Igor Markevitch: The Complete HMV Recordings
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Label: Warner - Icon
Cat No: 2564615493
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 18
Release Date: 18th September 2015
Contents
Works
Musical Offering, BWV1079Dance Suite, Sz77 BB86
La Damnation de Faust, op.24 H111
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34
Tanzwalzer, op.53
Le Roi malgre lui
Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un faune
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'Apprenti sorcier)
El sombrero de tres picos (The three-cornered hat): Suite no.2
A Life for the Tsar, op.4
Concerti grossi (12), op.6
Symphony no.102 in B flat major, Hob.I:102
Kikimora, op.63
Mephisto Waltz
L'Envol d'Icare
Le nouvel age
Symphony no.4 in A major, op.90 'Italian'
German Dances (3), K605
La Perichole
Peter and the Wolf, op.67
Scythian Suite, op.20
Symphony no.1 in D major, op.25 'Classical'
The Love for Three Oranges: Suite, op.33a
The Steel Step: Suite, op.41
Daphnis et Chloe: Suite no.2
La Valse
Guillaume Tell
Danse macabre, op.40
Parade
Symphony no.8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'
Symphony no.1 in F minor, op.10
Valse triste, op.44 no.1
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, op.60 (suite)
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op.28
Divertimento
Petrushka
Suite no.2
Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture in F major, op.64
Swan Lake: Suite, op.20a
Symphony no.4 in F minor, op.36
The Nutcracker: Suite, op.71a
The Good-Humoured Ladies (Le donne de buon umore): Suite
Aida
Artists
Alice van Barentzen (piano)Denise Gouarme (harpsichord)
Henri Bronschwak (violin)
Jacques Neilz (cello)
Fernand Dufrene (flute)
Geza Anda (piano)
Bela Siki (piano)
Wilfred Pickles (narrator)
Peter Pears (narrator)
Peter Ustinov (narrator)
Eric Porter (narrator)
Paul Hogan (narrator)
Boris Christoff
Teresa Stich-Randall
Nicolai Gedda
Mela Bugarinovitch
Suzanne Lafaye
Raymond Amade
Louis Noguera
Jean-Christophe Benoit
Pierre Germain
Agnes Disney
Christian Asse
Jacques Pruvost
Janette Vivalda
Monique Linval
Denise Monteil
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise
Philharmonia Orchestra
Artists and Chorus of the Belgrade Opera
Orchestre de Paris
Choeurs Rene Duclos
Orchestre de l’Association des Concerts Lamoureux
Chorus and Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome
Orchestre National de Belgique
Conductor
Igor MarkevitchWorks
Musical Offering, BWV1079Dance Suite, Sz77 BB86
La Damnation de Faust, op.24 H111
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34
Tanzwalzer, op.53
Le Roi malgre lui
Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un faune
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'Apprenti sorcier)
El sombrero de tres picos (The three-cornered hat): Suite no.2
A Life for the Tsar, op.4
Concerti grossi (12), op.6
Symphony no.102 in B flat major, Hob.I:102
Kikimora, op.63
Mephisto Waltz
L'Envol d'Icare
Le nouvel age
Symphony no.4 in A major, op.90 'Italian'
German Dances (3), K605
La Perichole
Peter and the Wolf, op.67
Scythian Suite, op.20
Symphony no.1 in D major, op.25 'Classical'
The Love for Three Oranges: Suite, op.33a
The Steel Step: Suite, op.41
Daphnis et Chloe: Suite no.2
La Valse
Guillaume Tell
Danse macabre, op.40
Parade
Symphony no.8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'
Symphony no.1 in F minor, op.10
Valse triste, op.44 no.1
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, op.60 (suite)
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op.28
Divertimento
Petrushka
Suite no.2
Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture in F major, op.64
Swan Lake: Suite, op.20a
Symphony no.4 in F minor, op.36
The Nutcracker: Suite, op.71a
The Good-Humoured Ladies (Le donne de buon umore): Suite
Aida
Artists
Alice van Barentzen (piano)Denise Gouarme (harpsichord)
Henri Bronschwak (violin)
Jacques Neilz (cello)
Fernand Dufrene (flute)
Geza Anda (piano)
Bela Siki (piano)
Wilfred Pickles (narrator)
Peter Pears (narrator)
Peter Ustinov (narrator)
Eric Porter (narrator)
Paul Hogan (narrator)
Boris Christoff
Teresa Stich-Randall
Nicolai Gedda
Mela Bugarinovitch
Suzanne Lafaye
Raymond Amade
Louis Noguera
Jean-Christophe Benoit
Pierre Germain
Agnes Disney
Christian Asse
Jacques Pruvost
Janette Vivalda
Monique Linval
Denise Monteil
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise
Philharmonia Orchestra
Artists and Chorus of the Belgrade Opera
Orchestre de Paris
Choeurs Rene Duclos
Orchestre de l’Association des Concerts Lamoureux
Chorus and Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome
Orchestre National de Belgique
Conductor
Igor MarkevitchAbout
This 18-CD collection unites all the recordings that Igor Markevitch made for EMI between 1949 and 1969.
Certain items have never before appeared on CD: a set of Verdi overtures; a dance-themed programme of popular classics; Saint-Saëns: Carnaval des Animaux; Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf; Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra; Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet; Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Borodin: Polovtsian Dances; Handel Concerto Grosso in D; Brahms: St Anthony Variations; Luigi Dallapiccola: Canti di prigionia; Markevitch: L’Envoi d’Icare; Le Nouvel Âge.
Contents:
CD 1
Gioacchino Rossini
Overtures
[ 1] Il barbiere di Siviglia
[ 2] La scala di seta
[ 3] Guillaume Tell - Jacques Neilz (cello)
[ 4] La gazza ladra
[ 5] L’italiana in Algeri
[ 6] La Cenerentola
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
Recorded: 1957, Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
MONO/ADD
Felix Mendelssohn
- Symphony No.4 in A, Op.90 'Italian'
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
Recorded: 1955, Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
MONO/ADD
CD 2
Richard Strauss
- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme – Suite, Op.60
Alice van Barentzen (piano)
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
Johann Sebastian Bach (Orch. Markevitch)
- The Musical Offering, BWV1079
Denise Gouarme (harpsichord), Henri Bronschwak (violin), Jacques Neilz (cello), Fernand Dufrêne (flute)
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
Recorded: 1956, Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
MONO/ADD
CD 3
Joseph Haydn
- Symphony No.101 in D 'The Clock'
- Symphony No.102 in B flat
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
Recorded: 1955, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris
MONO/ADD
Franz Schubert
- Symphony No.8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
Recorded: 14 & 18.I.1955, Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
MONO/ADD
CD 4
Piotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
- Symphony No.4 in F minor, Op.36
Recorded: 1956, Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
MONO/ADD
Dmitri Shostakovich
- Symphony No.1 in F minor, Op.10
Recorded: 1955, Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
MONO/ADD
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
CD 5
Igor Stravinsky (recorded 1951)
- Le Sacre du printemps
Recorded: 1951, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
- Le Sacre du printemps (recorded 1959)
Recorded: 1959, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
STEREO/ADD
Philharmonia Orchestra
CD 6
Sergei Prokofiev
- Symphony No.1, Op.25 'Classical'
Recorded: 1951/1952, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Igor Stravinsky
- Suite No.2: Valse
Recorded: 2.III.1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Piotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
- The Nutcracker – Suite, Op.71a
Recorded: 1959, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
STEREO/ADD
Piotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
- Swan Lake, Op.20 - Suite
Recorded: 1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Piotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
- Romeo and Juliet – Fantasy Overture
Recorded: 1959, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
STEREO/ADD
Philharmonia Orchestra
CD 7
Béla Bartók
- Dance Suite
Recorded: 1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Maurice Ravel
- La valse
Recorded: 1952, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Eric Satie
- Parade
Recorded: 1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Ferruccio Busoni
- Tanzwalzer
Recorded: 1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Anatol Liadov
- Kikimora, Op.63
Recorded: 1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Emmanuel Chabrier
- Fête Polonaise – Le Roi malgré lui – Act II
Recorded: 1952, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Franz Liszt
- Mephisto Waltz
Recorded: 1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Philharmonia Orchestra
CD 8
Carl Maria von Weber (Orch. Hector Berlioz)
- Invitation to the Dance (Le Spectre de la rose), J360
Recorded: 1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Fryderyk Chopin (Orch. Roy Douglas)
- Les Sylphides - Mazurka
Recorded: 1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Claude Debussy
- Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Recorded: 1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Paul Dukas
- L’apprenti sorcier
Recorded: 1952, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Manuel de Falla
- El sombrero de tres picos: Suite no.2
Recorded: 1951/1952, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Vincenzo Tommasini (based on Domenico Scarlatti)
- The Good–humoured Ladies
Recorded: 1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Maurice Ravel
- Daphnis et Chloë – Suite No.2
Recorded: 1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Philharmonia Orchestra
CD 9
Giuseppe Verdi
- Giovanna d’Arco – Overture
Recorded: 1949, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
- Macbeth – Act III Ballet music
Recorded:26.VI.1949, No.1, Abbey Road Studios / Kingsway Hall, London
- La Battaglia li Legnano – Overture
Recorded: 1951, Kingsway Hall, London
- Luisa Miller – Overture
Recorded: 1951, Kingsway Hall, London
- La forza del destino – Overture
Recorded: 1949, Kingsway Hall, London
- Aida – Prelude
Recorded: 1949, Kingsway Hall, London
Carl Maria von Weber (orch. Berlioz)
- Invitation to the Dance, J360
Recorded: 1950, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- German Dance in C, K605 No.3 'Die Schlittenfahrt'
Recorded: 1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
Hector Berlioz
- La Damnation de Faust – Ballet des Sylphes
Recorded: 1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
Camille Saint-Saëns
- Danse macabre, Op.40
Recorded: 1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
Jean Sibelius
- Valse triste
Recorded: 2.III.1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
Philharmonia Orchestra
MONO/ADD
CD 10
Camille Saint-Saëns
- Le Carnaval des Animaux
Géza Anda (piano), Béla Siki (piano)
Recorded: 1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Sergei Prokofiev
- Peter and the Wolf, Op.67
Wilfred Pickles (reciter)
Recorded: 1950, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Benjamin Britten
- Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra: Variations and fugue on a theme of Purcell, Op.34
Peter Pears (reciter)
Recorded: 1952/1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Philharmonia Orchestra
CD 11/12
Mikhail Glinka
- A Life for the Tsar ('Ivan Susanin')
Cast:
- Ivan Susanin: Boris Christoff
- Antonida, his daughter: Teresa Stich-Randall
- Bogdan Sobinin, her fiancé: Nicolai Gedda
- Vanya, Susanin’s adopted son: Mela Bugarinovitch
Artists and Chorus of the Belgrade Opera
Orchestre de l’Association des Concerts Lamoureux
Recorded: 1957, Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
MONO/ADD
CD 13
Piotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
- Romeo and Juliet – Fantasy Overture
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
Recorded: 1954, Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
MONO/ADD
Sergei Prokofiev
- Love for Three Oranges – Symphonic Suite, Op.33b
Recorded: 1955, Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
MONO/ADD
- Scythian Suite (Ala & Lolly), Op.20
Recorded: 1955, Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
MONO/ADD
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
Sergei Prokofiev
- The Steel Step – Suite, Op.41b
Philharmonia Orchestra
Recorded: 1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
CD 14
Modest Mussorgsky
- A Night on the Bare Mountain (orch Rimsky-Korsakov)
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
Recorded: 1954, Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
MONO/ADD
Igor Stravinsky
- Divertimento – Symphonic Suite after 'Le Baiser de la fée'
Recorded: 1954, Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
- Pulcinella – Suite after Pergolesi
Recorded: 1954, Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
MONO/ADD
Igor Stravinsky
Petrushka - extracts
- Danse russe
- Chez Petrushka
- La fête populaire
Philharmonia Orchestra
Recorded: 1954, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
CD 15
Richard Strauss
- Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op.28
Recorded: 1956, Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
MONO/ADD
Alexander Borodin
Prince Igor
- Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens
- Polovtsian Dances
Recorded: 1954, Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
MONO/ADD
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
Sergei Prokofiev
- Pierre et le loup/Peter and the Wolf, Op.67
Peter Ustinov (reciter, French), Eric Porter (reciter, ENGLISH), Paul Hogan (reciter, USA)
Orchestre de Paris
Recorded: 1969, Salle Wagram, Paris
Benjamin Britten
- Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra: Variations and fugue on a theme of Purcell, Op.34
Peter Ustinov (reciter, French), Eric Porter (reciter, ENGLISH), Paul Hogan (reciter, USA)
Orchestre de Paris
Recorded: 1969, Salle Wagram, Paris
STEREO/ADD
CD 16/17
Jacques Offenbach
- La Périchole
Cast:
- La Périchole, a street-singer: Suzanne Lafaye
- Piquillo, a street singer: Raymond Amade
- Don Andrès de Ribeira, Viceroy of Peru: Louis Noguera
- Le Comte de Panatellas: Jean-Christophe Benoit
- Don Pedro de Hinoyosa, Governor of Lima / Tarapote: Pierre Germain
- Frasquinella: Agnès Disney
- First Lawyer: Christian Asse
- Second Lawyer: Jacques Pruvost
Janette Vivalda, Monique Linval, Denise Monteil, Choeurs René Duclos
Orchestre de l’Association des Concerts Lamoureux
Recorded: 1958, Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
MONO/ADD
George Frideric Handel
- Concerto Grosso in D, Op.6 No.5 HWV 323
Recorded: 1950, No.1, Abbey Road Studios, London
MONO/ADD
Johannes Brahms
- Variations on a Theme by Haydn (St Anthony Chorale), Op.56a
Recorded: 1951, Kingsway Hall, London
MONO/ADD
CD 18
Luigi Dallapiccola
- Canti di prigionia (1938-1941)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome
Recorded: 1952, Santa Cecilia, Rome
MONO/ADD
Igor Markevitch
- L'Envol d'Icare - ballet suite (1933)
Orchestre National de Belgique
Recorded: 1938, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles
MONO/ADD
Igor Markevitch
- Le Nouvel âge - orchestral suite (1937)
Orchestre National de Belgique
Recorded: 1938, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles
MONO/ADD
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