Seiji Ozawa: The Philips Years

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Released to celebrate Ozawa’s 80th birthday in 2015, this 50-CD set spans four decades and three continents. It includes 7 albums enjoying their first international CD releases, alongside his most celebrated recordings for Philips and Decca – from Bach’s Transcriptions to Takemitsu’s Requiem. Notably, Ozawa’s Complete Mahler Cycle (Boston Symphony Orchestra) is included, along with his complete recordings for the Wiener Philharmoniker. CONTENTS AND PERFORMERS CD 1 J.S. Bach 20th-Century Transcriptions (BSO) CD 2 Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (SKO) CD 3 Beethoven 3 (SKO) CD 4 Beethoven 9 (NPO) CD 5 Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (SKO) Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Suite (OdP)* CD 6 Brahms 1 (SKO)* CD 7 Britten War Requiem (SKO, 2009)* CD 8 Bruckner 7 (SKO)* CD 9 Dvořák 8 & The Noon Witch (WP) + Carnival Overture (San Francisco Symphony) CD 10 Dvořák 9 & In Nature (WP) CD 11 Holst Planets (BSO) CDs 12–23 Mahler: Symphonies 1–10 Kindertotenlieder (BSO) CD 24 Mozart 32 & Brahms 2 (SKO)* CD 25 Orff: Carmina Burana (BPO) CD 26 Poulenc: Les Mamelles de Tirésias Le Bal masqué (Bonney / Holzmair / Lafont / SKO) CD 27 Puccini: Tosca & Manon Lescaut, excerpts (Gorchakova / Shicoff / Maggio Musicale) CD 28 Ravel: Shéhérazade Britten: Les Illuminations Debussy: La Damoiselle élue (McNair / Graham / BSO) CD 29 Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade Russian Easter Festival (WP) CD 30 Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht Stravinsky: Apollon musagète (1947) (SKO) CDs 31 & 32 Schoenberg: Gurrelieder (Norman / McCracken / BSO) CD 33 Shostakovich 5 (SKO)* Stravinsky: Rite of Spring (BSO) CD 34 Sibelius & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos (Mullova / BSO) CD 35 New Year’s Concert 2002 (WP) CD 36 R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra Ein Heldenleben (BSO) CD 37 R. Strauss: Alpensinfonie (WP) CDs 38 & 39 R. Strauss: Salome (Norman / Staatsoper Dresden) CDs 40 & 41 R. Strauss: Elektra (Behrens / BSO) CD 42 Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex (Norman / Schreier / SKO) CDs 43 & 44 Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress (McNair / Rolfe-Johnson / Bostridge / SKO) CD 45 Takemitsu: November Steps, Eclipse & Viola Concerto (Imai / SKO) CD 46 Takemitsu: Requiem, My Way of Life & Ceremonial (SKO) CD 47 Tchaikovsky 6 & Nutcracker Suite* (OdP) CD 48 Wagner: Overtures (BPO) CD 49 National Anthems (New Japan Philharmonic) BONUS CD (CD 50) BSO in People’s Republic of China* Liszt • Sousa • Tsu-Chiang First International CD release* Boston Symphony Orchestra • New Philharmonia Orchestra • Orchestre de Paris Saito Kinen Orchestra • Wiener Philharmoniker