spain |
1982 |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Decca 452987-2 DWO |
|
CD |
UK |
1997 |
Nov 97 p.48, Oct 12 p.109 |
BL,
PD, TM |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Vocalion CDLF 8143 |
|
CD |
UK |
[2011] |
LMS Aut
11 p42 |
PD |
|
|
Richard
Hayman & his Orchestra (arr. Hayman) |
Mercury MG 10106 |
|
EP |
Spain |
[1959] |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Calle Mayor VM 1134 |
|
CD |
Spain |
2017 |
|
|
|
|
Stuttgart
Philharmonic Orchestra, male chorus, Mareczek |
Phillips 839800 G7/GSY |
|
LP |
Sweden |
|
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Philips G 05585 |
|
10”
LP |
France |
[1967] |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Philips 836397 VZ |
|
10”
LP |
France |
[1967] |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Philips 837494 G7 |
|
LP |
|
|
(in French cat.1967) |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Mercury
Wing SRW 18090 |
|
LP |
US |
[1968] |
|
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|
|
Re-issue |
- Philips STLP 900531 |
|
LP |
Brazil |
[1969] |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Fontana SFL 14141 |
|
LP |
UK |
[1970] |
Jan 70 p.1188 |
BL,
TM, (TM CD) |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Contour
6870 576 |
|
LP |
UK |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Philips 432607 AE |
|
10”
LP |
France |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Philips
6504042 |
|
LP |
Spain |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Philips
6537 018 |
|
LP |
France |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Philips G 03488L |
|
LP |
France |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Philips 730236 |
|
CAS |
Spain |
[1971] |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Philips 7431049 |
|
CAS |
Spain |
[1977] |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Philips 7318016 |
|
CAS |
France |
|
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Philips 9117 CAA |
|
CAS |
France |
|
|
WC |
|
|
Royal
Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Rogers |
Decca
PFS 4170 |
LP |
UK |
1969 |
Nov
69 p.833 |
BL,
TM |
||
|
Re-issue |
- London SPC 21036 |
|
LP |
US |
1969 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Decca
SLZ.8386, |
|
LP |
NZ |
1969 |
|
|
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|
Re-issue |
- London
LLN-7164, |
|
LP |
Brazil |
1969 |
|
|
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|
Re-issue |
- Orlador 54452 |
|
LP |
Spain |
1975 |
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|
Re-issue |
-
Decca DGS 16 |
|
LP |
US |
1980 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Decca 6594064 |
|
LP |
Spain |
1981 |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
- London 416 528-1 |
|
LP |
Spain |
1986 |
|
|
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|
Re-issue |
- Decca 444 786-2LPF |
CD |
UK |
1996 |
Aug
96 p.60 |
BL,
PD, TM |
||
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Re-issue |
- MG Direct Marketing D 115620 |
|
CD |
US |
1996 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Decca 466 8562 |
|
CD |
UK |
1999 |
|
|
|
|
Philharmonia Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers, Lanchbery |
EMI
ASD 3542 |
LP |
UK |
1978 |
July
78 p.261 |
BL,
TM |
||
|
Re-issue |
- Angel EAC
55030 |
|
LP |
Japan |
[1978] |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Angel S 37483 |
|
LP |
US |
1978 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- EMI 26
1370 |
|
LP |
Germany |
1978 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- EMI 7C 06102986 |
|
LP |
Sweden |
1978 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Hörzu 1C 05702986Q |
|
LP |
Germany |
1978 |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
- His Master’s
Voice TC-ASD 3542 |
|
CAS |
UK |
1978 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- World Record Club R-05771 |
|
LP |
Australia |
1979 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Angel SS 45012 |
EP |
US |
1979 |
|
|
||
|
Re-issue |
- Voz de su Amo 10C 265002986Q |
|
LP/CAS |
Spain |
[1980] |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Voix de son maître 2C 2692986 |
|
LP/CAS |
France |
|
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
- His Master’s Voice 1546401 |
|
LP |
Sweden |
1983 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Richmond B 20083 |
|
LP |
US |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Angel EAC-80451 |
|
LP |
Japan |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
EMI CDC 7478062 |
|
CD |
UK |
[1987] |
Nov 87 p.825 |
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
EMI 7243 5730 025 |
|
CD |
UK |
1990 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
EMI CDM 253 8402 |
|
CD |
Netherlands |
1992 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
EMI 7234 5680 6122 |
|
CD |
UK |
1993 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
CD-CFP 4637 |
|
CD |
|
1993 |
Mar
94 p.114 |
BL,
TM |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
TC-CFP 4637 |
|
CAS |
|
1993 |
Mar
94 p.114 |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- EMI 50112920 |
|
CD |
Japan? |
1994 |
|
TM |
|
|
Re-issue |
- EMI
Classics 7243 5730 0124 |
|
CD |
Netherlands |
1998 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
EMI Classics 5730002 |
|
CD |
Germany |
[1998] |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
- HMV 5724852 |
CD |
|
1998 |
||||
|
Re-issue |
-
EMI Classics 0724 3573 00056 |
|
CD |
|
[1999] |
|
NX |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
EMI Classics 0742 3573 00155 |
|
CD |
|
[1999] |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- EMI Classics
7243 8266 6424 |
|
CD |
Europe |
2002 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- EMI Classics 00946
35239959/352399-2 |
|
CD |
|
[2006] |
|
NX |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Angel
HCD-1353 |
|
CD |
Japan |
|
|
|
|
|
London
Promenade Orchestra, Ambrosian Chorus, Faris |
Philips
6514 152 |
|
LP |
UK |
1982 |
Apr
82 p.1423 |
BL,
TM |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Philips 7337152 |
|
CAS |
UK |
1982 |
Apr
82 p.1423 |
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Philips 400 011-2PH |
CD |
UK |
1983 |
Apr
83 p.1152 |
BL,
PD, TM |
||
|
Re-issue |
- Musical
Heritage Society MHS 11165F |
|
CD |
Germany |
1986 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue? Perhaps
different artists |
-
Philips 296178 |
|
LP |
|
1988 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Philips MCCE
7084 |
|
CAS |
Mexico |
1991 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Philips 4626572 |
CD |
|
1999 |
BL,
PD |
|||
|
Re-issue |
CAS |
|
2000 |
|||||
|
Re-issue |
-
Decca/Universal 4737202 |
CD |
|
2003 |
June
03 p.50 |
BL,
WC, PD |
||
|
Re-issue (cond. Myers) “Dans les jardins d’un temple chinois” |
- Mon Patrimoine
Musical |
|
mp3 |
France |
2019 |
|
|
|
|
Palm
Court Theatre Orchestra, male chorus, Godwin |
Chandos
FBCD 2002 |
CD |
UK |
1998 |
BL,
TM |
|||
|
Re-issue |
-
Chandos 6676 |
|
CD |
UK |
2004 |
|
NX |
|
|
Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra, Gonzales-Hamilton |
private recording |
|
web |
China |
2013 |
|
|
|
|
Berliner
Symphoniker, Collegium Musicale Vocale
Berlin, Buschkötter |
Lindström O 28139 |
Be 14255-1 |
10” 78 |
Germany |
? |
|
WC |
|
|
Crystal
Palace Orchestra |
Clausophon 598 |
4596 |
10” 78 |
Germany |
? |
MMU |
WC |
|
|
Grosses
Parlophon-Streich-Orchester, chorus, Dobrindt |
Parlophon B 47122 |
133155 |
10” 78 |
Germany |
? |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue (Orchestre Symphonique Parlophone) |
-
Parlophon B 17109 |
133155 |
10” 78 |
France
|
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Parlophon B 48043 |
|
10” 78 |
Germany |
? |
MMU |
WC |
|
|
Re-issue (Gloria Symphonie-Orchester) |
-
Lindström GO 27385 |
133155 |
10” 78 |
|
? |
|
WC |
|
|
Lajos Barany-Künstler-Orchester |
Grammophon 792 |
4583 BDii |
10” 78 |
Germany |
? |
MMU |
WC |
|
|
Paul Godwin mit seinem Künstler-Ensemble |
Grammophon 19717 |
162be |
12” 78 |
Germany |
? |
MMU |
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Polydor 24471 A |
|
|
|
? |
|
WC |
|
|
Queen’s
Hall Light Orchestra, Williams |
Columbia
Entré RL 3053 |
|
LP |
US |
?[1950s] |
|
|
|
|
Walter Fuensuke Orchestra |
Nippon
Telefunken R 10 |
20429 |
10” 78 |
Japan |
? |
|
|
|
K 523 only has an extract
from this piece.
The Zhejiang SO plays at a
concert in Hangzhou on 29th November 2013.
The orchestration of this piece
is fairly clearly defined, with few options left to the performer:
-
Some performances
have the chorus of priests singing the prescribed words, some follow the
instruction for the priests to hum, and yet others mix singing and
humming.
-
Parts for alto
and tenor saxophones were only added to the orchestral set around 1930, to
cater for the changing composition of light orchestras; the composer himself
didn’t use them when recording this work, but they do add a suitably exotic
colour to the texture.
-
In the second
half of the first bar the percussionist is asked to play a “Chinese Drum”; this
is indeed what the composer seems to use in his 1940 recording, but a few
conductors have chosen instead a Chinese Temple Block (a wooden slit drum), as
being more appropriated to the garden of a Chinese temple.
-
The final bar is
a single quaver in the parts, but in his 1929 recording the composer himself
allowed his gong to resonate on.
The main divergence between
performances has been the speed of the Machu Procession. The score is merely marked “Più mosso” (=faster), but some recordings take the section
far too fast to process to – even Gurkha regiments don’t exceed 140 steps a
minute. However, this passage with its
whole-tone melody and harmony does sound crude and naïve if taken too slow.
|
Artists |
Main tempo |
Procession |
Cuts |
Bars cut |
Notes |
Link |
|
Score |
72 |
Più mosso |
|
|
|
|
|
Aliberti |
64 |
116 |
0 |
0 |
With harmonium. No vocal effects or harp |
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=eCssCDkjnbs&list=RDAMVMeCssCDkjnbs (wrongly
labelled as Bells across the Meadows) |
|
American CO |
|
|
1 |
|
Small orchestra. No vocal
effects. Portamento in Lovers' music. Gong sounds more dinner-table than
temple. |
|
|
Faris |
60 |
98 |
0 |
0 |
With saxophone |
|
|
Foort |
64 |
113 |
2 |
40 |
|
|
|
Godwin |
65 |
120 |
0 |
0 |
Small orchestra, with
piano. Humming an octave lower (is this temple in Tibet?) |
|
|
Gonzales-Hamilton |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gould |
|
|
|
|
Tasteful performance. |
|
|
Ketèlbey (1924) |
62 |
101 |
4 |
36 |
Small orchestra, without double
bass and harp. Solo voice, but no shouting |
|
|
Ketèlbey (1929) |
62 |
110 |
0 |
0 |
With celeste. Some vocal
lines omitted, and “Ah” is replaced by a nasal “Eh” |
|
|
Ketèlbey (1940) |
71 |
128 |
6 |
52 |
Without harp |
|
|
Lanchbery |
52 |
132 |
0 |
0 |
With saxophone |
|
|
Mareczek |
75 |
128 |
1 |
8 |
Gong has discordant bass
resonance of Bb. Chinese temple-block enters 2 beats too
early in bar 47 |
|
|
Robertson |
76 |
144 |
4 |
48 |
Lacks cor
anglais. With chanting but no shouting |
www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/in%20a%20chinese%20temple%20garden%20-%20Rrobertson.mp3 |
|
Robinson |
67 |
120 |
5 |
36 |
With saxophone instead of cor anglais |
|
|
Rogers |
69 |
142 |
1 |
8 |
Vivid performance. Good
singing. |
|
|
Sharples |
55 |
153 |
0 |
0 |
Harp also plays discretely
during first lovers’ theme |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ3AbXB_UHw |
|
Shilkret (1926) |
72 |
113 |
3 |
24 |
Small orchestra, with piano
(or celeste?). No vocal effects |
http://archive.org/details/AKetelbyFestival-5CutsFrom1927-1930 |
|
Voss |
66 |
137 |
6 |
50 |
With very active harp
additions. No vocal effects |
|
|
Weissmann (xxQU
286) |
74 |
120 |
4 |
38 |
See below. |
Weissmann (xxQU 286) has a very loud
organ accompanying the incantation of the priests, the chorus laughing to the
music of the wedding procession and completely drowning out the music of the street
disturbance with their shouting. A
Hawaiian guitar and saxophone which both happened to be in the recording studio
are commandeered for the reprise of the incantation and love theme, and the
garden is enlivened by a bird-whistle.
In a Chinese Temple
Garden – military/wind band
|
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Silver Stars Band, Ketèlbey |
Regal G 8005 |
A 98 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[Oct 23] |
BL, TM (TMmp3) |
|
|
Re-issue |
- VLMS VH 115 |
CAS |
UK |
[1987] |
TM |
||
|
Band of HM Royal Air Force,
Amers |
HMV C 1149 |
Cc 4455-2 |
12” 78 |
UK |
[July 24] |
Aug 24 p.105 |
BL |
|
Band of HM Royal Air Force,
Amers |
HMV C 1244 |
Cc 7329-2 |
12” 78 |
UK |
[Mar 26] |
Apr 26 p.534 |
BL |
|
Re-issue |
- VLMS SP 108 |
CAS |
UK |
TM |
|||
|
2LO Military Band, Godfrey |
Velvet Face (Edison) 1172 |
9881 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[Aug 26] |
||
|
Band of HM Grenadier
Guards, Miller (Aldershot Command Searchlight Tattoo) |
Columbia 9109 |
WAX 1667 |
12” 78 |
UK |
[Aug 26] |
Aug 26 p.128 |
BL (TMmp3 inc.) |
|
Silvers Stars Band
(Aldershot Tattoo) |
Regal G 8649 |
WA 3473-1 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[Sept 26] rec.23.6.26 |
BL, (TM CD) |
|
|
Band of HM Irish Guards |
Imperial 1716 |
? |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Mar 27] |
Apr 27 p.464 |
|
|
Band of HM Welsh Guards |
Z 280-1 |
8” 78 |
UK |
[1928] rec Dec 27 |
(TM CD) |
||
|
Re-issue (Musique de la Garde Royale
Galloise) |
- Broadcast B 1004 |
8” 78 |
France |
|
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue
(Musique
de la Garde Royale Anglaise) |
- Broadcast 1060 |
8” 78 |
France |
|
|
WC |
|
|
London Fire Brigade Band,
Anderson |
Piccadilly 482 |
3349 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[1930] |
Apr 30 p.512 |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Octacros
160 |
3349 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[1934] |
|
|
|
Musique du 39ème Régiment d'Infanterie, Revoil |
Corelia CC
81302 |
|
LP |
France |
1981 |
|
WC |
|
Banda Simfonica
Roquetes – Nou Barris de Barcelona, Navarro Mas |
Àudiovisuals de Sarrià 51714 |
|
CD |
Spain |
2000 |
|
|
|
South Shore Concert Band,
Whitmarsh |
Sounds of the Circus 19 |
CD |
US |
2001 |
|||
|
Nagoya University of Arts
Wind Orchestra, Van der Roost (arr. Takahashi) |
De Haske
Winds DHR 040413 |
|
CD |
Netherlands |
2013 |
|
|
|
Banda municipal do Funchal,
Domingo da Silva |
private recording |
|
web |
|
2014 |
|
|
|
Orchestre d'Harmonie de Sainghin-en-Weppes, Luc Delozien
(arr. Takahashi) |
private recording |
|
web |
|
2014 |
|
|
|
“Militär-Orchester” |
Schlagerton 101 |
199A |
8” 78 |
Germany |
? |
|
|
|
? |
Orchestrola 8106 |
? |
78 |
Germany |
? |
MMU |
|
Band |
Main tempo |
Procession |
Cuts |
Bars cut |
Notes |
Link |
|
Funchal Band |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grenadier Guards |
82 |
cut |
1 |
96 |
With one voice declaiming
over music. |
|
|
Revoil Band |
60 |
124 |
0 |
0 |
With piano. Disjointed
phrasing, reluctant and flat singing. |
|
|
Royal Air Force (1926) |
78 |
132 |
3 |
28 |
Uses glockenspiel instead
of xylophone. No vocal effects. |
|
|
Sainghin-en-Weppes |
|
|
|
|
Recorded on 10th
May 2014 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJbyZicG5nI&list=PLDdlSzGv6-khkghNzz8X259uHMY6IdPIr&index=6 |
|
Silver Stars, Ketelbey (1923) |
77 |
113 |
2 |
49 |
Small wind band with clear
oboe, clarinet & cornet solos. No vocal effects. Cuts everything after
street disturbance |
www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/in%20a%20chinese%20temple%20garden%20-%20Silver%20Stars.mp3 |
|
Silver Stars, Aldershot
Tattoo (1926) |
75 |
cut |
1 |
96 |
With one voice declaiming
over music |
|
|
South Shore |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Welsh Guards |
87 |
124 |
4 |
52 |
With shouting and bird
whistle, but no chanting |
The two recordings from the Aldershot Tattoo are only short extracts. A
male voice declaims over the Priest’s music in quasi-Chinese, far closer to the
microphone in the Grenadier Guards recording than with the Silver Stars.
In a Chinese Temple
Garden - organ
|
Artists |
Instrument |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Reginald
Foort |
New
Gallery Cinema, London |
HMV
C 1330 |
CR 1283-1 |
12”
78 |
UK |
[June
27] |
June
27 p.24 |
BL,
|
|
Re-issue |
|
-
Electrola EH 63 |
CR
1283-1 |
12” 78 |
|
MMU |
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
|
-
World Records SH 338 |
|
LP |
UK |
1979 |
|
BL, WC, TM, (TM CAS) |
|
Re-issue |
|
- World Record Club R-08306 |
|
LP |
Australia |
1980 |
|
|
|
Jack
Courtnay |
Elite
Super Cinema, Wimbledon |
Regal
G 8855 |
WA
5204-1 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[July
27] rec.8.4.27 |
BL |
|
|
Quentin
Maclean |
(Compton
theatre organ) Pavilion, Shepherds Bush |
WA
6426-1 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Aug
28] rec Oct 27 |
Sept
28 p.159 |
BL,
(TM CD) |
|
|
Re-issue |
|
-
Columbia 1899D |
WA
6426 |
10”
78 |
US |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
|
-
Columbia FB 1482 |
WA
6426 |
10” 78 |
|
[Oct
36] |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
(incorrectly labelled
Orgel mit Orchester) |
-
Columbia DW 4803 |
WA
6426 |
10” 78 |
Germany |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
|
-
Beulah 1PD 7 |
CD |
UK |
1994 |
BL |
||
|
C.D.
Smart |
Plaza
Theatre, London |
Winner
4933 |
12378 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Oct
29] |
Oct
29 p.208 |
|
|
Philip
Dore |
Bournemouth
Pavilion |
Parlophone E 10952 |
XE 2952-1 |
12” 78 |
UK |
[Feb
30] |
Feb
30 p.417 |
BL,
WC |
|
Edward
O'Henry |
Madame
Tussaud's, London |
Broadcast
Twelve 5200 |
L
0728 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Dec
30] |
Dec
30 p.351 |
BL |
|
James
Bell |
Odeon
Theatre, Leicester Square, London |
Bosworth
BE 19 |
CP 1044 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[1940?] |
|
|
|
Benna Moe |
Palladium Biograf, Copenhagen |
Tono SP 4680 |
? |
10”
78 |
UK |
[1950?] |
|
WC |
|
Richard
Ellsasser |
John
Hays Hammond Jr. Museum, Gloucester, Mass. |
MGM
E 3282 |
|
LP |
US |
rec.1955 |
|
WC,
TM |
|
Aubry Whelan |
(Wurlitzer),
State Theatre, Melbourne |
Spotlight
SV 39 |
|
10” LP |
Australia |
1955 |
|
|
|
Joseph
Seal |
(Wurlitzer) |
Golden
Hour GH 609 |
|
LP |
UK |
1975 |
|
|
|
Gerrhard Gregor |
Grosse
Welte Funkorgel, Hamburg |
NDR
E 700255 |
|
CD |
Germany |
2001 |
|
|
|
Hans
Uwe Hielscher |
Dunedin
Town Hall |
Ifo
ORG 72112 |
|
CD |
NZ |
2004 |
|
WC,
TM |
|
Douglas
Mews |
Wellington
Town Hall |
Priory
PRCD 1030 |
|
CD |
NZ |
2010 |
|
WC |
|
Lew White |
Aeolian 176-Note Duo-Art |
roll |
|
? |
online cat.2003 |
|||
|
? |
Residence Organ Roll 3661 |
roll |
|
? |
|
Artist |
Notes |
Link |
|
Ellsasser |
Occasionally changes the
harmony, and plays the Procession too fast to be able to make the accelerando molto
marked in the score. Gong is far too quiet, but otherwise the quieter
passages are very sensitively played. |
www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/in%20a%20chinese%20temple%20garden%20-%20Ellsasser.mp3 |
|
Foort |
Convincing gong and drums |
https://archive.org/details/78_in-a-chinese-temple-garden_reginald-foort-ketelbey_gbia7002742b |
|
Hielscher |
No gong, sounds more like
Frankenstein approaching than a call to prayer in a Buddhist temple. He is faithful to the score, and gives a
clean but routine performance |
|
|
Maclean |
Convincing gong and drums.
3 cuts, totalling 61 bars |
|
|
Moe |
A very lumpy performance, I get the feeling that keys are stuck. The ending is disjointed. |
https://archive.org/details/78_in-a-chinese-temple-garden-benna-moe-ved-palladiums-kinoorgel-benna |
In a Chinese Temple
Garden - other instrumental
|
Artists |
Instruments |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
Archive |
|
? |
Piano |
Universal
Roll S 12792a |
roll |
|
?
by 1930 |
||||
|
Hans
Hause |
Piano |
Welte Music Roll 4157 |
roll |
|
?
by 1930 |
||||
|
Belgian
Mandoline Orchestra |
Mandolins |
Parlophone R 1462 |
? |
10” 78 |
France |
[Apr
33] |
Apr 33 p.442 |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
|
-
Parlophone F 767 |
10” 78 |
France |
[May
37] |
May 37 p.532 |
|||
|
Collins H. Driggs |
Novachord synthesizer |
Victor 27306 |
BS 057048 |
10” 78 |
US |
1941 rec.Oct 40 |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
|
- Victor P 57-3 |
27306A |
10” 78 |
US |
1941 |
|
|
|
|
Edú |
Harmonica,
orchestra, chorus |
Beverly
BLP-80075 |
|
LP |
Brazil |
1975 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
|
- Copacobana
CLP 11114 |
|
LP |
Brazil |
? |
|
|
|
|
Jenny
Lin |
Piano,
tam-tam |
Bis
CD 1110 |
CD |
|
[?2000] |
Jan
01 p.83 |
BL,
NX |
||
|
Eric
Halstead |
Piano |
private
recording |
web |
UK |
[?2002] |
||||
|
Markus
Staab |
Piano |
private
recording |
|
web |
Germany |
2008 |
|
|
|
|
Rita
Braga |
Keyboard |
Rita
Braga NAU 002 |
|
CD |
|
2011 |
|
|
|
|
Orkester Akord
Celje, Brežnik |
Wind, percussion, plucked
& bowed strings |
private recording |
|
web |
Slovenia |
2015 |
|
|
|
|
Adam Ramet |
1910
Push-up 65/88 note pianola piano player |
private recording |
|
web |
|
2020 |
|
|
|
|
? |
Piano |
Artistyle 93345b |
|
roll |
|
? |
|
PD |
mr03 |
Driggs can be heard at https://archive.org/details/78_song-of-the-islands_collins-h-driggs-leon-jessel_gbia0051007
The Halstead recording is
available at http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/3998219-collection-of-ketelbey-midi-files-zip
Hear Lin at https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=O-zRBBHNzJo&list=RDAMVMO-zRBBHNzJo
Watch the Celie group (recorded on 23rd May 2015) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=L2KC3tj6zac
Ramet playing the pianola can
be heard at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZk_EyMxauQ
The Staab
version can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMRXVwQigyA
The Rita Braga is on the album Cherrie
that went to the police, which appears to be have been recorded at a live
sketch show, with much unexplained laughter from the audience.
Driggs plays a synthesiser which combines piano and harmonium effects, as
well as having a passable gong. He makes
4 cuts totalling 44 bars, but adds 3 chords of his own at the end.
Lin expands the published texture with a few extra octaves. She follows the orchestral flute in playing
trills to represent the birds singing.
She is joined by a real tam-tam, but for some reason this doesn’t play
in the final bars.
webpage updated 9 May 2023