Antal Dorati Mercury Masters - Mono Recordings
Limited edition 31CD set
A tour de force of thrilling orchestral playing and brilliant audio engineering, Antal Doráti’s mono recordings are collected for the first time. Newly remastered, this collection comprehensively documents a golden era in American classical recording and most of these vividly-characterized recordings appear on CD for the first time.
“has to be heard to be believed … is it possible to exceed this in the art of reproduced sound?” The New Records
Contents:
CD 1
BORODIN: Symphony No. 2*
STRAVINSKY: L’Oiseau de feu – Suite
*FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 2
BERLIOZ: Le Carnaval romain
RAVEL: Pavane; Alborada del gracioso
DEBUSSY: Nocturnes
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 3
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 4
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 5
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 4 ‘Italian’
MOZART: Symphony No. 40
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 6
RESPIGHI: Pini di Roma; Fontane di Roma
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 7
R. STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 8
GERSHWIN (arr. Russell Bennett): Porgy and Bess (A Symphonic Picture)
GOULD: Spirituals in Five Movements
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 9
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5; Overtures – Egmont; Coriolan; Leonore No. 3
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 10
COPLAND: Symphony No. 3
CD 11
JOHANN STRAUSS II: Waltzes
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 12
STRAVINSKY: Le Sacre du printemps
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 13
TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 14
BARTÓK: Concerto for Orchestra
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 15
BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 16
RAVEL: Daphnis et Chloé
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 17
RESPIGHI: Feste Romane; Vetrate di Chiesa
CD 18
GINASTERA: Variaciones concertantes
BRITTEN: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
CDs 19–20
TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake
CD 21
TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture (including spoken commentary); Capriccio italien
Deems Taylor (narrator)
CD 22
BRITTEN: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
TCHAIKOVSKY: Nutcracker Suite
Deems Taylor (narrator)
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 23
STRAVINSKY: Petrouchka (Version 1947)
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 24–26
TCHAIKOVSKY The Sleeping Beauty
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 27
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3; Academic Festival Overture; Tragic Overture (mono and stereo versions)
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 28
BEETHOVEN: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 29
STORIES WITH MUSIC
TCHAIKOVSKY: The Story of the Nutcracker Prince;
The Story of the Twelve Dancing Princesses
R. STRAUSS: The Story of Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Jerry Terheyden (narrator)
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 30
SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 8 ‘Unfinished’
TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 31
KODÁLY: Peacock Variations
BARTÓK: The Miraculous Mandarin – Suite
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Eloquence 31CD Set
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