PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites: Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker, Swan Lake Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ DG Entree / CD - released 1/Nov/2004 ] "Ozawa with his light ballet touch is a natural for this score. He is a superb orchestral technician as well, so he achieves a finely calculated and polished orchestral response. He begins particularly well after a stylish account of the ''Miniature... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: The Ballets: The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty (complete) Boston Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa / Russian National Orchestra / Mikhail Pletnev [Sleeping Beauty] [ DG Collector's Edition / 5 CD - released 6/Dec/2004 ] Squeezed onto just 5 CDs, here are Tchaikovsky three great ballets, complete, and offered at budget for the first time. |
Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Bartok - Divertimento / Wolf - Italian Serenade / Dvorak ” Serenade for Strings [ Philips / CD - released 23/Nov/2000 ] This orchestra is selected from among Japan's finest players |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Grieg: Holberg Suite Martha Argerich (piano), Mito Chamber Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Decca / CD - released 15/May/2020 ] "bubbles over with that ever-youthful sense of improvisation, of molten creativity taking place absolutely in the moment that always characterises this unique pianist's performances." Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 5 'Emperor' Christoph Eschenbach (piano) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa / London Symphony Orchestra, Hans Werner Henze [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2017 ] The seeds were planted in the early 1970s when Deutsche Grammophon realised what amazing results could be achieved by recording the multi-channel tapes, with either four or eight channels. Yet, due to a few restrictions, they never fully blossomed.... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony 7 / Leonore Overture 3 Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Decca / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] "This is Beethoven, refined, elegant, sculptural, exciting at times, but lacking depth. Ozawa creates a billowing cloud of lovely, elegant sound, assiduously sculpting the dynamic range." BBC Music |
Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Beethoven - Symphony No 1, Leonore Overture No.2, op.72 [ Philips / CD - released 22/Jun/2001 ] here are two of Beethoven's most intriguing compositions in a rare coupling |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No.1 In C / Piano Concerto 1 Martha Argerich (piano), Mito Chamber Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Decca / CD - released 2/Jun/2018 ] "Argerich and Ozawa spark off each other, and energy bubbles in the orchestra. As so often with her performances, her phrasing and articulation constantly surprise and illuminate." BBC Music |
Seiji Ozawa
Beethoven: Symphony No5/Egmont [ Telarc / CD - released 17/May/2004 ] |
BEETHOVEN
The Best of Beethoven Seiji Ozawa / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Christoph von Dohnanyi & others [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 14/Jul/2005 ] Excerpts from Beethoven's best known works performed by several of the world's finest recording artists make this a superb compilation release. Critics have raved about this recording, calling the symphonic portions, "impressive throughout for its... |
Rudolf/Seiji Serkin
Beethoven:piano Con No.5/Sym 5 [ Telarc / SACD - released 29/Oct/2001 ] |
ALBAN BERG / IGOR STRAVINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berg/Stravinsky: Violin Concertos Itzhak Perlman (violin) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] "excellent sound: the spacious but not over-resonant acoustic and admirable balance between soloist and orchestra remain exemplary and appealing" Gramophone |
BEETHOVEN / RICHARD STRAUSS / WAGNER / BRUCKNER / MENDELSSOHN / BRUCH / TCHAIKOVSKY / RACHMANINOV
Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic] - Great Recordings Berliner Philharmoniker Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, Seiji Ozawa, Herbert von Karajan, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Lorin Maazel, Gunter Wand, etc [ Sony Music / 8 CD Box Set - released 11/Sep/2015 ] The Berlin Philharmonic is consistently ranked as one of the greatest orchestras in the world. As is fitting such an eminent orchestra, they consistently work with the world's most renowned conductors and soloists. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Complete Symphonies / Lieutenant Kije Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Deutsche Grammophon Collectors Edition / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2007 ] |
SESSIONS / PANUFNIK
Concerto for Orchestra / Eighth Symphony Boston Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Jun/2002 ] 'Not to be missed' (San Francisco Chronicle) |
JANACEK
The Cunning Little Vixen BLU-RAY Isabel Bayrakdarian, Lauren Curnow, Quinn Kelsey, Judith Christin / Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Seiji Ozawa / Laurent Pelly (director) [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Jan/2014 ] Based on an illustrated tale published as a newspaper serial, this fanciful opera is one of Janácek´s true masterworks - at once charming, frightening, tragic and, in the end, life-affirming. The Cunning Little Vixen has been seldom staged in Italy,... |
JANACEK
The Cunning Little Vixen Isabel Bayrakdarian, Lauren Curnow, Quinn Kelsey, Judith Christin / Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Seiji Ozawa / Laurent Pelly (director) [ Arthaus DVD / DVD - released 15/Jan/2014 ] The cast of unbelievable 13 soloists is lead on by the Armenian/Canadian soprano star Isabel Bayrakdarian as a sensual Bystrouška (vixen) and American Quinn Kelsey as the brash yet reflective Gamekeeper. |
TCHEREPNIN / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / STRAVINSKY / SATIE / PROKOFIEV / BALAKIREV / etc
Diaghilev - Ballets Russes Pierre Boulez, André Cluytens, Igor Markevitch, Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, Sir Simon Rattle, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Jean Martinon, Charles Dutoit, et [ Warner Classics / 22 CD Box Set - released 11/Mar/2022 ] The Ballets russes was founded in Paris in 1909 by the visionary impresario Serge Diaghilev. Innovative and flamboyant, he had a genius for bringing together the most brilliant composers, dancers, choreographers and designers. |
Seiji
DJ Tools [ Sonar Kollektiv / CD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] "The production is as tight as ever & his creative approach… is, frankly, second to none. Smoked delays, super fat bass & square synths all in one pot! Will guarantee to give 'nuff trouble to the best sound systems out there!"-Blues and Soul. |
DVORAK
Dvorak: Cello Concerto (with Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme) Mstislav Rostropovich, cello / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Warner Classics The Erato Story / CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] Now reissued at a special price |