Michel Butera wrote:
>Also, would someone mind basically listing what kind of selections the set
>includes?
I got, through The Gramophone's web site, the content of each CD of this
collection. I can also send you their review of the set if you wish.
CDM5 65916-2 (72 minutes)
- Weber: Der Freischutz - Overture (London Symphony Orchestra / Artur
Nikisch. From HMV 030684/5. Recorded 1914).
- Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 (London Symphony Orchestra /
Felix Weingartner. Columbia LX705/9, 4/38).
- R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - film music (Augmented London Tivoli
Orchestra / Richard Strauss. HMV D1094/7, 7/26).
CDM5 65917-2 (77 minutes)
- Brahms: Tragic Overture, Op. 81 (HMV DB3349/50, 3/38). Wagner: Parsifal -
Prelude, Act 1; Good Friday music (all BBC Symphony Orchestra / Arturo
Toscanini. CDH7 63044-2, 3/90. Recorded at a performance in the Queen's
Hall, London on June 5th, 1935).
- Tristan und Isolde - Prelude, Act 3 (Philharmonia Orchestra / Wilhelm
Furtwangler. HMV ALP1030/5, 3/53).
- Beethoven: Fidelio - Overture (ALP1130/2, 5/54). Schubert: Symphony No.
8 in B minor, "Unfinished", D759 (both Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra /
Wilhelm Furtwangler. DB21131/3, 11/50).
CDM5 65918-2 (76 minutes)
- Mozart: Cosi fan tutte - Overture (Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra /
Fritz Busch. DB2653, 5/36).
- Serenade in G, "Eine kleine Nachtmusik", K525 (DB3075/6, 3/37). Mahler:
Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor - Adagietto (DB3406, 4/38). Wagner:
Siegfried Idyll (all Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Bruno Walter.
DB2634/5, 1/36).
- Tristan und Isolde - Prelude, Act 1 (London Philharmonic Orchestra /
Fritz Reiner. CHS7 64037-2, 1/92. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, May 1936).
- Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C, Op. 105 (BBC Symphony Orchestra / Serge
Koussevitzky. DB1984/6, 1/34).
CDM5 65919-2 (78 minutes)
- Chabrier: Joyeuse marche (HMV ASD259, 6/59). Delius: Irmelin Prelude.
Sibelius: Tapiola, Op. 112 (all Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Thomas
Beecham. Both ASD518, 4/63).
- Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for String Quartet and String Orchestra,
Op. 47 (Allegri Quartet; Sinfonia of London / Sir John Barbirolli. ASD521,
5/63).
- Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 in G, B163 (Cleveland Orchestra / George Szell.
ASD2653, 11/73).
- CDM5 65920-2 (78 minutes)
- Beethoven: [Symphony] Symphonies - No. 7 in A, Op. 92 (Philharmonia
Orchestra / Otto Klemperer. Columbia 33CX1379, 10/56);
- No. 8 in F, Op. 93 (Philharmonia Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan.
33CX1392, 11/56).
- Smetana: Ma vlast - Vltava, B111 (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Herbert
von Karajan. ASD3407, 10/77).
CDM5 65921-2 (73 minutes)
- Bach (orch. Stokowski): Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565 (Symphony
Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski. Capitol SP8399, 3/59).
- Respighi: Pini di Roma (Symphony of the Air / Leopold Stokowski. United
Artists UAS8001. 1958). Berlioz: Harold in Italy, Op. 16 (Donald McInnes,
va; French National Orchestra / Leonard Bernstein. ASD3397, 11/77).
Bonus Disc CONDUCTCD1 (78 minutes)
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 68 - Allegro con brio.
Comparative versions by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Artur Nikisch
(D89/92. 1914); Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Wilhelm Furtwangler
(ALP1195, 2/55); >Philharmonia Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan (33CX1266,
11/55), Otto Klemperer (Columbia 33C1051, 11/56). Rehearsal sequences
featuring Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir John Barbirolli and Wilhelm Furtwangler.
Paul MacKay
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