Fritz Reiner: The Complete Columbia Album Collection | Sony 19075936772

Fritz Reiner: The Complete Columbia Album Collection

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Label: Sony

Cat No: 19075936772

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 14

Release Date: 11th September 2020

Contents

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Brandenburg Concerto no.1 in F major, BWV1046
Brandenburg Concerto no.2 in F major, BWV1047
Brandenburg Concerto no.3 in G major, BVW1048
Brandenburg Concerto no.4 in G major, BWV1049
Brandenburg Concerto no.5 in D major, BWV1050
Orchestral Suite no.2 in B minor, BWV1067

Bartok, Bela

Concerto for Orchestra, Sz116 BB123

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Symphony no.2 in D major, op.36

Berlioz, Hector

La Damnation de Faust, op.24 H111
» Hungarian March (Rakoczy March)

Brahms, Johannes

Hungarian Dances (21), WoO1
» no.1 in G minor
» no.5 in F sharp minor
» no.6 in D flat major
» no.7 in A major
» no.12 in D minor
» no.13 in D major
» no.19 in B minor
» no.21 in E minor
Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor, op.15

Debussy, Claude

Images pour orchestre
» II Iberia
Tarentelle styrienne

Falla, Manuel de

El amor brujo

Gershwin, George

Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture

Honegger, Arthur

Concertino for piano and orchestra

Kabalevsky, Dmitry

Colas Breugnon, op.24
» Overture

Kodaly, Zoltan

Dances of Galanta

Mahler, Gustav

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)

Marx, Joseph

Hat dich die Liebe beruhrt (If love hath entered thy heart)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Don Giovanni, K527 (excerpts)
Symphony no.35 in D major, K385 'Haffner'
Symphony no.41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'

Ravel, Maurice

La Valse

Rodgers, Richard

Carousel
» Carousel Waltz

Rossini, Gioachino

Il Signor Bruschino
» Sinfonia

Schoenberg, Arnold

Pierrot Lunaire, op.21
» Valse de Chopim

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Symphony no.6 in B minor, op.54

Strauss II, Johann

Rosen aus dem Suden, op.388
Schatzwalzer (Treasure waltz), op.418
Wiener Blut Waltz, op.354

Strauss, Richard

Der Burger als Edelmann, op.60: Orchestral Suite
Don Juan, op.20
Don Quixote, op.35
Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), op.40
Lieder (4), op.27
» no.2 Cacilie
Lieder (8), op.10 TrV141 (Gedichte aus 'Letzte Blatter')
» no.3 Die Nacht
Salome, op.54
» Final scene

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Suite no.1 in D major, op.43
» IV Marche miniature

Wagner, Richard

Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
» Prelude to Act 1
Die Walkure
» Ride of the Valkyries
Lohengrin
» Prelude to Act 1
» Prelude to Act 3
Siegfried
» Forest Murmurs

Weiner, Leo

Divertimento no.1, op.20

Artists

Carol Brice (contralto)
Alessio De Paolis (tenor)
Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)
Rudolf Serkin (piano)
Ljuba Wellitsch (soprano)

Conductors

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Brandenburg Concerto no.1 in F major, BWV1046
Brandenburg Concerto no.2 in F major, BWV1047
Brandenburg Concerto no.3 in G major, BVW1048
Brandenburg Concerto no.4 in G major, BWV1049
Brandenburg Concerto no.5 in D major, BWV1050
Orchestral Suite no.2 in B minor, BWV1067

Bartok, Bela

Concerto for Orchestra, Sz116 BB123

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Symphony no.2 in D major, op.36

Berlioz, Hector

La Damnation de Faust, op.24 H111
» Hungarian March (Rakoczy March)

Brahms, Johannes

Hungarian Dances (21), WoO1
» no.1 in G minor
» no.5 in F sharp minor
» no.6 in D flat major
» no.7 in A major
» no.12 in D minor
» no.13 in D major
» no.19 in B minor
» no.21 in E minor
Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor, op.15

Debussy, Claude

Images pour orchestre
» II Iberia
Tarentelle styrienne

Falla, Manuel de

El amor brujo

Gershwin, George

Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture

Honegger, Arthur

Concertino for piano and orchestra

Kabalevsky, Dmitry

Colas Breugnon, op.24
» Overture

Kodaly, Zoltan

Dances of Galanta

Mahler, Gustav

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)

Marx, Joseph

Hat dich die Liebe beruhrt (If love hath entered thy heart)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Don Giovanni, K527 (excerpts)
Symphony no.35 in D major, K385 'Haffner'
Symphony no.41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'

Ravel, Maurice

La Valse

Rodgers, Richard

Carousel
» Carousel Waltz

Rossini, Gioachino

Il Signor Bruschino
» Sinfonia

Schoenberg, Arnold

Pierrot Lunaire, op.21
» Valse de Chopim

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Symphony no.6 in B minor, op.54

Strauss II, Johann

Rosen aus dem Suden, op.388
Schatzwalzer (Treasure waltz), op.418
Wiener Blut Waltz, op.354

Strauss, Richard

Der Burger als Edelmann, op.60: Orchestral Suite
Don Juan, op.20
Don Quixote, op.35
Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), op.40
Lieder (4), op.27
» no.2 Cacilie
Lieder (8), op.10 TrV141 (Gedichte aus 'Letzte Blatter')
» no.3 Die Nacht
Salome, op.54
» Final scene

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Suite no.1 in D major, op.43
» IV Marche miniature

Wagner, Richard

Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
» Prelude to Act 1
Die Walkure
» Ride of the Valkyries
Lohengrin
» Prelude to Act 1
» Prelude to Act 3
Siegfried
» Forest Murmurs

Weiner, Leo

Divertimento no.1, op.20

Artists

Carol Brice (contralto)
Alessio De Paolis (tenor)
Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)
Rudolf Serkin (piano)
Ljuba Wellitsch (soprano)

Conductors

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera

About

Sony Classical is now pleased to present a new 14-CD box set collecting all of Fritz Reiner’s Pittsburgh Symphony discography together with the Columbia recordings he made after moving to New York in 1948 to become a principal conductor at the Metropolitan Opera.

When the 50-year-old Fritz Reiner was appointed conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1938, he was still relatively unfamiliar in his adopted American homeland. This pupil of Bartók at the Academy of Music in his native Budapest, former conductor of the Dresden Royal Opera, where he worked with Richard Strauss, and for the past 16 years music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra was still rarely mentioned in the national press and never in record reviews. Although he had actually made some discs in 1938 with the New York Philharmonic, they were issued anonymously.

Following the wartime national recording ban, Reiner and the orchestra returned to the Syria Mosque in March 1945 to set down some prime examples of the conductor’s widely varied repertoire: Shostakovich’s Sixth Symphony; the premiere recording of Robert Russell Bennett’s suite from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, commissioned by Reiner; his Hungarian friend Léo Weiner’s Divertimento no.1; the Galánta Dances by another compatriot, Zoltán Kodály; and Beethoven’s Second Symphony. A number of his most memorable Pittsburgh recordings were made in February 1946: the first-ever studio production of the Concerto for Orchestra by his erstwhile teacher Bartók; Brahms’s Hungarian Dances and the First Piano Concerto with Rudolf Serkin; Falla’s El amor brujo, a perennial Reiner favorite, with the fine mezzo soloist Carol Brice, who also recorded Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen during those sessions; and the suite from Strauss’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, which Reiner had introduced in the US at Cincinnati. None of these except the Brahms concerto and the Strauss has ever before appeared on CD at Sony Classical.

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