George Szell: The Forgotten Recordings - 2 CD Set
George Szell: The Forgotten Recordings - 2 CD Set
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George Szell: The Forgotten Recordings

The Cleveland Orchestra

George Szell

2 CD Set

 

The Forgotten Recordings features eight historic performances made for the Book-of-the-Month Club in 1954 and 1955, seven of which are first releases that have been restored and remastered by the multi-award-winning audio restoration engineer Lani Spahr, who also provides extensive and informative booklet notes. Three works – Bach’s Third Orchestral Suite (BWV 1068), a revealing engagement by Szell with a composer he is not usually associated with, Smetana’s The Moldau and Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel (with an early spotlight on legendary horn player Myron Bloom) were recorded in mono in a remarkably productive session on Christmas Eve, 1954. From October 1955 in stereo recordings are two works by Brahms – his Haydn Variations and the Academic Festival Overture, two symphonies – Mozart’s No.39 and Schumann’s Fourth – and a Stravinsky Firebird Suite that “crackles with energy”

 

Disc 1

  1. I. Ouverture
  2. II. Air, "Air on the G String"
  3. III. Gavotte I-II
  4. IV. Bourrée
  5. V. Gigue
  6. Má vlast (My Fatherland): No. 2. Vltava (Moldau)
  7. Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), Op. 28, TrV 171
  8. I. Adagio - Allegro
  9. II. Andante con moto
  10. III. Menuetto: Allegretto
  11. IV. Finale: Allegro

 

Disc 2

  1. Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
  2. Theme: Chorale St. Antoni: Andante
  3. Variation 1: Andante con moto
  4. Variation 2: Vivace
  5. Variation 3: Con moto
  6. Variation 4: Andante
  7. Variation 5: Poco presto
  8. Variation 6: Vivace
  9. Variation 7: Grazioso
  10. Variation 8: Poco presto
  11. Finale: Andante
  12. I. Ziemlich langsam - Lebhaft
  13. II. Romanze: Ziemlich langsam
  14. III. Scherzo: Lebhaft
  15. IV. Langsam - Lebhaft
  16. I. Introduction
  17. II. The Firebird and its Dance
  18. III. Variation of the Firebird
  19. IV. Ring dance of the Princesses
  20. V. Infernal Dance of King Kashchey
  21. VI. Lullaby
  22. VII. Finale