Mercury living presence : the collector's edition, 3.

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Corporate Authors: Detroit Symphony Orchestra (Performer), Eastman Philharmonia (Performer), Eastman-Rochester "Pops" Orchestra (Performer), Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra (Performer), Eastman Wind Ensemble (Performer), Festival Chamber Orchestra (Performer), Kvartet imeni Borodina (Performer), London Pops Orchestra (Performer), London Strings (Performer), London Symphony Chorus (Performer), London Symphony Orchestra (Performer), Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (Performer), Minnesota Orchestra (Performer), New Philharmonia Orchestra (Performer), Philharmonia Hungarica (Performer), Romeros (Performer), University of Minnesota. Brass Band (Performer)
Other Authors: Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856 (Composer), Arensky, Anton, 1861-1906 (Composer), Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 (Composer), Benjamin, Arthur, 1893-1960 (Composer), Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869 (Composer), Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959 (Composer), Boieldieu, A. (Adrien), 1775-1834 (Composer), Bolzoni, G. (Giovanni), 1841-1919 (Composer), Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirʹevich, 1833-1887 (Composer), Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 (Composer), Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 (Composer), Chausson, Ernest, 1855-1899 (Composer), Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 (Composer), Dohnányi, Ernő, 1877-1960 (Composer), Dorati, Antal (Performer), Druian, Rafael (Performer), Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904 (Composer), Fennell, Frederick (Performer), Fistoulari, Anatole (Performer), Franck, César, 1822-1890 (Composer), Gálvez, Genoveva (Performer), German, Edward, 1862-1936 (Composer), Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 (Composer), Ginastera, Alberto, 1916-1983 (Composer), Glière, Reinhold Morit︠s︡evich, 1875-1956 (Composer), Glinka, M. I. (Mikhail Ivanovich), 1804-1857 (Composer), Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893 (Composer), Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907 (Composer), Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759 (Composer), Hanson, Howard, 1896-1981 (Composer, Performer), Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809 (Composer), Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924 (Composer), Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963 (Composer), Kálmán, Emmerich, 1882-1953 (Composer), Kondrashin, Kirill, 1914-1981 (Performer), Lalo, Édouard, 1823-1892 (Composer), Lanner, Joseph, 1801-1843 (Composer), Lehár, Franz, 1870-1948 (Composer), List, Eugene, 1918-1985 (Performer), Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 (Composer), Mackerras, Charles, 1925-2010 (Performer), Marriner, Neville (Performer), Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912 (Composer), Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847 (Composer), Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864 (Composer), Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 (Composer), Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881 (Composer), Nicolai, Otto, 1810-1849 (Composer), Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880 (Composer), Paray, Paul, 1886-1979 (Performer), Porter, Cole, 1891-1964 (Composer), Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953 (Composer), Puyana, Rafael, 1931-2013 (Performer), Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943 (Composer), Respighi, Ottorino, 1879-1936 (Composer), Richter, Sviatoslav, 1915-1997 (Performer), Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908 (Composer), Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979 (Composer), Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868 (Composer), Rostropovich, Mstislav, 1927-2007 (Performer), Rouget de Lisle, Claude Joseph, 1760-1836 (Composer), Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921 (Composer), Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hans, 1900-1973 (Performer), Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 (Performer), Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828 (Composer), Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856 (Composer), Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957 (Composer), Skrowaczewski, Stanisław, 1923-2017 (Performer), Smetana, Bedřich, 1824-1884 (Composer), Soler, Antonio, 1729-1783 (Composer), Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932 (Composer), Strauss, Eduard, 1835-1916 (Composer), Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899 (Composer), Strauss, Josef, 1827-1870 (Composer), Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949 (Composer), Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900 (Composer), Suppé, Franz von, 1819-1895 (Composer), Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893 (Composer), Telemann, Georg Philipp, 1681-1767 (Composer), Thomas, Ambroise, 1811-1896 (Composer), Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901 (Composer), Vishnevskai︠a︡, Galina, 1926-2012 (Performer), Vivaldi, Antonio, 1678-1741 (Composer), Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 (Composer), Waldteufel, Emil, 1837-1915 (Composer), Walton, William, 1902-1983 (Composer), Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826 (Composer), Weinberger, Jaromír, 1896-1967 (Composer)
Other title:Accompanying booklet has title: Mercury living presence : the true story of a legendary label.
Format: CD Audio
Language:No linguistic content
Published: New York : Mercury Records, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • CD 1-2. Symphonies 1-4 / Brahms (Doráti, London Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra)
  • CD 3. Wienerwalzer paprika : Waltz from The merry widow / Franz Lehár ; The gypsy princess. Waltz / Imre Kálmán ; Village swallows, op. 164 / Josef Strauss ; Wedding waltz from The veil of Pierette / Ernö Dohnányi ; Skaters waltz, op. 183 / Emil Waldteufel ; Die schönbrunner, op. 2000 / Joseph Lanner ; Voices of spring, op. 410 / Johann Strauss, Jr. ; Aquarellen waltzes, op. 258 / Josef Strauss ; Doctrinen waltz, op. 79 / Eduard Strauss (Doráti, Philharmonia Hungarica, Minneapolis Symphony)
  • CD 4. Water music suite / Handel ; arranged by Sir Hamilton Harty ; Music for the royal fireworks, suite HWV 351 / Handel ; arranged by Sir Hamilton Harty ; Serenade in G, K. 525 ; Two marches in D, K. 335 ; Symphony no. 51 in D, K. 121 ; Three German dances, K. 605 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Doráti, London Symphony Orchestra, Festival Chamber Orchestra)
  • CD 5. The Hebrides, Op. 26 ; Symphonies no. 3-4 / Felix Mendelssohn (Doráti, London Symphony Orchestra, Stanislaw Skrowaczeswki, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 6. Scheherazade, op. 35 / Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov ; Valse triste, op. 44 / Jean Sibelius ; Les préludes, symphony poem no. 3, S.97 / Franz Liszt ; The Moldau / Bedrich Smetana (Doráti, Rafael Druian, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 7. Capriccio espagnol, op. 34 / Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov ; The golden cockerel. Suite / Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov ; arr. by A. Glazunov and M. Steinberg ; Russian Easter festival. Overture, op. 36 / Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov ; Polovtsian dances from Prince Igor / Alexander Borodin (Doráti, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus)
  • CD 8. Rossini & Verdi overtures : La forza del destino ; Nabucco ; I vespri siciliani ; La traviata. Prelude to Act I ; Prelude to Act III / Giuseppe Verdi ; La gazza ladra ; La scala di Seta ; La cenerontola ; Il barbiere di Siviglia ; L'italiana in Algeri ; Il signor bruschino / Gioacchino Rossini (Doráti, London Symphony Orchestra, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 9. Don Juan, op. 20 ; Death and transfiguration, op. 24 ; Till Eulenspiegel's Merry pranks, op. 28 ; Suite from Der Rosenkavalier / Richard Strauss (Doráti, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 10-11. Symphony no. 1 in G minor, Op. 13 ; Symphony no. 2 in C minor, op. 17 ; Symphony no. 3 in D major, op. 29 / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ; Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky, op. 35a / Anton Stepanovich Arensky (Doráti, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Hungarica)
  • CD. 12. Symphony no. 5 in E minor, op. 64 ; March slav, op. 31 ; Eugene Onegin. Waltz ; Polonaise / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Doráti, London Symphony Orchestra, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 13. Preludes & overtures : Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Overture ; Parsifal. Good Friday spell ; Lohengrin. Preludes to Act I & III ; Tannhäuser. Overture and Venusberg music ; Tristian und Isolde. Prelude and Liebestod / Richard Wagner (Doráti, London Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 14. Frederick Fennell conducts George Gershwin : I got rhythm ; Love is sweeping the country ; Love walked in ; 'S wonderful ; Bidin' my time ; Oh, lady be good ; Fascinating rhythm ; Liza ; Embraceable you ; The man I love ; Someone to watch over me ; But not for me / George Gershwin (Frederick Fennell, Studio Orchestra)
  • CD 15. Frederick Fennell conducts Victor Herbert : The streets of New York ; Habanera ; I'm falling in love with someone ; March of the toys ; Sweethearts ; Ah, sweet mystery of life ; Italian street song ; The Irish have a great day tonight ; A kiss in the dark ; Romany life ; Thine alone ; Kiss me again / Victor Herbert (Frederick Fennell, Studio Orchestra)
  • CD 16. Frederick Fennell conducts Cole Porter : Blow Gabriel blow ; So in love ; It's all right with me ; Ridin' high ; In the still of the night ; Begin the beguine ; Night and day ; My heart belongs to daddy ; Anything goes ; I've got you under my skin ; It's delovely ; You'd be so nice to come home to / Cole Porter (Frederick Fennell, Studio Orchestra)
  • CD 17. Frederick Fennell conducts Carousel waltz and other orchestral favorites with Popovers II : Waltz from Carousel / Richard Rodgers ; Ballet from Le cid / Jules Massenet ; Minuet / Giovanni Bolzoni ; Henry VIII dances / Edward German ; Cotillon suite / Arthur Benjamin ; Passo a sei from William Tell / Gioachino Rossini ; Dance of the tumblers / Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ; Prelude in G minor / Sergei Rachmaninoff ; Dance of the Russian sailors / Reinhold Glière ; Procession of the nobles / Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ; Polka and fugue from Schwanda / Jaromir Wienberger (Frederick Fennell, London POPS Orchestra, Eastman-Rochester POPS Orchestra)
  • CD 18. Pineapple poll suite / Arthur Sullivan ; arr. W.J. Duthoit ; La boutique fantasque / Giochino Rossini, Ottorino Respighi ; arr. Dan Godfrey ; Faust ballet music / Charles Gounod ; arr. William Winterbottom ; Lohengrin. Prelude to act III and Bridal chorus ; Elsa's procession / Richard Wagner ; Das. Rheingold. Entry of the godes into Valhalla / Richard Wagner ; arr. Dan Godfrey (Frederick Fennell, Eastman Wind Ensemble)
  • CD 19. Fabulous marches for orchestra : Orb and sceptre / William Walton ; Turkish march from The ruins of Athens / Ludwig van Beethoven ; Alla marcia from Karelia suite / Jean Sibelius ; March from Prince Igor / Alexander Borodin ; Marche militaire, op. 51, no. 1 / Franz Schubert ; Hommage march from Sigurd Jorsalfar / Edvard Grieg ; March from Tannhäuser / Richard Wagner ; Overture to Rienzi ; Good Friday music from Parsifal / Richard Wagner (Frederick Fennell, Eastman-Rochester POPS Orchestra, Eastman Wind Ensemble)
  • CD 20-21. Giselle / Adolphe Adam ; Graduation ball / Johann Strauss, Jr. ; Gaîté parisienne / Jacques Offenbach (Anatole Fistoulari, London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 22. Concerto grosso no. 1 for string orchestra with piano obbligato ; Concerto grosso no. 2 for string orchestra ; Schelomo / Ernest Bloch (Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra)
  • CD 23. Concerto in F for piano and orchestra ; Rhapsody in Blue ; Cuban overture / George Gershwin ; The stars and stripes forever / John Philip Sousa (Howard Hanson, Eugene List, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra)
  • CD 24-25. The composers talks : Merry Mount suite ; Merry Mount suite ; The composer talks: Mosaics ; Mosaics ; The composer talks : For the first time ; For the first time / Howard Hanson (Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Eastman Philharmonia)
  • CD 26. Kaleidoscope : Dance of the comedians from The bartered bride / Bedřich Smetana ; The merry wives of Windsor. Overture / Otto Nicolai ; Radetzky march / Johann Strauss, Sr ; Abu Hassan. Overture / Carl Maria von Weber ; Coronation march from Le prophète / Giacomo Meyerbeer ; Hungarian dance no. 1 / Johannes Brahms ; Mignon. Overture / Ambroise Thomas ; Cossack dance from Mazeppa / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ; The jolly robbers. Overture / Franz von Suppé ; Orpheus in the underworld. Overture ; Can-Can / Jacques Offenbach ; Jota Aragonesa / Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Sir Charles Mackerras, London Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 27. Symphonie fantastique, op. 14 ; Hungarian march ; Trojan march ; The Corsair. Overture ; The Roman carnival. Overture / Hector Berlioz (Paul Paray, Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 28. Symphony no. 9 in E minor, op. 95 / Antonín Dvořák ; Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 43 / Jean Sibelius (Paul Paray, Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 29. Symphony in D minor / César Franck ; Symphony no. 2 in E minor, op. 27 / Sergei Rachmaninoff (Paul Paray, Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 30. Le roi d'Ys. Overture ; Namouna, suite no. 1 / Édouard Lalo ; Offrande à une ombre / Henry Barraud ; Symphony in B-flat, op. 20 / Ernest Chausson (Paul Paray, Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 31. A midsummer night's dream, incidental music ; Symphony no. 5 in D minor, op. 107 / Felix Mendelssohn ; Symphony no. 96 in D major / Joseph Haydn (Paul Paray, Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 32-33. Symphonies no. 1-4 ; Manfred, overture for orchestra, op. 115 / Robert Schumann (Paul Paray, Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 34. Coronation march / Giacomo Meyerbeer ; Funderal march of a marionette / Charles Gounod ; Marche miliaire française ; Marche héroïque / Camille Saint-Saëns ; La Marseillaise / Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle ; If I were king / Adolphe Adam ; La dame blanche / François-Adrien Boieldieu ; La belle Hélène ; Orpheus in the underworld ; The tales of Hoffman suite / Jacques Offenbach ; William Tell overture / Gioachino Rossini (Paul Paray, Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 35. Der fliegende Holländer. Overture ; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Suite ; Die Walküre, Wotan's farewell and Magic fire music ; Rienzi. Overture ; Götterdämmerung, Dam and Siegfried's Rhine journey ; Siegfried Idyll ; Tristan un Isolde. Prelude to act III / Richard Wagner (Paul Paray, Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 36. Symphony no. 5 in B-flat major, D. 485 ; Symphony in B minor, D. 759 ; Rosamunde. Incidental music / Franz Schubert (Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 37. Symphony no. 9 in C major ; Symphony no. 6 in C major / Franz Schubert (Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, London Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 38. Variaciones concertantes, op. 23 / Alberto Ginastera ; The young person's guide to the orchestra, op. 34 / Benjamin Britten (Antal Dorati, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 39. Symphony no. 3 / Aaron Copland (Antal Dorati, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 40. Roman festivals ; Church windows (Antal Dorati, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 41-42. Suite no. 1 in D minor, op. 43 ; Suite no. 2 in C major, op. 53 ; Suite no. 3 in G major, op. 55 ; Suite no. 4, op. 61 (Antal Dorati, New Philharmonia Orchestra)
  • CD 43. Symphony no. 3 in E-flat major, op. 55 / Ludwig van Beethoven (Antal Dorati, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 44. Piano concerto no. 1 in E-flat major, S124 ; Piano concerto no. 2 in A major, S125 / Franz Liszt (Kirill Kondrashin, London Symphony Orchestra)
  • CD 45-46. Sonata no. 1 in F major, op. 5, no. 1 ; Sonata no. 2 in G minor, op. 5, no. 2 ; Sonata no. 3 in A major, op. 69 ; Sonata no. 4 in C major, op. 102, no. 1 ; Sonata no. 5 in D major, op. 102, no. 2 / Ludwig van Beethoven (Mstislav Rostropovich, Sviatoslav Richter)
  • CD 47. Songs and dances of death / Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky ; None but the lonely heart, op. 6, no. 6 ; Not a word, beloved, op. 6, no. 2 ; Do not believe, my friend, op. 6, no. 1 / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ; Five poems of Anna Akhmatova, op. 27 / Sergey Prokofiev (Galina Vishnevskaya, Mstislav Rostropovich)
  • CD 48. World of flamenco (Los Romeros)
  • CD 49. Concerto in A minor, RV 445 / Antonio Vivaldi ; Concerto in F major, op. 4, no. 5, HWV 293 ; Concerto in G major after op. 3, no. 3, HWV 314 / George Frederic Handel ; Concerto in C major, TWV 51:C1 / Georg Philipp Telemann (Neville Marriner, The London Strings)
  • CD 50. Symphony in B-flat major for concert band / Paul Hindemith ; Theme and variations, op. 43a / Arnold Schoenberg (Frederick Fennell, The Eastman Wind Ensemble)
  • CD 51. Sonata in F-sharp major ; Sonata in C-sharp minor ; Fandango in D minor ; Sonata in D major ; Sonta in D-flat major ; Sonta in D minor ; Sonata in C minor ; Concerto for 2 harpsichords no. 3 in G major / Antonio Soler (Rafael Puyana, Genoveva Gálvez)
  • CD 52. 1812 festival overture, op. 49 ; Capriccio italien, op. 45 / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Antal Dorati, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, University of Minnesota Brass Band)
  • CD 53. String quartet no. 4 in D major, op. 83 ; String quartet no. 8 in C minor, op. 110 / Dmitri Shostakovich (Borodin Quartet)