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"Sir Thomas Beecham at an HMV recording session Victor Olof (12 July 1898 – 3 November 1974) was an English musician, known first as a violinist and conductor and later as a record producer for Decca Records and subsequently for HMV Records. Among the artists whose recordings Olof supervised were Karl Böhm, Erich Kleiber, Carl Schuricht, Sir Thomas Beecham, Lisa della Casa, Cesare Siepi, Victoria de los Ángeles, Clifford Curzon, Wilhelm Backhaus and Yehudi Menuhin. Life and career Early years Victor Olof Ahlquist was of Swedish descent.Andry, Peter. "Victor Olof", Gramophone, January 1975, p. 50 He was born in St Pancras, London, the youngest of five children of Michael Ahlqist, a tailor who retained his Swedish nationality, and his wife Elizabeth.1901 UK census, piece 148, folio 13, page 18 He attended the Guildhall School of Music in London, where he won the Melba Scholarship in 1916."Guildhall School of Music", The Musical Times, Vol. 57, No. 883 (September 1916), p. 421 His violin professor was Kalman Ronay."Musical Notes from Abroad", The Musical Times , Vol. 64, No. 961 (March1923), p. 210 Among his fellow students were the singers Dora Labbette and Lilian Stiles-Allen. On the advice of the principal of the school, Sir Landon Ronald, he dropped his original surname. In the 1920s Olof founded and led the Victor Olof Sextet, with whom he gave concerts and broadcasts for more than 20 years. In January 1923 he gave a recital in Vienna which included an arrangement for violin and piano of the Elgar Violin Concerto.Neue Freie Presse, 23 January 1923, p. 14. In 1928 he married Phyllis Robey; there were two sons of the marriage.Civil Registration, Volume 2A, pp. 804 and 807 In the 1940s he was an orchestral manager and conductor, working with the London Symphony Orchestra and especially the National Symphony Orchestra, an ad hoc ensemble of top orchestral players assembled for the wealthy musical amateur Sidney Beer. Decca At a recording session Arthur Haddy, chief recording engineer of the Decca Record Company, spotted Olof's acute ear for orchestral balance. He recommended to the head of Decca, Edward Lewis, that Olof should be invited to join the company to produce some of the many recordings planned for the expansion of its classical catalogue. Decca had developed a revolutionary new recording technique known as "ffrr" (full frequency range recording) which put the company far ahead of its rivals in the realism of sound on its discs. Olof's first sessions as producer were with Decca's renowned engineer Kenneth Wilkinson, recording Eileen Joyce with Beer and his orchestra in music by Grieg, Debussy and Delius in June 1944.Stuart, Philip. Decca Classical, 1929-2009 accessed 10 January 2012. In between supervising sessions of music by composers from Eric Coates to Wagner, Olof conducted some recordings for Decca, mainly of overtures and other short orchestral pieces. At the end of the war, Lewis authorised the expansion of Decca's classical programme to make it international, with recordings in Paris, Amsterdam, Zurich, Geneva, Bayreuth and Vienna. The Decca producer John Culshaw wrote, "Within five years of the end of the war Decca was well and truly in the big league."Culshaw, John, "50 years of the Decca record label", The Gramophone, July 1979, p. 23 Olof was in the thick of this international programme, supervising sessions in all six locations with the exception of Bayreuth (according to Culshaw, Olof did not much like Wagner's music).Culshaw, p. 53 Among the recordings produced by Olof that have seldom been out of the catalogues are Das Lied von der Erde with Bruno Walter and Kathleen Ferrier, and a series of Mozart operas made in 1955 with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and singers mostly from the Vienna State Opera. At that time, Olof was little interested in stereophonic recordings; he supervised the mono recordings with one of Decca's senior engineers, while his assistant, Peter Andry, and a junior engineer made simultaneous stereo recordings of the same sessions. Among those whose recordings Olof supervised for Decca were Josef Krips, Karl Böhm, Erich Kleiber, Carl Schuricht, Lisa della Casa, Cesare Siepi, Wilhelm Backhaus and Clifford Curzon. HMV At EMI, Olof took over from Lawrance Collingwood as producer of Sir Thomas Beecham's recordings. He knew Beecham well, having played an important role in assembling the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for the conductor in 1946.Patmore, David. "Sir Thomas Beecham: the Contract Negotiations with RCA Victor, Columbia Records and EMI, 1941–1959", ARSC Journal, 33. 2 (Fall 2002) Having had substantial influence over the choice of repertoire at Decca, Olof was more constrained at EMI, where he was subordinate to the head of the company's International Artistes Department, David Bicknell. The latter, Fred Gaisberg's successor, was responsible for decisions about the artists and repertoire recorded by EMI, and was more inclined than Olof to go along with Beecham's choice of repertoire. Olof's assistant, Peter Andry, wrote in an obituary tribute: Among the EMI recordings produced by Olof are Beecham's set of Carmen, Rudolf Kempe's set of Lohengrin, and all but one act of André Cluytens' set of The Tales of Hoffmann (the Giulietta act was produced, at Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's insistence, by her husband, Walter Legge). Among the other artists whose performances Olof recorded for EMI were Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir John Barbirolli and Yehudi Menuhin. He retired from EMI in 1963, but returned to the studios from retirement, his last recording being made when he was 70."Paris", High Fidelity/Musical America, Volume 19, 1969 Later years In 1969, Olof was appointed as a member of the Arts Council committee of inquiry into orchestral resources in Britain under the chairmanship of Sir Alan Peacock."Music in London", The Musical Times, Vol. 110, No. 1518 (August1969), pp. 849–853 In retirement, Olof lived at Milford on Sea on the south coast of England. He died at the age of 76."Deaths: Latest Wills", The Times, 7 March 1975, p. 16 Notes References * Category:1898 births Category:1974 deaths Category:English record producers "
"Anatoly Aleksandrovich Roshchin (, 10 March 1932 – 5 January 2016) was a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Russia. Between 1962 and 1972 he won nine medals at the Summer Olympics and world championships, including four gold medals.Anatoly Roshchin. sports-reference.comRoschtschin, Anatoli (URS). iat.uni-leipzig.deSomov, Yuri (5 January 2016) Ушел из жизни чемпион ОИ-1972 по греко-римской борьбе Анатолий Рощин . rsport.ru Roshchin lost his father during World War II and had to start working as a shepherd aged 10. In 1950, seeking a better job, he moved from his village to Moscow.Анатолий РОЩИН: «Самое страшное в спорте – это отдых». wrestling.com.ua (10 November 2014) At the time he trained in weightlifting and basketball and changed to wrestling only in 1954, while serving in the Soviet Navy. His career was interrupted in 1957, when he was diagnosed with a thyroid disorder that required a complex surgery. He recovered by 1960, and in 1961 placed second at the Soviet championships. He also placed second at the 1962 World Championships and 1964 and 1968 Olympics, losing to István Kozma on all occasions, but won the world and Olympic titles in 1963, 1969, 1970 and 1972. Roshchin needed to wind himself up 10–15 minutes before a bout, and for this purpose would often start a friendly verbal brawl with teammates. By 1972, when he was 40 years old, he was already working as a coach and looking into retirement. He was convinced to compete at the Munich Olympics by the Soviet Sports minister Sergey Pavlov, and won the gold medal. In the last bout he won by default against Wilfried Dietrich, who had a spectacular victory earlier in the tournament and did not want to spoil it by a potential loss. Roshchin retired after the Olympics and later worked as a sports instructor and an international wrestling referee. References Category:1932 births Category:2016 deaths Category:Soviet male sport wrestlers Category:Olympic wrestlers of the Soviet Union Category:Wrestlers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Category:Wrestlers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Category:Wrestlers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Category:Russian male sport wrestlers Category:Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Category:Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Category:Olympic medalists in wrestling Category:Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Category:Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Category:Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Category:Recipients of the Order of Lenin Category:Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics "
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