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Constantin Silvestri: Complete EMI Recordings | Warner - Icon 7233472

Constantin Silvestri: Complete EMI Recordings

Label: Warner - Icon

Cat No: 7233472

Barcode: 5099972334720

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 15

Release Date: 4th February 2013

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Contents

Artists

Conductor

Constantin Silvestri

Artists

Conductor

Constantin Silvestri

About

Constantin Silvestri was born in Bucharest, Romania on 31st May 1913. His mother had to bring him up as both his father and stepfather had died whilst he was still a teenager. By the age of six he was playing both piano and organ and showed skill as an improviser. Although not in conducting classes at the Conservatoire in Bucharest he was already appearing as a conductor in his teens, making his debut with the Bucharest Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1930 in a concert which included The Rite of Spring and one of his own compositions.

After further success with the National Radio Orchestra of Romania he decided to make conducting his career. In 1935 he started his association with the Romanian National Opera and directed the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra for six years. In 1948 he started teaching at the Conservatoire and founded its Conducting Department. Whilst conducting all the main orchestras in Romania he was also able to accept guest appearances in the USSR, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

In 1957 he also made his debut in the UK, conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the Royal Albert Hall and started making recordings for EMI in London, Paris and Vienna. Before leaving his home country he had his greatest success there – the premiere of Enesco’s opera Oedipe in 1958. Settling first in Paris in 1959, he then came to England when offered the post of Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. With his meticulous and lengthy preparation in rehearsals he raised the standard and prestige of the orchestra to one of international standing.

He became a British citizen in 1967 but his growing reputation was cut short by increasing ill-health and he died of cancer in London on 23rd February 1968 at the age of 55.

This set presents the Complete Recordings made by Constantin Silvestri for EMI. The microphones offered this “fanatical idealist” the most favourable circumstances to let his particular talent blossom.

Contents:
CD 1
Mikhail Glinka
[ 1] Overture: Ruslan und Ludmilla
Alexander Borodin
Prince Igor
[ 2] Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra

[ 3] Polovtsian Dances
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

[ 4] In the Steppes of Central Asia
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin
[ 5] Polonaise
[ 6] Capriccio Italien, Op.45
[ 7] Overture: 1812, Op.49
With The Band of H M Royal Marines (Royal Marines School of Music)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Total Duration: 75.00

CD 2
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
[ 1] – [ 4] Symphony No.4 in F minor, Op.36
[ 5] – [ 6] Symphony No.5 in E minor, Op.64 – I & II
Philharmonia Orchestra
Total Duration: 75.10

CD 3
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky

[ 1] – [ 2] Symphony No.5 in E minor, Op.64 – III & IV
[ 3] – [ 6] Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.74 “Pathétique”
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
[ 7] Overture: May Night
Philharmonia Orchestra
Total Duration: 76.30

CD 4
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky

[ 1] – [ 4] Manfred Symphony (MONO)
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
[ 5] – [9] Capriccio espagnol
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Total Duration: 75.00

CD 5
Modest Mussorgsky

[ 1] A Night on the Bare Mountain (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
[ 2] – [ 5] Scheherazade, Op.35
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Igor Stravinsky
[ 6] – [9] Le chant du rossignol
Philharmonia Orchestra

Total Duration: 79.50

CD 6
Igor Stravinsky

[ 1] – [ 3] Symphony in three movements
Béla Bartók
[ 4] – [ 6] Divertimento for Strings
FIRST ISSUE IN STEREO
Paul Hindemith
[ 7] – [ 9] “Mathis der Maler” – Symphony
FIRST ISSUE IN STEREO
Philharmonia Orchestra

Total Duration: 79.30

CD 7
Sergei Prokofiev

[ 1] – [ 6] The Love for Three Oranges - Suite
Aram Khachaturian
[ 7] – [ 9] Gayeneh – Suite No.1
Dmitri Shostakovich
[10] – [13] Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op.47
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Total Duration: 77.00

CD 8
Antonín Dvorák

[ 1] – [ 4] Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française

[ 5] – [ 8] Symphony No.8 in G, Op.88
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Total Duration: 77.00

CD 9
Antonín Dvorák

[ 1] – [ 4] Symphony No.7 in D minor, Op.70
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

[ 5] Overture: Carnival, Op.92
London Philharmonic Orchestra

[ 6] Slavonic Dance No.1 in C, Op.46 No.1
[ 7] Slavonic Dance No.2 in E minor, Op.46 No.2
Johannes Brahms
[ 8] Hungarian Dance No.5 in G minor
[ 9] Hungarian Dance No.6 in D
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

Total Duration: 63.00

CD 10
Hector Berlioz

[ 1] – [ 5] Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14
Manuel de Falla
[ 6] Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)
[ 7] Interlude & Danza No.1 (La vida breve)
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

Total Duration: 64.10

CD 11
César Franck

[ 1] – [ 3] Symphony in D minor, Op.48
Philharmonia Orchestra

Camille Saint-Saëns
[ 4] Dance macabre, Op.40
Paul Dukas
[ 5] L’apprenti sorcier
Maurice Ravel
[ 6] Pavane pour une infant défunte
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

[ 7] – [10] Rapsodie Espagnole
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Total Duration: 77.30

CD 12
Claude Debussy

[ 1] Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
[ 2] – [ 4] Trois Nocturnes
[ 5] – [ 7] La mer
Maurice Ravel
[ 8] Boléro
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

Total Duration: 75.00

CD 13
Carl Maria von Weber

[ 1] Overture: Der Freischütz
FIRST EVER RELEASE
Felix Mendelssohn
[ 2] Overture: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op.21
Franz Liszt
[ 3] Les Préludes
[ 4] Tasso: Lamento e Trionfo
Philharmonia Orchestra

[ 5] Hungarian Rhapsody No.4 in D minor, S.359/4
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Engelbert Humperdinck
[ 6] Overture: Hänsel und Gretel
Philharmonia Orchestra

Total Duration: 77.00

CD 14
Georges Enescu

[ 1] Romanian Rhapsody No.1 in A, Op.11 No.1
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Jean Sibelius
[ 2] Finlandia, Op.26
Sir Edward Elgar
[ 3] Overture: In the South (Alassio)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
[ 4] Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
[ 5] Overture: The Wasps
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Total Duration: 65.00

CD 15
Antonín Dvorák

[ 1] – [ 4] Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95
MONO
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française

Camille Saint-Saëns
[ 4] Dance macabre, Op.40 (MONO)
Paul Dukas
[ 5] L’apprenti sorcier (MONO)
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

Total Duration: 58.00

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