MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Simon Rattle - The CBSO Years
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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Simon Rattle - The CBSO Years
City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, with Peter Donohoe (piano), Arleen Augér (soprano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), etc
[ Warner Classics Simon Rattle Edition / 52 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Thursday 5 November 2015
This item is only available to us via Special Import.
The transformation that Rattle wrought in Birmingham over an unprecedented eighteen-year tenure went beyond the artistic fortunes of one particular orchestra. Indeed, the CBSO's prestige had transformed the economic prospects of the UK's second city - planners talked of a "Birmingham Effect". Rattle and his musicians had done this on the basis of a repertoire that had transformed the definition of a symphony orchestra in the late twentieth century. "Don't expect me to conduct Beethoven symphonies and all the great works", he told the CBSO's chairman in 1978. In fact, Rattle performed the Austro-German classics throughout those eighteen years, often in radically imaginative contexts. Rattle and the CBSO performed and recorded the repertoire in which they felt they had the most urgent things to say. Sibelius and Mahler took pride of place, the starting point for a bright-eyed, open-minded exploration of those composers' twentieth-century legacy. Messiaen, Stravinsky and the music of Henze, John Adams and the young Mark-Anthony Turnage began to attract sizeable and inquisitive audiences.
"Both these differing works [Song of the Night and Stabat Mater] are sensitively performed, giving the listener an excellent insight into the contrasting aspects of this composer's work. Rattle's interpretation won much praise when this recording was first issued." Gramophone on Szymanowski
"Never have the fragments of first-movement themes, bouncing and billowing on a sea of azure blue, come across more clearly; never has the essential naivety of Mahler's vision been more convincing. The final ascent to the big blue yonder is surely unsurpassable on both the sonic and interpretative fronts. There's no doubt... Rattle has inspired all concerned to an achievement which joins his groundbreaking readings of the Third, Seventh and Tenth Symphonies in the Mahlerian heaven." BBC on Mahler 8
"Go for Rattle if it's detail you're after and blow the raw primitivism. Very texture-sensitive and atmospheric, for sure, but occasionally also rather indulgent." BBC on Stravinsky 'Rite of Spring'
"Rattle's recording has great heft and dynamic range, an informative balance and a vivid sense of aural perspective. The brass components of those opening chords have enormous weight and presence, and the ringing marimbas thereafter a bright complexion. Adams's frequent requests for subtle tempo transitions are subtly honoured by the conductor" Gramophone on John Adams
"A Prokofiev Fifth as vibrant, intelligent and meticulously prepared as you'd expect from this partnership." And they found the Scythian Suite no less worthy of praise: "Rattle's coupling is a pretty stunning Scythian Suite, combining foundation-threatening pagan spectacle and heart-stopping beauty in ideal equilibrium" Gramophone on Prokofiev
Tracks:
Adams:
The Chairman Dances
Two Fanfares
Harmonielehre
Ades:
Asyla
Bartok:
Concerto for Orchestra
The Miraculous Mandarin
Berg:
Lulu Suite
Britten:
War Requiem, Op. 66 (with Elisabeth Söderström, Robert Tear, Sir Thomas Allen)
An American Overture
Ballad of Heroes, Op. 14
Diversions for piano (left hand) and orchestra, Op. 21 (with Peter Donohoe, piano)
The Building of the House Overture
Praise We Great Men (with Alison Hargan, soprano, Mary King, mezzo-soprano, Sir Willard White, bass-baritone)
Suite on English Folk Tunes 'A Time there was', Op. 90
Canadian Carnival Overture, Op. 19 (with Wesley Warren, organ)
Young Apollo, Op. 16 (with Peter Donohoe, piano, Felix Kok, violin, Jeremy Ballard, violin, Michal Kaznowski, cello)
Quatre Chansons Françaises (with Jill Gomez, soprano)
Scottish Ballad, Op. 26 (with Peter Donohoe & Philip Fowke, piano)
Occasional Overture, Op. 38
Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20
Bruckner:
Symphony No 7
Debussy:
Musiques pour Le Roi Lear (orch. Roger-Ducasse)
Jeux - Poème dansé
Images pour orchestre
Elgar:
The Dream of Gerontius
Enigma Variations
Falstaff
Grania and Diarmid
Janacek:
Glagolitic Mass (with Felicity Palmer, Ameral Gunson, John Mitchinson)
Mahler:
Symphony No 1
Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection' ( with Arleen Augér, soprano, Dame Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano)
Symphony No 3
Symphony No 4
Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'
Symphony No 7
Symphony No 8 'Symphony of a thousand'
Das klagende Lied (with Helena Döse, soprano, Alfreda Hodgson, mezzo-soprano, Robert Tear, tenor, Sean Rae, bass)
Piano Quartet (in one movement) in A minor
Maw:
Odyssey
Messiaen:
Turangalila Symphony
Nielsen:
Pan & Syrinx, Op. 49 (FS87)
Symphony No. 4, Op. 29 (FS76) 'The Inextinguishable'
Prokofiev:
Scythian Suite
Symphony No 5
Ravel:
Fanfare from 'L'Eventail de Jeanne'
Shéhérazade (with Maria Ewing)
Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs No. 4)
La Vallee des Cloches (Miroirs No. 5) (arr. Grainger)
Ma Mère l'Oye
La Valse
Daphnis et Chloé (ballet)
Boléro
Rachmaninov:
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Thomas Allen (baritone)
Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14
Sibelius:
Symphonies Nos. 1-7 (complete)
Kuoleme: Scene with cranes
Szymanowski:
Harnasie
Krol Roger
Litany to the Virgin Mary
Songs of a Fairy-Tale Princess
Love Songs of Hafiz
Stabat Mater
Symphony No 3 'Song of the Night'
Symphony No 4
Vaughan Williams:
On Wenlock Edge (with Robert Tear, tenor)
Walton
Belshazzar's Feast
Symphony No 1
Weill, K:
The Seven Deadly Sins (with Elise Ross, soprano, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor, Ian Caley, tenor, Michael Rippon, bass)
and much much more
