100 Best Overtures
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Label: EMI - 100 Best
Cat No: 3273332
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 6
Release Date: 1st January 1970
About
This 6CD set contains 100 tracks from the catalogues of EMI Classics and Virgin Classics of the best and most familiar overtures from operas, operettas and musicals, as well as some of the finest overtures from the symphonic repertoire.
CD 1 begins with some classic operatic overtures by Rossini, starting with Il barbiere di Siviglia and La scala di seta. Then come three brilliant overtures from Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni, followed by examples of operatic overtures by Italian composers: Donizetti, Bellini and Wolf-Ferrari. The scene then shifts to Russia for the overture to Glinka’s colourful opera Ruslan and Ludmilla and the delightful overture that introduces Tchaikovsky’s greatly loved ballet The Nutcracker. The CD ends with the popular overtures to Smetana’s The Bartered Bride and Reznicek’s Donna Diana.
CD 2 starts with a collection of pieces by Verdi, including the powerful overture to La forza del destino and the poignant prelude to La traviata. We then move to France for the spectacular prelude to Bizet’s Carmen, the overture to Gounod’s Faust and some high-spirited music by Offenbach to begin his operettas La Vie Parisienne and Orphée aux enfers. The CD ends with our first example of German music, namely the overture to Hansel und Gretel by Humperdinck.
CD 3 takes us back in time to the Baroque era, with overtures by Purcell and Handel, including the introduction to Messiah, and then we hear operatic overtures by Beethoven (Fidelio) and Weber (Der Freischütz and Euryanthe). These are followed by some of the most famous symphonic overtures by Suppé, including Dichter und Bauer (‘Poet and Peasant’) and Leichte Kavallerie (‘Light Cavalry’), which is always such a hit at the BBC Promenade Concerts in London each summer. Then come Nicolai’s delightful overture to Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor and extracts from the overtures to two much-loved operettas by Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus and Der Zigeunerbaron. The CD ends with some powerful music from the operas of Wagner, including the overtures to Der fliegende Holländer and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the stirring prelude to Act III of Die Walküre, known as the Ride of the Valkyries.
CD 4 begins with more operatic overtures by Handel and Mozart, as well as three overtures by Gluck, including Orfeo ed Euridice. Then come three of Beethoven’s great concert overtures: Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Coriolan and Egmont. The CD concludes with two contrasting Italian operatic overtures by Donizetti: Linda di Chamounix and Don Pasquale.
CD 5 opens with more Rossini overtures, including La gazza ladra and Semiramide, and then more overtures by Bellini (Norma and I Capuletti e i Montecchi) and Gounod (Roméo et Juliette). These are followed by extracts from two of Tchaikovsky’s most famous symphonic overtures: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture and the spectacular 1812 Overture. Shostakovich’s Festive Overture then leads us to three light-hearted overtures to the English light operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, starting with the lively H.M.S. PInafore.
CD 6 continues with extracts from more Gilbert and Sullivan overtures, including The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado, then after a brief glimpse of Elgar’s symphonic overture Cockaigne – subtitled ‘In London Town’ – we move to the field of musicals, starting with the overture to a classical British show from the Edwardian era: The Arcadians. This is followed by overtures to some of the greatest Broadway musicals of all time, from Gershwin’s Girl Crazy, via Kern’s immortal Show Boat, through the great shows of the 1940s and 50s like Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun and Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate to Leonard Bernstein’s sparkling Wonderful Town and his brilliant Candide.
Contents:
CD 1
1. Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Overture
Carlo Maria Giulini
2. Overture - La scala di seta
Gianluigi Gelmetti
3. Overture - Il Signor Bruschino
Gianluigi Gelmetti
4. Overture - Tancredi
Gianluigi Gelmetti
5. Overture - L'italiana in Algeri
Gianluigi Gelmetti
6. Guillaume Tell - Ouverture (Orchestre)
Lamberto Gardelli
7. Overture from Le Nozze di Figaro, K.492
Sir Colin Davis
8. Così fan tutte K588 - Overture
Sir Colin Davis
9. Don Giovanni K527 - Overture
Sir Colin Davis
10. L'Elisir d'amore, 'Elixir of Love' - Prelude
Angela Arena
11. I Puritani - Sinfonia
Riccardo Muti
12. Il segreto di Susanna - Overture
Sir Neville Marriner
13. I Quattro Rusteghi - Prelude
Sir Neville Marriner
14. Ruslan and Lyudmila - Overture
Artur Rodzinski
15. Act I - Ouverture
John Lanchbery
16. Die verkaufte Braut - Ouvertüre (Orchester)
Bamberger Symphoniker
17. Die verkaufte Braut - Donna Diana Overture
Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 2
1. La forza del destino - Overture
Riccardo Muti
2. Luisa Miller - Overture
Riccardo Muti
3. Nabucco - Sinfonia
Riccardo Muti
4. Act I - Preludio (Orchestra)
Riccardo Muti
5. Macbeth - Preludio
Riccardo Muti
6. La traviata - Preludio
Riccardo Muti
7. Act I - Prelude
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano
8. Aida - Prelude
Tullio Serafin
9. Act 1 - Prelude
Julius Rudel
10. I vespri Siciliani - Overture
Riccardo Muti
11. Carmen - Ouverture
Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris
12. Ouvertüre zu "Mignon"
Berislav Klobucar
13. Faust - Introduction (Orchestre)
Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris
14. L' Étoile - Overture
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
15. La Vie parisienne - Overture
Louis Frémaux
16. Orphée aux enfers, 'Orpheus in the Underworld' - Overture
Herbert von Karajan
17. Hänsel und Gretel - Ouvertüre/Vorspiel/Prélude (Orchester)
Jeffrey Tate
CD 3
1. Dido and Aeneas - Overture
Le Concert d`Astrée
2. Overture - [Largo] - Allegro
John Heley
3. Messiah, HWV 56 - Sinfony (Grave - Allegro moderato)
Sir David Willcocks
4. Fidelio - Ouvertüre
Berliner Philharmoniker
5. Der Freischütz - Ouvertüre (Orchester)
Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker
6. Euryanthe Overture J291
Wolfgang Sawallisch
7. Light Cavalry: Overture
Sir Neville Marriner
8. Ein Morgen, ein Mittag, ein Abend in Wien - Overture
Sir Neville Marriner
9. Dichter und Bauer - Overture
Sir Neville Marriner
10. Ouvertüre zu "Die lustigen Weiber"
Robert Heger
11. Die Fledermaus - Overture
David Tod Boyd
12. The Gypsy Baron - Overture
Vilem Tausky
13. Der Fliegende Holländer - Overture
Sir Roger Norrington
14. Die Walküre - Ride of the Valkyries (concert version)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
15. Lohengrin - Vorspiel (Prelude), 1.Aufzug
Mariss Jansons
16. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Overture
New Philharmonia Orchestra
CD 4
1. Rodelinda, Regina dei Longobardi - Overture
Daniel Taylor
2. Serse - Overture
Choeurs et Orchestre des Arts Florissants
3. Orfeo ed Euridice (Viennese version, 1762) - Overture
Riccardo Muti
4. Armide - Ouverture
City of London Sinfonia
5. Ezio - Sinfonia
Julian Pregardien
6. Idomeneo K366 - Overture
Sir Colin Davis
7. La finta giardiniera K196 - Overture
Sir Colin Davis
8. Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail K384 - Overture
Sir Colin Davis
9. Der Schauspieldirektor K486 - Overture
Sir Colin Davis
10. Die Zauberflöte K620 - Overture
Sir Colin Davis
11. Der Geschöpfe des Prometheus Op.43 - Overture
Sir Roger Norrington
12. Coriolan Op.62
Sir Roger Norrington
13. Egmont Op.84 - Overture
Sir Roger Norrington
14. Linda di Chamounix - Overture
Tullio Serafin
15. Don Pasquale - Overture
Tullio Serafin
CD 5
1. L'Inganno felice - Overture
Polish Chamber Orchestra
2. La Cenerentola, or La bontà in trionfo) - Overture
Tullio Serafin
3. La cambiale di matrimonio - Overture
Sir Thomas Beecham
4. La Gazza ladra - Overture
Sir Thomas Beecham
5. Semiramide - Overture
Sir Thomas Beecham
6. Le Comte Ory - Overture
Vittorio Gui
7. La Boutique fantasque (version original) - Ouverture (tempo di marcia)
Sir Eugene Goossens
8. Norma - Overture
Tullio Serafin
9. I Capuleti e i Montecchi - Sinfonia
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
10. Romeo and Juliette - Overture
Michel Plasson
11. Romeo and Juliette - Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
12. 1812 Finale Op.49 (6 mins Extract)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
13. Sleeping Beauty, Op.66 - Introduction (Allegro vivo - Andantino)
John Lanchbery
14. Festive Overture in A Op. 96
Andrew Litton
15. HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor) - Overture
Pro Arte Orchestra
16. Patience (or, Bunthorne's Bride) - Overture
Pro Arte Orchestra
17. The Yeomen of the Guard - Overture
Kenneth Alwyn
CD 6
1. Iolanthe (or, The Peer and the Peri) - Overture
Pro Arte Orchestra
2. The Pirates of Penzance (or, The Slave of Duty) - Overture
Pro Arte Orchestra
3. The Sorcerer (1987 - Remaster) - Overture
Sir Malcolm Sargent
4. Cox and Box (or, The Long-Lost Brothers) - Overture
Pro Arte Orchestra
5. Princess Ida (or, Castle Adamant) - Overture
Sir Malcolm Sargent
6. The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu) - Overture
Pro Arte Orchestra
7. Cockaigne (In London Town) - Concert Overture, Op.40
Sir John Barbirolli
8. The Arcadians (highlights) - Overture (orchestra)
Gilbert Vinter & His Orchestra
9. The Desert Song (highlights) - Overture (orchestra)
Michael Collins & His Orchestra
10. Show Boat - Overture: Show Boat
John McGlinn
11. Girl Crazy - Overture: Girl Crazy
John McGlinn
12. Of Thee I Sing - Prelude
John McGlinn
13. Annie Get Your Gun - Overture
John McGlinn
14. Anything Goes - Overture: Anything Goes
John McGlinn
15. Can-Can - Overture: Can-Can
John McGlinn
16. Kiss Me, Kate - Overture: Kiss Me, Kate
John McGlinn
17. Wonderful Town - Overture
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
18. Candide - Overture
André Previn
CD 1 begins with some classic operatic overtures by Rossini, starting with Il barbiere di Siviglia and La scala di seta. Then come three brilliant overtures from Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni, followed by examples of operatic overtures by Italian composers: Donizetti, Bellini and Wolf-Ferrari. The scene then shifts to Russia for the overture to Glinka’s colourful opera Ruslan and Ludmilla and the delightful overture that introduces Tchaikovsky’s greatly loved ballet The Nutcracker. The CD ends with the popular overtures to Smetana’s The Bartered Bride and Reznicek’s Donna Diana.
CD 2 starts with a collection of pieces by Verdi, including the powerful overture to La forza del destino and the poignant prelude to La traviata. We then move to France for the spectacular prelude to Bizet’s Carmen, the overture to Gounod’s Faust and some high-spirited music by Offenbach to begin his operettas La Vie Parisienne and Orphée aux enfers. The CD ends with our first example of German music, namely the overture to Hansel und Gretel by Humperdinck.
CD 3 takes us back in time to the Baroque era, with overtures by Purcell and Handel, including the introduction to Messiah, and then we hear operatic overtures by Beethoven (Fidelio) and Weber (Der Freischütz and Euryanthe). These are followed by some of the most famous symphonic overtures by Suppé, including Dichter und Bauer (‘Poet and Peasant’) and Leichte Kavallerie (‘Light Cavalry’), which is always such a hit at the BBC Promenade Concerts in London each summer. Then come Nicolai’s delightful overture to Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor and extracts from the overtures to two much-loved operettas by Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus and Der Zigeunerbaron. The CD ends with some powerful music from the operas of Wagner, including the overtures to Der fliegende Holländer and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the stirring prelude to Act III of Die Walküre, known as the Ride of the Valkyries.
CD 4 begins with more operatic overtures by Handel and Mozart, as well as three overtures by Gluck, including Orfeo ed Euridice. Then come three of Beethoven’s great concert overtures: Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Coriolan and Egmont. The CD concludes with two contrasting Italian operatic overtures by Donizetti: Linda di Chamounix and Don Pasquale.
CD 5 opens with more Rossini overtures, including La gazza ladra and Semiramide, and then more overtures by Bellini (Norma and I Capuletti e i Montecchi) and Gounod (Roméo et Juliette). These are followed by extracts from two of Tchaikovsky’s most famous symphonic overtures: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture and the spectacular 1812 Overture. Shostakovich’s Festive Overture then leads us to three light-hearted overtures to the English light operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, starting with the lively H.M.S. PInafore.
CD 6 continues with extracts from more Gilbert and Sullivan overtures, including The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado, then after a brief glimpse of Elgar’s symphonic overture Cockaigne – subtitled ‘In London Town’ – we move to the field of musicals, starting with the overture to a classical British show from the Edwardian era: The Arcadians. This is followed by overtures to some of the greatest Broadway musicals of all time, from Gershwin’s Girl Crazy, via Kern’s immortal Show Boat, through the great shows of the 1940s and 50s like Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun and Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate to Leonard Bernstein’s sparkling Wonderful Town and his brilliant Candide.
Contents:
CD 1
1. Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Overture
Carlo Maria Giulini
2. Overture - La scala di seta
Gianluigi Gelmetti
3. Overture - Il Signor Bruschino
Gianluigi Gelmetti
4. Overture - Tancredi
Gianluigi Gelmetti
5. Overture - L'italiana in Algeri
Gianluigi Gelmetti
6. Guillaume Tell - Ouverture (Orchestre)
Lamberto Gardelli
7. Overture from Le Nozze di Figaro, K.492
Sir Colin Davis
8. Così fan tutte K588 - Overture
Sir Colin Davis
9. Don Giovanni K527 - Overture
Sir Colin Davis
10. L'Elisir d'amore, 'Elixir of Love' - Prelude
Angela Arena
11. I Puritani - Sinfonia
Riccardo Muti
12. Il segreto di Susanna - Overture
Sir Neville Marriner
13. I Quattro Rusteghi - Prelude
Sir Neville Marriner
14. Ruslan and Lyudmila - Overture
Artur Rodzinski
15. Act I - Ouverture
John Lanchbery
16. Die verkaufte Braut - Ouvertüre (Orchester)
Bamberger Symphoniker
17. Die verkaufte Braut - Donna Diana Overture
Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 2
1. La forza del destino - Overture
Riccardo Muti
2. Luisa Miller - Overture
Riccardo Muti
3. Nabucco - Sinfonia
Riccardo Muti
4. Act I - Preludio (Orchestra)
Riccardo Muti
5. Macbeth - Preludio
Riccardo Muti
6. La traviata - Preludio
Riccardo Muti
7. Act I - Prelude
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano
8. Aida - Prelude
Tullio Serafin
9. Act 1 - Prelude
Julius Rudel
10. I vespri Siciliani - Overture
Riccardo Muti
11. Carmen - Ouverture
Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris
12. Ouvertüre zu "Mignon"
Berislav Klobucar
13. Faust - Introduction (Orchestre)
Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris
14. L' Étoile - Overture
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
15. La Vie parisienne - Overture
Louis Frémaux
16. Orphée aux enfers, 'Orpheus in the Underworld' - Overture
Herbert von Karajan
17. Hänsel und Gretel - Ouvertüre/Vorspiel/Prélude (Orchester)
Jeffrey Tate
CD 3
1. Dido and Aeneas - Overture
Le Concert d`Astrée
2. Overture - [Largo] - Allegro
John Heley
3. Messiah, HWV 56 - Sinfony (Grave - Allegro moderato)
Sir David Willcocks
4. Fidelio - Ouvertüre
Berliner Philharmoniker
5. Der Freischütz - Ouvertüre (Orchester)
Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker
6. Euryanthe Overture J291
Wolfgang Sawallisch
7. Light Cavalry: Overture
Sir Neville Marriner
8. Ein Morgen, ein Mittag, ein Abend in Wien - Overture
Sir Neville Marriner
9. Dichter und Bauer - Overture
Sir Neville Marriner
10. Ouvertüre zu "Die lustigen Weiber"
Robert Heger
11. Die Fledermaus - Overture
David Tod Boyd
12. The Gypsy Baron - Overture
Vilem Tausky
13. Der Fliegende Holländer - Overture
Sir Roger Norrington
14. Die Walküre - Ride of the Valkyries (concert version)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
15. Lohengrin - Vorspiel (Prelude), 1.Aufzug
Mariss Jansons
16. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Overture
New Philharmonia Orchestra
CD 4
1. Rodelinda, Regina dei Longobardi - Overture
Daniel Taylor
2. Serse - Overture
Choeurs et Orchestre des Arts Florissants
3. Orfeo ed Euridice (Viennese version, 1762) - Overture
Riccardo Muti
4. Armide - Ouverture
City of London Sinfonia
5. Ezio - Sinfonia
Julian Pregardien
6. Idomeneo K366 - Overture
Sir Colin Davis
7. La finta giardiniera K196 - Overture
Sir Colin Davis
8. Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail K384 - Overture
Sir Colin Davis
9. Der Schauspieldirektor K486 - Overture
Sir Colin Davis
10. Die Zauberflöte K620 - Overture
Sir Colin Davis
11. Der Geschöpfe des Prometheus Op.43 - Overture
Sir Roger Norrington
12. Coriolan Op.62
Sir Roger Norrington
13. Egmont Op.84 - Overture
Sir Roger Norrington
14. Linda di Chamounix - Overture
Tullio Serafin
15. Don Pasquale - Overture
Tullio Serafin
CD 5
1. L'Inganno felice - Overture
Polish Chamber Orchestra
2. La Cenerentola, or La bontà in trionfo) - Overture
Tullio Serafin
3. La cambiale di matrimonio - Overture
Sir Thomas Beecham
4. La Gazza ladra - Overture
Sir Thomas Beecham
5. Semiramide - Overture
Sir Thomas Beecham
6. Le Comte Ory - Overture
Vittorio Gui
7. La Boutique fantasque (version original) - Ouverture (tempo di marcia)
Sir Eugene Goossens
8. Norma - Overture
Tullio Serafin
9. I Capuleti e i Montecchi - Sinfonia
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
10. Romeo and Juliette - Overture
Michel Plasson
11. Romeo and Juliette - Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
12. 1812 Finale Op.49 (6 mins Extract)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
13. Sleeping Beauty, Op.66 - Introduction (Allegro vivo - Andantino)
John Lanchbery
14. Festive Overture in A Op. 96
Andrew Litton
15. HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor) - Overture
Pro Arte Orchestra
16. Patience (or, Bunthorne's Bride) - Overture
Pro Arte Orchestra
17. The Yeomen of the Guard - Overture
Kenneth Alwyn
CD 6
1. Iolanthe (or, The Peer and the Peri) - Overture
Pro Arte Orchestra
2. The Pirates of Penzance (or, The Slave of Duty) - Overture
Pro Arte Orchestra
3. The Sorcerer (1987 - Remaster) - Overture
Sir Malcolm Sargent
4. Cox and Box (or, The Long-Lost Brothers) - Overture
Pro Arte Orchestra
5. Princess Ida (or, Castle Adamant) - Overture
Sir Malcolm Sargent
6. The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu) - Overture
Pro Arte Orchestra
7. Cockaigne (In London Town) - Concert Overture, Op.40
Sir John Barbirolli
8. The Arcadians (highlights) - Overture (orchestra)
Gilbert Vinter & His Orchestra
9. The Desert Song (highlights) - Overture (orchestra)
Michael Collins & His Orchestra
10. Show Boat - Overture: Show Boat
John McGlinn
11. Girl Crazy - Overture: Girl Crazy
John McGlinn
12. Of Thee I Sing - Prelude
John McGlinn
13. Annie Get Your Gun - Overture
John McGlinn
14. Anything Goes - Overture: Anything Goes
John McGlinn
15. Can-Can - Overture: Can-Can
John McGlinn
16. Kiss Me, Kate - Overture: Kiss Me, Kate
John McGlinn
17. Wonderful Town - Overture
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
18. Candide - Overture
André Previn
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