FERENC FRICSAY – Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon [86CD+DVD]

Format: 86CD+DVD
Catalogue No.: 4864012
Barcode: 0028948640126
Release Date: 07 Jul 2023
Genre: Classical

Ferenc Fricsay’s career as a recording artist lasted barely 12 years, yet connoisseurs consider him a legend whose conducting style paved the way for many facets of what we consider informed conducting today. Fricsay's definitive Bartók and Kodály interpretations, still considered the reference recordings of these composers’ works.

HIGHLIGHTS:
• The famed Fricsay Mozart: Symphonies 29 (twice), 35, 39, 40, 41 (twice), as well as legendary concerto recordings with Clara Haskil
• Mozart Operas: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Idomeneo, Le nozze di Figaro + the Requiem and the Mass in c minor
• The "Mozart Radio Broadcasts", 4 discs of live Mozart interpretations from 1951–54, that were unheard since their original broadcast until DG released them in 2018
• Tchaikovsky: Symphonies nos. 4–6
• Two sets of Strauss waltzes (mono and stereo)
• Two recordings of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem (1953 & 1960)
• Two recordings of Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten (1952 & 1961)
• Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer
• An Interview with the artist: Fricsay talking about his life (in German – with an English summary in the booklet)
• A bonus-DVD featuring rare films of Fricsay in rehearsal and performance
• A 212-page booklet featuring an abundance of newly commissioned and classic texts by Fricsay aficionados Tully Potter and Gottfried Kraus, as well as by Fricsay's daughter, Elsa Schiller, president of DG president at the time, and his legendary collaborators Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Yehudi Menuhin
• Numerous rare photographs