Sargent was given the title of "Chief Guest Conductor" and he remained Conductor-in-Chief of the Proms.[48]. See "Dr Sargent: Praise for Orchestra", Reid p. 487 and Moore (pages not numbered). Sargent's first recordings as a conductor, made for HMV in 1923 using the acoustic process, were of excerpts from Vaughan Williams' opera Hugh the Drover. [83], Sargent's own composition, Impression on a Windy Day, has been recorded for CD by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by Gavin Sutherland on the ASV label. 88, Beethoven's Symphony No. 8, Mozart's Jupiter symphony, Schubert's 5th, Brahms's 2nd and 4th, Sibelius's 5th, Elgar's Serenade for Strings, Britten's Purcell Variations, Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Walton's Viola Concerto and Dvořák's Cello Concerto with Pierre Fournier. As a boy he joined the choir at Peterborough Cathedral, studied the organ and won a scholarship to Stamford School. As it was customary to commission a piece from a local composer, Wood commissioned Sargent to write a piece entitled Impression on a Windy Day. "[48] Norman Lebrecht goes so far as to claim that Sargent "almost wrecked" the BBC orchestra. Malcolm Sargent - boy genius. [98] Other soloists included Mstislav Rostropovich and Cyril Smith. His 1940s accompaniments for Artur Schnabel in the piano concertos have been admired. After his death Sargent was commemorated in a variety of ways. 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The President of Uruguay addressed him thus: "We Uruguayans are fond of all English people, Sir Malcolm, but especially fond of you." Indeed there were many people inside the BBC who profoundly regretted Boult's departure. These were Trial by Jury, Pinafore, Pirates, Patience, Iolanthe, The Mikado, Ruddigore, Yeomen and The Gondoliers. Play on Napster. [71] More casual encounters are typified by the young woman who said, "Promise me that whatever happens I shan't have to go home alone in a taxi with Malcolm Sargent. Sargent was born in Bath Villas, Ashford, in Kent, England, to a working-class family. Get recommendations for other artists you'll love. Sargent was chief conductor of the Proms from 1948 until his death in 1967 and of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1950 to 1957, succeeding Sir Adrian Boult. See Article History. [67], Sargent's moral character attracted comment throughout his life. "Sir Adrian Boult at 80", Aldous pp. "David Hertzberg" Other composer-conductors in the 1921 season included Elgar. His early recordings with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for HMV included The Yeomen of the Guard (1928), The Pirates of Penzance (1929), Iolanthe (1930), H.M.S. He also recorded the Valse triste with the RLPO.[98]. Alternative Title: Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent. His biographer Reid contended, "Sargent's liveliness and drive soon gave BBC playing a gloss and briskness which had not been conspicuous before. [23] In 1928 he became conductor of the Royal Choral Society, and he retained this post for four decades until his death. London and Stamford, Lincolnshire. [29], In these years Sargent tackled a wide repertoire, recording much of it, but he was particularly noted for performances of choral pieces. [78], Beecham and Sargent were allies from the early days of the London Philharmonic to Beecham's final months when they were planning joint concerts. He is known for his work on Edward, My Son (1949), Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) and Bart Got a Room (2008). "[64] For this reason, among others, Sargent was continually in demand as a conductor for concertos. 1; Scottish Fantasy / Concerto No. This was perhaps reinforced by his brisk tempi early in his career, and by a story about his racing from one recording session to another. In addition, between 1957 and 1963, Sargent recorded nine of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas for EMI, with the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and soloists from the world of oratorio and grand opera. In 1950 he conducted in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro and Santiago. With the LSO, he recorded Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Night on Bald Mountain, Prokofiev's Symphony No. In the early days of electrical recording, he took part in a pioneering live recording of extracts of Mendelssohn's Elijah at the Albert Hall with the Royal Choral Society. "[50] Another biographer, Aldous, wrote, "Everywhere Sargent and the orchestra performed there were ovations, laurel wreaths and terrific reviews. Sargent completed the work too late for Wood to have enough time to learn it, and so Wood called on Sargent to conduct the first performance himself. Sargent was held in high esteem by choirs and instrumental soloists, but because of his high standards and a statement that he made in a 1936 interview disputing musicians' rights to tenure, his relationship with orchestral players was often uneasy. [67] Sargent's biographers differ on her background. He died on 3rd October. )[95][96] Though the advent of "authentic" period performance at first relegated Sargent's large scale and rescored versions to the shelf, they have been reissued and are now attracting favourable critical comment as being of historical interest in their own right. [70] His liaisons with powerful women began early, in Stamford, when he was still conducting the Gilbert and Sullivan shows attended by the London gentry who came to join the Melton Mowbray hunt. "[91] Sargent used an orchestra of thirty-seven players at the Savoy Theatre (the same number as Sullivan, but sometimes added a few more when recording.[3]. 2, with the BBC; the Pomp and Circumstance Marches 1 and 4 with the LSO; and the Enigma Variations with the Philharmonia. [90] According to Gilbert and Sullivan scholar Marc Shepherd, "The [Glyndebourne] recordings' musical excellence is undisputed, but many listeners object to Sargent's lugubrious tempi and the singers' lack of feeling for the G&S idiom. the Minister for Air, Mr Howson, said yesterday. With the Philharmonia, he recorded, among other things, Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme and Theme and Variations from Suite No. Digitized from the LP shown above, released in late 1967 by BBC Radio Enterprises. Sargent recorded a wide variety of other European composers, including Bach's Sinfonia from the Easter Oratorio, with Goossens and the RLPO; Chopin's Les Sylphides ballet suite (LPO); Grieg's Lyric Suite (National Symphony Orchestra); Haydn's Symphony No. At the age of 14, he accompanied rehearsals for amateur productions of The Gondoliers and The Yeomen of the Guard at Stamford. Later, in 1965, with Jacqueline du Pré, in her début recording, Sargent recorded Delius's Cello Concerto, coupled with the Songs of Farewell (1965). He underwent surgery in July 1967 for pancreatic cancer but made an appearance at the end of the Last Night of the Proms in September that year, handing over the baton to his successor, Colin Davis. [94] Of Vaughan Williams' shorter pieces, Sargent recorded, with the BBC in 1960, the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (which he also recorded with the Philharmonia), and with the LSO, Serenade to Music (1957; choral version) and Toward the Unknown Region. You have only to see the eyes of a choral society screwing into him like hundreds of gimlets to understand what he means to them. He died two weeks later, at the age of 72. [3] At age 16, he earned his diploma as Associate of the Royal College of Organists, and at 18, he was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Music by the University of Durham. "[99] Sargent recorded Beethoven's Fourth and Fifth Symphonies for Decca with Sidney Beer's National Symphony Orchestra. Who Was Who 1897–2006. "[51] The orchestra's reputation both in Britain and internationally grew during Sargent's tenure. With the BBC, he also recorded Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3, Handel's Water Music, which he also recorded with the RPO, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. –. Sir Malcolm Sargent (born Ashford, Kent, 29 April 1895; died London 3 October 1967) was an English conductor, organist and composer.He was an extremely famous and popular conductor who had a lot of influence on music in England during his life. [53] In his programmes for these concerts he often conducted choral music and music by British composers, but his range was broad: the BBC's official history of the Proms lists selected programmes from this period showing Sargent conducting works by Bach, Sibelius, Dvořák, Berlioz, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Richard Strauss and Kodály in three successive programmes. Despite this, he was co-founder of the London Philharmonic, was the first conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic as a full-time ensemble, and played an important part in saving the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from disbandment in the 1960s. This includes data values and the controlled vocabularies that house them. "[35] Despite Sargent's vanities and rivalries, however, he had many friends. He promoted British music, as he would throughout his career, conducting Handel's Messiah performed with large choruses and orchestras; and the premières of At the Boar's Head (1925) by Gustav Holst; Hugh the Drover (1924) and Sir John in Love (1929) by Ralph Vaughan Williams; and Walton's cantata Belshazzar's Feast (at the Leeds Triennial Festival of 1931). Sir Malcolm Sargent. His adulterous love life, which was as busy as his orchestral commitments, included affairs … [88], Sargent conducted Gilbert and Sullivan recordings in four different decades. "[33] The flute player Gerald Jackson wrote, "I feel that [Walton] conducts his own music as well as anyone else, with the possible exception of Sargent, who of course introduced and always makes a big thing of Belshazzar's Feast. [2] When he took over the Proms from their founder, Sir Henry Wood, he and two assistants conducted the two-month season between them. [13] He founded the amateur Leicester Symphony Orchestra in 1922, which he continued to conduct until 1939. He toured widely throughout the world and was noted for his skill as a conductor, his championship of British composers, and his debonair appearance, which won him the nickname "Flash Harry. [35] He was noted for his witty addresses in which he good-naturedly chided the noisy promenaders. [100] A 1961 stereo recording of the Eroica Symphony has been reissued on CD. [92] Sargent was also the conductor for Jascha Heifetz's famous 1949 recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto and Paul Tortelier's first recording of the cello concerto in 1954. He continued to promote British composers, conducting the premières of Walton's opera, Troilus and Cressida (1954), and Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. Early on, he developed a taste for luxury: Adrian Boult commented on his travelling to college by taxi, but Sargent rejoined, "All the more room for you, Adrian, on the bus. "[77] It may have arisen from his impeccable and stylish appearance – he always wore a red or white carnation in his buttonhole (the carnation is now the symbol of the school named for him). 98 (LSO); Rachmaninoff's Paganini Rhapsody (Cyril Smith, RLPO) among others; and Richard Wagner's "Prelude" from Das Rheingold and "Ride of the Valkyries" from Die Walküre. [35], A number of purported explanations have been advanced for Sargent's nickname, "Flash Harry". In addition to those choral pieces mentioned above, Sargent recorded Handel's Messiah four times, in 1946, 1954 1959 and 1964. They even happened to share the same birthday. Though a coal merchant by profession, his father also served as church organist and choirmaster. He died on October 3, 1967 in London, England. One author has written that "Sargent sometimes ruffled the orchestra in a way that Boult had never done. [68] According to Aldous, it was believed locally that Sargent had to marry Horne, having made her pregnant. Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent was born the son of a coal merchant, on 29 April 1895. Sargent underwent surgery in July 1967 for pancreatic cancer but made a valedictory appearance at the end of the last night of the Proms in September that year, handing over the baton to his successor, Colin Davis. Colin Davis and the BBC Chorus and Symphony Orchestra performed the music. Malcolm Sargent was born on April 29, 1895 in Ashford, Kent, England as Henry Malcolm Watts Sargent. His father Henry Sargent was an amateur organist and choirmaster. He died … His fame extended beyond the concert hall: to the British public, he was a familiar broadcaster in BBC radio talk shows, and generations of Gilbert and Sullivan devotees have known his recordings of the most popular Savoy Operas. The earliest collection organised by prommers was after the death of Sir Malcolm Sargent in 1967, in his memory prommers bought flowers for the conductor and … "[47] The same author contended that Sargent was the target of criticism from the BBC's own Music Department for "not devoting enough time to the orchestra. I s it time to rehabilitate Sir Malcolm Sargent? 5, Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream incidental music, Humperdinck's overture to Hänsel und Gretel, and one of Benjamin Britten's best known works, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1946, RLPO; 1958, BBC). So we begin in the 1950s, when Roy Plomley’s 1955 castaway was the superstar conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent (1895-1967). The cellist Pierre Fournier called him a "guardian angel" and compared him favourably with George Szell and Herbert von Karajan. 9. Written by Charles Reid (whose biography of Beecham had been published in 1962; one on Barbirolli was to follow in 1971), it had Sargent’s sanction and in many ways was a fair and thorough portrayal. [49] Although the orchestra players bridled at some of Sargent's initiatives, there has been ample praise for Sargent's work with the orchestra. Sargent was brought up in Stamford, Lincolnshire, where he joined the choir at Peterborough Cathedral, studied the organ and won a scholarship to Stamford School. He underwent surgery in July 1967 for pancreatic cancer but made an appearance at the end of the Last Night of the Proms in September that year, handing over the baton to his successor, Colin Davis. Sargent made two recordings of Holst's The Planets: a monaural version with the LSO for Decca (1950) and a stereo version with the BBC for EMI (1960). Malcolm Sargent, Music Department: Edward, My Son. In this period, also, he conducted the concerts that opened the Royal Festival Hall in 1951[33] and returned to the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for the summer 1951 "Festival of Britain" season at the Savoy Theatre and the winter 1961–62 and 1963–64 seasons at the Savoy. [98] He also recorded Smetana's complete Má vlast cycle with the RPO in 1964. He held the chief conductorship of the Liverpool Philharmonic, Hallé and BBC Symphony orchestras, but was most widely known as the chief conductor of the Promenade Concerts from 1948 until his death. Released: Jan 2000 In four concerts Sargent chose to present all English music, with the exception of Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent (29 April 1895 – 3 October 1967) was an English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works. Another explanation, that he was named after cartoonist Ronald Searle's St. Trinian's character "Flash Harry", is certainly wrong, since Sargent's nickname was current long before the first appearance of the St. Trinian's character in 1954. [58] By the mid-1960s, however, his health began to deteriorate. Malcolm Sargent. [67] Foreign honours included the Order of the Star of the North (Sweden), 1956; the Order of the White Rose (Finland), 1965; and Chevalier of France's Légion d'honneur, 1967. By the mid-1960s, Sir Malcolm's health began to deteriorate. [98] Sargent narrated and conducted the accompanying Instruments of the Orchestra, an educational film produced by the British government. 42, 66, 67 & 184, and Reid pp. He earned an Associateship diploma from the Royal College of Organists at 16 and became the assistant as organist at Peterborough Cathedral. By the time he died, he was assisted by a large international roster of guest conductors. It commented that, in his later years, his interpretations of the standard classical and romantic repertoire were "prepared... down to the last detail" but sometimes "unexuberant", though his performances of "the music composed within his lifetime... remained lucid and continually compelling. Malcolm Sargent discography and songs: Music profile for Malcolm Sargent, born 29 April 1895. By 18, he was awarded a Bachelor of Music degree by … Reid opines that it "was first in circulation among orchestral players before the war and that they used it in no spirit of adulation. Conductor, Composer. Messiah - Part 3. [60] Even orchestral musicians gave him credit: the principal violist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra wrote of him, "He is able to instil into the singers a life and efficiency they never dreamed of. [35] After giving a Daily Telegraph interview in 1936 in which he said that an orchestral musician did not deserve a "job for life" and should "give of his lifeblood with every bar he plays," Sargent lost much favour with musicians. According to The Independent, he brought professionalism to orchestras by shaking them free of dead wood, clearing out talented dilettantes and pushing the survivors to perform at their best through relentless rehearsal. Sargent made two tours of South America. People … In August 1956 the BBC announced that Sargent would be replaced as Chief Conductor of the BBC orchestra by Rudolf Schwarz. [10], Sargent as composer attracted favourable notice in a Prom season when other composer-conductors included Gustav Holst with his Planets suite, and the next year, Wood included a nocturne and scherzo by Sargent in the Proms programme, also conducted by the composer. With the LSO, Sargent recorded Walton's Orb and Sceptre March. Sargent was chief conductor of the Proms from 1948 until his death in 1967 and of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1950 to 1957, succeeding Sir Adrian Boult. 1. During World War II, Sargent and the Liverpool Philharmonic accompanied Albert Sammons, the dedicatee, in his 1944 recording of the Delius Violin Concerto. Genres: Romanticism, Concerto, Western Classical Music. Malcolm Sargent (Conductor) Born: April 29, 1895 - Ashford, Kent, England 1 Died: Ocober 3, 1967 - London, England: Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent was an eminent English conductor. [12] On the advice of Wood, among others, he soon abandoned composition in favour of conducting. [22] Sargent also conducted for the final Ballets Russes season in 1928. [27] At first, the plan was to engage the London Symphony Orchestra for these concerts, but the orchestra, a self-governing co-operative, refused to replace key players whom Sargent considered sub-standard. [66], In 1923, Sargent married Eileen Laura Harding Horne, daughter of Frederic Horne of Drinkstone, Suffolk. [32] In 1936, he conducted his first opera at Covent Garden, Gustave Charpentier's Louise. From the twentieth century, British composers in his repertoire included Bliss, Britten, Delius, Elgar (a favourite, especially Elgar's oratorios The Dream of Gerontius, The Apostles and The Kingdom and symphonies),[64] Holst, Tippett, Vaughan Williams and Walton. The first biography of Sir Malcolm Sargent appeared in 1968, a year after his death. Toscanini, Beecham and many others regarded Sargent as the finest choral conductor in the world. It seems the right moment, with the 50th anniversary of his death only months away, and a recreation of his … And on another occasion he said that Sargent was "the most expert of all our conductors – myself excepted of course."[82]. [87], Subsequently in the recording studio, Sargent was most in demand to record English music, choral works and concertos. Originally named in memory of Sir Malcolm Sargent, the home was established as part of a holiday service more than 45 years ago for young cancer patients and their families. 5. Knighted in 1947, Sir Malcolm Sargent made his last Prom appearance in 1967, when he gave the customary farewell speech but was too ill after pancreatic cancer surgery to undertake the actual final concert. Anne-Marie Minhall By the mid-1960s, Sir Malcolm's health began to deteriorate. He has an incredible speed of mind, and it has always been a great joy, as well as a rare professional experience, to work with him. They attracted large audiences bringing Sargent's name before another section of the public. [75] Yet despite his philandering and ambition, Sargent was a deeply religious man all his life and was comforted on his deathbed by visits from the Anglican Archbishop of York, Donald Coggan and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Heenan. [67][74] His public service appointments included the joint presidency of the London Union of Youth Clubs, and the presidency of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. His father, Henry Sargent, was a coal merchant, amateur musician and part-time church organist; his mother, Agnes, née Hall, was the matron of a local school. One author has written that "Sargent sometimes ruffled the orchestra in a way that Boult had never done. Malcolm Sargent House is in Prestwick on the Ayrshire coast in Scotland. Sir Malcolm Sargent died from cancer in 1967 at the age of 72. Sir Malcolm Sargent (1895–1967) was the pre-eminent choral conductor of his day. Those making their Prom debuts in the Sargent years included Carlo Maria Giulini, Georg Solti, Leopold Stokowski, Rudolf Kempe, Pierre Boulez and Bernard Haitink. Messiah: 'Since By Man Came Death' Sir Malcolm Sargent. The society was famous in the 1920s and 1930s for staged performances of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's The Song of Hiawatha at the Royal Albert Hall, a work with which Sargent's name soon became synonymous. Artur Schnabel, Jascha Heifetz and Yehudi Menuhin thought similarly highly of him. [54] During his chief conductorship, prestigious foreign conductors and orchestras began to perform regularly at the Proms. Sargent was brought up in Stamford, Lincolnshire, where he joined the choir at Peterborough Cathedral, studied the organ and won a scholarship to Stamford School. He also recorded shorter Holst pieces: the Perfect Fool ballet music and the Beni Mora suite. [57] In the 1960s, Sargent toured Russia, the United States, Canada, Turkey, Israel, India, the Far East and Australia. [1] The musical ensembles with which he was associated included the Ballets Russes, the Huddersfield Choral Society, the Royal Choral Society, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, and the London Philharmonic, Hallé, Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Symphony and Royal Philharmonic orchestras. [35] Among his affairs were long-standing ones with Diana Bowes-Lyon, Princess Marina and Edwina Mountbatten. Main article: Malcolm Sargent discography, George Baker, orchestra and chorus of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, conducted by Malcolm Sargent, 1929. As chief conductor of the Proms, Sargent gained his widest fame, making the "Last Night" into a high-ratings broadcast celebration aimed at ordinary audiences, a popular, theatrical flag-waving extravaganza presided over by himself. As chief conductor of the Proms from 1948 to 1967, Sir Malcolm Sargent gained his widest fame, making the “Last Night” into a high-ratings broadcast celebration, and was noted for his witty addresses to the audiences. [79] Sargent loved Beecham's company,[80] and took in good part his quips, such as his reference to the rising conductor Herbert von Karajan, as "a kind of musical Malcolm Sargent"[81] and, on learning that Sargent's car was caught in rifle fire in Palestine, "I had no idea the Arabs were so musical. "[72], Away from music, Sargent was elected a member of The Literary Society, a dining club founded in 1807 by William Wordsworth and others. [89] More than 30 years later, for Decca, he recorded Yeomen (1964) and Princess Ida (1965) with the D'Oyly Carte company. — Page 9. With the exception of Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, Sargent avoided the works of the Second Viennese School but programmed works by Bartók, Dohnányi, Hindemith, Honegger, Kodály, Martinů, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky and Szymanowski. Sir Malcolm Sargent, in full Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent, (born April 29, 1895, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Eng.—died Oct. 3, 1967, London), English conductor who, as Britain’s self-styled “ambassador of … "[62] Although orchestral players resented Sargent for much of his career after the 1936 interview,[36] instrumental soloists generally liked working with him.
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