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Annotation

a newer 2016 release with barcode 028947892625 (possibly with Decca cat # 478 9262) is available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018FCVK8U/ (released Jan 15, 2016, referred to from https://www.deccaclassics.com/us/cat/4789262 )

Annotation last modified on 2018-03-03 07:12 UTC.

Tracklist

▶CD 1: Ansermet · Falla: El sombrero de tres picos / Debussy: Images
▶CD 2: Argenta · España / Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
▶CD 3: Ashkenazy · Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto 3 / Piano Sonata
▶CD 4: Ashkenazy · Sibelius 1 / Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
▶CD 5: Bartoli · Italian Songs
▶CD 6: Bell · Barber & Walton Concertos
▶CD 7: Blomstedt · R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
▶CD 8: Böhm · Bruckner 4
▶CD 9: Boskovsky · New Year’s Day Concert, 1979
▶CD 10: Britten · War Requiem
▶CD 11: Chailly · Messiaen: Turangalîla‐sinfonie
▶CD 12: Chung · Bruch & Mendelssohn Concertos
▼CD 13: Curzon · Mozart: Piano Concertos 20 & 27
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1Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor, K. 466: I. Allegro
recording engineer:
Kenneth Wilkinson (engineer)
producer:
Ray Minshull (record producer)
piano:
Sir Clifford Curzon (pianist) (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
orchestra:
English Chamber Orchestra (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
conductor:
Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist) (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
recorded at:
Snape Maltings in Suffolk, England, United Kingdom (in 1970-09)
recording of:
Concerto for Piano no. 20 in D minor, K. 466: I. Allegro (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (classical composer) (in 1785)
part of:
Concerto for Piano no. 20 in D minor, K. 466
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart15:10
2Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor, K. 466: II. Romance
recording engineer:
Kenneth Wilkinson (engineer)
producer:
Ray Minshull (record producer)
piano:
Sir Clifford Curzon (pianist) (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
orchestra:
English Chamber Orchestra (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
conductor:
Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist) (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
recorded at:
Snape Maltings in Suffolk, England, United Kingdom (in 1970-09)
recording of:
Concerto for Piano no. 20 in D minor, K. 466: II. Romanze (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (classical composer) (in 1785)
part of:
Concerto for Piano no. 20 in D minor, K. 466
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart10:04
3Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor, K. 466: III. Allegro assai
recording engineer:
Kenneth Wilkinson (engineer)
producer:
Ray Minshull (record producer)
piano:
Sir Clifford Curzon (pianist) (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
orchestra:
English Chamber Orchestra (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
conductor:
Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist) (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
recorded at:
Snape Maltings in Suffolk, England, United Kingdom (in 1970-09)
recording of:
Concerto for Piano no. 20 in D minor, K. 466: III. Rondo. Allegro assai (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (classical composer) (in 1785)
part of:
Concerto for Piano no. 20 in D minor, K. 466
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart8:03
4Piano Concerto no. 27 in B‐flat, K. 595: I. Allegro
recording engineer:
Kenneth Wilkinson (engineer)
producer:
Ray Minshull (record producer)
piano:
Sir Clifford Curzon (pianist) (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
orchestra:
English Chamber Orchestra (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
conductor:
Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist) (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
recorded at:
Snape Maltings in Suffolk, England, United Kingdom (in 1970-09)
recording of:
Concerto for Piano no. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595: I. Allegro (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (classical composer)
part of:
Concerto for Piano no. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart14:24
5Piano Concerto no. 27 in B‐flat, K. 595: II. Larghetto
recording engineer:
Kenneth Wilkinson (engineer)
producer:
Ray Minshull (record producer)
piano:
Sir Clifford Curzon (pianist) (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
orchestra:
English Chamber Orchestra (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
conductor:
Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist) (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
recorded at:
Snape Maltings in Suffolk, England, United Kingdom (in 1970-09)
recording of:
Concerto for Piano no. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595: II. Larghetto (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (classical composer)
part of:
Concerto for Piano no. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart8:59
6Piano Concerto no. 27 in B‐flat, K. 595: III. Allegro
recording engineer:
Kenneth Wilkinson (engineer)
producer:
Ray Minshull (record producer)
piano:
Sir Clifford Curzon (pianist) (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
orchestra:
English Chamber Orchestra (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
conductor:
Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist) (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
recorded at:
Snape Maltings in Suffolk, England, United Kingdom (in 1970-09)
recording of:
Concerto for Piano no. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595: III. Rondo. Allegro (from 1970-09-24 until 1970-09-25)
composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (classical composer)
part of:
Concerto for Piano no. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart8:46
▶CD 14: Dohnányi · Schoenberg / Berg / Webern
▶CD 15: Dorati · Stravinsky: L’Oiseau de feu / Le Sacre du printemps
▶CD 16: Dutoit · Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye / Boléro
▶CD 17: Fleming · Opera Scenes
▶CD 18: Freire · Brahms: Piano Concerto 1 / Schumann: Carnaval
▶CD 19: Haitink · Shostakovich 4 & 9
▶CD 20: Hogwood · Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
▶CD 21: Jansen · Britten & Beethoven Violin Concertos
▶CD 22: Karajan · Holst: The Planets
▶CD 23: Katchen · Bartók / Prokofiev: Piano Concerto 3 / Ravel: Piano Concerto
▶CD 24: Kertész · Dvořak: New World Symphony / Symphony 8
▶CD 25: King’s College Choir & St John’s College Choir · Haydn: Nelson Mass & Paukenmesse
▶CD 26: Larrocha · Granados: Goyescas / Falla: Noches en los jardines de España
▶CD 27: Lemper · Berlin Cabaret Songs
▶CD 28: Lupu · Beethoven: Moonlight, Pathétique & Waldstein Sonatas
▶CD 29: Maag · Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream / Symphony 3
▶CD 30: Maazel · Respighi: Feste romane / Pini di Roma / Rimsky‐Korsakov
▶CD 31: Mackerras · Janáček: Sinfonietta / Taras Bulba / The Cunning Little Vixen Suite
▶CD 32: Marriner · Tchaikovsky: Serenade for strings / Souvenir de Florence
▶CD 33: Martinon · Ibert: Divertissement / Borodin 2
▶CD 34: Mehta · Varèse / Ives 2
▶CD 35: Monteux · Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé / Elgar: Enigma Variations
▶CD 36: Münchinger · Bach: Magnificat / Cantatas 10 & 140
▶CD 37: Nilsson / Solti · Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (great scenes)
▶CD 38: Carreras / Domingo / Pavarotti · In Concert, 1990
▶CD 39: Pavarotti ・ Puccini: Turandot (highlights)
▶CD 40: Pickett · Susato: Dansereye
▶CD 41: Rogé · Saint‐Saëns: Piano Concertos 2, 4 & 5
▶CD 42: Rousset · Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
▶CD 43: Schiff · Bach: Goldber Variations
▶CD 44: Solti · Romantic Russia / Suppé: 4 Overtures
▶CD 45: Solti · Mahler 8
▶CD 46: Sutherland / Horne / Pavarotti · Live from Lincoln Center
▶CD 47: Takács Quartet · Beethoven: Quartets opp. 95, 130 & 133
▶CD 48: Tebaldi / Del Monaco · Puccini: La fanciulla del West (highlights)
▶CD 49: Wiener Oktett · Mendelssohn: Octet / Beethoven: Septet
▶CD 50: Winchester / Terfel · Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast

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includes:A Midsummer Night’s Dream / Symphony no. 3 “Scottish” by Felix Mendelssohn; Peter Maag
Arcana / Intégrales / Ionisation by Edgard Varèse; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
Barber: Violin Concerto / Walton: Violin Concerto / Bloch: Baal Shem by Barber, Walton, Bloch; Joshua Bell, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman
Bartók: Piano Concerto no. 3 / Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major by Bartók, Ravel; Julius Katchen, London Symphony, István Kertész
Berlin Cabaret Songs by Ute Lemper
Dansereye (1551) by Tielman Susato; New London Consort, Philip Pickett
Daphnis et Chloé by Ravel; London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux
Eine Alpensinfonie / Don Juan by Richard Strauss; San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt
España by Argenta, The London Symphony Orchestra
Goldberg Variations (1982 recording) by Johann Sebastian Bach; András Schiff
Goyescas: Volumes 1 & 2 / El pelele by Granados; Alicia de Larrocha
Ibert: Divertissement / Bizet: Jeux d’enfants / Saint‐Säens: Danse macabre / Le rouet d’omphale by Ibert, Bizet, Saint‐Saëns; Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Jean Martinon
In Concert by Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti, Mehta
Italian Songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Haydn; Cecilia Bartoli, András Schiff
La fanciulla del West (1958 studio cast) by Puccini; Tebaldi, del Monaco, MacNeil, Tozzi, Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Franco Capuana
Le Sacre du printemps / L’Oiseau de feu by Stravinsky; Antal Doráti
Ma Mère l’Oye / Pavane pour une infante défunte / Le Tombeau de Couperin / Valses nobles et sentimentales by Ravel; Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit
Magnificat in D major / Cantata no. 10 by Bach; Ameling, Van Bork, Watts, Krenn, Rintzler, Krause, Wiener Akademiechor, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Karl Münchinger
Mendelssohn Octet / Beethoven Septet by Mendelssohn, Beethoven; Wiener Oktett
New Year's Day Concert in Vienna 1979 by Wiener Philharmoniker, Willi Boskovsky
Piano Concerto No. 20 / Piano Concerto No. 27 by Mozart; English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Clifford Curzon
Piano Concertos nos. 2, 4 & 5 by Saint‐Saëns; Pascal Rogé, Philharmonia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit
Piano Sonata op. 27 no. 2 “Moonlight” / Piano Sonata op. 13 “Pathetique” / Piano Sonata op. 53 “Waldstein” by Beethoven; Radu Lupu
Respighi: Feste romane / Pini di Roma / Rimsky‐Korsakov: Le Coq d’or (suite) by Respighi, Rimsky‐Korsakov; The Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel
Serenade for Strings / Souvenir de Florence by Tchaikovsky, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
Signatures: Great Opera Scenes by Renée Fleming, Sir Georg Solti, London Symphony Orchestra
Sinfonietta / Taras Bulba / The Cunning Little Vixen Suite by Janáček; Wiener Philharmoniker, Charles Mackerras
Stabat Mater / Salve Regina by Pergolesi; Andreas Scholl, Barbara Bonney, Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques
Symphonie no. 8 (1971 recording) by Mahler; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
Symphony no. 4 by Bruckner; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm
Symphony no. 9 in E minor, op. 95 “New World” by Dvořák; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, István Kertész
The Planets by Holst; Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
The Three-cornered Hat & La Vida Breve - Interlude & Dance by Manuel de Falla; l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
Turandot (1972 studio cast) by Puccini; Sutherland, Pavarotti, Caballé, Ghiaurov, Krause, Pears, John Alldis Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
Turangalîla‐Symphonie by Olivier Messiaen; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly, Jean‐Yves Thibaudet, Takashi Harada
Violin Concertos / Scottish Fantasia by Mendelssohn, Bruch; Kyung Wha-Chung, Kempe, Dutoit
Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast / Coronation Te Deum / Parry: I Was Glad / Jerusalem by Walton, Parry; Bryn Terfel, Waynflete Singers, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
War Requiem by Benjamin Britten; Galina Vishnevskaya, Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau