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Andre Previn: The Warner Edition

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Cat No: 9029506573

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Number of Discs: 95

Release Date: 23rd April 2021

Contents

Works

Albinoni, Tomaso

Adagio in G minor (arr. Remo Giazotto)

Balfe, Michael

Come into the garden, Maud
Excelsior!

Barber, Samuel

Adagio for Strings, op.11

Bartok, Bela

Violin Concerto no.2, Sz112 BB117

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Symphony no.5 in C minor, op.67
Symphony no.7 in A major, op.92
The Creatures of Prometheus, op.43
» Overture

Benedict, Julius

The Lily of Killarney
» The moon hath raised her lamp above

Berlioz, Hector

Beatrice et Benedict, op.27
» Overture
Benvenuto Cellini, op.23 H76a
» Overture
Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem), op.5
Le Carnaval romain (Roman Carnival): overture, op.9 H95
Le Corsaire: Overture, op.21 H101
Les Francs-juges, op.3
» Overture
Symphonie fantastique, op.14 H48

Bernstein, Leonard

Candide
» Overture

Bishop, Henry

Home, Sweet Home

Blockley, John

The Arab's Farewell to his Steed

Braham, John

The Death of Nelson

Brahms, Johannes

Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), op.45
Gesange (2), op.91 for alto, viola and piano
Lieder (5), op.94
» no.4 Sapphische Ode
Lieder (5), op.105
» no.1 Wie Melodien zieht es mir
» no.4 Auf dem Kirchhofe
Lieder (5), op.106
» no.1 Standchen (Der Mond steht uber dem Berge)
Lieder (6), op.86
» no.1 Therese
Lieder (7), op.95
» no.4 Der Jager
Piano Quintet in F minor, op.34
Regenlied (Regentropfen aus den Baumen fallen), WoO23
Romances and Songs (5), op.84
» no.4 Vergebliches Standchen
Vier ernste Gesange, op.121

Britten, Benjamin

Peter Grimes, op.33
» Passacaglia
Sea Interludes (4), op.33a
Sinfonia da Requiem, op.20
Spring Symphony, op.44
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34

Bruch, Max

Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor, op.26

Butterworth, George

The Banks of Green Willow

Chausson, Ernest

Poeme de l'amour et de la mer, op.19

Clay, Frederic

I'll sing thee songs of Araby

Conus, Jules

Violin Concerto in E minor

Debussy, Claude

Images pour orchestre
La Mer
Nocturnes (3)
Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un faune

Dibdin, Charles

Tom Bowling

Dix, J. Airlie

The Trumpeter

Dukas, Paul

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'Apprenti sorcier)

Duparc, Henri

Au pays ou se fait la guerre
L'Invitation au voyage
La Vie anterieure
Le Manoir de Rosamonde
Phidyle

Dvorak, Antonin

Cello Concerto in B minor, op.104
Rondo in G minor, op.94 B171
Slavonic Dances: Series II, op.72 B147
» no.1 in B major

Elgar, Edward

Cockaigne Overture 'In London Town', op.40
Enigma Variations, op.36

Enescu, George

Romanian Rhapsodies (2), op.11
» no.1 in A major

Falla, Manuel de

El sombrero de tres picos (The three-cornered hat)
» Danza del molinero (Miller's dance)
» Danza final
» Los vecinos

Gershwin, George

An American in Paris
Cuban Overture
Piano Concerto in F major
Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture
Rhapsody in Blue (arr. Ferde Grofe)
Rhapsody no.2 'Second Rhapsody' (arr. R McBride)

Glinka, Mikhail

Ruslan and Lyudmila, op.5
» Overture

Goldmark, Karl

Symphony no.1 in E flat major, op.26 'Rustic Wedding'
Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor, op.28

Haines, Herbert

The Catch of the Seasons
» Cigarette

Hatton, John Liptrot

The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Symphony no.88 in G major, Hob.1:88
Symphony no.94 in G major, Hob.I:94 'The Surprise'
Symphony no.96 in D major, Hob.I:96 'Miracle'
Symphony no.104 in D major, Hob.I:104 'London'

Holst, Gustav

The Perfect Fool: Ballet Music, op.39
The Planets, op.32
The Wandering Scholar, op.50 H176

Humperdinck, Engelbert

Hansel und Gretel
» Overture

Joplin, Scott

Bethena: Concert Waltz
Elite Syncopations
Magnetic Rag
Pine Apple Rag
Solace
Sugar Cane
The Easy Winners
The Entertainer
The Ragtime Dance
The Strenuous Life

Korngold, Erich Wolfgang

Violin Concerto in D major, op.35

Lambert, Constant

The Rio Grande

Leslie, Henry David

Annabelle Lee

Liszt, Franz

Piano Concerto no.1 in E flat major, S124

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony no.4 in G major

Marchant, Arthur

Saved from the Deep

Mendelssohn, Felix

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Incidental Music, op.61
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture, op.21
Piano Trio in D minor, op.49
Ruy Blas: Overture, op.95
Symphony no.4 in A major, op.90 'Italian'
The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', op.26
Violin Concerto in E minor, op.64

Messiaen, Olivier

Turangalila Symphony

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Basta, vincesti... Ah, non lasciarmi, K486a
Ch'io mi scordi di te ...Non temer, amato bene, K505
Concerto for 2 pianos in E flat major, K365
Exsultate, jubilate, K165
Il re pastore, K208
» L'amero, saro costante
Misera, dove son? ...Ah! non son' io che parlo K369
Piano Concerto no.17 in G major, K453
Piano Concerto no.20 in D minor, K466
Piano Concerto no.24 in C minor, K491
Un moto di gioia, K579
Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio!, K418

Offenbach, Jacques

Genevieve de Brabant
» Couplets de deux hommes d'armes

Orff, Carl

Carmina Burana

Poulenc, Francis

Concert champetre
Concerto in G minor for organ, strings and timpani

Previn, Andre

A different kind of Blues
Andre Previn's Music Night (signature tune)
A tune for Heather
Bowing and scraping
Catgut your tongue
Chocolate Apricot
It's about time
It's a breeze
Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill (TV theme music)
Little face
Look at him go
Make up your mind
Night thoughts
Quiet diddling
Rain in my head
The Red Bar
The five of us
Who reads reviews

Prokofiev, Sergei

Alexander Nevsky, op.78
Cinderella, op.87
Lieutenant Kije: Suite, op.60
Peter and the Wolf, op.67
Romeo and Juliet, op.64
Symphony no.1 in D major, op.25 'Classical'
Symphony no.5 in B flat major, op.100
Symphony no.7 in C sharp minor, op.131

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Symphonic Dances, op.45
Symphony no.1 in D minor, op.13
Symphony no.2 in E minor, op.27
Symphony no.3 in A minor, op.44
The Bells, op.35
The Isle of the Dead, op.29
Vocalise, op.34 no.14 (orchestra)

Ravel, Maurice

Bolero
Daphnis et Chloe: Suite no.2
Daphnis et Chloe
L'Enfant et les sortileges
La Valse
Le Tombeau de Couperin (orchestra)
Miroirs
» Alborada del gracioso (orchestral version)
Pavane pour une infante defunte
Piano Trio in A minor
Rapsodie espagnole
Valses nobles et sentimentales (arr. for orchestra)

Rodrigo, Joaquin

Concierto de Aranjuez
Fantasia para un gentilhombre

Saint-Saens, Camille

Africa - fantasy for piano and orchestra, op.89
Allegro appassionato, op.70
Piano Concerto no.1 in D major, op.17
Piano Concerto no.2 in G minor, op.22
Piano Concerto no.3 in E flat major, op.29
Piano Concerto no.4 in C minor, op.44
Piano Concerto no.5 in F major, op.103 'Egyptian'
Rhapsodie d'Auvergne for piano and orchestra, op.73
Valse caprice for piano and strings, op.76 'Wedding Cake'

Sarasate, Pablo de

Zigeunerweisen, op.20

Sarjeant, James

Watchman! What of the night?

Schumann, Robert

Piano Trio no.1 in D minor, op.63

Shankar, Ravi

Sitar Concerto no.1

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Piano Trio no.2 in E minor, op.67
Symphony no.4 in C minor, op.43
Symphony no.5 in D minor, op.47
Symphony no.6 in B minor, op.54
Symphony no.8 in C minor, op.65
Symphony no.10 in E minor, op.93
Symphony no.13 in B flat minor, op.113 'Babi-Yar'

Sibelius, Jean

Symphony no.2 in D major, op.43
Violin Concerto in D minor, op.47

Sinding, Christian

Suite im alten Stil, op.10

Strauss II, Johann

Kaiserwalzer, op.437

Strauss, Richard

Don Juan, op.20
Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), op.64
Lieder (4), op.27
» no.4 Morgen
Lieder (5), op.39
» no.4 Befreit
Lieder (5), op.48
» no.1 Freundliche Vision
Lieder (6), op.37
» no.3 Meinem Kinde
Lieder (8), op.10 TrV141 (Gedichte aus 'Letzte Blatter')
» no.1 Zueignung
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op.28
Tod und Verklarung (Death and Transfiguration), op.24
Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), AV150

Sullivan, Arthur

The Dicky Bird and the Owl

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

1812 Overture, op.49
Manfred Symphony, op.58
Marche slave, op.31
Piano Concerto no.1 in B flat minor, op.23
Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture in F major, op.64
Swan Lake, op.20
The Nutcracker, op.71
The Sleeping Beauty, op.66

Traditional

The Snowy-Breasted Pearl
The Wee Cooper o' Fife

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
The Wasps: Overture

Walton, William

Belshazzar's Feast
Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten
Orb and Sceptre
Portsmouth Point
Scapino: A comedy overture
Symphony no.2
Viola Concerto
Violin Concerto

Artists

Andre Previn (piano, narrator)
Thomas Allen (baritone)
Elly Ameling (soprano)
Sheila Armstrong (soprano)
Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Arleen Auger (soprano)
Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
Jules Bastin (bass)
Kathleen Battle (soprano)
William Bennett (flute)
Jane Berbie (mezzo-soprano)
Michel Beroff (piano)
Jeffrey Briant (horn)
John Brown (violin)
Norma Burrowes (soprano)
Michael Chapman (bassoon)
Kyung-Wha Chung (violin)
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
David Cripps (horn)
Douglas Cummings (cello)
Terence Emery (bongos)
Gerald English (tenor)
Mia Farrow (narrator)
Linda Finnie (mezzo-soprano)
Barry Griffiths (violin)
Horacio Gutierrez (piano)
Ida Haendel (violin)
Jim Hall (guitar)
Dinah Harris (soprano)
Philippe Huttenlocher (baritone)
Nigel Kennedy (violin, viola)
Yong Uck Kim (violin)
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)
Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff (narrator)
Michael Langdon (bass)
Philip Langridge (tenor)
Peter Lloyd (flute)
Jeanne Loriod (ondes Martenot)
Radu Lupu (piano)
Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
Shelly Manne (drums)
Red Mitchell (double bass)
Cristina Ortiz (piano)
Itzhak Perlman (violin)
Dimiter Petkov (bass)
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
Simon Preston (organ, harpsichord)
Margaret Price (soprano)
Samuel Ramey (baritone)
Anna Reynolds (mezzo-soprano)
Linda Richardson (soprano)
Michael Rippon (bass)
Angel Romero (guitar)
Anneliese Rothenberger (soprano)
Ravi Shankar (sitar)
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
Howard Snell (trumpet, cornet)
Jocelyne Taillon (alto)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Jean Temperley (mezzo-soprano)
Paul Tortelier (cello)
Delia Wallis (mezzo-soprano)
Lilian Watson (soprano)
Susan Davenny Wyner (mezzo-soprano)
The Yale Quartet
Ambrosian Chorus
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Ambrosian Singers
English Opera Group
Finchley Children’s Music Group
London Madrigal Singers
London Philharmonic Choir
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra Chorus
St Clement Danes Grammar School Boys’ Choir
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
English Chamber Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Philadelphia Orchestra
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Wiener Philharmoniker

Conductors

Andre Previn
Steuart Bedford
Adrian Boult
Edward Heath

Works

Albinoni, Tomaso

Adagio in G minor (arr. Remo Giazotto)

Balfe, Michael

Come into the garden, Maud
Excelsior!

Barber, Samuel

Adagio for Strings, op.11

Bartok, Bela

Violin Concerto no.2, Sz112 BB117

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Symphony no.5 in C minor, op.67
Symphony no.7 in A major, op.92
The Creatures of Prometheus, op.43
» Overture

Benedict, Julius

The Lily of Killarney
» The moon hath raised her lamp above

Berlioz, Hector

Beatrice et Benedict, op.27
» Overture
Benvenuto Cellini, op.23 H76a
» Overture
Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem), op.5
Le Carnaval romain (Roman Carnival): overture, op.9 H95
Le Corsaire: Overture, op.21 H101
Les Francs-juges, op.3
» Overture
Symphonie fantastique, op.14 H48

Bernstein, Leonard

Candide
» Overture

Bishop, Henry

Home, Sweet Home

Blockley, John

The Arab's Farewell to his Steed

Braham, John

The Death of Nelson

Brahms, Johannes

Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), op.45
Gesange (2), op.91 for alto, viola and piano
Lieder (5), op.94
» no.4 Sapphische Ode
Lieder (5), op.105
» no.1 Wie Melodien zieht es mir
» no.4 Auf dem Kirchhofe
Lieder (5), op.106
» no.1 Standchen (Der Mond steht uber dem Berge)
Lieder (6), op.86
» no.1 Therese
Lieder (7), op.95
» no.4 Der Jager
Piano Quintet in F minor, op.34
Regenlied (Regentropfen aus den Baumen fallen), WoO23
Romances and Songs (5), op.84
» no.4 Vergebliches Standchen
Vier ernste Gesange, op.121

Britten, Benjamin

Peter Grimes, op.33
» Passacaglia
Sea Interludes (4), op.33a
Sinfonia da Requiem, op.20
Spring Symphony, op.44
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34

Bruch, Max

Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor, op.26

Butterworth, George

The Banks of Green Willow

Chausson, Ernest

Poeme de l'amour et de la mer, op.19

Clay, Frederic

I'll sing thee songs of Araby

Conus, Jules

Violin Concerto in E minor

Debussy, Claude

Images pour orchestre
La Mer
Nocturnes (3)
Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un faune

Dibdin, Charles

Tom Bowling

Dix, J. Airlie

The Trumpeter

Dukas, Paul

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'Apprenti sorcier)

Duparc, Henri

Au pays ou se fait la guerre
L'Invitation au voyage
La Vie anterieure
Le Manoir de Rosamonde
Phidyle

Dvorak, Antonin

Cello Concerto in B minor, op.104
Rondo in G minor, op.94 B171
Slavonic Dances: Series II, op.72 B147
» no.1 in B major

Elgar, Edward

Cockaigne Overture 'In London Town', op.40
Enigma Variations, op.36

Enescu, George

Romanian Rhapsodies (2), op.11
» no.1 in A major

Falla, Manuel de

El sombrero de tres picos (The three-cornered hat)
» Danza del molinero (Miller's dance)
» Danza final
» Los vecinos

Gershwin, George

An American in Paris
Cuban Overture
Piano Concerto in F major
Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture
Rhapsody in Blue (arr. Ferde Grofe)
Rhapsody no.2 'Second Rhapsody' (arr. R McBride)

Glinka, Mikhail

Ruslan and Lyudmila, op.5
» Overture

Goldmark, Karl

Symphony no.1 in E flat major, op.26 'Rustic Wedding'
Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor, op.28

Haines, Herbert

The Catch of the Seasons
» Cigarette

Hatton, John Liptrot

The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Symphony no.88 in G major, Hob.1:88
Symphony no.94 in G major, Hob.I:94 'The Surprise'
Symphony no.96 in D major, Hob.I:96 'Miracle'
Symphony no.104 in D major, Hob.I:104 'London'

Holst, Gustav

The Perfect Fool: Ballet Music, op.39
The Planets, op.32
The Wandering Scholar, op.50 H176

Humperdinck, Engelbert

Hansel und Gretel
» Overture

Joplin, Scott

Bethena: Concert Waltz
Elite Syncopations
Magnetic Rag
Pine Apple Rag
Solace
Sugar Cane
The Easy Winners
The Entertainer
The Ragtime Dance
The Strenuous Life

Korngold, Erich Wolfgang

Violin Concerto in D major, op.35

Lambert, Constant

The Rio Grande

Leslie, Henry David

Annabelle Lee

Liszt, Franz

Piano Concerto no.1 in E flat major, S124

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony no.4 in G major

Marchant, Arthur

Saved from the Deep

Mendelssohn, Felix

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Incidental Music, op.61
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture, op.21
Piano Trio in D minor, op.49
Ruy Blas: Overture, op.95
Symphony no.4 in A major, op.90 'Italian'
The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', op.26
Violin Concerto in E minor, op.64

Messiaen, Olivier

Turangalila Symphony

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Basta, vincesti... Ah, non lasciarmi, K486a
Ch'io mi scordi di te ...Non temer, amato bene, K505
Concerto for 2 pianos in E flat major, K365
Exsultate, jubilate, K165
Il re pastore, K208
» L'amero, saro costante
Misera, dove son? ...Ah! non son' io che parlo K369
Piano Concerto no.17 in G major, K453
Piano Concerto no.20 in D minor, K466
Piano Concerto no.24 in C minor, K491
Un moto di gioia, K579
Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio!, K418

Offenbach, Jacques

Genevieve de Brabant
» Couplets de deux hommes d'armes

Orff, Carl

Carmina Burana

Poulenc, Francis

Concert champetre
Concerto in G minor for organ, strings and timpani

Previn, Andre

A different kind of Blues
Andre Previn's Music Night (signature tune)
A tune for Heather
Bowing and scraping
Catgut your tongue
Chocolate Apricot
It's about time
It's a breeze
Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill (TV theme music)
Little face
Look at him go
Make up your mind
Night thoughts
Quiet diddling
Rain in my head
The Red Bar
The five of us
Who reads reviews

Prokofiev, Sergei

Alexander Nevsky, op.78
Cinderella, op.87
Lieutenant Kije: Suite, op.60
Peter and the Wolf, op.67
Romeo and Juliet, op.64
Symphony no.1 in D major, op.25 'Classical'
Symphony no.5 in B flat major, op.100
Symphony no.7 in C sharp minor, op.131

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Symphonic Dances, op.45
Symphony no.1 in D minor, op.13
Symphony no.2 in E minor, op.27
Symphony no.3 in A minor, op.44
The Bells, op.35
The Isle of the Dead, op.29
Vocalise, op.34 no.14 (orchestra)

Ravel, Maurice

Bolero
Daphnis et Chloe: Suite no.2
Daphnis et Chloe
L'Enfant et les sortileges
La Valse
Le Tombeau de Couperin (orchestra)
Miroirs
» Alborada del gracioso (orchestral version)
Pavane pour une infante defunte
Piano Trio in A minor
Rapsodie espagnole
Valses nobles et sentimentales (arr. for orchestra)

Rodrigo, Joaquin

Concierto de Aranjuez
Fantasia para un gentilhombre

Saint-Saens, Camille

Africa - fantasy for piano and orchestra, op.89
Allegro appassionato, op.70
Piano Concerto no.1 in D major, op.17
Piano Concerto no.2 in G minor, op.22
Piano Concerto no.3 in E flat major, op.29
Piano Concerto no.4 in C minor, op.44
Piano Concerto no.5 in F major, op.103 'Egyptian'
Rhapsodie d'Auvergne for piano and orchestra, op.73
Valse caprice for piano and strings, op.76 'Wedding Cake'

Sarasate, Pablo de

Zigeunerweisen, op.20

Sarjeant, James

Watchman! What of the night?

Schumann, Robert

Piano Trio no.1 in D minor, op.63

Shankar, Ravi

Sitar Concerto no.1

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Piano Trio no.2 in E minor, op.67
Symphony no.4 in C minor, op.43
Symphony no.5 in D minor, op.47
Symphony no.6 in B minor, op.54
Symphony no.8 in C minor, op.65
Symphony no.10 in E minor, op.93
Symphony no.13 in B flat minor, op.113 'Babi-Yar'

Sibelius, Jean

Symphony no.2 in D major, op.43
Violin Concerto in D minor, op.47

Sinding, Christian

Suite im alten Stil, op.10

Strauss II, Johann

Kaiserwalzer, op.437

Strauss, Richard

Don Juan, op.20
Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), op.64
Lieder (4), op.27
» no.4 Morgen
Lieder (5), op.39
» no.4 Befreit
Lieder (5), op.48
» no.1 Freundliche Vision
Lieder (6), op.37
» no.3 Meinem Kinde
Lieder (8), op.10 TrV141 (Gedichte aus 'Letzte Blatter')
» no.1 Zueignung
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op.28
Tod und Verklarung (Death and Transfiguration), op.24
Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), AV150

Sullivan, Arthur

The Dicky Bird and the Owl

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

1812 Overture, op.49
Manfred Symphony, op.58
Marche slave, op.31
Piano Concerto no.1 in B flat minor, op.23
Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture in F major, op.64
Swan Lake, op.20
The Nutcracker, op.71
The Sleeping Beauty, op.66

Traditional

The Snowy-Breasted Pearl
The Wee Cooper o' Fife

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
The Wasps: Overture

Walton, William

Belshazzar's Feast
Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten
Orb and Sceptre
Portsmouth Point
Scapino: A comedy overture
Symphony no.2
Viola Concerto
Violin Concerto

Artists

Andre Previn (piano, narrator)
Thomas Allen (baritone)
Elly Ameling (soprano)
Sheila Armstrong (soprano)
Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Arleen Auger (soprano)
Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
Jules Bastin (bass)
Kathleen Battle (soprano)
William Bennett (flute)
Jane Berbie (mezzo-soprano)
Michel Beroff (piano)
Jeffrey Briant (horn)
John Brown (violin)
Norma Burrowes (soprano)
Michael Chapman (bassoon)
Kyung-Wha Chung (violin)
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
David Cripps (horn)
Douglas Cummings (cello)
Terence Emery (bongos)
Gerald English (tenor)
Mia Farrow (narrator)
Linda Finnie (mezzo-soprano)
Barry Griffiths (violin)
Horacio Gutierrez (piano)
Ida Haendel (violin)
Jim Hall (guitar)
Dinah Harris (soprano)
Philippe Huttenlocher (baritone)
Nigel Kennedy (violin, viola)
Yong Uck Kim (violin)
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)
Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff (narrator)
Michael Langdon (bass)
Philip Langridge (tenor)
Peter Lloyd (flute)
Jeanne Loriod (ondes Martenot)
Radu Lupu (piano)
Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
Shelly Manne (drums)
Red Mitchell (double bass)
Cristina Ortiz (piano)
Itzhak Perlman (violin)
Dimiter Petkov (bass)
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
Simon Preston (organ, harpsichord)
Margaret Price (soprano)
Samuel Ramey (baritone)
Anna Reynolds (mezzo-soprano)
Linda Richardson (soprano)
Michael Rippon (bass)
Angel Romero (guitar)
Anneliese Rothenberger (soprano)
Ravi Shankar (sitar)
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
Howard Snell (trumpet, cornet)
Jocelyne Taillon (alto)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Jean Temperley (mezzo-soprano)
Paul Tortelier (cello)
Delia Wallis (mezzo-soprano)
Lilian Watson (soprano)
Susan Davenny Wyner (mezzo-soprano)
The Yale Quartet
Ambrosian Chorus
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Ambrosian Singers
English Opera Group
Finchley Children’s Music Group
London Madrigal Singers
London Philharmonic Choir
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra Chorus
St Clement Danes Grammar School Boys’ Choir
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
English Chamber Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Philadelphia Orchestra
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Wiener Philharmoniker

Conductors

Andre Previn
Steuart Bedford
Adrian Boult
Edward Heath

About

André Previn: The Warner Edition - Complete HMV & Teldec Recordings

Conductor, pianist, composer and media personality, André Previn excelled in a diversity of musical genres and idioms. A child prodigy in his native Berlin, he moved to the USA in 1939 and made his early career in Hollywood, winning four Academy Awards. His time as Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (1968-1979) established him as a major interpreter of symphonic repertoire, particularly Russian, French and British music – “The very definition of good conducting,” wrote Gramophone of his celebrated LSO version of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker.

The scope of Previn’s relationship with the LSO is duly reflected in this 95-CD set, comprising his entire EMI and Teldec discographies, as is his special rapport with such orchestras as the Pittsburgh Symphony, Chicago Symphony and Wiener Philharmoniker. The collection also showcases his talents as a pianist, in both classical and jazz mode, and offers insights into his character and art with an audio documentary, André Previn – A Memoir.

André Previn was described as an artist “whose music knew no boundaries” by the New York Times when he died in February 2019, aged 89: “He blurred the boundaries between jazz, pop and classical music — and between composing, conducting and performing — in an extraordinarily eclectic, award-filled career.”

Following considerable success as a Hollywood musician in the first stage of his career, Previn spent 11 years as Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (1968-1979). It was over this period that he became established as a major figure in mainstream classical music.

Previn was born Andreas Ludwig Priwin in Berlin in 1929. His family was Jewish and his father, a lawyer, was an accomplished amateur pianist. A child prodigy, Andreas entered the Berlin Conservatory at the age six. In 1938, his family escaped Nazi Germany, moving first to Paris and then to Los Angeles where he studied with the composers Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Ernst Toch and Joseph Achron. He became an American citizen in 1943. In the early 1950s he studied with the great French conductor Pierre Monteux, who preceded him as Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.

Previn made his first contribution to a film score in 1946 – a quasi-improvisatory number for jazz piano. In 1949 he composed his first film score and went on to become a busy and admired figure in Hollywood. He won four Oscars; these were for his work as an arranger and orchestrator on the scores of Gigi (1959), Porgy and Bess (1960), Irma La Douce (1964) and My Fair Lady (1965).

Previn, phenomenally acute in his perception of sonority and balance, credited his time in Hollywood for his exceptional expertise and assurance in the recording studio.

Previn’s activity as a composer later encompassed two musicals (Coco, written with Alan Jay Lerner, and The Good Companions, written with Johnny Mercer) and two operas: A Streetcar Named Desire (premiered in San Francisco in 1998) and Brief Encounter (Houston, 2009). He also collaborated on the musical play Every Good Boy Deserves Favour with playwright and screenwriter Sir Tom Stoppard.

In the 1960s Previn began conducting symphony orchestras around America and in 1967 he was appointed Music Director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra. His move to the London Symphony Orchestra the following year (as direct successor to István Kertész) confirmed him as a conductor of international stature.

Over his 11 years as Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, he and his musicians became something of a media phenomenon, notably with their own series on BBC television. Previn became a household name in the UK. This helped to draw full houses for Previn/LSO concerts in London and on tour, and to establish the LSO’s reputation in many eyes as London’s leading orchestra.

Gramophone magazine greeted the now-famous 1972 LSO/Previn recording of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker by saying: “[It] is certainly a performance whose strength comes from its simple eloquence – and there is nothing that can make any music sound better than that … there is a poised and sustained rapture about this performance from end to end that is the very definition of good conducting.”

Previn acquired a particular reputation for his conducting of the late-Romantic and 20th-century repertoires, notably Russian, French and British music. Two of his 10 Grammy Awards were won for LSO recordings: Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast (recorded in 1972) and Rachmaninov’s The Bells (1975). He and the LSO won Gramophone Awards in 1978 for their album of Chausson and Duparc vocal works with Dame Janet Baker and in 1979 for Debussy’s Images and Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune. Also in Gramophone, Edward Seckerson has written of Previn’s LSO recordings: “There is surely no better recording of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet on disc, nor for that matter Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie. Iridescent, both of them.”

During his time with the LSO, Previn was married to the actress Mia Farrow, formerly the wife of Frank Sinatra. She narrates his LSO recordings of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. (Previn married a total of five times, his fourth wife being the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.)

When Claudio Abbado succeeded Previn at the LSO, conductor and orchestra sustained their relationship and in 2016 he was named the LSO’s Conductor Emeritus.

After the LSO, Previn became Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (1976 to 1984) and, as successor to Carlo Maria Giulini, of the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1985 to 1989). Back in the UK, he was Principal Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from 1985 to 1988. Other orchestras with which he enjoyed an especially close relationship were the Chicago Symphony and Wiener Philharmoniker.

This collection comprises all the recordings that Previn made between 1971 and 1987 for EMI Classics and Warner Classics’ Teldec label.

The first recording Previn made for EMI, in May 1971, was with the LSO and affirms his musical curiosity and the breadth of his interests: it is Ravi Shankar’s Concerto for sitar and orchestra, with Shankar himself as soloist. Shankar, Previn and the LSO had premiered the work earlier in the year.

In addition to the London Symphony Orchestra, Previn conducts the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and English Chamber Orchestra.

Previn also appears as a pianist – as concerto soloist, chamber player, accompanist to singers, and as a member of a jazz group. Notable among these recordings are Mozart’s Piano Concertos nos 17 and 24 with Sir Adrian Boult and the LSO (a CD premiere), and the jazz album It’s A Breeze with violinist Itzhak Perlman, drummer Shelly Manne, guitarist Jim Hall and bass-player Red Mitchell; this album, like others in the set, presents Previn’s own jazz compositions.

Among the composers featuring prominently in the box are:
- France: Berlioz, Chausson, Debussy, Duparc, Messiaen, Poulenc, Ravel, Saint-Saëns
- Germany & Austria: Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, Goldmark, Haydn, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Orff, Strauss
- Russia: Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky
- Central, Eastern, Northern & Southern Europe: Bartók, Dvořák, Rodrigo, Sibelius
- Britain & America: Britten, Elgar, Gershwin, Joplin, Walton.

Itzhak Perlman is the soloist featuring most prominently in the box – on eight of the CDs. Among the other soloists are:
- Instrumentalists: Michel Béroff, Kyung-Wha Chung, Jean-Philippe Collard, Nigel Kennedy, Jeanne Loriod, Radu Lupu, Simon Preston, Angel Romero, Ravi Shankar, Paul Tortelier.
- Singers: Sir Thomas Allen, Elly Ameling, Dame Janet Baker, Kathleen Battle, Margaret Price, Samuel Ramey, Anneliese Rothenberger.

The CD premieres in the set are:
- CD 2: An American in Paris/rehearsal (Track 6)
- CD 4: LSO Gala Concert
- CD 21: Mozart Concerto nos. 17 & 24
- CD 38: André Previn’s Music Night
- CD 43: Haydn Symphonies nos. 88 & 96
- CD 44: Tchaikovsky/Liszt Piano Concertos no.1 with Horacio Gutiérrez
- CD 49: André Previn’s Music Night II
- CD 64: Mendelssohn Symphony no.4 + Overtures

The set includes a bonus CD carrying the documentary André Previn – A Memoir. Produced and narrated by Jon Tolansky, it includes interviews with Previn himself, members of the London Symphony Orchestra and the playwright and screenwriter Sir Tom Stoppard.

When Gramophone gave Previn its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008, the soprano Barbara Bonney’s personal tribute to him included these words: “He is one of the wittiest and most charming people on the planet. Right away there was a chamber music-style appreciation in our communication. We knew we could do wonderful work together. He is a truly international, multi-talented guy. The way he plays piano is astonishing beyond belief. He is a magnificent conductor. A great composer.”

Among his other awards was an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.

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