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Roger Norrington: The Complete Erato Recordings

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Label: Erato

Cat No: 9029624527

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 45

Release Date: 11th November 2022

Contents

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Coriolan Overture, op.62
Egmont Overture, op.84
Fantasy for piano, chorus and orchestra in C minor, op.80 'Choral Fantasy'
Piano Concertos nos 1-5 (complete)
Symphonies 1-9 (complete)
The Creatures of Prometheus, op.43
» Overture

Berlioz, Hector

Les Francs-juges, op.3
» Overture
Symphonie fantastique, op.14 H48

Brahms, Johannes

Begrabnisgesang, op.13
Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), op.45
Symphonies 1-4 (complete)
Tragic Overture, op.81
Variations on a theme by Haydn, op.56a 'St Anthony Variations'

Bruckner, Anton

Symphony no.3 in D minor (1873 version)

Handel, George Frideric

Ariodante, HWV33
» E vivo ancore?...Scherza, infida
Giulio Cesare, HWV17
» Al lampo dell'armi
» Cara speme
» Dall'ondoso periglio ... Aure, deh, per pieta (Act 3)
» L'angue offeso
» Va tacito e nascosto
Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV351
Rinaldo, HWV7
» Cara sposa
» Venti, turbini, prestate
Rodelinda, HWV19
» Dove sei, amato bene?
» Pompe vano di morte
» Vivi, tiranno, io t'ho scampato
Serse (Xerxes), HWV40
» Frondi tenere ...Ombra mai fu
Tamerlano, HWV18
» A dispetto
Water Music Suite no.1 in F major, HWV348
Water Music Suite no.2 in D major, HWV349

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Symphony no.99 in E flat major, Hob.I:99
Symphony no.100 in G major, Hob.I:100 'Military'
Symphony no.101 in D major, Hob.I:101 'The Clock'
Symphony no.102 in B flat major, Hob.I:102
Symphony no.103 in E flat major, Hob.I:103 'Drumroll'
Symphony no.104 in D major, Hob.I:104 'London'

Mendelssohn, Felix

Symphony no.3 in A minor, op.56 'Scottish'
Symphony no.4 in A major, op.90 'Italian'
The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', op.26

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Ave verum corpus, K618
Concerto in D major for violin, piano and orchestra, KAnh56 (completed Philip Wilby)
Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute), K620
Don Giovanni, K527
Masonic Funeral Music in C minor, K477
Piano Concerto no.16 in D major, K451
Piano Concerto no.20 in D minor, K466
Piano Concerto no.23 in A major, K488
Piano Concerto no.24 in C minor, K491
Piano Concerto no.25 in C major, K503
Requiem in D minor, K626 (compl. Duncan Druce)
Symphony no.38 in D major, K504 'Prague'
Symphony no.39 in E flat major, K543
Symphony no.40 in G minor, K550
Symphony no.41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'

Purcell, Henry

The Fairy Queen, Z629

Rossini, Gioachino

Bianca e Falliero
» Cielo, il mio labbro ispira
Guillaume Tell
» Asile hereditaire
» Overture
Il Signor Bruschino
» Sinfonia
Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)
» Largo al factotum
» Overture
Il viaggio a Reims (The journey to Reims)
» Ah! A tal colpo inaspettato (Finale)
L'italiana in Algeri (Italian Girl in Algiers)
» Overture
» Pappataci! che mai sento
La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
» Nacqui all' affanno ...Non piu mesta
La donna del lago
» Mura felici
La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
» Overture
La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder)
» Overture
Le Siege de Corinthe
» La flamme rapide ... La gloire et la fortune (Act 1)
Petite Messe solennelle
» Agnus Dei
Semiramide
» Overture
Stabat Mater
» Inflammatus
Zelmira
» Perche mi guardi, e piangi
» Terra amica

Schubert, Franz

Die Zauberharfe, D644
» Overture
Symphony no.4 in C minor, D417 'Tragic'
Symphony no.5 in B flat major, D485
Symphony no.6 in C major, D589
Symphony no.8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'
Symphony no.9 in C major, D944 'Great'

Schumann, Robert

Genoveva, op.81
» Overture
Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.97 'Rhenish'
Symphony no.4 in D minor, op.120

Skroup, Frantisek Jan

Czech National Anthem 'Where is my home?'

Smetana, Bedrich

Ma vlast (My Country)

Wagner, Richard

Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman)
» Overture
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
» Prelude to Act 1
Lohengrin
» Prelude to Act 1
Parsifal
» Prelude to Act 1
Rienzi
» Overture
Siegfried Idyll, WWV103
Tristan und Isolde
» Mild und leise 'Isoldes Liebestod'
» Prelude (Act 1)

Weber, Carl Maria von

Konzertstuck in F minor, op.79 J282
Oberon, J306
» Overture
Symphony no.1 in C major, op.19 J50
Symphony no.2 in C major, J51

Artists

Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Jane Eaglen (soprano)
Maria Fortuna (soprano)
Amanda Halgrimson (soprano)
Beverly Hoch (soprano)
Winton Kenny (soprano)
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (soprano)
Catherine Pierard (soprano)
Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
Deborah Voigt (soprano)
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano)
Kathleen Kuhlmann (mezzo-soprano)
Mimi Lerner (mezzo-soprano)
Frederica von Stade (mezzo-soprano)
Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano)
Catherine Robbin (contralto)
David Daniels (countertenor)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Rockwell Blake (tenor)
Howard Crook (tenor)
Craig Estep (tenor)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Chris Merritt (tenor)
Guy de Mey (tenor)
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Patrick Power (tenor)
Olaf Bar (baritone)
Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Andreas Schmidt (baritone)
Gregory Yurisich (baritone)
Gerald Finley (bass-baritone)
Cornelius Hauptmann (bass)
Jan Opalach (bass-baritone)
Henry Runey (bass-baritone)
George Hogan (bass)
Alastair Miles (bass)
Peteri Salomaa (bass)
David Wilson-Johnson (bass)
Samuel Ramey (bass)
Richard Wistreich (bass)
Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)
Sebastian Knauer (piano)
Daniel Hope (violin)
Schutz Choir of London
Schutz Consort
Concert Chorale of New York
London Classical Players
Camerata Salzburg
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Orchestra of St Luke’s

Conductor

Roger Norrington

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Coriolan Overture, op.62
Egmont Overture, op.84
Fantasy for piano, chorus and orchestra in C minor, op.80 'Choral Fantasy'
Piano Concertos nos 1-5 (complete)
Symphonies 1-9 (complete)
The Creatures of Prometheus, op.43
» Overture

Berlioz, Hector

Les Francs-juges, op.3
» Overture
Symphonie fantastique, op.14 H48

Brahms, Johannes

Begrabnisgesang, op.13
Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), op.45
Symphonies 1-4 (complete)
Tragic Overture, op.81
Variations on a theme by Haydn, op.56a 'St Anthony Variations'

Bruckner, Anton

Symphony no.3 in D minor (1873 version)

Handel, George Frideric

Ariodante, HWV33
» E vivo ancore?...Scherza, infida
Giulio Cesare, HWV17
» Al lampo dell'armi
» Cara speme
» Dall'ondoso periglio ... Aure, deh, per pieta (Act 3)
» L'angue offeso
» Va tacito e nascosto
Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV351
Rinaldo, HWV7
» Cara sposa
» Venti, turbini, prestate
Rodelinda, HWV19
» Dove sei, amato bene?
» Pompe vano di morte
» Vivi, tiranno, io t'ho scampato
Serse (Xerxes), HWV40
» Frondi tenere ...Ombra mai fu
Tamerlano, HWV18
» A dispetto
Water Music Suite no.1 in F major, HWV348
Water Music Suite no.2 in D major, HWV349

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Symphony no.99 in E flat major, Hob.I:99
Symphony no.100 in G major, Hob.I:100 'Military'
Symphony no.101 in D major, Hob.I:101 'The Clock'
Symphony no.102 in B flat major, Hob.I:102
Symphony no.103 in E flat major, Hob.I:103 'Drumroll'
Symphony no.104 in D major, Hob.I:104 'London'

Mendelssohn, Felix

Symphony no.3 in A minor, op.56 'Scottish'
Symphony no.4 in A major, op.90 'Italian'
The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', op.26

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Ave verum corpus, K618
Concerto in D major for violin, piano and orchestra, KAnh56 (completed Philip Wilby)
Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute), K620
Don Giovanni, K527
Masonic Funeral Music in C minor, K477
Piano Concerto no.16 in D major, K451
Piano Concerto no.20 in D minor, K466
Piano Concerto no.23 in A major, K488
Piano Concerto no.24 in C minor, K491
Piano Concerto no.25 in C major, K503
Requiem in D minor, K626 (compl. Duncan Druce)
Symphony no.38 in D major, K504 'Prague'
Symphony no.39 in E flat major, K543
Symphony no.40 in G minor, K550
Symphony no.41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'

Purcell, Henry

The Fairy Queen, Z629

Rossini, Gioachino

Bianca e Falliero
» Cielo, il mio labbro ispira
Guillaume Tell
» Asile hereditaire
» Overture
Il Signor Bruschino
» Sinfonia
Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)
» Largo al factotum
» Overture
Il viaggio a Reims (The journey to Reims)
» Ah! A tal colpo inaspettato (Finale)
L'italiana in Algeri (Italian Girl in Algiers)
» Overture
» Pappataci! che mai sento
La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
» Nacqui all' affanno ...Non piu mesta
La donna del lago
» Mura felici
La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
» Overture
La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder)
» Overture
Le Siege de Corinthe
» La flamme rapide ... La gloire et la fortune (Act 1)
Petite Messe solennelle
» Agnus Dei
Semiramide
» Overture
Stabat Mater
» Inflammatus
Zelmira
» Perche mi guardi, e piangi
» Terra amica

Schubert, Franz

Die Zauberharfe, D644
» Overture
Symphony no.4 in C minor, D417 'Tragic'
Symphony no.5 in B flat major, D485
Symphony no.6 in C major, D589
Symphony no.8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'
Symphony no.9 in C major, D944 'Great'

Schumann, Robert

Genoveva, op.81
» Overture
Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.97 'Rhenish'
Symphony no.4 in D minor, op.120

Skroup, Frantisek Jan

Czech National Anthem 'Where is my home?'

Smetana, Bedrich

Ma vlast (My Country)

Wagner, Richard

Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman)
» Overture
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
» Prelude to Act 1
Lohengrin
» Prelude to Act 1
Parsifal
» Prelude to Act 1
Rienzi
» Overture
Siegfried Idyll, WWV103
Tristan und Isolde
» Mild und leise 'Isoldes Liebestod'
» Prelude (Act 1)

Weber, Carl Maria von

Konzertstuck in F minor, op.79 J282
Oberon, J306
» Overture
Symphony no.1 in C major, op.19 J50
Symphony no.2 in C major, J51

Artists

Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Jane Eaglen (soprano)
Maria Fortuna (soprano)
Amanda Halgrimson (soprano)
Beverly Hoch (soprano)
Winton Kenny (soprano)
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (soprano)
Catherine Pierard (soprano)
Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
Deborah Voigt (soprano)
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano)
Kathleen Kuhlmann (mezzo-soprano)
Mimi Lerner (mezzo-soprano)
Frederica von Stade (mezzo-soprano)
Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano)
Catherine Robbin (contralto)
David Daniels (countertenor)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Rockwell Blake (tenor)
Howard Crook (tenor)
Craig Estep (tenor)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Chris Merritt (tenor)
Guy de Mey (tenor)
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Patrick Power (tenor)
Olaf Bar (baritone)
Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Andreas Schmidt (baritone)
Gregory Yurisich (baritone)
Gerald Finley (bass-baritone)
Cornelius Hauptmann (bass)
Jan Opalach (bass-baritone)
Henry Runey (bass-baritone)
George Hogan (bass)
Alastair Miles (bass)
Peteri Salomaa (bass)
David Wilson-Johnson (bass)
Samuel Ramey (bass)
Richard Wistreich (bass)
Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)
Sebastian Knauer (piano)
Daniel Hope (violin)
Schutz Choir of London
Schutz Consort
Concert Chorale of New York
London Classical Players
Camerata Salzburg
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Orchestra of St Luke’s

Conductor

Roger Norrington

About

Innovator, erudite, entertaining and acclaimed conductor Sir Roger Norrington founded the Schütz Choir, became founding music director of Kent Opera  and  established the London Classical Players, the period-instrument orchestra.

His recordings of historically informed Beethoven's complete symphonies with the latter that opened his collaboration with EMI received unanimous critical acclaim. The success led to a busy and productive recording programme that covered music from Purcell and Handel to Wagner, Brahms and Bruckner, encompassing orchestral works, choral works and opera. A rich and varied collection of recordings released under EMI, Virgin and Warner Classics that illustrates the Guardian's observation: “arguably the most important British conductor of the last half century … a man who has emphatically changed classical music for the better.”

Sir Roger Norrington: The Complete Erato Recordings (45 CDs) brings together all the recordings that the British conductor Sir Roger Norrington (b. 1934) made for EMI Classics, Virgin and Warner Classics Classics over the years from 1986 and 2004.

These recordings marked out Norrington internationally as an important and pioneering presence in the field of historically informed performance, particularly in the music of Beethoven and composers of the Romantic era. He achieved prominence at a time when ‘authentic’ performance had been focused primarily on music of the Classical, Baroque and Renaissance eras, i.e. pre-Beethoven.

Norrington’s impact was summed up in 1989 by the New York Times“The English conductor Roger Norrington … has become about the hottest commodity in classical music ... the most talked-about star of the early-music movement, which is devoted to the historical re-creation of the sounds and styles of performance akin to those the composer heard in his own lifetime. He has achieved this prominence partly through the widely recognized excellence of his interpretations, but also by his eager enthusiasm in pushing forward the chronological limits of the movement into familiar 19th-century Romantic repertory. Mr. Norrington isn't playing ‘early music’ any more … but mainstream classical standards in a fresh and enlivening manner … No-one has been more admired in this repertory than Mr. Norrington, who has combined brisk tempos, dramatic accents, interpretive niceties and a lively responsiveness to period timbres into one vibrant package.”

When, at the age of 87 in 2021, Norrington gave his last-ever concert, the Guardian described him as “arguably the most important British conductor of the last half century … a man who has emphatically changed classical music for the better.”

Sir Roger Norrington was born in 1934 in Oxford, where his father was an academic.

He learned the violin and also sang as a boy chorister. While a student at Cambridge University he sang as a tenor and also started conducting. He went on to study conducting at the Royal College of Music, where his teachers included Sir Adrian Boult.

In 1962 he founded the Schütz Choir and in 1969 became founding music director of Kent Opera, an enterprising touring company with which the stage director Jonathan Miller was also closely associated. Its repertoire ranged from the Baroque to contemporary composers such as Tippett. Norrington remained with Kent Opera until 1984.

In 1978 Norrington established the London Classical Players, the period-instrument orchestra with which he made the vast majority of the recordings in this collection.

In London in 1987 Norrington and the London Classical Players achieved a major impact with The Beethoven Experience, a lively three-day programme of concerts, lectures and exhibitions that culminated in performances of Beethoven’s Symphonies nos 8 and 9. Norrington’s aim was “to recapture something of the exhilaration and disturbance Beethoven’s music generated in his day.”

While there was always scholarship behind Norrington’s performances, and he aroused much discussion with his observation of the composer’s metronome markings, he said: “I totally agree with those who have questioned the meaning of the word 'authenticity’ … Of course, what we do is not 'authentic'; I never use the word, myself. Passion is everything.”

When EMI released Norrington’s first recording of Beethoven symphonies (nos 2 and 8) in 1987, Gramophone wrote: “With this exceptionally exciting new record, Roger Norrington joins … a small elite of musicians working with period instruments whose interpretations of Haydn, Mozart and Beethöoven can stand comparison with the best we have had on record on modern instruments during the past 20 or 30 years  … Norrington's way with Beethoven … is recognizably Toscaninian in some of its aspects … What really fascinates Norrington is rhythm and pulse and their determining agencies: eighteenth-century performing styles, instrumental articulacy (most notably, bowing methods), and Beethoven's own metronome markings … This is the most interesting and enjoyable new record of a Beethoven symphony I have heard for some considerable time.”

The success of Norrington’s recordings with the London Classical Players of the Beethoven symphonies led to a busy and productive recording programme that covered music from Purcell and Handel to Wagner, Brahms and Bruckner, encompassing orchestral works, choral works and opera.

Norrington’s revelatory interpretation of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique (released in 1989) attracted particular attention. Gramophone described it as “a performance of imaginative sweep and excitement, and a record by which future performance of the work will have to be measured.”

Complementing the recordings with the London Classical Players are recordings made with: the Orchestra of St Luke's (a live recording of a star-studded Rossini Bicentenary Concert in New York, 1992), Camerata Salzburg (Mozart concertos with Daniel Hope and Sebastian Knauer), and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (a recital of Handel opera arias by countertenor David Daniels). In the course of his conducting career, Norrington held posts with all three of these orchestras and with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de chambre de Paris and Bournemouth Sinfonietta.

Buoyed by his success with the London Classical Players, Norrington was invited to conduct such orchestras as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Phihamoniker, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Philadelphia Orchestra and Philharmonia. Over his career he made appearances with opera companies including the Royal Opera (Covent Garden), English National Opera, La Scala (Milan), La Fenice (Venice) and Wiener Staatsoper.

Casts:

Don Giovanni
- Don Giovanni: Andreas Schmidt (baritone)
- Leporello: Gregory Yurisich (baritone)
- Donna Anna: Amanda Halgrimson (soprano)
- Donna Elvira: Lynne Dawson (soprano)
- Don Ottavio: John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
- Zerlina: Nancy Argenta (soprano)
- Masetto: Gerald Finley (bass-baritone)
- Commendatore: Alastair Miles (bass)

Die Zauberflöte
- Sarastro: Cornelius Hauptmann (bass)
- Tamino: Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
- Königin der Nacht: Beverly Hoch (soprano)
- Pamina: Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
- Papageno: Andreas Schmidt (baritone)
- Papagena: Catherine Pierard (soprano)
- Monostatos: Guy de Mey (tenor)
- Sprecher: Olaf Bär (baritone)

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