Rene Leibowitz - The Art of Leibowitz (2016) [13CD Box Set]

• Title: The Art of Leibowitz
  
• Year Of Release: 2016
  
• Label: Scribendum
  
• Genre: Classical
  
• Quality: FLAC (Tracks)
  
• Total Time: 14:21:29
  
• Total Size: 4,2 GB (+3%rec.)
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

“René Leibowitz was born in Warsaw on 17 February, 1913. Eventually he made Paris his home where he studied composition with Ravel and Schönberg, and also studied orchestration with Ravel. Additionally, he studied composition with Webern and conducting with Pierre Monteux. René Leibowitz made his début as a conductor in 1937 with the Chamber Orchestra of the French Radio in Europe and the United States. In 1944 he taught composition and conducting to many pupils, including Pierre Boulez (composition only), Antoine Duhamel, and Vinko Globokar.

René Leibowitz's repertoire as a conductor spanned virtually everything, including opera, from the Baroque to the most modern 20th century composers. Leibowitz was also known as an orchestrator. His arrangement and recording of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor for double orchestra is just one of the unique achievements of his in this area. His most famous orchestration is his re-orchestration and recording of Mussorgsky's ‘Night on Bare Mountain’. Apparently the maestro had reservations regarding several aspects of the famous Rimsky-Korsakov version. He even made a special trip to Russia to study all the available manuscripts before creating his own rendition. Leibowitz completely eliminated the fanfares, as well as implemented many other orchestral and musical changes. The Leibowitz version ends with a huge crescendo and is quite powerful.

Leibowitz's conducting repertoire, which spanned virtually everything, is well represented in this comprehensive 13 CD set. Many recordings featured in this set have been available only as downloads. Glorious, inspired, unique interpretations. During the war he was an active member of the French resistance against the Nazis. After WW II, Leibowitz became one of the most sought-after conductors in Europe and his well deserved reputation is extensively represented in this set. This set includes Leibowitz’s acclaimed Beethoven symphonies cycle also noted for attempting to follow very precisely Beethoven's metronome marks.”


Tracks:

CD 1 :

Modest Mussorgsky

Pictures at an exhibition
A night on Bare Mountain

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

CD 2 :

Camille Saint-Saëns
Danse macabre, Op.40

Gabriel Pierné,
Marche des petits soldats de plomb

Charles Gounod
Marche funèbre d'une marionette

Maurice Ravel
La valse

Claude Debussy,
En Bateau (from Petit suite)

Charles Gounod
Ballet music (from Faust)

Claude Debussy,
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Jacques Offenbach
Overture from Orphée aux enfers

Maurice Ravel
Bolero

Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, London Festival Orchestra

CD 3 :

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.41 in C major K551 "Jupiter"

Franz Schubert
Symphony No.9 in C major "The Great" D944

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

CD 4 :

Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor

Igor Stravinsky
Le sacre du printemps

Earl Wild - piano
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Festival Orchestra

CD 5 :

Richard Wagner
Overture from Tannhäuser

Robert Schumann
Symphony No.3 in E flat Op.97 "Rhenish"
Manfred overture

Franz Liszt
Mephisto Waltz No.1 "Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke"

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, International Symphony Orchestra

CD 6 :

Georges Bizet
Carmen Suite (Les Toréadors, Fate, Aragonaise, Les Dragons d'Alcala, Act III
Entr'acte: Intermezzo, Avec la garde montante, Danse Bohème

Giacomo Puccini
Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo

Daniel François Esprit Auber
Les diamants de la couronne: Overture

Paul Dukas
L'apprenti sorcier

Jacques Offenbach
Les contes d'Hoffmann: Barcarolle

Alexander Borodin
Prince Igor: Overture, Polovetsian Dances

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro (ossia la folle giornata): Overture

Orchestre De La Société Des Concerts Symphoniques De Paris

CD 7 :

Edvard Grieg
Solveig's song from "Peer Gynt"

Giacomo Meyerbeer
Coronation march from " Le prophete"

Gilbert & Sullivan
Overture from "H.M.S. Pinafore"

Émile Waldteufel
Les Patineurs

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The flight of the bumble-bee

Manuel de Falla
Ritual fire dance from "L'amor brujo"

Gounod/Bach
Ave Maria

Jacob Gade
Jalousie 'Tango Tzigane'

Emanuel Chabrier
Joyeuse marche

Luigi Boccherini
Minuetto

Leo Delibes
Intermezzo from "Naila" (La Source)

Grigoraş Ionică Dinicu
Hora Staccato

Jacques Ibert
Escales

RCA Italiana Symphony Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra of London, Orchestra Filarmonica di Roma

CD 8 :

Antonin Dvorak
Humoresque

Johann Strauss II
Die Fledermaus' Overture

Trad. Arr. Rene Leibowitz
Greensleeves, Londonderry Air

Georg Bizet
Habanera (From 'Carmen')

Frederic Chopin
Polonaise in A-Flat, 0p. 53

Cesar Franck
Panis Angelicus

Mikhail lppolitov-Ivanov
Procession of the Sardar

Emanuel Chabrier
Espana

Edvard Grieg
Varen (The Last Spring)

Camille Saint-Saens
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso

Richard Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Prelude

New Symphony Orchestra of London, Orchestra Filarmonica di Roma, Royal Philharmonic

CD 9-13 :

Ludwig van Beethoven
Complete Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Leonore Overture No.3, Op.72b
Turkish March from "The Ruins of Athens
Egmont Overture

Inge Borkh - soprano, Ruth Siewert - contralto, Richard Lewis - tenor, Ludwig Weber - bass
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Beecham Choral Society

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