75th Anniversary of the LPO - Vol.3: 1983 - 2007 | LPO LPO0099

75th Anniversary of the LPO - Vol.3: 1983 - 2007

Label: LPO

Cat No: LPO0099

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 4

Release Date: 8th October 2007

Contents

Artists

Lucia Popp (soprano)
Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano)
Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Rene Pape (bass)
Jane Eaglen (soprano)
Birgit Remmert (contralto)
Deon Van Der Walt (tenor)
Alfred Muff (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductors

Klaus Tennstedt
Franz Welser-Most
Kurt Masur
Vladimir Jurowski

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Symphony no.9 in D minor, op.125 'Choral'

Bruckner, Anton

Te Deum in C major, WAB45

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Mass in C minor, K427 'Great' (excerpts)
Requiem in D minor, K626 (excerpts)

Schubert, Franz

Stabat Mater in G minor, D175

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Symphony no.1 in F minor, op.10
Symphony no.5 in D minor, op.47
Symphony no.14 in G minor, op.135

Strauss, Richard

Capriccio, op.85
» Closing scene

Artists

Lucia Popp (soprano)
Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano)
Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Rene Pape (bass)
Jane Eaglen (soprano)
Birgit Remmert (contralto)
Deon Van Der Walt (tenor)
Alfred Muff (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductors

Klaus Tennstedt
Franz Welser-Most
Kurt Masur
Vladimir Jurowski

About

As it celebrated its 50th anniversary, the London Philharmonic Orchestra stood on the threshold of global acclaim. The arrival in 1982 of Principal Conductor Klaus Tennstedt brought a major recording contract with EMI and regular concert engagements in Japan and the Far East; Franz Welser-Möst followed in the early 1990s with further enhancement of the Orchestra’s strengths as a highly skilled instrument of accompaniment and Kurt Masur presided over interpretations of the great masterworks as the authoritative elder statesman of the conducting world.

Volume 3, the final instalment in the London Philharmonic Orchestra Anniversary collection, holds many treasures.

Klaus Tennstedt’s offering of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (previously unreleased) comes from one of his last concerts with the Orchestra on 8 October 1992. As the conductor struggled with ill health, every one of his late concerts became an event, with members of the Orchestra and soloists responding and rising to the sense of occasion. This is an interpretation of grandeur and vastness deeply rooted in the central European tradition of the early 20th century.

Franz Welser-Möst was appointed the Orchestra’s principal conductor at 30 years of age – the youngest in the Orchestra’s history. His outstanding strength is in working with singers, his reading of vocal music and its accompaniment. On this disc Dame Felicity Lott is heard in a previously unreleased broadcast recording of the last scene of Richard Strauss’s Capriccio.

More recently, Vladimir Jurowski has undertaken in concert an extensive survey of the works of Shostakovich. This included the Fourteenth Symphony - a vivid and memorable performance which threw piercing light into the dark corners of Shostakovich’s harrowing and teasing premonition of death.

CD 1 New Release!
Klaus Tennstedt conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 ‘Choral’
Lucia Popp, soprano / Ann Murray, mezzo-soprano / Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor / René Pape, bass / London Philharmonic Choir
LPO-0026

CD 2
Franz Welser-Möst conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra
R. Strauss: Capriccio, closing scene
Mozart: Mass in C minor / Requiem (excerpts)
Schubert: Stabat Mater in G minor
Bruckner: Te Deum
Jane Eaglen, soprano / Birgit Remmert, contralto /Deon van der Walt, tenor / Alfred Muff, bass /Mozart-Chor Linz
LPO-0027

CD 3
Kurt Masur conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5
(LPO-0001, previously released)

CD 4 New Recording
Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Shostakovich: Symphony No.14
LPO-0028

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