Herbert Blomstedt - The Complete Decca Recordings [33CD]

Format: 33 x CD
Catalogue No.: 4853281
Barcode: 0028948532810
Release Date: 05 May 2023
Genre: Classical

• Collected here in one edition are the complete Decca recordings of Herbert Blomstedt: recordings made with the San Francisco Symphony and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.

• 33 CDs with spined wallets, original jackets, and original programming.

• Highlights include:

Blomstedt’s advocacy of Hindemith generated many albums of the German composer’s music – demanding and receiving pinpoint precision from his players from both the Gewandhausorchestra and San Francisco Symphony leading to a critic for High Fidelity to write the headline “Hindemith Gems from the Golden State”
The award-winning complete Nielsen cycle with the San Francisco Symphony
Herbert Blomstedt’s profound understanding of the music of Sibelius informed one of the finest recorded cycles of the Finnish composer’s symphonies in the catalogue
The Grammy-Award winning account of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. The Gramophone critic Ivan March declared this “the finest digital recording yet of Orff’s splendid celebration of the joys of … springtime fecundity, with more than a little help from the grape harvest of previous years”
Definitive recordings of contemporary music such as John Harbison’s Second Symphony, commissioned to celebrate the San Francisco Symphony’s 75th anniversary
Several revered and thought-provoking accounts of Richard Strauss’s tone poems including Ein Heldenleben, Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan and Eine Alpensinfonie
Concerto recordings with pianists Olli Mustonen (Grieg & Chopin) and Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Mendelssohn)
Plus many recordings that have vanished from the catalogue for many years including Blomstedt’s Bruckner symphony recordings – a highly personal Sixth, a lyrical Fourth and a Ninth coupled with the Adagio from the String Quintet all recorded in Leipzig
• The recordings are accompanied by a 76pp book (En/Fr/De) with new notes by Andrew Stewart, complete recording information, index and photographs

• Two-piece capbox, 76pp booklet, 33 spined wallets, original jackets / dimensions: to follow

TRACKLIST:
CD1 BARTÓK Kossuth; Concerto for Orchestra SFS
CD2 BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 SFS
CD3 BERWALD Symphonies 1 ‘Sinfonie séreiuse’ & 4 ‘Sinfonie Naïve’ SFS
CD4 BRAHMS Symphony No.4; Motets GOL
CD5 BRAHMS Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny), Op.54; Alto Rhapsody, Op.53 Jard Van Nes (mezzo-soprano); Begräbnisgesang (Funeral Hymn), Op.13; Nänie, Op.82; Gesang Der Parzen (Song of the Fates), Op.89 SFS & Chorus
CD6 BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz (soprano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), SFS & Chorus
CD7 BRUCKNER Symphony No.4 SFS
CD8 BRUCKNER Symphony No.6
WAGNER Siegfried Idyll SFS
CD9 BRUCKNER Symphony No.9; Adagio for String Orchestra in G flat major (Third movement of the String Quintet arr. By Hans Stadlmair) GOL
CD10 GRIEG Piano Concerto
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No.1 Olli Mustonen (piano), SFS
CD11 GRIEG Maskarade Overture; Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2
NIELSEN Aladdin Suite SFS
CD12 GRIEG Peer Gynt – Incidental Music SFS
CD13 HARBISON Oboe Concerto William Bennett (oboe); Symphony No.2
SESSIONS Symphony No.2 SFS
CD14 HINDEMITH Symphony ‘Mathis der Maler’; Trauermusik; Symphonic Metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber SFS
CD15 HINDEMITH Konzertmusik, Op.50; Der Schwanendreher Geraldine Walther (viola); Nobilissima Visione Suite SFS
CD16 HINDEMITH Symphonia Serena (1946); Symphonie “Die Harmonia der Welt” (1951) GOL
CD17 MAHLER Symphony No.2 “Resurrection” Ruth Ziesak (soprano), Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo-soprano), SFS & Chorus
CD18 MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos. 3 “Scottish” & 4 “Italian” SFS
CD19 MENDELSSOHN Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
CD20 NIELSEN Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6 SFS
CD21 NIELSEN Symphonies Nos. 2 “The Four Temperaments” & 3 “Expansiva” SFS
CD22 NIELSEN Symphonies Nos. 4 “The Inextinguishable” & 5 SFS
CD23 ORFF Carmina Burana Lynne Dawson (soprano), John Daniecki (tenor), Kevin McMillan (baritone), SFS & Chorus
CD24 SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8 SFS
CD25 SCHUBERT Overture in C major, D591 “In the Italian Style”; Symphony No.9 in C major “Great”, D944 (D849) SFS
CD26 SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos. 1 & 7 SFS
CD27 SIBELIUS Symphony No.2 SFS
CD28 SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 SFS
CD29 SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 SFS
CD30 R. STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra; Till Eulenspiegel; Tod und Verklärung SFS
CD31 R. STRAUSS Don Juan; Eine Alpensinfonie SFS
CD32 R. STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben; Metamorphosen SFS
CD33 R. STRAUSS Burleske Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano); Rosenkavalier Waltzes; Capriccio Sextet GOL

SFS = San Francisco Symphony
GOL = Gewandhausorchester Leipzig