Seiji Ozawa Anniversary Edition [11 CDs]

In honor of internationally acclaimed Maestro Seiji Ozawa's 75th Birthday, this 11-CD set presents Seiji Ozawa in a wide variety of symphonic repertory in collaboration with some of the most prestigious orchestras in the world, from San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony to the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics and the Saito Kinen Orchestra in Japa. A celebration of a truly Worldwide Maestro.

Works:
Bela Bartok:
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106 - Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116 - Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra

Hector Berlioz:
Symphonie fantastique, Op.14 - Saito Kinen Orchestra

Maurice Ravel:
Pavane pour une infante defunte - Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra

Toru Takemitsu:
Ceremonial (An Autumn Ode) - Saito Kinen Orchestra
Family Tree (Musical Verses for Young People) - Saito Kinen Orchestra
My Way of Life (In Memory fo Michael Vyner) - Dwayne Croft, Tokyo Opera Singers, Saito Kinen Orchestra
Requiem pour orchestre a cordes - Saito Kinen Orchestra
Air for flute solo - Aurele Nicolet, Saito Kinen Orchestra

Gustav Mahler:
Symphony No.2 in C minor - "Resurrection" - Kiri Te Kanawa, Marilyn Horne, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra

Johann Sebastian Bach:
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (Transcription: Leopold Stokowski) - Boston Symphony Orchestra
Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (Transcription: Anton Webern) - Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Partita for Violin Solo No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (Transcription: Hideo Saito) - Boston Symphony Orchestra
Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her, BWV 769 (Arr. Igor Stravinsky) - Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Prelude and Fugue in E flat, BWV 552 (Transcription: Arnold Schoenberg) - Boston Symphony Orchestra

Francis Poulenc:
Gloria - Kathleen Battle, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver
Concerto for organ, strings and percussion in G minor - Simon Preston, Everett Firth, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Concert Champetre - Trevor Pinnock, Boston Symphony Orchestra

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov:
Scheherazade, Op.35 - Rainer Honeck, Wiener Philharmoniker
Russian Easter Festival, Overture, Op.36 - Wiener Philharmoniker

Richard Strauss:
Wiener Philharmoniker Fanfare - Wiener Philharmoniker
Alpensymphonie, Op.64 - Wiener Philharmoniker
Feierlicher Einzug (Einzug der Ritter des Johanniterordens), 1909 - Wiener Philharmoniker

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
Symphony No.5 in E minor, Op.64 - Berliner Philharmoniker
Ouverture solennelle "1812, " Op.49 - Berliner Philharmoniker

Richard Wagner:
Der fliegende Hollander, Overture - Berliner Philharmoniker
Lohengrin, Prelude to Act I - Berliner Philharmoniker
Tannhauser, Overture - Berliner Philharmoniker
Tristan und Isolde, Prelude to Act 1. Langsam und schmachtend - Berliner Philharmoniker
Tristan und Isolde, Liebestod - Berliner Philharmoniker

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Sergei Prokofiev:
Romeo and Juliet, Ballet Suite, Op.64a, Nos.1 & 2 (Excerpts) - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Hector Berlioz:
Roméo et Juliette, Op.17, Scene d'amour - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Leonard Bernstein:
West Side Story (Symphonic Dances) - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

"You'd expect so much languorous beauty to become cloying, but Takemitsu (like his mentor Debussy) has the taut discipline of the true sensualist, and knows just when to stop. And he's wonderfully served by the performances, which search for the expressiveness in the music rather than dwelling on its fastidious beauties - though they too are there, caught in a beautifully clear and glowing recording. - BBC Music Magazine (on Takemitsu: My Way Of Life)

The Vienna Philharmonic has a natural, noble claim to Strauss's Alpine territory; and yet it has exercised it all too rarely. Doubts as to whether Seiji Ozawa was the right man to lead this orchestra to the summit quickly vanishes in the light of their free and easy progress from darkest night to a broad, richly perspectived sunrise... Usually the listener is impatient to reach the heart of the epilogue; with rare, unforced tenacity, Ozawa makes us listen to the craggier beauties just before it, and he never hurries over the onlookers' generous-spirited rhapsodies to nature earlier in the work... The final bars are as disquieting as I've ever heard them. -BBC Music Magazine (on Strauss: Alpensinfonie)

"Previous recordings of this orchestral crystallization have been too aggressive for my ear, but Ozawa is marvelously refined, yet he does not lose the music's inherent vitality. The lyrical sections are warmly done to remind us that there are still heart-stirring melodies being written." -Gramophone (on Bernstein: West Side Story - Symphonic Dances)

"Seiji Ozawa (with the Berlin Philharmonic at their glossiest) offers a studio approach to Tchaikovsky that's big-boned and transatlantically Romantic in spirit...there's much that's detailed, well-focused and honestly accountable. 1812 is finely imagined, a cantering scenario of pomp and circumstance with a welcome touch of seriousness." -BBC Music Magazine (on Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 5)

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Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945) : Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106

Performers: Hiroshi Arimori (Piano); Naoko Yoshino (Harp); Mariko Kobayashi (Celesta); Sawako Yasue (Xylophone); Everett Firth (Timpani)
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 28 min. 40 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Written: 1936
Studio/Live: Live

Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945) : Concerto for Orchestra, Sz 116

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 37 min. 32 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Form: Concerto
Written: 1943-1945
Studio/Live: Live

Berlioz, Hector : Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 46 min. sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Orchestral
Written: 04/1830

Ravel, Maurice : Pavane pour une infante défunte

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 6 min. 22 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Written: 1899

Takemitsu, Toru : Ceremonial :: An Autumn Ode, for sho & orchestra

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 9 min. sec.
Period Time: Contemporary
Written: 1992

Takemitsu, Toru : Family Tree (Keizu), for speaker & orchestra

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 5 min. 41 sec.
Period Time: Contemporary
Written: 1992

Takemitsu, Toru : My Way of Life :: In Memory of Michael Vyner, for baritone, chorus & orchestra

Performer: Dwayne Croft (Baritone)
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 5 min. 10 sec.
Period Time: Contemporary
Written: 1990

Takemitsu, Toru : Requiem, for string orchestra

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 7 min. 48 sec.
Period Time: Contemporary
Written: 1957

Takemitsu, Toru : Air for solo flute

Performer: Aurèle Nicolet (Flute)
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 6 min. 6 sec.
Period Time: Contemporary
Written: 1995

Mahler, Gustav : Symphony no 2 in C minor "Resurrection"

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 21 min. 6 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Orchestral
Written: 1888-1894

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Toccata and Fugue for Organ in D minor, BWV 565

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 9 min. 17 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: by 1708

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Ein Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079 :: Ricercare a 6

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 8 min. 34 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 05/1747-07/1747

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Partita in D minor, BWV 1004 :: Chaconne

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 16 min. 51 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 1720

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Vom himmel hoch, da komm ich her (I), canonic variations on the Christmas hymn for organ, BWV 769

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 9 min. 58 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Form: Christmas
Written: 06/1747

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Prelude and Fugue for Organ in E flat major, BWV 552 "St. Anne"

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 14 min. 45 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 1739

Poulenc, Francis : Gloria in G major

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 22 min. 3 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Form: Choral
Written: 1959-1960

Poulenc, Francis : Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G minor

Performers: Simon Preston (Organ); Everett Firth (Timpani)
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 12 min. 28 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Form: Concerto
Written: 1938

Poulenc, Francis : Concerto Champêtre for Harpsichord

Performer: Trevor Pinnock (Harpsichord)
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 25 min. 5 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Form: Concerto
Written: 1927-1928
Studio/Live: Live

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai : Scheherazade

Performer: Rainer Honeck (Violin)
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 42 min. 38 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1888

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai : Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 14 min. 57 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Orchestral
Written: 1888

Strauss, Richard : Wiener Philharmoniker Fanfare, AV 109

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 2 min. 34 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1924

Strauss, Richard : Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64

Performer: Rudolf Scholz (Organ)
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Notes: Composition written: 1911-15.
Running Time: 45 min. 39 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Orchestral
Written: 1911-1915

Strauss, Richard : Feierlicher Einzug der Ritter des Johanniter-Ordens, AV 103

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 6 min. 7 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: March
Written: 1909

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : Symphony no 5 in E minor, Op. 64

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 45 min. 23 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Orchestral
Written: 1888

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : 1812 Overture, Op. 49

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 15 min. sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Orchestral
Written: 1880

Wagner, Richard : The Flying Dutchman :: Overture

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Notes: Composition written: 1841.
Running Time: 11 min. 20 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1841

Wagner, Richard : Lohengrin :: Prelude

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 10 min. 48 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1848

Wagner, Richard : Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg :: Prelude

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 10 min. 41 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1862-1867

Wagner, Richard : Tannhäuser :: Overture

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 15 min. 11 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1843-1865

Wagner, Richard : Tristan und Isolde :: Prelude

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 10 min. 22 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1857-1859

Wagner, Richard : Tristan und Isolde :: Liebestod

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 7 min. 24 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1857-1859

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : Romeo & Juliet

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 19 min. 5 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Orchestral
Written: 1880

Prokofiev, Sergei : Romeo and Juliet Suite 2, Op. 64b :: Montagues and Capulets

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Notes: Composition written: 1936.
Running Time: 4 min. 29 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1936

Prokofiev, Sergei : Romeo and Juliet Suite 2, Op. 64b :: Dance

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Notes: Composition written: 1936.
Running Time: 2 min. 6 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1936

Prokofiev, Sergei : Romeo and Juliet Suite 2, Op. 64b :: Romeo at Juliet's Grave

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Notes: Composition written: 1936.
Running Time: 5 min. 27 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1936

Prokofiev, Sergei : Romeo and Juliet Suite 2, Op. 64b :: Dance of the Girls from the Antilles

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Notes: Composition written: 1936.
Running Time: 2 min. 30 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1936

Prokofiev, Sergei : Romeo and Juliet Suite 2, Op. 64a :: Death of Tybalt

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Notes: Composition written: 1936.
Running Time: 4 min. 41 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1936

Berlioz, Hector : Roméo et Juliette, Symphonie dramatique, Op. 17 :: 3. Love Scene (Excerpt)

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Running Time: 13 min. 36 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Cantata/Oratorio
Written: 09/1839

Bernstein, Leonard : Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Notes: Composition written: 1960.
Running Time: 19 min. 36 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Written: 1960

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