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RICHARD STRAUSS
Ein Heldenleben (with Webern - Im Sommerwind) Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink [ CSO Resound SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Sep/2010 ] "A first-rate disc demonstrating the glory of orchestral music-making in the United States, a model for the rest of the world." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, October 2010 |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No 4 (recorded in 2008) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink [ Chicago Symphony Live / CD - released 30/Sep/2008 ] "Neurotic interpretations of Shostakovich aren't Haitink's style. Even when conducting the agonised and extraordinary Fourth Symphony with his Chicago Symphony Orchestra live in concert, he stays measured, a touch cool. But he's lethal, too" (Times... |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No 6 in A minor Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink [ CSO Resound / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] "Mahler's massive Symphony No. 6 is played by Haitink and the CSO with a transparency, even a delicacy, that seems to stop time." -Chicago Sun-Times |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No 1 (recorded in 2008) Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink [ CSO Resound SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "Haitink and the CSO demonstrated confidence, vigour and ease…and brought the capacity crowd to its feet for a five-minute series of ovations." Chicago Sun-Times |
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BRUCKNER
Symphony No 7 Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink, Conductor [ CSO Resound / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] "Haitink demands and earns our attention, measure by measure." -Chicago Sun-Times |
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PROKOFIEV / BACH / GABRIELI / WALTON / REVUELTAS
Arrangements for symphonic brass Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass [ Chicago Symphony Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Dec/2011 ] |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi Opera Choruses (Incls 'Anvil Chorus' & Grand March from Aida) Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca Virtuoso / CD - released 30/Aug/2014 ] |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No 5 Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon Entree / CD - released 24/Mar/2003 ] Lasting over an hour and a quarter, this massive five-movement work, composed in 1902, begins unusually with a funeral march and contains the heart-achingly beautiful Adagietto made famous in the film Death in Venice. |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D major Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca Originals / CD - released 25/Mar/2007 ] 'The Chicago players give Solti everything he asks for in sonority, power, and rhythmic attack...as an interpreter of this symphony Solti has lost little of his old flair and insight.' Gramophone October 1984 |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (with Weber-Konzertstuck / Piano Sonata No. 1) (recorded 1941-47) Claudio Arrau (piano) / Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Desire Defauw [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 2/Oct/2007 ] "This is an account that does Weber proud and should ever be available. The documentary nature of this disc makes it a mandatory purchase for those interested in the great work of Claudio Arrau." (MusicWeb Nov 2007) |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring / The Firebird / Petrushka (Complete Ballets) The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez [ Deutsche Grammophon Duo / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "Even in these days of super-efficient Rites and Petrushkas, Boulez can still find in these scores many subtle and beautiful details that are lost in the rush or the brilliance of some showier readings, and his precision of ear is audible on page... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Don Quixote / Don Juan Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics Maestro / CD - released 7/Apr/2008 ] |
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BRAHMS
Four Symphonies / Overtures / Variations on a theme by Haydn Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 7/Mar/2005 ] "These well-played performances provoke modified rapture. […] the orchestral execution is quintessentially Brahmsian, with the conductor cultivating a dark, mellifluous, echt-German sonority, in contrast to the usual chrome-plated American style." (I |
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W. A. MOZART
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik & Divertimentos Chicago Symphony Orchestra, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner [ Testament / CD - released 1/Jan/2015 ] |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3 'Organ' / Le Deluge op.45 / Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila / Danse macabre Gaston Litaize (organ) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Orchestre de Paris / Daniel Barenboim [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 6/Oct/2003 ] "I certainly do not know a rival version to match this in its warmth, its power and its sumptuous sound" (Gramophone) |
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BERLIOZ
Symphonie fantastique / Lélio, ou Le Retour a la vie Gérard Depardieu (narrator), Mario Zeffiri (tenor) & Kyle Ketelsen (bass-baritone) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti [ CSO Resound / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] This recording features Berlioz's 'Symphonie fantastique' with its sequel 'Lelio' presented as Berlioz intended. Actor Gerard Depardieu is the narrator in 'Lelio', and Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as part of their 120th season,... |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No 8 'Symphony of a Thousand' Heather Harper, Lucia Popp, Arleen Auger, Rene Kollo / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca Originals / CD - released 10/Apr/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Here is a version from Solti which ... conveys the feeling of a great occasion ... so overwhelming is the build-up of tension." Gramophone |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics / LP - released 29/Aug/2025 ] This recording of Brahms' Double Concerto with Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma, with Daniel Barenboim conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, was originally released in 1997, captured from a live recording at Orchestra Hall in Chicago in 1996. |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Cello Concerto / Waldesruhe (Silent woods) Jacqueline du Pre (cello) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 15/Oct/2017 ] "Impressively remastered, spectacular in its realism, with well-defined detail, superb warmth and body, and fine perspective." |
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BOCCHERINI / DVORAK / ELGAR / HAYDN / MONN / etc
Jacqueline Du Pre - The Great Cello Concertos Jacqueline Du Pre (cello) / English Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, New Philhamonia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra [ Warner Classics SACD / 4 Hybrid SACD - released 4/Apr/2025 ] Du Pré was born in Oxford, England, the second child of Iris Greep and Derek du Pré. Derek was born in Jersey, where his family had lived for generations. After working as an accountant at Lloyds Bank in St Helier and London, he became assistant... |