Georges Pretre - The Symphonic Recordings (2016) [17CD Box Set]

• Title: The Symphonic Recordings
  
• Year Of Release: 2016
  
• Label: Erato / Warner Classics
  
• Genre: Classical
  
• Quality: FLAC (*image + .cue,log)
  
• Total Time: 17:19:25
  
• Total Size: 4,57 GB (+3%rec.)
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

These latest releases in Warner Classics’ long-running ICON series highlight two conductors Georges Prêtre and Armin Jordan. They were born just eight years apart from each other – Prêtre in France in 1924 and Jordan in Switzerland 1932 – and both have a particular distinction in French music, but their careers followed very different paths.
Prêtre – who, now in his nineties, still has an active career – is very much the international maestro, conducting most of the world’s major orchestras and appearing in the world’s top opera houses, while Jordan (who died in 2006) focused his career largely on Switzerland and France, though he gained a reputation in the USA in the last decade or so of his life.
Particularly notable in Prêtre’s Warner Classics catalogue are the recordings he made with Maria Callas in the 1960s (Carmen, Tosca and the two Callas à Paris recitals) but the 17-CD ICON collection displays the extraordinary breadth of his achievement. The French component features Berlioz, Debussy, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Satie, Poulenc, Milhaud, d’Indy, Roussel and Dukas, but also the much less widely-known Alexis de Castillon and Marcel Landowski (who was a personal friend of Prêtre’s). Beyond that already impressive array, the set also includes works by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Dvořák, Berg, Gershwin, the Hungarian composer Tibor Harsányi and the Belgian composer Joseph Jongen (whose Symphonie concertante for organ and orchestra, a work close to Prêtre’s heart, is performed here with the composer Maurice Duruflé as soloist). The orchestras on this ICON set are from France, Monte Carlo, the UK and Austria and featured performers include Marie-Claire Alain, Aldo Ciccolini, Alexis Weissenberg, Michel Béroff, Christian Ferras and Peter Ustinov.
Both collections include a number of recordings that have never before appeared on CD. On the Prêtre set, works by Saint-Saëns, Milhaud, Poulenc, Dutilleux, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Dvořák, Berg, Harsányi and Gershwin; on the Jordan set, works by Chausson, Fauré, Ravel and Lekeu.


Works on This Recording:


1. Concerto for Piano in F major by George Gershwin
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1925 ; USA
2. La création du monde, Op. 81 by Darius Milhaud
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1923 ; France
3. Symphony no 3 in C minor, Op. 78 "Organ" by Camille Saint-Saëns
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Written: 1886 ;
4. Symphonie Concertante for organ and orchestra, Op. 81 by Joseph Jongen
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Written: 1926 ;
5. Symphony no 5 in E minor, Op. 64 by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1888 ; Russia
6. Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1887 ; Russia
7. In the steppes of central Asia by Alexander Borodin
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1880 ; Russia
8. Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances by Alexander Borodin
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
9. Night on the Bare Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1866 ; Russia
10. Symphony no 12 in D minor, Op. 112 "To the Memory of Lenin - 1917" by Dmitri Shostakovich
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1961 ; USSR
11. Concerto for Violin by Alban Berg
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1935 ; Austria
12. Chamber Concerto for Piano, Violin and 13 Winds by Alban Berg
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1923-1925 ; Austria
13. Le loup by Henri Dutilleux
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1953 ;
14. Le carnaval des animaux, R. 125 by Camille Saint-Saëns
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1886 ; France
15. Les animaux modèles by Francis Poulenc
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1940-1941 ; France
16. Les biches by Francis Poulenc
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1923 ; France
17. L'Histoire de Babar by Francis Poulenc
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1940-1945 ; France
18. L'histoire du petit tailleur by Tibor Harsanyi
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1939 ; France
19. Symphony no 9 in E minor, Op. 95/B 178 "From the New World" by Antonín Dvorák
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893 ; USA
20. Le carnaval d'Aix, Op. 83b by Darius Milhaud
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1926 ; France
21. Suite française, Op. 248 by Darius Milhaud
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1944 ; USA
22. Suite provençale, Op. 152b by Darius Milhaud
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1936 ; France
23. Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 by Hector Berlioz
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1830 ; France
24. Symphony no 1 in E flat major, Op. 2 by Camille Saint-Saëns
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1853 ; France
25. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 12 by Alexis de Castillon
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1872 ; France
26. Esquisses symphoniques, Op. 15 by Alexis de Castillon
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1872 ; France
27. Poème des rivages, Op. 77 by Vincent D'Indy
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1919-1921 ; France
28. Diptyque méditerranéen, Op. 87 by Vincent D'Indy
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1925-1926 ; France
29. Bacchus et Ariane, Op. 43 by Albert Roussel
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1930 ; France
30. Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17 by Albert Roussel
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1912 ; France
31. Symphony no 2 in A minor, Op. 55 by Camille Saint-Saëns
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1859 ; France
32. La jeunesse d'Hercule in E flat major, Op. 50 by Camille Saint-Saëns
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1877 ; France
33. Symphony no 3 in C minor, Op. 78 "Organ" by Camille Saint-Saëns
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Written: 1886 ;
34. Jean de la Peur (Symphony No. 1) by Marcel Landowski
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Modern
Written: 1949 ;
35. Symphony No. 3 in B Minor "Des Espaces" by Marcel Landowski
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
36. Symphony No. 4 by Marcel Landowski
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Modern
Written: 1988 ;
37. L'apprenti sorcier by Paul Dukas
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1897 ; France
38. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by Claude Debussy
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1892-1894 ; France
39. Gymnopédies (3) for Piano: no 3, Lent et grave by Erik Satie
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1888 ; France
40. Gymnopédies (3) for Piano: no 1, Lent et douloureux by Erik Satie
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1888 ; France
41. Danse macabre in G minor, Op. 40 by Camille Saint-Saëns
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1874 ; France
42. Pavane pour une infante défunte by Maurice Ravel
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1899 ; France
43. La valse by Maurice Ravel
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1920 ; France
44. Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Period: Romantic
Written: 1887 ; Russia

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