Paavo Berglund - The Warner Edition - Complete EMI Classics and Finlandia Recordings

Paavo Berglund - The Warner Edition - Complete EMI Classics and Finlandia Recordings

5054197661501 (Warner Classics, CD, 42 discs)

COMPILATION (19 January 2024)
Booklet pages: 28
℗ 2024 Parlophone Records Ltd
© 2024 Parlophone Records Ltd
Main country of recording: United Kingdom
Country of manufacture: Germany
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Paavo Berglund - The Warner Edition - Complete EMI Classics and Finlandia Recordings published on 19 February 2024


Listen: Sibelius: Nocturne (Suite from King Christian II) (CD19 track 5, 0:00-0:56)

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (CDs 1, 3-5, 7-9. 11-26, 39 and 41-42)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra (CDs 28-33)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe (CDs 34-37)
London Philharmonic Orchestra (CD 2)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (CD 10)
New Philharmonia Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra (CDs 6 and 27)
Staatskapelle Dresden (CDs 38-39)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (CD 40)
Paavo Berglund, conductor

CD1 Bliss: Cello Concerto; Miracle in the Gorbals

CD2 Brahms

CD3 Britten and Walton Violin Concertos

CD4 Franck: Symphony in D [minor]; Variations symphoniques

CD5 Glazunov: Piano Concerto; Yardumian: Passacaglia, Recitative and Fugue (Piano Concerto)

CD6 Grieg and Schumann Piano Concertos

CD7-8 Grieg: Peer Gynt suites; Symphonic Dances; Old Norwegian Romance with variations; Alfvén: Swedish Rhapsody No 1; Elegy; Järnefelt: Praeludium

CD9 Nielsen: Symphony No 5

CD10 Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3

CD11 Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel; Prokofiev: Summer Night

CD12-16 Shostakovich: Symphonies 5, 6, 7, 10 & 11; Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings; Piano Concerto No 2

CD17-26 Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (1st version); Kullervo; Our Native Land; The Origin of Fire; The Oceanides; Finlandia

CD27 Sibelius: Finlandia; Tapiola; The Swan of Tuonela; Valse triste

CD28-33 Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (2nd version); Kullervo; Our Native Land; The Origin of Fire; The Oceanides; Finlandia

CD34-37 Symphonies 1-7 (3rd version)

CD38 Smetana: Má Vlast

CD39 Dvořák: Scherzo Capriccioso; Slavonic Rhapsody in A flat; Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 6; Oboe Concerto

CD40 Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4; The Lark Ascending

CD41 Walton: Cello Concerto; Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1

CD42 Entry of the Boyars; Other orchestral showpieces

Finnish conductor Paavo Berglund (1929-2012) was renowned for his interpretations of Sibelius, and recorded his complete symphonies no less than three times, with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. This forty-two CD box set includes his interpretations of music by Hugo Alfvén, Arthur Bliss, Johannes Brahms, Benjamin Britten, Ole Bull, Antonín Dvořák, César Franck, Alexander Glazunov, Mikhail Glinka, Edvard Grieg, Johan Halvorsen, Edvard Armas Järnefelt, Carl Nielsen, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, M Schalaster, Robert Schumann, Dmitri Shostakovich, Jean Sibelius, Bedřich Smetana, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton and Richard Yardumian, recorded from 1970-1997.