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The Art of Oscar Fried, Vol. 4 / Oscar Fried, Berlin State Opera Orchestra & Choir

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2009-11-10

Works: Anton Bruckner: Symphony no 7 in E major, WAB 107; Richard Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer, WWV 63; Lohengrin, WWV 75; Tannhäuser, WWV 70; Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz, Jä...
Conductors: Fried, Oskar

This is the widely awaited first CD transfer of these recordings (of which the Bruckner 7th was the work's recording premiere). Previous volumes were acclaimed...continue...

A Forgotten Conductor Vol 3 - Beethoven, etc / Oskar Fried

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2007-08-01

Works: Carl Maria von Weber: Euryanthe, J 291/Op. 81; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 2 in D major, Op. 36; Franz Liszt: Les préludes, S 97; Igor Stravinsky: L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), concert s...
Conductors: Fried, Oskar

Oskar Fried, one of Mahler's students, may not be as famous as some of his contemporaries but none other than Otto Klemperer praised him as...continue...

Sunday Evenings with Pierre Monteux - California 1941-52

13 CD / Music & Arts / 2007-03-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Consecration of the House, overture Op. 124; Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op. 67; Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43; Egmont, incidental music, Op. 84; Fidelio, overture, Op. 72c; Leo...
Performers: Blinder, Boris; Blinder, Naoum; Cherkassky, Shura; Cutner, Solomon; Kapell, William; Kraus, Lili [Piano]; Warenskjold, Dorothy
Conductors: Monteux, Pierre
Ensemble: Standard Symphony Orchestra

"Is this ever a generous sampling of Pierre Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony! Music and Arts' Sunday Evenings with Pierre Monteux collects broadcast performances...continue...

Recordings for German Radio - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2007-02-01

Works: Jean-Philippe Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie, tragédie lyrique; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 208, "Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!" (Hunt) BWV 208; Giovanni Battista Sammartini: Wei...
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Piltti, Lea; Pitti, Lea; Raucheisen, Michael; Scheck, Gustav; Schonecke, Herbert; Schultz, Rudolf; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth; Wolf, Deta

The recordings of songs presented here, ranging from a Bach cantata excerpt to folk songs, were all made during World War II for the Reichsrundfunk...continue...

Godowsky Edition Vol 5 - Transcriptions, etc / Carlo Grante

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2006-10-01

Works: Carl Maria von Weber: Sonata for Piano no 1 in C major ("Perpetuum Mobile"), J. 138 (Op. 24); Leopold Godowsky: Aufforderung zum Tanz (Invitation to the Dance), contrapuntal arrangement for piano (af...
Performers: Grante, Carlo

"This is Grante's fifth volume of the complete piano music of Godowsky. Previous volumes on M&A include Schubert Transcriptions (984-Mar/Apr 1998), Bach Violin Sonatas (1039),...continue...

Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra

4 CD / Music & Arts / 2006-02-01

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 violins, cello, strings & continuo in D minor ("L'estro armonico" no 11), Op. 3/11,; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Adoramus te Christe, motet for 4 voices (from Mo...
Performers: Rodzinski, Artur [Conductor]
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold
Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

Stokowski, the first major musician to recognize the potentialities of the sound recording as a significant factor in our musical life, actually resisted the idea...continue...

Liszt, Schumann, Weber: Piano Concertos / Arrau, et al

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2005-10-01

Works: Franz Liszt: Concerto for Piano no 2 in A major, S 125; Robert Schumann: Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 54; Carl Maria von Weber: Konzertstück for Piano and Orchestra in F minor, Op. 79
Performers: Arrau, Claudio
Conductors: Mitropoulos, Dimitri; De Sabata, Victor; Kleiber, Erich
Ensemble: ; NBC Symphony Orchestra; Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

A Forgotten Conductor Vol 1 - R. Strauss, etc / Oskar Fried

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2005-09-01

Works: Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon, J 306; Oskar Fried: Fantasie über Motive aus "Hänsel und Gretel" (after Humperdinck), for orchestra; Richard Wagner: Faust Overture; Richard Strauss: Eine Alpe...
Conductors: Fried, Oskar

In Memoriam Hans Hotter (1909-2003)

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2004-04-01

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Abschiedslied, song for voice & piano, H. 26a/F1; Lieder für Clavier Book 2, H 26a; Ludwig van Beethoven: Des Kriegers Abschied, WoO 143; Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel, ...
Performers: Hotter, Hans; Raucheisen, Michael

Erich Kleiber at NBC - Four Complete Concerts from 1947/48

4 CD / Music & Arts / 2002-11-01

Works: Alexander Borodin: Symphony no 2 in B minor; Carl Maria von Weber: Konzertstück for Piano and Orchestra in F minor, Op. 79; Manuel de Falla: Dance no 1 (from La vida breve); Arcangelo Corelli: C...
Performers: Arrau, Claudio
Conductors: Kleiber, Erich
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Merit - Overture! Historic Transcriptions for Wind Ensemble

1 CD / Music & Arts / 1999-06-22

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Guillaume Tell; Il barbiere di Siviglia; Semiramide; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Sera...
Conductors: Richman, Steven
Ensemble: Harmonie Ensemble