Various - Norrington Conducts Berlioz - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In November 1949, at the age of eight, Idil Biret entered the studios of ORTF (Radiodiffusion Television Francaise) in Paris and made her first recordings; these were works by Couperin, Bach, Beethoven and Debussy. In the following decades she made nearly 100 LPs and CDs, released on ten record labels (Pretoria, Vega, Decca, Atlantic/Finnadar, Pantheon, EMI, Naxos, Marco Polo, Alpha, BMP) and many recordings for radio and television stations around the world. These included the complete piano works of Brahms, Chopin and Rachmaninoff as well as the Sonatas of Boulez and the Etudes of Ligeti. The Idil Biret Archive (IBA) is now bringing together her past and present recording; as the copyrights are obtained, old recordings no longer available commercially are being released together with her new recordings. The transcriptions by Liszt of Beethoven's Symphonies, originally recorded for EMI, and the newly recorded 32 Sonatas and all the Piano Concertos of Beethoven were released by IBA and also made available in a box set. All the Piano Concertos of Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Grieg and the nine LPs recorded for Atlantic/Finnadar in New York which include works by Boulez, Webern, Berg, Ravel and Stravinsky were also released. Among the recent new releases are Liszt's Etudes and the piano transcription of Berlioz's Harold en Italie, Schumann's Carnaval, Fantasie and other works, all five Piano Concertos of Hindemith and, in the Archive Edition, the early LPs made in France for Pretoria (Schumann, Brahms), Vega (Bartok, Prokofiev, Brahms, Beethoven) and Decca (Rachmaninoff). IBA is distributed worldwide by Naxos. Album Tracks 1. Djinns 2. Variations symphoniques 3. Prélude, Choral et Fugue~Prélude 4. Prélude, Choral et Fugue~Choral 5. Prélude, Choral et Fugue~Fugue 6. Prélude, Aria et Final~Prélude 7. Prélude, Aria et Final~Aria 8. Prélude, Aria et

Album Tracks 1. Les Troyens, Opera, H. 133A Royal Hunt & Storm 2. Les Troyens, Opera, H. 133A Egygtian Dancing Girls (Ballet Music) 3. Les Troyens, Opera, H. 133A Slaves' Dance (Ballet Music) 4. Les Troyens, Opera, H. 133A Nubian Slave Girls (Ballet Music) 5. Les Troyens, Opera, H. 133A Trojan March (Ballet Music) 6. King Lear Overture (Grande Ouverture Du Roi Lear), for Orchestra, H. 53 (Op. 4) 7. La Damnation de Faust, for Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, Bass, Chorus and Orchestra, ('Lã©Gende Dramatique') H. 111 (Op. 24) Hungar 8. La Damnation de Faust, for Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, Bass, Chorus and Orchestra, ('Légende Dramatique') H. 111 (Op. 24) Dance 9. La Damnation de Faust, for Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, Bass, Chorus and Orchestra, ('Légende Dramatique') H. 111 (Op. 24) Minuet 10. Rapsodie Norvã©Gienne, for Orchestra 1. Pellã©As Et Mã©Lisande, Incidental Music and Suite for Orchestra, Op. 80 No. 1, Prelude 2. Pellã©As Et Mã©Lisande, Incidental Music and Suite for Orchestra, Op. 80 No. 2, Fileuse 3. Pellã©As Et Mã©Lisande, Incidental Music and Suite for Orchestra, Op. 80 No. 3, Sicilienne 4. Pellã©As Et Mã©Lisande, Incidental Music and Suite for Orchestra, Op. 80 No. 4, la Mort de Melisande 5. Suite No.2 for Orchestra ('SCÃ.Nes Hongroises') No. 1, Entree en Forme de Danse 6. Suite No.2 for Orchestra ('SCÃ.Nes Hongroises') No. 2, Intermede 7. Suite No.2 for Orchestra ('SCÃ.Nes Hongroises') No. 3, Adieux a la Fiancee 8. Suite No.2 for Orchestra ('SCÃ.Nes Hongroises') No. 4, Cortege; Benediction Nuptiale; Sortie de L'eglise 9. Le Roi Malgrã© Lui, Opã©Ra-Comique in 3 Acts Fãªte Polonaise 10. Suite for Violin & Orchestra Movement 1 11. Suite for Violin & Orchestra Movement 2 12. Suite for Violin & Orchestra Movement 3 13. Suite for Violin & Orchestra Movement 4 14

This album contains the symphonic suite InchScheherazadeInch by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and the short composition InchThe Enchanted LakeInch by his student Anatoly Lyadov. In 1887-88, after the sudden death of his brilliant friend Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov composed those three orchestral works which crowned his Russian national period and has made his name a permanent part of the worldwide concert repertoire the InchCapriccio espagnoInchl, the symphonic suite InchScheherazadeInch, and the concert overture InchLa Grande Pâque RusseInch. With Scheherazade Rimsky-Korsakov did not tell a story, he rather set individual, unconnected episodes and images to music. Anatoly Lyadov has a reputation of being lazy - based solely on Rimsky-Korsakov's opinion of him - yet his ambition was for every piece of music he created to be flawless. One consequence of this was that his entire œuvre consists entirely of miniatures. The InchEnchanted LakeInch does not tell a story but is purely impressionistic music about a Russian forest lake, on a level with Ravel and Debussy. Conductor Dmitri Kitayenko conducted various orchestras in Moscow, became chief conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic in 1976, and took over the Symphony Orchestra of the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt am Main in 1990-96. He went on to hold principal positions with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul and finally, in addition to his worldwide activities as a guest conductor, was appointed Honorary Conductor of the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne. Album Tracks 1. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship [11 29] 2. II. the Kalender Prince [14 01] 3. III. the Young Prince and the Young Princess [12 11] 4. IV. Festival at Baghdad - the Sea - the Ship Breaks Against a Cliff Surmounted By a Bronze Horseman [13 50] 5. Volshebnoye Ozero (The Enchanted Lake), Op. 62