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Ultimate French Classics - The Essential Masterpieces

5 CD / Decca / 2009-08-25

Works: Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Nocturnes (3) for Orchestra; La mer; Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole; Boléro; La valse; Ma mère l'oye; Pavane p...
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Birch, John; Chorzempa, Daniel [Organ]; Khaner, Jeffrey; McNair, Sylvia
Conductors: Ashkenazy, Vladimir; Monteux, Pierre; Marriner, Sir Neville; Haitink, Bernard; De Waart, Edo; Zinman, David
Ensemble: ; Cleveland Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess / Maazel, White, Boatwright, et al

3 CD / Decca / 2007-10-09

Works: George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Performers: Boatwright, McHenry; Brown, William; Buck, John; Clemmons, Frarncois; Conrad, Barbara [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Deane, Christopher; Floyd, Alpha; Hagan, Samuel; Hendricks, Barbara [Soprano Vocal]; Jones...
Conductors: Maazel, Lorin
Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

"If you like American music and-or if you like 20th century opera, you've got to hear this 1976 recording of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess with...continue...

Classical Cuisine - Spanish Spice

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2006-12-05

Works: Emmanuel Chabrier: España, rhapsody for orchestra (also vers. for 2 pianos); Manuel de Falla: Danza del molinero (from "El sombrero de tres picos"); El amor brujo; Claude Debussy: Ibéria,...
Performers: Kipnis, Igor [Harpsichord/Piano]; Williams, John [Guitar]
Conductors: Ormandy, Eugene; Bernstein, Leonard; Boulez, Pierre
Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra; New York Philharmonic; Philadelphia Orchestra

Orff: Carmina Burana / Tilson Thomas, Blegen, Riegel, et al

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2005-10-18

Works: Carl Orff: Carmina burana
Performers: Binder, Peter; Blegen, Judith [Soprano Vocals]; Riegel, Kenneth
Conductors: Thomas, Michael Tilson
Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

"This release is extraordinary distinctively fresh interpretive approach Thomas, the Clevelanders and Columbias engineers proffer refreshingly novel, provocative, yet substantial rewards. - High Fidel...continue...

Ravel: Bolero, La Valse, etc / Boulez, NYPO, et al

1 CD / Sony Classical Import / 2005-10-18

Works: Maurice Ravel: Boléro; La valse; Rapsodie espagnole; Alborada del Gracioso, for orchestra; Daphnis et Chloé
Conductors: Boulez, Pierre
Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra; New York Philharmonic

"Boulez brings to every phrase, rhythm, and bit of dynamic contrast just the right weighting, balance, and tonal mix; one feels almost as thought he...continue...

Stravinsky: Rite of Spring / Maazel, Cleveland Orchestra

1 CD / Telarc / 2005-04-26

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps
Conductors: Maazel, Lorin
Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

Stravinsky: Pétrouchka, Le Sacre du Printemps / Boulez

1 CD / Universal Classics / 2004-10-12

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Pétrouchka; Le sacre du printemps
Conductors: Boulez, Pierre
Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

Ravel, Debussy / Boulez, Otter, Cleveland Orchestra

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2004-05-11

Works: Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade, poems (3) for soprano (or tenor) & orchestra (or piano); Le tombeau de Couperin; Pavane pour une infante défunte; Menuet antique; Claude Debussy: Dans...
Performers: Hagley, Alison [Soprano Vocals]; von Otter, Anne Sofie; Wellbaum, Lisa
Conductors: Boulez, Pierre
Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

Following their successful Mahler Symphony No. 3 which just won the Grammy for best orchestral performance (Boulez's 32nd!), Pierre Boulez and Anne Sofie von Otter...continue...

Katia & Marielle Labèque - Piano Fantasy

6 CD / Philips / 2003-10-14

Works: Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances (21) for Piano 4 hands, WoO 1; Antonin Dvorák: Slavonic Dances (8) for piano, 4 hands, B. 78 (Op. 46); Slavonic Dances (8) for piano, 4 hands, B. 145 (Op. 72); ...
Performers: Labeque, Katia & Marielle
Conductors: Chailly, Riccardo; Ozawa, Seiji
Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra; Cleveland Orchestra

The Essential Igor Stravinsky

2 CD / Sony Classical / 2003-03-25

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Fireworks, Op. 4; Firebird; Pétrouchka; Le sacre du printemps; Suite no 1 for small Orchestra; Rag-time for 11 instruments; Histoire du soldat - Trois danses; Piano-Rag-Music,...
Performers: Albert, Adrienne; Anderson, Linda; Baker, Israel; Berberian, Cathy; Bressler, Charles; Cho-Liang, Lin; Craft, Robert [Conductor]; Entremont, Philippe; Garrard, Don; Goodman, Benny; Gramm, Donald; Hei...
Conductors: Thomas, Michael Tilson; Salonen, Esa-Pekka; Stravinsky, Igor; ; Craft, Robert
Ensemble: C. B. C. Symphony Orchestra; Cleveland Orchestra; Columbia Jazz Combo; Columbia Symphony Orchestra; London Sinfonietta; London Symphony Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Cuban Overture, etc/ Dorati, etc

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2003-03-11

Works: George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Cuban Overture; An American in Paris; Porgy and Bess
Performers: Davis, Ivan
Conductors: Maazel, Lorin; Dorati, Antal
Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra; Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Boulez conducts Stravinsky - Le Chant du Rossignol, etc

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2001-09-18

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Scherzo fantastique, Op. 3; Le roi des étoiles; Chant du rossignol (Song of the Nightingale), symphonic poem for orchestra; L'histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale), concert ...
Conductors: Boulez, Pierre
Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra; Cleveland Orchestra members

Eloquence - Debussy: La Mer, etc; Ravel / Ashkenazy, et al

1 CD / Decca Import / 2001-06-12

Works: Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Nocturnes (3) for Orchestra; La mer; Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Conductors: Ashkenazy, Vladimir
Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

HERITAGE Prokofiev: Symphony no 5; Bartók / George Szell

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1999-06-29

Works: Sergey Prokofiev: Symphony no 5 in B flat major, Op. 100; Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Sz 116
Conductors: Szell, George
Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

"Szell's performance of this great symphony is absolutely magnificent...Virtuosity is the key note for the entire performance: the scherzo is enormously exciting, the Adagio becomes...continue...

Warsaw Concerto

1 CD / Decca / 1999-06-15

Works: Richard Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto; Sergey Rachmaninov: Concerto for Piano no 2 in C minor, Op. 18; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Dmitry Shostakovich: Concerto f...
Performers: Thibaudet, Jean-Yves [Piano]
Conductors: Wolff, Hugh; Ashkenazy, Vladimir
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra; Cleveland Orchestra

Personnel: Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano).

For this disc of film-related music, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet looks back to the black-and-white movies of the 1940s and 50s, when piano-orchestral wo...continue...

Ravel: Piano Concertos, etc / Zimerman, Boulez, et al

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 1999-02-09

Works: Maurice Ravel: Concerto for Piano in G major; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Concerto for Piano left hand
Performers: Zimerman, Krystian
Conductors: Boulez, Pierre
Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra

"Zimerman's pianism is self-recommending. His trills in the first movement of the g major Concerto are to die for, his passagework in the finale crystal-clear,...continue...

Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi, Sept Haïkaï, etc / Boulez, et al

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1997-11-11

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi; Réveil des oiseaux, for piano & orchestra, I/40; Sept haïkaï, for piano, 13 winds, 6 percussion & 8 violins, I/45
Performers: Aimard, Pierre-Laurent; Jones, Joela; Pollet, Francoise
Conductors: Boulez, Pierre
Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

"Pierre Boulez's distinguished new series of Messiaen recordings continues with the 1936 song cycle 'Poemes pour Mi,' in its luminous orchestral guise, and two of...continue...

Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum / Boulez

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 1995-10-17

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Chronochromie; La ville d'en haut; Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
Conductors: Boulez, Pierre
Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra; Cleveland Orchestra members

"Stunning...If there is a more impressive disc of twentieth-century music released this year, I shall be most surprised." -Classic CD"...Boulez delivers the musical content like...continue...

Stravinsky: Pétrouchka, Le Sacre du printemps / Boulez

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1995-01-24

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Pétrouchka; Le sacre du printemps
Conductors: Boulez, Pierre
Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra; New York Philharmonic

Movies - Greatest Hits

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1994-12-06

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Bagatelle for piano in A minor ("Für Elise"), WoO 59; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from...
Performers: Carreras, Jose [Tenor Vocal]; Entremont, Philippe; Feltsman, Vladimir [Piano]; Jacob, Werner; Marton, Eva; Missenhardt, Gunter; Morelli, Adriana; Nucci, Leo; Putz, Ruth-Margaret; Stemme, Nina [Sopran...
Conductors: Patanè, Giuseppe; Bruno, Weil; Bernstein, Leonard; Ziegler, Klaus Martin; Malgoire, Jean-Claude; Chailly, Riccardo; Georgiadis, John; Thomas, Michael Tilson; Maazel, Lorin; Pritchard, John; Gosm...
Ensemble: ; Bastille Opera Orchestra; Canadian Brass; Cleveland Orchestra; English Chamber Orchestra; Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Kassel Vocal Ensemble; La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy; London Philhar...

Stravinsky: Pétrouchka, Le Sacre du Printemps / Boulez

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1992-10-13

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka, ballet (burlesque) in 4 scenes for orchestra (1947 version); Le sacre du printemps
Conductors: Boulez, Pierre
Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

Dinner Classics - The Italian Album

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1989-07-11

Works: Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème; Tosca; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Aida, opera; Rigoletto; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Giovanni Gab...
Performers: Bonell, Carlos; Gascoigne, Brian; Perlman, Itzhak; Pert, Morris; Williams, John [Guitar]; Zukerman, Pinchas
Conductors: Kostelanetz, André; Ormandy, Eugene; ; Davis, Andrew, Sir; Patanè, Giuseppe; Zukerman, Pinchas; Lane, Louis; Gosman, Lazar
Ensemble: André Kostelanetz Orchestra; Cleveland Orchestra; English Chamber Orchestra; Hungarian Radio Orchestra; Philadelphia Brass Ensemble; Philadelphia Orchestra; Tchaikovsky Chamber Orchestra; Toro...

Franck: Symphonic Variations; Rachmaninov / Fleisher, Szell

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1989-03-14

Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; César Franck: Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra, M 46; Maurice Ravel: Miroirs
Performers: Fleisher, Leon
Conductors: Szell, George
Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra