Release events
- 2023-06-03 [Worldwide]
Labels
- Decca Classics 485 1583
Release information
- Barcode:
- Format:
- 88×CD
- Length:
- 103:13:50
- Type:
- Album + Compilation
- Packaging:
- Box
- Status:
- Official
- Language:
- [Multiple languages]
- Script:
- Latin
- Data quality:
- Normal
Annotation
An 88-CD collection of Ernest Ansermet's stereo recordings for Decca. Includes a booklet with complete tracklistings and essays; CD wallets have original jacket artwork. The original release had defective discs: CD 20 - the last minute stuttered, CD 37 was the 1957 recording, not the 1964 one. Replacements were available through Deutsche Grammophon support.
Tracklist
| 1CD: J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites 2 & 3 / Cantatas “Herr Gott, dich loben wir” / “Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ” |
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| 3CD: Haydn: Symphonies 82 “L'Ours”, 83 “La Poule”, 84 |
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| 4CD: Haydn: Symphonies 85 “La Reine”, 86, 87 |
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| 5CD: Haydn: Symphonies 22 “Der Philosoph”, 90 / Trumpet Concerto in E-flat / Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat |
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| 7CD: Beethoven: Symphonies 1 [1963] & 3 |
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| 8CD: Beethoven: Symphonies 2 & 4 / Coriolan Overture |
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| 9CD: Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 6 |
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| 10CD: Beethoven: Symphonies 7 & 8 [1963] / Egmont Overture |
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| 11CD: Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 |
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| 12CD: Beethoven: Symphony no. 1 [1956] |
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| 13CD: Weber: Overtures / Bassoon Concerto |
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| 14CD: Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4 / Overtures |
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| 15CD: Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Schubert: Rosamunde |
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| 16CD: Beethoven: Symphony no. 8 [1956] / Schumann: Symphony no. 2 / Manfred Overture |
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| 17CD: Brahms: Symphonies 1 & 3 |
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| 18CD: Brahms: Symphony no. 2 / St. Anthony Variations / Tragic Overture |
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| 19CD: Brahms: Symphony no. 4 / Academic Festival Overture / Nänie / Alto Rhapsody |
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| 20CD: Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem |
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| 21CD: Wagner: Orchestral Selections: Lohengrin / Götterdammerung / Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg / Parsifal |
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| 22CD: Liszt: A Faust Symphony / Episode no. 2 from Faust |
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| 23CD: Liszt: Episode no. 1 from Faust / Hunnenschlacht / Magnard: Symphony no. 3 |
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| 24CD: Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique / 3 Orchestral pieces from La Damnation de Faust |
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| 25CD: Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été / Overtures |
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| 26CD: Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (in rehearsal) |
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| 27CD: Franck: Symphony in D minor / Les Éolides / Le Chasseur maudit |
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| 28CD: Delibes: Coppélia (Tableaux I & II) |
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| 29CD: Delibes: Coppélia (Tableau III & alternate highlights takes) / Sylvia Suite / Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suite no. 2 / Shéhérazade [1963] |
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| 30CD: Bizet: Carmen Suite / L'Arlésienne Suites / Patrie Overture |
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| 31CD: Bizet: Symphony in C / Petite Suite d'orchestre (Jeux d'enfants) / La Jolie Fille de Perth Suite / Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin / Tzigane |
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| 32CD: Lalo: Symphonie espagnole / Namouna Suite / Andantino / Scherzo |
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| 33CD: Lalo: Rapsodie norvégienne / Chabrier: Habanera / España / Suite pastorale / Joyeuse marche / Le Roi malgré lui (excerpts) |
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| 34CD: Fauré: Requiem / Pelléas et Mélisande / Pénélope: Prélude / Masques et bergamasques |
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| 35CD: Roussel: Symphonies 3 & 4 / Le Festin de l'araignée |
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| 36CD: Roussel: Petite suite / Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier / La Péri (1958) / Chausson: Symphony in B-flat |
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| 37CD: Debussy: La Mer [1964] / Première rhapsodie / Clair de lune / Petite suite / Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune / Jeux |
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| 38CD: Debussy: Images, Set 3 / Printemps / Nocturnes |
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| 39CD: Debussy: Le Martyre de saint Sébastien / Dukas: La Péri [1954] |
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| 40CD: Debussy: La Mer [1957] / Khamma / La Boîte à joujoux / Marche écossaise / Danse |
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| 41CD: Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (Acte I / Acte II / Acte III, Scènes 1 & 2) |
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| 42CD: Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (Acte III, Scènes 3 & 4 / Acte IV / Acte V) |
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| 43CD: Albéniz: Iberia Suite / Turina: Danzas fantásticas |
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| 44CD: Falla: El amor brujo / El sombrero de tres picos |
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| 45CD: Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortilèges / Shéhérazade [1954] / 2 Mélodies hébraïques |
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| 46CD: Ravel: Boléro / Valses nobles et sentimentales / Rapsodie espagnole / Pavane pour une infante défunte / Ma mère l'Oye Suite |
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| 47CD: Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (complete ballet) / Alborada del gracioso / La Valse [1963] |
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| 48CD: Saint-Saëns: Symphony no. 3 “Organ” / Respighi: Fontane di Roma / Pini di Roma |
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| 49CD: Honegger: Symphonies 2-4 |
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| 50CD: Honegger: Le Roi David / Pacific 231 |
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| 51CD: Honegger: Une cantate de Noël / Martin: In Terra Pax |
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| 52CD: The Royal Ballet: Gala Performances (I) |
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| 53CD: The Royal Ballet: Gala Performances (II) |
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| 55CD: Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition [1958] / Ravel: La Valse [1958] / Rossini/Respighi: Rossiniana |
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| 56CD: Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition [1959] / Night on the Bare Mountain / Gopak / Prelude & Dance of the Persian Slaves (Khovanshchina) / Balakirev: Tamara |
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| 57CD: Borodin: Symphonies 2 & 3 / Overture & Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor) / In the Steppes of Central Asia |
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| 58CD: Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (Act I, Act II, Act III beginning) |
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| 59CD: Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (Act III conclusion, Act IV) / Symphony no. 6 |
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| 60CD: Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Act I, Act II beginning) |
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| 61CD: Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Act II conclusion) / Suites 3 & 4 |
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| 62CD: Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (Prologue, Act I) |
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| 63CD: Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (Act II, Act III) |
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| 64CD: Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade [1954] / Scheherazade [1960] |
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| 65CD: Rimsky-Korsakov: Antar / May Night Overture / The Tale of Tsar Saltan Suite / Flight of the Bumblebee |
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| 66CD: Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Fesitval Overture / Christmas Eve Suite / Dubinushka / Episode from the Bylina of Sadko / The Snow MaIden Suite |
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| 67CD: Glazunov: The Seasons / Concert Waltzes 1 & 2 / Schumann/Glazunov: Carnaval (ballet) |
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| 69CD: Sibelius: Symphony no. 2 / Tapiola |
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| 70CD: Sibelius: Symphony no. 4 / Rachmaninoff: Isle of the Dead |
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| 71CD: Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 & 2 (excerpts) / The Prodigal Son Suite / Violin Concerto no. 1 |
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| 72CD: Prokofiev: Cinderella Suites 1 & 2 (excerpts) / Scythian Suite / March & Scherzo (From The Love for Three Oranges Suite) |
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| 73CD: Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no. 2 / Symphonies 1 & 5 |
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| 74CD: Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra / Dance Suite / 2 Portraits / Romanian Folk Dances |
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| 75CD: Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta / Martin: Concerto for 7 wind instruments, timpani, percussion & string orchestra / Études for string orchestra |
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| 76CD: Stravinsky: The Firebird [1955] / Petrushka |
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| 77CD: Stravinsky: Apollon musagète / Chant du rossignol / Rite of Spring |
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| 78CD: Stravinsky: Renard [1955, French] / Renard [1964, English] / Soldier's Tale Suite / Pulcinella Suite |
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| 79CD: Stravinsky: Symphony in C / Symphony in 3 Movements / Symphonies of Wind Instruments |
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| 80CD: Stravinsky: Piano Concerto / Capriccio / Suites 1 & 2 / 4 Studies / Scherzo à la russe |
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| 81CD: Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms / Mavra / Les Noces |
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| 82CD: Stravinsky: Le Baiser de la fée / Pulcinella |
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| 83CD: Stravinsky: The Firebird [1968] |
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| 84CD: Stravinsky: Ansermet rehearses The Firebird [1968] |
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| 85CD: “What everyone should know about music” |
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| 86CD: “Ce que chacun devrait savoir sur la musique” |
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| 87CD: „Was jeder über Musik wissen sollte” |
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| 88CD: Ernest Ansermet: A Memoir |
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Credits
Release
| photography: | Hans Wild |
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| miscellaneous support: | Andrew Dalton (task: repertoire, publishing & data) Edward Weston (task: project management) |
| mastering: | Chris Bernauer Paschal Byrne |
| compiler: | Ray Granlund |
| design: | Paul Chessel |
| Discogs: | https://www.discogs.com/release/30266201 [info] |
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| Allmusic: | https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/mr0005918349 [info] |