Vaclav Neumann - Early Recordings (2014) [6CD Box Set]

• Title: Early Recordings
  
• Year Of Release: 2014
  
• Label: Supraphon
  
• Genre: Classical
  
• Quality: FLAC (Tracks)
  
• Total Time: 07:45:11
  
• Total Size: 1,7 GB (+3%rec.)
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

The recordings made by Václav Neumann, the charismatic music director of the Czech Philharmonic from 1968, form one of the cornerstones of the symphonic repertoire in Supraphon's archive. The majority of listeners, however, are not familiar with the albums dating from the previous period. By the time he became head of the Czech Philharmonic, Neumann already enjoyed international renown (in 1955 he began appearing as a guest at Berlin's Komische Oper, from 1964 to 1968 he served as music director of the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig). Under his baton, the splendid Prague Symphony Orchestra made the very oldest recordings of Dvořák's early symphonies (Nos. 1, 2 and 4), a recording of Trojan's orchestrated version of Tchaikovsky's The Seasons, while the Czech Philharmonic recorded Mahler's enchanting song cycles and major international and Czech modern works - by Messiaen (with the composer's wife Yvonne Loriod on the piano), Bořkovec and Sommer. This selection is symbolically rounded off by Dvořák's Nocturne, recorded by Neumann with the Czech Philharmonic in 1968, just a few weeks after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact forces. A number of these unique and sensitively remastered recordings are being released on CD for the very first time.


Tracks:

CD 1
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 1 in C minor The Bells of Zlonice, sine op. (B 9)
Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 13 (B 41)

CD 2
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 4 (B 12)
Rondo for Cello and Orchestra in G Minor, Op. 94, B. 181

Edvard Hagerup Grieg
Lyric suite, Op. 54

CD 3
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Les Saisons. The Seasons. Twelve Charasteristic Pieces, Op. 37

Edvard Hagerup Grieg
Peer Gynt. Music to the dramatic poem by Henrik Ibsen, Op. 46+55

CD 4
Albert Roussel
Symphony No. 3 in G minor, Op. 42
Bacchus and Ariadne, Op. 43: Suite No. 2

Olivier Messiaen
Exotic Birds
Awakening of the Birds

CD 5
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 3 in D major, D. 200
Symphony No. 8 in B minor Unfinished, D. 759
Vladimír Sommer
Vocal Symphony for Mezzo-soprano, Speaker, Chorus and Large Orchestra

CD 6
Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen

Pavel Bořkovec
Silentium turbatum. Symphonic movement for alto, large orchestra and electric guitar

Antonín Dvořák
Nocturne for String orchestra in B major, Op. 40, B 47

Věra Soukupová (alto), Yvonne Loriod (piano), Josef Chuchro (cello)
Prague Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra & Film Symphony Orchestra, Václav Neumann

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