George Szell: The Warner Recordings, 1934-1970
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Label: Warner
Cat No: 9029526718
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 14
Release Date: 30th October 2020
Contents
Works
Piano Concerto no.5 in E flat major, op.73 'Emperor'Piano Concertos nos 1-5 (complete)
Violin Concerto in D major, op.61
Double Concerto for violin and cello in A minor, op.102
Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor, op.15
Violin Concerto in D major, op.77
Cello Concerto in B minor, op.104
Slavonic Dances: Series I, op.46 B83
Symphony no.9 in E minor, op.95 B178 'From the New World'
Symphonie espagnole in D minor, op.21
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Ch'io mi scordi di te ...Non temer, amato bene, K505
Nehmt meinen Dank, ihr holden Gonner!, K383
Vado, ma dove? oh Dei!, K583
Symphony no.9 in C major, D944 'Great'
An der schonen blauen Donau (On the beautiful blue Danube), op.314
Fruhlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring), op.410
Pizzicato Polka
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, op.214
Lieder (3), op.43 'Gesange alterer deutscher Dichter'
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Artists
Alfred Brendel (piano)Pablo Casals (cello)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Emil Gilels (piano)
Bronislaw Huberman (violin)
Benno Moiseiwitsch (piano)
David Oistrakh (violin)
Edith Peinmann (violin)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Artur Schnabel (piano)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Cleveland Orchestra
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor
George SzellWorks
Piano Concerto no.5 in E flat major, op.73 'Emperor'Piano Concertos nos 1-5 (complete)
Violin Concerto in D major, op.61
Double Concerto for violin and cello in A minor, op.102
Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor, op.15
Violin Concerto in D major, op.77
Cello Concerto in B minor, op.104
Slavonic Dances: Series I, op.46 B83
Symphony no.9 in E minor, op.95 B178 'From the New World'
Symphonie espagnole in D minor, op.21
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Ch'io mi scordi di te ...Non temer, amato bene, K505
Nehmt meinen Dank, ihr holden Gonner!, K383
Vado, ma dove? oh Dei!, K583
Symphony no.9 in C major, D944 'Great'
An der schonen blauen Donau (On the beautiful blue Danube), op.314
Fruhlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring), op.410
Pizzicato Polka
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, op.214
Lieder (3), op.43 'Gesange alterer deutscher Dichter'
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Artists
Alfred Brendel (piano)Pablo Casals (cello)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Emil Gilels (piano)
Bronislaw Huberman (violin)
Benno Moiseiwitsch (piano)
David Oistrakh (violin)
Edith Peinmann (violin)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Artur Schnabel (piano)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Cleveland Orchestra
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor
George SzellAbout
30 July 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of George Szell’s passing.
Born in Budapest in 1897, Szell grew up in Vienna. A prodigious pianist and composer as a child, he later held conducting posts in Germany and Czechoslovakia, and his career in the USA, his home from 1939 to escape the Nazis, was furthered by none other than Arturo Toscanini.
According to author and critic Robert Layton, Szell is ‘A perfectionist with an extraordinary ear and remarkable memory, his performances exhibited great dramatic intensity, an astonishing discipline and fire, a selfless pursuit of musical truth and a complete absence of intrusive interpretative mannerisms.’
Szell’s greatest achievement was his stewardship of the Cleveland Orchestra which he took over in 1946, aged 49. Though the orchestra was the youngest and least fashionable of the American ‘big five’, it was Szell’s aim to make it ‘second to none’, and not only in the US. Hi success was such, it out-ran his death in 1970. As Christoph von Dohnányi observed two decades later: ‘When we give an outstanding concert abroad, George Szell gets a good review’!
Though less voluminous than the Columbia ones, the complete recordings Szell made for EMI – now Warner – represent a significant part of his recorded legacy: Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder with Schwarzkopf, Brahms concertos with Oistrakh and Rostropovich, complete Beethoven piano concertos with Gilels, Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony…
The set also includes the 78rpm era recordings among which the below make their first appearance on CD:
- J. Strauss II - Pizzicato Polka
- Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Act 1: Prelude
- Weber - Oberon: Overture
As a bonus, the box also includes an audio documentary, George Szell – A Memoir, which features rehearsals with Gilels and interviews with Szell, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and other distinguished figures.
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