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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. |
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition / A Night on Bare Mountain (with Britten - Young Person's guide to the Orchestra) Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa (conductor) [ Sony / RCA Originals / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "Though you clearly have a superlative orchestra showing off its virtuosity, the distinctive point of this reading is that Ozawa never forces the pace or underlines unnecessarily...an excellent version still competitive with the best... |
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.... |
CARL ORFF
Carmina Burana Evelyn Mandac, Stanley Kolk, Sherrill Milnes / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Sony / RCA Originals / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "I would urge the mid-price RCA version by Ozawa every time...polished and incisive with Sherrill Milnes as a magnificent baritone soloist." (Gramophone) |
BARTOK / FAURE / RESPIGHI / MAHLER / PROKOFIEV / etc
Ozawa & The Boston Symphony Orchestra Gidon Kremer (violin) Simon Preston (organ) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Deutsche Grammophon Conductors & Orchestras / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2018 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950 on the Bartok) "Both concertos receive performances of strong personality and an impressive eloquence-and, it goes without saying, altogether impeccable technique… Recommended.'"... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Boston Symphony Orchestra: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, Andre Previn, Claudio Abbado. William Steinberg, Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Bernstein, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon Conductors & Orchestras / 57 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2019 ] The BSO's 1969-70 season was a landmark year for the orchestra with the arrival of distinguished conductor William Steinberg and the start of their recording legacy with DG. The label immediately reinforced its commitment to the BSO. |
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. |
HENRYK WIENIAWSKI
Wieniawski: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Itzhak Perlman (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Warner Classics Itzhak Perlman Edition / CD - released 20/Feb/2019 ] Henryk Wieniawski's concertos offer a distinctively Slavonic take on Paganini's virtuosic innovations. One of the most important violinists of the nineteenth century, he was born in Poland and travelled widely, but became especially influential in... |
VIVALDI
The Four Seasons Joseph Silverstein (violin) / Boston Symphony / Seiji Ozawa [ Telarc SACD / SACD - released 26/Mar/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format - PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM. |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem op. 48 / Pavane op. 50 / Elegie for Cello and Orchestra / etc Kathleen Battle / Andreas Schmidt / Jules Eskin / Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Carlo Maria Giulini / Seiji Ozawa [ Deutsche Grammophon Entree / CD - released 6/Oct/2003 ] "This most peaceful and accepting of all Requiems finds its ideal benefactor in Carlo Maria Giulini, whose characteristically unhurried approach precisely captures the work's calming essence." (Amazon.com) |
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LISZT
The Liszt Recordings [2 CD set] Krystian Zimerman (piano), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 19/Sep/2011 ] "Coinciding with the death of his mother and the birth of his daughter, these recordings were intensely personal for Zimerman. The Concertos are scintillating, the Sonata Olympian." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
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BACH / BARTOK / BERLIOZ / MAHLER / POULENC / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
Seiji Ozawa Anniversary [11 CD Boxed set special price] Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Saito Kinen Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Seiji Ozawa, with Kiri te Kanawa & Marilyn Horne [ Decca Bargain Boxes / 11 CD Box Set - released 5/May/2011 ] This new 11-CD set presents Seiji Ozawa in a wide variety of symphonic repertory with the orchestra's with which he has been most closely associated since the early 1970s |
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 |
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PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame [Queen of Spades] (Complete Opera recorded in 1991) Vladimir Atlantov, Maureen Forrester, Mirella Freni & Sergei Leiferkus / Tanglewood Festival Chorus & Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Sony Opera House / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "This 1991 recording was made during carefully prepared live performances in the Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall under Ozawa. The cast is interesting: the new young Russian star Hvorostovsky, established Russian singers Leiferkus and Atlantov, the... |
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 |
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. |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5 Emperor / Symphony No. 5 in C minor Op. 67 Rudolf Serkin (piano) / Boston Symphony Orchestra. Seiji Ozawa [ Telarc SACD / SACD - released 25/Mar/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in stereo direct stream sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - the original Soundstream master of that great recording, coupled with Ozawa and the BSO performing the Beethoven Fifth Symphony, has been... |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 & No 3 Rudolf Serkin (piano) / Boston Symphony. Seiji Ozawa [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2005 ] "These recordings deserve to do very well. Telarc are to be thanked for making them available once again in a superb acoustic and in first class digital sound." (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5 Emperor Rudolf Serkin (piano) / Boston Symphony. Seiji Ozawa [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 23/Feb/2005 ] "Ozawa and Serkin have turned in one of the most satisfying musical performances in Telarc's catalog...The recording is also one of Telarc's best..." -- Stereophile |
