{"product_id":"herbert-blomstedt-the-complete-decca-recordings-33cd","title":"Herbert Blomstedt - The Complete Decca Recordings [33CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 33 x CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: 4853281\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 0028948532810\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 05 May 2023\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• Collected here in one edition are the complete Decca recordings of Herbert Blomstedt: recordings made with the San Francisco Symphony and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• 33 CDs with spined wallets, original jackets, and original programming.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Highlights include:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlomstedt’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”\u003cbr\u003eThe award-winning complete Nielsen cycle with the San Francisco Symphony\u003cbr\u003eHerbert 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\u003cbr\u003eThe 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”\u003cbr\u003eDefinitive recordings of contemporary music such as John Harbison’s Second Symphony, commissioned to celebrate the San Francisco Symphony’s 75th anniversary\u003cbr\u003eSeveral revered and thought-provoking accounts of Richard Strauss’s tone poems including Ein Heldenleben, Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan and Eine Alpensinfonie\u003cbr\u003eConcerto recordings with pianists Olli Mustonen (Grieg \u0026amp; Chopin) and Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Mendelssohn)\u003cbr\u003ePlus 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\u003cbr\u003e• The recordings are accompanied by a 76pp book (En\/Fr\/De) with new notes by Andrew Stewart, complete recording information, index and photographs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Two-piece capbox, 76pp booklet, 33 spined wallets, original jackets \/ dimensions: to follow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRACKLIST:\u003cbr\u003eCD1 BARTÓK Kossuth; Concerto for Orchestra SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD2 BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos. 1 \u0026amp; 3 SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD3 BERWALD Symphonies 1 ‘Sinfonie séreiuse’ \u0026amp; 4 ‘Sinfonie Naïve’ SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD4 BRAHMS Symphony No.4; Motets GOL\u003cbr\u003eCD5 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 \u0026amp; Chorus\u003cbr\u003eCD6 BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz (soprano), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), SFS \u0026amp; Chorus\u003cbr\u003eCD7 BRUCKNER Symphony No.4 SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD8 BRUCKNER Symphony No.6\u003cbr\u003eWAGNER Siegfried Idyll SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD9 BRUCKNER Symphony No.9; Adagio for String Orchestra in G flat major (Third movement of the String Quintet arr. By Hans Stadlmair) GOL\u003cbr\u003eCD10 GRIEG Piano Concerto\u003cbr\u003eCHOPIN Piano Concerto No.1 Olli Mustonen (piano), SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD11 GRIEG Maskarade Overture; Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 \u0026amp; 2\u003cbr\u003eNIELSEN Aladdin Suite SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD12 GRIEG Peer Gynt – Incidental Music SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD13 HARBISON Oboe Concerto William Bennett (oboe); Symphony No.2\u003cbr\u003eSESSIONS Symphony No.2 SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD14 HINDEMITH Symphony ‘Mathis der Maler’; Trauermusik; Symphonic Metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD15 HINDEMITH Konzertmusik, Op.50; Der Schwanendreher Geraldine Walther (viola); Nobilissima Visione Suite SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD16 HINDEMITH Symphonia Serena (1946); Symphonie “Die Harmonia der Welt” (1951) GOL\u003cbr\u003eCD17 MAHLER Symphony No.2 “Resurrection” Ruth Ziesak (soprano), Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo-soprano), SFS \u0026amp; Chorus\u003cbr\u003eCD18 MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos. 3 “Scottish” \u0026amp; 4 “Italian” SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD19 MENDELSSOHN Piano Concertos Nos. 1 \u0026amp; 2 Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)\u003cbr\u003eCD20 NIELSEN Symphonies Nos. 1 \u0026amp; 6 SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD21 NIELSEN Symphonies Nos. 2 “The Four Temperaments” \u0026amp; 3 “Expansiva” SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD22 NIELSEN Symphonies Nos. 4 “The Inextinguishable” \u0026amp; 5 SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD23 ORFF Carmina Burana Lynne Dawson (soprano), John Daniecki (tenor), Kevin McMillan (baritone), SFS \u0026amp; Chorus\u003cbr\u003eCD24 SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos. 5 \u0026amp; 8 SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD25 SCHUBERT Overture in C major, D591 “In the Italian Style”; Symphony No.9 in C major “Great”, D944 (D849) SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD26 SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos. 1 \u0026amp; 7 SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD27 SIBELIUS Symphony No.2 SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD28 SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos. 3 \u0026amp; 6 SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD29 SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos. 4 \u0026amp; 5 SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD30 R. STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra; Till Eulenspiegel; Tod und Verklärung SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD31 R. STRAUSS Don Juan; Eine Alpensinfonie SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD32 R. STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben; Metamorphosen SFS\u003cbr\u003eCD33 R. STRAUSS Burleske Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano); Rosenkavalier Waltzes; Capriccio Sextet GOL\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSFS = San Francisco Symphony\u003cbr\u003eGOL = Gewandhausorchester Leipzig\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Decca (UMO) \/ Classics \/ Decca","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42337631699100,"sku":"4853281","price":91.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/Blomstedt3DNew2_1.jpg?v=1676071177","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/herbert-blomstedt-the-complete-decca-recordings-33cd","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}