Georg Solti (piano)
Arleen Auger (soprano)
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz (soprano)
Sylvia Stahlann (soprano)
Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Julia Varady (soprano)
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano)
Marjana Lipovsek (mezzo-soprano)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Iris Vermillion (mezzo-soprano)
Tamas Daroczy (tenor)
Vinson Cole (tenor)
Uwe Heilmann (tenor)
Max Lichtegg (tenor)
Thomas Moser (tenor)
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor)
Alexandru Agache (baritone)
Rene Pape (bass)
Martti Talvela (bass)
Clifford Curzon (piano)
Dudley Moore (piano)
Andras Schiff (piano)
Georg Kulenkampff (violin)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris
Orchestre de Paris
Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich
Wiener Philharmoniker
World Orchestra for Peace

Conductor

Georg Solti

Works

Bartok, Bela

Cantata Profana, BB100 Sz.94 'The Nine Splendid Stags'
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz116 BB123

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Egmont Overture, op.84
Fidelio, op.72

» Heil sei dem Tag

Missa solemnis in D major, op.123
Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.55 'Eroica'
Symphony no.5 in C minor, op.67
Symphony no.7 in A major, op.92
Violin Sonata no.9 in A major, op.47 'Kreutzer'

Blacher, Boris

Variations on a theme by Paganini, op.26

Borodin, Alexander

Prince Igor

» Overture

Brahms, Johannes

Bruckner, Anton

Symphony no.7 in E major
Symphony no.8 in C minor

Dukas, Paul

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'Apprenti sorcier)

Elgar, Edward

Enigma Variations, op.36

Glinka, Mikhail

Ruslan and Lyudmila, op.5

» Overture

Kodaly, Zoltan

Psalmus Hungaricus, op.13
Variations on a Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock'

Liszt, Franz

Mephisto Waltz no.1, S110/2 'Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke'
Tasso, Lamento e trionfo: symphonic poem, S96
Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe, S107

Mahler, Gustav

Das Lied von der Erde
Symphony no.4 in G major
Symphony no.5 in C sharp minor

Mendelssohn, Felix

Symphony no.4 in A major, op.90 'Italian'

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Mussorgsky, Modest

A Night on the Bare Mountain
Khovanshchina

» Dance of the Persian Slaves

» Prelude (Dawn over the Moscow River)

Respighi, Ottorino

La Boutique fantasque (after Rossini), P120

» Overture

» Abschied

» In der Ferne

Symphony no.5 in B flat major, D485
Symphony no.8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'
Symphony no.9 in C major, D944 'Great'

Schumann, Robert

Julius Caesar, op.128

» Overture

Overture, Scherzo and Finale in E major, op.52
Symphonies 1-4 (complete)

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Symphony no.1 in F minor, op.10
Symphony no.5 in D minor, op.47
Symphony no.9 in E flat major, op.70

Strauss, Richard

Also sprach Zarathustra, op.30
Begegnung, Av72
Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), op.40
Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), op.64
Kleine Lieder (5), op.69

» no.5 Schlechtes Wetter

Lieder (3), op.43 'Gesange alterer deutscher Dichter'

» no.2 Muttertandelei

Lieder (4), op.27

» no.4 Morgen

Lieder (4), op.36

» no.3 Hat gesagt - bleibt's nicht dabei

Lieder (5), op.15

» no.1 Madrigal

Lieder (6), op.17

» no.2 Standchen

Lieder (8), op.10 TrV141 (Gedichte aus 'Letzte Blatter')

» no.1 Zueignung

» no.3 Die Nacht

» no.8 Allerseelen

Malven ('Aus Rosen'), AV304
Salome, op.54

» Dance of the Seven Veils

Schlichte Weisen (5), op.21

» no.1 All mein' Gedanken

Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op.28
Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), AV150

Stravinsky, Igor

The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps)

Suppe, Franz von

Dichter und Bauer (Poet and Peasant)

» Overture

Ein Morgen, ein Mittag und ein Abend in Wien (Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna)

» Overture

Leichte Kavallerie (Light Cavalry)

» Overture

Pique Dame (Queen of Spades)

» Overture

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Piano Concerto no.1 in B flat minor, op.23
Serenade for strings in C major, op.48
Symphony no.2 in C minor, op.17 'Little Russian'
Symphony no.5 in E minor, op.64

Verdi, Giuseppe

Requiem (Messa da Requiem)

Wagner, Richard

Das Rheingold

» Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla

Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman)

» Overture

Die Walkure

» Ride of the Valkyries

» Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music

Gotterdammerung

» Siegfried's Funeral March (Act 3)

Rienzi

» Overture

Siegfried Idyll, WWV103
Siegfried

» Forest Murmurs

Tannhauser

» Overture

» Venusberg Music

Weiner, Leo

Serenade for small orchestra, op.3

Artists

Conductor

Georg Solti

About

Decca presents the third in a trilogy of Solti releases which compliments the Solti/Chicago & Solti/London boxed sets ... Solti (in) Europe.

Containing 45 CDs + 2 DVDs from his very first recording on Decca (as a pianist in 1947) to his last studio album made three months before his death (which were his very first recordings made in his native Hungary with Hungarian musicians).

Highlights include:

- Solti’s first recordings on Decca as a pianist accompanying violinist Georg Kulenkampff: Brahms’s Violin Sonatas, Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat major, K454, and Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” Sonata.

- Beguiling accounts of Tchaikovsky’s Second and Fifth Symphonies with the Orchestre de Paris.

- Three recordings with the Berliner Philharmoniker including a dashing live account of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis.

- Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Concertgebouw Orchestra from 1961 and a thrilling Rite of Spring and Shostakovich’s First Symphony caught live in performance made 30 years later.

- Countless benchmark recordings made in the Sofiensaal in Vienna including the 1967 recording of Verdi’s Requiem which was producer John Culshaw’s last Decca recording. The recorded sound has scarcely been bettered since.

- The potent demonstration disc of orchestral excerpts from The Ring, in glorious Decca digital sound, Solti’s last orchestral recording made at the Sofiensaal of Mozart’s Piano Quartets, K478 & K493, with members of the Melos Quartet.

- The 1995 UN 50th Anniversary Concert with Solti’s World Orchestra for Peace, on CD & DVD.

- Mozart’s Requiem recorded live in Vienna’s Stephansdsom on the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth.

- Solti’s last live recording with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. In what proved to be one of the last concerts before his death, Solti presided over an interpretation that tempers immense power with yearning introspection.

Includes a bonus audio documentary produced by Jon Tolansky with contributions from Angela Gheorghiu, Kiri Te Kanawa, Clemens Hellsberg (former violinist and Chairman of the Wiener Philharmoniker), Dr Michael Haas (former Decca Producer) and Charles Kaye (Director and General Manager of the World Orchestra for Peace), amongst others.

The recordings are accompanied by a 80pp book (En/Fr/De) with new notes by Andrew Stewart.

Two-piece capbox, 80pp booklet, 45CD + 2DVDs, original jackets.