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Igor Stravinsky performs Stravinsky: Petrushka scenes, Suite; The Firebird et al.

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2012-04-10

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka "Ballet Scenes" Suite; L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet suite for orchestra; Capriccio, for piano & orchestra
Performers: Stravinsky, Igor
Conductors: Stravinsky, Igor; Ansermet, Ernest
Ensemble: ; The Symphony Orchestra; Walther Strarham Concerts Orchestra

Recording information: London (05/08/1930-05/10/1930); Paris (05/08/1930-05/10/1930); Théâtre dess Champs Elysées, Paris (05/08/1930-05/10/1930); London (06/27/1928-06/28/1928); Paris (...continue...

Ernest Ansermet conducts Ballet Music - Stravinsky, et al

1 CD / SOMM / 2011-10-11

Works: Ottorino Respighi: La boutique fantasque; Igor Stravinsky: Pétrouchka
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra; Suisse Romande Orchestra

Falla, Debussy, Ravel: Hommage à l'Espagne

1 CD / Cascavelle / 2011-01-11

Works: Manuel de Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain; Homenajes, suite for orchestra; Claude Debussy: Ibéria, for orchestra, L. 122/2; Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Performers: Rubinstein, Artur [Piano]
Conductors: Orchestra, Suisse Romande; Ansermet, Ernest

Taking recordings made in 1958, 1960 and 1961 by Ernest Ansermet and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Cascavelle has offered a tribute to Spain...continue...
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Dutilleux: Symphony No. 1; Martinu: Symphony No. 4

1 CD / Cascavelle / 2010-09-14

Works: Henri Dutilleux: Symphony no 1, for orchestra; Bohuslav Martinu: Symphony no 4
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest

These performances are reissues of recordings made in 1956 (Dutilleux) and 1976 (Martinu) and continue the Cascavelle series dedicated to the art of Ernest Ansermet...continue...
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Britten: Les Illuminations; War Requiem

2 CD / Cascavelle / 2010-07-13

Works: Benjamin Britten: Les Illuminations; War Requiem, Op. 66; Alban Berg: Early Songs (7)
Performers: Danco, Suzanne; Harper, Heather; Hemsley, Thomas; Pears, Peter, Sir
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest

Even though Ansermet was a great fan of Britten, he was never able to record his works because of their recording contracts with Decca. This...continue...
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Portrait: Maurice Ravel

10 CD / Membran Import / 2010-07-06

Works: Maurice Ravel: Boléro; Ma mère l'oye; Rapsodie espagnole; La valse; Le tombeau de Couperin; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Daphnis et Chloé; Concerto for Piano in G major; Conce...
Performers: Bobillier, Gisele; Bonneau, Jacqueline; Casadesus, Robert; Cuenod, Hugues; Danco, Suzanne; Delecluse, Ulysse; Gieseking, Walter; Heifetz, Jascha; Laskine, Lily; Long, Marguerite; Lovano, Lucien; Mich...
Conductors: Ravel, Maurice; Inghelbrecht, Désiré-Emile; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Markevitch, Igor; Cluytens, André; Gracis, Ettore; Ormandy, Eugene; Ansermet, Ernest; Lindenberg, Edouard

Ernest Ansermet: The Early Days (1916-1955)

8 CD / Cascavelle / 2010-06-08

Works: Igor Stravinsky: L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet suite for orchestra; Capriccio, for piano & orchestra; Symphony of Psalms; Pétrouchka; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; The Snow M...
Performers: Blancard, Jacqueline; Christensen, Ernest; Danco, Suzanne; Davies, Fanny; Heward, Leslie; Micheau, Janine; Stravinsky, Igor
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest

Dukas: Ariane et Barbe-Bleue

2 CD / Gall Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Paul Dukas: Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, opera; Emmanuel Chabrier: La sulamite, lyric scene for mezzo-soprano, female voices & orchestra; Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade, poems (3) for soprano (or...
Performers: Capderou, Janine; Danco, Suzanne; Depraz, Xavier; Lovano, Lucien; Peyron, Joseph; Sautereau, Nadine
Conductors: Aubin, Tony; Ansermet, Ernest

Bizet: Suites; Symphony in C; Turina: Danzas Fantásticas

2 CD / Decca Import / 2010-01-26

Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; L' Arlésienne, suite for orchestra no 1; L' Arlésienne, suite for orchestra no 2; Patrie! - Ouverture dramatique, Op. 19; Symphony in C major; Petite Suite, pi...
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest

Bizet's Carmen was misunderstood at its premiere in 1875. The Opera-Comique was a place where respectable families could be entertained, and where virginal daughters could...continue...
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Albéniz: Iberia; Navarra; Villa-Lobos: Piano Concerto No. 1

1 CD / Decca Import / 2010-01-26

Works: Isaac Albéniz: Iberia Suite, for piano, B. 47; Navarra, for piano in A flat major, B. 49; Heitor Villa-Lobos: Concerto for Piano no 1, A. 453
Performers: Ballon, Ellen
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest

Composing and story-telling are not unrelated, and Albeniz was as adept as any Scheherazade at both! For many, his masterpiece was Iberia, a set of...continue...
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Heritage Masters - Stravinsky: Symphonies / Ernest Ansermet, Suisse Romande Orchestra

1 CD / Decca Import / 2009-03-31

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Symphony in C; Symphony in Three Movements; Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest
Ensemble: Suisse Romande Orchestra

Composers in Person

22 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-11-24

Works: Béla Bartók: Bagatelles (14) for Piano, Op. 6/Sz 38; Easy Pieces (10) for Piano, Sz 39; Romanian Dances (2) for Piano, Op. 8a/Sz 43; A Bit Drunk (Kicsit ázottan), burlesque for piano n...
Performers: Barrientos, Maria; Bartók, Béla; Benbow, Edwin; Benedetti, Fernand; Bernac, Pierre; Bonneau, Georges; Brain, Dennis [French Horn]; Britten, Benjamin; Cahuzac, Louis; Charmy, Roland; Cro...
Conductors: Collingwood, Lawrance; Hindemith, Paul; Khachaturian, Aram; Honegger, Arthur; Straram, Walther; Elgar, Edward, Sir; Coppola, Piero; Glazunov, Alexander; Villa-Lobos, Heitor; Pfitzner, Hans; Milhaud, ...
Ensemble: ; Percurama Percussion Ensemble

These 22 CDs offer a stunning range of modern composers performing their own works either on the piano, organ or violin, or else from behind...continue...

Original Masters - Ernest Ansermet - Decca Recordings 1953-1967

6 CD / Decca / 2007-02-13

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 31 "Der Himmel lacht, die Erde jubilieret" BWV 31; Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 22 in E flat major, H 1 no 22 "Philosopher"; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 4 i...
Performers: Danco, Suzanne; Hamel, Michel; Martin, Pauline; Montmollin, Marie-Lise de
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest
Ensemble: Suisse Romande Orchestra

Swiss born Ernest Ansermet formed the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR) in 1918-together they had a long recording career on Decca following World War...continue...

Haydn, Debussy, Beethoven, et al / Ansermet

2 CD / BBC Legends / 2007-01-30

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 85 in B major, H 1 no 85 "La Reine"; Claude Debussy: Nocturnes (3) for Orchestra; Ibéria, for orchestra, L. 122/2; Spoken Word: Ernest Ansermet discusses Debussy ...
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra

The anthology represented here gives us a rare snapshot of Ernest Ansermet conducting classical composers - Haydn and Beethoven - as well as composers he...continue...

Berlioz: Les Nuites d'été, Ravel: Shéhérazade / Crespin, Ansermet, et al

1 CD / Decca / 2007-01-09

Works: Hector Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7, song cycle; Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade, poems (3) for soprano (or tenor) & orchestra (or piano); Claude Debussy: Chansons (3) de Bi...
Performers: Crespin, Regine; Wustman, John
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest
Ensemble: Suisse Romande Orchestra

"With Regine Crespin's richness of tone, and with Ansermet at his finest accompanying brilliantly, this glowing performance is truly legendary - a tour de force....continue...

Ultimate Classics - The Essential Masterpieces

5 CD / Decca / 2006-11-14

Works: George Frederick Handel: Solomon; Der Messias; MEDLEY; Tolomeo, HWV 25; Franz Schubert: Ave Maria; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV 147; Cantata no 208, "W...
Performers: Ashkenazy, Vladimir; Bennett, William; Blyth, Bruce; Bonell, Carlos [Guitar]; Boskovsky, Willi; Burrows, Stuart; Farnes, Richard; Flood, David; Ghiaurov, Nicolai; Gruenberg, Erich; Howarth, Elgar; Jo...
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Bonynge, Richard; Guest, George; Munchinger, Karl; Morris, Wyn; Gamba, Piero; Serafin, Tullio; Karajan, Herbert von; Previn, Andre; Gardelli, Lamberto; Solti, Sir Georg; Anserm...
Ensemble: ; Vienna Mozart Ensemble

Decca's Ultimate Classics is a five-CD box set that presents the best-known pieces of classical music in a straightforward, no-frills program. Most of the selections are quite famous, taken from large...continue...

Berg, Stravinsky: Violin Concertos / Ansermet, Ferras, et al

1 CD / Claves / 2006-09-01

Works: Alban Berg: Concerto for Violin; Igor Stravinsky: Concerto for Violin in D major
Performers: Ferras, Christian
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest
Ensemble: Suisse Romande Orchestra

Christian Ferras was a musician who remained loyal to Geneva. In concert and recital, this French violinist performed nearly his entire repertoire there. Ferras's attachment...continue...

Mozart: Jupiter Symphony; Stravinsky / Ansermet, et al

1 CD / Profil Edition Gunter Hanssler / 2005-10-18

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no 41 in C major, K 551 "Jupiter"; Manuel de Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain; Igor Stravinsky: Capriccio, for piano & orchestra
Performers: Blancard, Jacqueline; Stravinsky, Igor
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest
Ensemble: Suisse Romande Orchestra; Walter Staram Orchestra

Ernest Ansermet is recognized as one of the greatest conductors of the twentieth century. This Profil release features wonderfully restored recordings of Ansermet conducting the...continue...

OSR Memories - Berg / Ansermet, Menuhin, Danco, et al

1 CD / Cascavelle / 2005-08-01

Works: Alban Berg: Concerto for Violin; Bruchstücke (3) aus "Wozzeck"; Pieces (3) for Orchestra, Op. 6
Performers: Danco, Suzanne; Menuhin, Yehudi
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest
Ensemble: Suisse Romande Orchestra

OSR Memories - Martinu: Symphony no 4, Les Fresques, etc

1 CD / Cascavelle / 2005-08-01

Works: Bohuslav Martinu: Symphony no 4; Frescoes of Piero della Francesca for Orchestra; Parables for Orchestra
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest
Ensemble: Suisse Romande Orchestra

OSR Memories - Britten, De Falla, et al / Danco, Ansermet

1 CD / Cascavelle / 2005-08-01

Works: Benjamin Britten: Les illuminations, Op. 18; Manuel de Falla: Canciones populares españolas (7); Bedrich Smetana: Bartered Bride, B 143/T 93; Emmanuel Chabrier: La sulamite; Claude Debussy: Pell...
Performers: Danco, Suzanne; Mollet, Pierre; Vessieres, Andre
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest
Ensemble: Strasbourg Choir; Suisse Romande Orchestra

OSR Memories - Pierre Mollet - Brahms, Duparc, Ravel, et al

1 CD / Cascavelle / 2005-08-01

Works: Johannes Brahms: Serious Songs (4), Op. 121; Maurice Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée; Mélodies populaires grecques (5); Francis Poulenc: Chansons villageoises (6); Pierre Vellone...
Performers: Mollet, Pierre
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest; Baud-Bovy, Samuel
Ensemble: Suisse Romande Orchestra

Maurice Ravel - Son oeuvre et son temps Vol 1 - 1899-1911

3 CD / Cascavelle / 2005-08-01

Works: Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte; Jeux d'eau; Quartet for Strings in F major; Shéhérazade, poems (3) for soprano (or tenor) & orchestra (or piano); Sonatine for Pia...
Performers: Casadesus, Robert; Cortot, Alfred; Gieseking, Walter
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold; Ansermet, Ernest

Lalo: Cello Concerto; et at / Nelsova, Boult, et al

1 CD / Testament / 2004-10-12

Works: Edouard Lalo: Concerto for Cello in D minor; Camille Saint-Saëns: Concerto for Cello no 1 in A minor, Op. 33; Ernest Bloch: Schelomo
Performers: Nelsova, Zara
Conductors: Boult, Adrian; Ansermet, Ernest
Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

Few cellists have become as closely identified with a piece of music as Zara Nelsova was with Bloch's 'Schelomo'. This archetypally Jewish work, which can...continue...

Original Masters - Ruggiero Ricci

5 CD / Decca Import / 2003-11-25

Works: Niccolò Paganini: Caprices (24) for Violin solo, Op. 1; Concerto for Violin no 1 in E flat major (usually transposed to D major), Op. 6, MS 21; Concerto for Violin no 2 in B minor ("La campane...
Performers: Bussotti, Carlo; Ricci, Ruggiero
Conductors: Collins, Anthony; Ansermet, Ernest; Gamba, Piero; Fistoulari, Anatole
Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Suisse Romande Orchestra

In the world of violin playing in the 20th century American-born Ruggiero Ricci was one of the legendary figures. He was the first to record...continue...

Dukas: Ariane et Barbe-Bleue; et al / Aubin, Depraz, et al

2 CD / Gala / 2003-09-30

Works: Paul Dukas: Ariane et Barbe-bleue; Emmanuel Chabrier: La sulamite; Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade, poems (3) for soprano (or tenor) & orchestra (or piano)
Performers: Bellary, Marie-Luce; Boursin, Denise; Capderou, Janine; Collart, Claudine; Danco, Suzanne; Depraz, Xavier; Jollis, Georges; Lovano, Lucien; Monmart, Berthe; Peyron, Joseph; Sautereau, Nadine
Conductors: Aubin, Tony; Ansermet, Ernest
Ensemble: Chorus; Orchestra; Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris; Suisse Romande Chorus; Suisse Romande Orchestra

Prokofiev, Bartok / Katchen, Ansermet, Suisse Romande

1 CD / Testament / 2003-07-01

Works: Sergey Prokofiev: Concerto for Piano no 3 in C major, Op. 26; Béla Bartók: Concerto for Piano no 3, Sz 119; Mikrokosmos, Sz 107
Performers: Katchen, Julius
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest
Ensemble: Suisse Romande Orchestra

Katchen held the distinction of making the first LP recording issued by a British company. His career was formidable from that moment on. Katchen's interests...continue...

Stravinsky Vol II

3 CD / Andante / 2003-04-08

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Apollon musagète, ballet in 2 scenes for string orchestra; Capriccio, for piano & orchestra; Symphony of Psalms; Concerto for Violin in D major; Duo Concertante, for violin & pi...
Performers: Corigliano, John, Sr. [Violin]; Durand, Georges; Dushkin, Samuel; Grandmaison, Gabriel; Gromer, Louis; Rosenker, Michael; Stravinsky, Igor; Stravinsky, Soulima; Vacellier, Andre
Conductors: Stravinsky, Igor; Ansermet, Ernest; Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hans
Ensemble: Alexis Vlassof Chorus; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Hamburg Chamber Orchestra; Lamoureux Concerts Association Orchestra; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra; Walther Straram Concerts Orchestra

Haydn: Symphonie No. 95; Frank Martin: Concerto; Igor Strawinsky: L'Oiseau de Feu

1 CD / Orfeo / 1992-04-03

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 95 in C minor, H 1 no 95; Frank Martin: Concerto for 7 wind instruments (timpani, percussion & string orchestra); Igor Stravinsky: L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), conc...
Performers: Kalmus, Kurt; Karl Bobzien; Kolbinger, Karl; Ludwig Laberer; Richter, Kurt [Conductor]; Starke, Gerhard
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest

Arthur Honegger: Symphonie Liturgique; Brahms: Symphony Nr. 3

1 CD / Orfeo / 1989-11-08

Works: Arthur Honegger: Symphony no 3 ("Liturgique"), H. 186; Johannes Brahms: Symphony no 3 in F major, Op. 90
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest