CD Review
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Collector's Choice
- Disc One:
- Richard Wagner: Hail, Bright Abode from Act 2 of Tannhäuser (Frederick Stock, 27 May 1933)
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony #1 in C Major, Op. 21 (Fritz Busch, 3 February 1949)
- Franz Schubert: Symphony #8 in B minor, D. 759 "Unfinished" (Bruno Walter, 13 March 1958)
- Robert Schumann: Manfred Overture Op. 115 (Bruno Walter, 1 February 1956)
- Jean-Phillippe Rameau/D'Indy: Dardanus Suite (Charles Munch, 27 February 1963)
- Disc Two:
- Richard Wagner: Prélude to Act 3 of Lohengrin (Artur Rodzinski, 21 April 1948)
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony #2 in D Major, Op. 36 (Leopold Stokowski, 7 October 1962)
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony #7 in A Major, Op. 92 (Janos Ferencsik, 22 and 24 March 1979)
- Disc Three:
- Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4 in F minor Op. 36 (Fritz Reiner, 21 November 1957)
- Serge Prokofieff: Symphony #3 in C minor, Op. 44 (Kirill Kondrashin, 8,9 and 11 April 1976)
- Disc Four:
- Anton Bruckner: Symphony #7 in E Major (First Movement - Paul Hindemith, 7 April 1963)
- Richard Strauss: Suite from Der Burger als Edelmann, Op. 60 (Hans Rosbaud, 13 November 1960)
- Gustav Mahler: Symphony #3 in D minor (Jean Martinon, 23, 24, and 25 March 1967)
- Disc Five:
- Gustav Mahler: Symphony #3 (cont.)
- Ralph Shapey: Rituals for Symphony Orchestra (Ralph Shapey, 12 & 13 May 1966)
- Disc Six:
- Richard Wagner: Prélude to Act 3 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Pierre Monteux, 1 January 1961)
- Anton Bruckner: Symphony #7 in E Major (Klaus Tennstedt, 31 May & 2 June 1984)
- Disc Seven:
- Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony #2 "A London Symphony" (Sir Malcolm Sargent, 6 July 1967)
- Aaron Copland: Preamble for a Solemn Occasion (Seiji Ozawa, 27 June 1968 (Marian Anderson, narrator)
- William Schuman: Symphony #3 (Leonard Slatkin, 6 & 8 February 1986)
- Disc Eight:
- Georges Bizet: Patrie Overture (Desire Defauw, 22 January 1947)
- Claude Debussy/Ansermet: Six Antique Epigraphs (Ernest Ansermet, 25 & 26 January 1968)
- Claude Debussy/Leinsdorf: Préludes and Interludes from Pelléas and Mélisande (Eric Leinsdorf, 26 & 29 November 1986)
- Aaron Copland: Suite from Billy the Kid (James Levine, 4 July 1981)
- Disc Nine:
- Albert Roussel: Symphony #3 in G minor, Op. 42 (Charles Munch, 16 & 18 February 1967)
- John Corigliano: Campane do Ravello (Kenneth Jean, 9 October 1987)
- Béla Bartók: Two Portraits, Op. 5 (Sir Georg Solti, 24 & 26 September 1987 - Samuel Magad, violin)
- Eliot Carter: Variations for Orchestra (Sir Georg Solti, 26 January 1982)
- Ferruccio Busoni: Lustspeil Overture (Daniel Barenboim, 4 January 1996)
- Disc Ten:
- Wolfgang Mozart/Busoni: Overture to the Abduction from the Seraglio K. 384 (Daniel Barenboim, 8 February 1996)
- Wolfgang Mozart: Selections from Divertimento #11 in D Major, K. 251 (Carlo Maria Giulini, 2 & 3 March 1967 - Ray Still, oboe)
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Christ on the Mount of Olives, Op. 85 (Daniel Barenboim, 15 & 16 February 1996 - Laura Aikin, soprano, Ben Heppner & Rene Pepe, bass)
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