Seiji Ozawa: The Philips Years / 50cd Set

Seiji Ozawa

National Anthems New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra Little Sisters of the Grassland Boston Symphony Orchestra Bach, J S: Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV565 Boston Symphony Orchestra Musical Offering, BWV1079 Boston Symphony Orchestra Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004 Boston Symphony Orchestra Canonic Variations on the Christmas Hymn 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her', BWV769 Boston Symphony Orchestra Prelude & Fugue in E flat major, BWV552 'St Anne' Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, BB 114, Sz. 106 Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123, Sz.116 Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica' Saito Kinen Orchestra Egmont Overture, Op. 84 Saito Kinen Orchestra Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' New Philharmonia Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 Saito Kinen Orchestra Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 Saito Kinen Orchestra Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 Saito Kinen Orchestra Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 Christine Goerke (soprano), Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor), James Westman, (baritone) Saito Kinen Orchestra, SKF Matsumoto Choir, Tokyo Opera Singers, Ritsuyukai Choir, SKF Matsumoto Children’s Chorus Les illuminations, Op. 18 Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major Debussy: La Damoiselle élue Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88 Wiener Philharmoniker The Noon Witch, Op. 108 (B196) Wiener Philharmoniker Carnival Overture, Op. 92 San Francisco Symphony Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World' Wiener Philharmoniker In Nature's Realm Overture, Op. 91 Wiener Philharmoniker Hellmesberger: Danse Diabolique Wiener Philharmoniker Holst: The Planets, Op. 32 Boston Symphony Orchestra, New England Conservatory Chorus Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124 Liu Teh-hai (pipa), Liu Shih-kun (piano) Boston Symphony Orchestra Mahler: Symphonies 1-9 (complete) Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano - Symphonies No. 2 & 4), Marilyn Horne (mezzo - Symphony No. 2), Jessye Norman (soprano - Symphony No. 3); Faye Robinson (soprano 1 and Magna Peccatrix), Judith Blegen (soprano II & Una poenitentium), Deborah Sasson (soprano III & Mater Gloriosa), Florence Quivar (alto I & Mulier Samaritana), Lorna Myers (alto II and Maria Aegyptiaca), Kenneth Riegel (tenor I and Doctor Marianus), Benjamin Luxon (baritone & Pater Ecstaticus), Gwynne Howell (bass & Pater Profondus) Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus (Nos. 2, 3 and 8) Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major Seiji Ozawa Kindertotenlieder Jessye Norman (soprano) Mozart: Symphony No. 32 in G major, K318 Saito Kinen Orchestra Orff: Carmina Burana Edita Gruberova (soprano), John Aler (tenor), Thomas Hampson (baritone) Berliner Philharmoniker, Knabenchor des Staats- und Domchores Berlin, Shin-Yu Kai Choir Poulenc: Les Mamelles de Tirésias Barbara Bonney (Thérèse), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Le Mari), Wolfgang Holzmair (Le Gendarme), Jean-Philippe Lafont (Le Directeur) Mark Oswald, (Presto), Graham Clark (Lacouf), Gordon Gietz (Le Journaliste) / Anthony Griffey (Le Fils), Akemi Sakamoto (La Marchande) Saito Kinen Orchestra, Tokyo Opera Singers Puccini: Tosca (highlights) Manon Lescaut (highlights) Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte Saito Kinen Orchestra Shéhérazade Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35 Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36 Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 Shoko Aki Erle, Masuko Ushioda (violins), Mazumi Tanamura, Nobuko Okada - (violas), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Sumiko Kurata (cellos) Gurrelieder Jessye Norman (Tove), Tatiana Troyanos (Waldtaube), James McCracken (Waldemar), Kim Scown (Klaus-Narr), David Arnold (Peasant), Werner Klemperer (narrator) Tanglewood Festival Chorus Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever Boston Symphony Orchestra Strauss, J, I: Radetsky March, Op. 228 Wiener Philharmoniker Strauss, J, II: An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314 Wiener Philharmoniker Die Fledermaus Overture Wiener Philharmoniker Wiener Blut Waltz, Op. 354 Wiener Philharmoniker Strauss, Josef: Arm in Arm, Polka mazur, Op. 215 Wiener Philharmoniker Aquarellen - Waltzer, Op. 258 Wiener Philharmoniker Die Schwätzerin - Polka-Mazur Op. 144 Wiener Philharmoniker Im Fluge Op. 230 Polka schnell Wiener Philharmoniker Strauss, R: Sextet from Capriccio, Op. 85 Shoko Aki Erle, Masuko Ushioda (violins), Mazumi Tanamura, Nobuko Okada - (violas), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Sumiko Kurata (cellos) Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 Boston Symphony Orchestra Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 Joseph Silverstein (violin) Boston Symphony Orchestra Fanfare für Wiener Philharmoniker, Op. 109 Wiener Philharmoniker Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64 Rudolf Scholz (organ) Wiener Philharmoniker Feierlicher Einzug der Ritter des Johanniter-Ordens, Op. 103 Rudolf Scholz (organ) Wiener Philharmoniker Salome Jessye Norman (Salome), James Morris (Jochanaan), Walter Raffeiner (Herodes), Kerstin Witt (Herodias), Richard Leech (Narraboth), Annette Markert (Ein Page) Dresdener Staatskapelle Elektra Hildegard Behrens (Elektra), Christa Ludwig (Clytemnestra), Nadine Secunde (Chrysothemis), Ragnar Ulfung (Aegisth), Jorma Hynninen (Orest) Dresdener Staatskapelle Stravinsky: Apollon musagète Saito Kinen Orchestra The Rite of Spring Oedipus Rex Jessye Norman, Philip Langridge & Bryn Terfel Saito Kinen Orchestra, Shin-Yu Kai Male Choir The Rake's Progress Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Tom Rakewell), Sylvia McNair (Anne Trulove), Paul Plishka (Nick Shadow), Donald Adams (Trulove), Jane Bunnell (Mother Goose), Jane Henschel (Baba the Turk), Raymond Aceto (Keeper of the Madhouse) Saito Kinen Orchestra, Tokyo Opera Singers Takemitsu: November Steps for biwa, shakuhachi & orchestra Eclipse Concerto for Viola & Orchestra 'A String Around Autumn' Requiem for string orchestra Dwayne Croft (baritone) Saito Kinen Orchestra My Way of Life Saito Kinen Orchestra, Tokyo Opera Singers Ceremonial, An Autumn Ode Saito Kinen Orchestra, Tokyo Opera Singers Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Suite, Op. 66a Orchestre de Paris Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique' Orchestre de Paris The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a Orchestre de Paris Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer: Overture Berliner Philharmoniker Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 1 Berliner Philharmoniker Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Overture Berliner Philharmoniker Tannhäuser: Overture Berliner Philharmoniker Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod Berliner Philharmoniker

Released ahead of Seiji Ozawa’s 80th birthday in September 2015, this 50-CD set includes the legendary Japanese conductor’s most celebrated recordings for Philips and Decca. It spans four decades and three continents and an astonishing breadth of repertoire. Ozawa has always been a prolific recording artist, from his earliest LPs in the 1960s, and this collection embraces the key orchestral relationships of his career: San Francisco and Boston, Berlin, Paris and Vienna and, for the past thirty years, the Saito Kinen Orchestra in Japan. The earliest recording in the set dates from February 1974 — the Beethoven Ninth in London — and the most recent is the Brahms First from Carnegie Hall, New York in December 2010. In between these two dates, there is a vast array of classic recordings to discover. Highlights include the complete Mahler cycle with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Ozawa’s complete recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, culminating in his appearance at the New Year’s Concert in 2002 (sales of the CD afterwards produced record-breaking results). Before his appointment as Music Director of the Vienna State Opera (2002-2010), Seiji Ozawa served as Music Director of the Boston Symphony for 29 seasons (1973-2002). When once asked to reflect on this record-breaking tenure at the, Ozawa commented: There have been so many experiences, so many friendships, so much wonderful music. I suppose in the end I’ve learned that music is everyday work. That this kind of art is practised and lived every day of your life.” This set celebrates just some of those musical friendships — famous recordings with Jessye Norman and Viktoria Mullova and the championing of works by his compatriot Toru Takemitsu. The bonus CD was released to mark the historic 1979 Boston Symphony tour of China, following the then recently signed cultural pact between the two nations.

Price: $179.98