Classical Item - The Drolc Quartet - Smetana / Dvořák - String Quartets - Oriole Eurodisc

Classical Vinyl Album

Artist:	The Drolc Quartet
Title:	Smetana / Dvořák - String Quartets
Format:	Vinyl Album
Label:	Oriole Eurodisc
Country:	UK
Date:	1964
Catalogue:	SMG 20107
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Performers
Composer	Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana
Orchestra / Ensemble	The Drolc Quartet
Conductor	Eduard Drolc
Soloist	Eduard Drolc

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SIDE 1 - Smetana: String Quartet No.1 In E Minor (From My Life)

The Drolc Quartet

1st Movement: Allegro Vivo Appassionato

Bedrich Smetana

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The Drolc Quartet

2nd Movement: Allegro Moderato A La Polka

Bedrich Smetana

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The Drolc Quartet

3rd Movement: Largo Sostenuto

Bedrich Smetana

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The Drolc Quartet

4th Movement: Vivace

Bedrich Smetana

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SIDE 2- Dvořák: String Quartet No.6 In F Major (American)

The Drolc Quartet

1st Movement: Allegro Ma Non Troppo

Antonin Dvořák

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The Drolc Quartet

2nd Movement: Lento

Antonin Dvořák

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The Drolc Quartet

3rd Movement: Molto Vivace

Antonin Dvořák

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The Drolc Quartet

4th Movement: Finale, Vivace Ma Non Troppo

Antonin Dvořák

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Stereo Album.

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Description: Smetana / Dvorak - String Quartets - Back Cover

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Description: Smetana / Dvorak - String Quartets - Label - Side 1

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Description: Smetana / Dvorak - String Quartets - Label - side 2

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Magic Marmalade 9th Dec 2016		Thanks for that link Phil... If they started issuing in September 63, and continued until sometime in 65, then there can't be that many to get... very get-able... very collect-able :) Early-mid sixties stereo Eurodisc recordings on lovely Oriole vinyl in flip-back sleeves... I'm sold!



PhilMH 9th Dec 2016		Oriole's deal with Eurodisc started in 1963; see Billboard for July 6th of that year. This seems to be the only relevant article in Billboard archives within Google Books.



Magic Marmalade 9th Dec 2016		-Update- Let me revise that slightly... ...I've found an Oriole Eurodisc (stereo) on ebay from 1963 - which is the earliest I've seen so far - (It's a Bach recording with a Berlin Orchestra).



Magic Marmalade 9th Dec 2016		If there's a label Yoda about for Oriole, could they please advise regarding these discs? ...These things have been bugging me... As to why Oriole and Eurodisc only collaborated for such a brief spell (little over a year across 1964-65 by my reckoning), and having briefly donned my dear-stalker and pipe, I enquired a little online... ...It seems, from what I've discovered, that Oriole was bought by Columbia (U.S) in the UK in 64, to distribute it's records here, but under the label name CBS, and that CBS then stopped using the Oriole name altogether in 65, opting instead to just release as CBS (probably the orange labels (?). So this tie in would seem to have occurred at the very end of the Oriole label / brand's life. But I can't find anything to suggest that Columbia (U.S) / CBS had any arrangement with Eurodisc after that date to release their recordings in the UK, and prior to 1964 the only results I get for Eurodisc are German pressed - at best imported into the UK. So my current thinking is that Eurodisc made this arrangement with Oriole to release records in UK from 1964 onwards, but the almost immediate purchase by Columbia (U.S) to be changed to CBS in 65 ceither casued Eurodisc to back out of the deal altogether and look elsewhere (or perhaps just continue exporting to UK from European plants), or this change had the effect of nullifying the deal they made (?) Unless of course, anyone knows if Columbia (U.S) / CBS had any arrangement / deal of their own with Eurodisc post 65?



Magic Marmalade 6th Dec 2016		What are the odds that I'd find another Oriole Eurodisc so quickly?!!! (Maybe they were always there, but I just didn't know what I was looking at before, and passed over them) ... And I have a horrible feeling they are going to be another "thing" that I will have fallen into collecting... and will be driven mad eventually trying to get them all (Like Pokemons or something :). On the plus side of this, is that they seem only to have been a joint enterprise for a very short period of time, so there can't be that many to get, and as far as I'm aware, noody else really rates them at the mo, so I won't have to be bidding bucks for them, or looking in the record bins for things that move in exalted circles of the upper echelons (always wanted to use that word!) of Classical collecting. But they really are the most impressive vinyls and recordings from what I've heard so far... certainly knocking on the door of the Columbias, HMVs and Deccas.

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