Claudio Arrau (piano)
Dennis Egan (posthorn)
Ivry Gitlis (violin)
Ferdinand Koch (tenor)
David Oistrakh (violin)
Vlado Perlemuter (piano)
Heinrich Rehkemper (baritone)
Helen Watts (contralto)
Denis Wick (trombone)
Highgate School Choir
London Symphony Chorus
Orpington Junior Singers
Sudwestfunk-Chor Baden-Baden
Bamberger Symphoniker
London Symphony Orchestra
Orchester der Staatsoper Berlin
Orchestre de la Association des Concerts Colonne, Paris
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise
Orchestre Radio Symphonique, Paris
Pro Musica Orchester Wien
Sudwestfunk-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden

Conductor

Jascha Horenstein

Works

Bartok, Bela

Violin Concerto no.2, Sz112 BB117

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.55 'Eroica'

Brahms, Johannes

Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor, op.15

Bruch, Max

Scottish Fantasy, op.46

Bruckner, Anton

Symphony no.8 in C minor

Hindemith, Paul

Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'

Janacek, Leos

Sinfonietta
Taras Bulba

Liszt, Franz

A Faust Symphony, S108

Mahler, Gustav

Kindertotenlieder
Symphony no.1 in D major 'Titan'
Symphony no.3 in D minor

Ravel, Maurice

Piano Concerto in D major for the left hand
Piano Concerto in G major

Schoenberg, Arnold

Chamber Symphony no.1, op.9
Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night), op.4

Strauss, Richard

Don Juan, op.20
Tod und Verklarung (Death and Transfiguration), op.24

Stravinsky, Igor

The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu): Suite no.2 (1919)

Wagner, Richard

Faust Overture
Lohengrin

» Prelude to Act 1

Tristan und Isolde

» Prelude and Liebestod

Artists

Conductor

Jascha Horenstein

About

Jascha Horenstein was born in 1898 as the thirteenth of sixteen children in a music-loving Jewish family in Kiev. He found his way through Königsberg and Vienna at first to Berlin, where he made his first recordings with the Philharmonisches Orchester in 1928/29.

The recordings featured in this collection audibly illustrate this exceptional conductor’s life and career. Beginning with the first recording for gramophone of Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, they continue with the interesting Paris recordings of Hindemith’s “Mathis” Symphony and his collaboration with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. The spotlight shines throughout on the studio recordings made in Vienna and Baden-Baden. The programme is rounded off by the recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra from the early 1960s (Bruch, Mahler 3).