[ Decca Bargain Boxes / 11 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Thursday 5 May 2011
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This new 11-CD set presents Seiji Ozawa in a wide variety of symphonic repertory with the orchestra's with which he has been most closely associated since the early 1970s - from the San Francisco Symphony in 1972 in a programme of music centred round Romeo and Juliet, through his twenty-nine years at the Boston Symphony, to the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics and the Saito Kinen Orchestra in Japan - a celebration of a truly international Maestro.
Booklet includes an appreciation of Seiji Ozawa by recording producer Dominic Fyfe.
BACH:
Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV565
transcription: Leopold Stokowski
Musical Offering, BWV1079: Ricercar a 6
transcription: Anton Webern
Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004: Chaconne
transcription: Hideo Saito
Canonic Variations on the Christmas Hymn 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her', BWV769
arr. Igor Stravinsky
Prelude & Fugue in E flat major, BWV552 'St Anne'
transcription: Arnold Schoenberg
BARTOK:
Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, BB 114, Sz. 106
Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123, Sz.116
BERLIOZ:
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Romeo and Juliet (Love Scene)
BERNSTEIN:
West Side Story: Symphonic Dances
MAHLER:
Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection'
(with Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano, & Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano)
POULENC:
Gloria
(with Kathleen Battle, soprano)
Concerto in G minor for Organ, Strings & Timpani
Concert champêtre
PROKOFIEV:
Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 - excerpts
RAVEL:
Pavane pour une infante défunte
RIMSKY KORSAKOV:
Scheherazade, Op. 35
Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36
RICHARD STRAUSS:
Fanfare für Wiener Philharmoniker, Op. 109
Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64
TAKEMITSU:
Ceremonial, An Autumn Ode
Family Tree
My Way of Life
Requiem for string orchestra
Air for flute
TCHAIKOVSKY:
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
1812 Overture, Op. 49
Romeo & Juliet: Fantasy Overture
WAGNER:
Der fliegende Holländer: Overture
Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 1
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Overture
Tannhäuser: Overture
Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod