SPONSORED: CD Spotlight. A Very Joyous Disc - Brahms arranged by Kenneth Woods impresses Alice McVeigh
All sponsored features >>
RECENT: Find out about composers from unusual places, including Gerard Schurmann, Giya Kancheli, Nazib Zhiganov and Nodar Gabunia, about singing in cars, and meet Jim Hutton from the RLPO and some of our regular contributors in this 80-minute February 2021 video
FEEDBACK: She said WHAT? Read what people think about our Classical Music Daily features, and have your say!
George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra - The Forgotten Recordings
ARIADNE 5011-2 (SOMM Recordings, CD, 2 discs)
AAD
mono/stereo
DIGITALLY REMASTERED (12 February 2021)
Playing time: 69'44"/73'13" - TT 142'57"
Tracks: 11 + 22
Booklet pages: 20
℗ 2021 SOMM Recordings
© 2021 SOMM Recordings
Main country of recording: United States of America
Country of manufacture: European Union
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra - The Forgotten Recordings published on 14 February 2021
Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell, conductor
CD1
Johann Sebastian Bach:
1-5 Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV 1068 (first release on CD)
Bedřich Smetana:
6 The Moldau (Vltava) (Má Vlast) (first release on CD)
Richard Strauss:
7 Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (first release on CD)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
8-11 Symphony No 39 in E flat, K 543 (first release on CD)
CD2
Johannes Brahms:
1 Academic Festival Overture, Op 80 (first release on CD)
2-11 Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op 56a
Robert Schumann:
12-15 Symphony No 4 in D minor, Op 120 (first release on CD)
Igor Stravinsky:
16-22 The Firebird (1919 version) (first release on CD)
Recorded 24 December 1954 (CD1 tracks 1-7, mono), 19-21 October 1955 (CD1 tracks 8-11 and CD2, stereo) in the Masonic Auditorium, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.