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Sergiu Celibidache - Orchestre Nationale de l'ORTF

Altus  ALTSA-441 (4 discs)

Stereo Single Layer

Classical - Orchestral

Music by Roussel, Brahms, Schoenberg, Schubert, Beethoven, Dvořák, Milhaud, Ravel, Stravinsky, Respighi, Dutilleux, Johann Strauss II, Mozart, Weber, Haydn, Schumann & Prokofiev

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5),
Pierre Fournier (Dvorak Cello Concerto)
Arleen Auger, Gurli Plesner, Adalbert Kraus, Roger Soyer & Chœur de Radio France (Mozart Requiem)
Martha Argerich (Schumann Piano Concerto)
Orchestre Nationale de l'ORTF
Sergiu Celibidache (conductor)

All

Recording

Analogue recording

Works (37)

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Piano No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor'
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
• Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
• Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
• Johannes Brahms: Tragic Overture, Op. 81
• Henri Dutilleux: Métaboles for Orchestra (1985)
• Antonin Dvořák: Concerto for Cello in B minor, B. 191 Op. 104
• Antonin Dvořák: Slavonic Dances for Orchestra, B. 83 Op. 46: No. 1 in C major
• Antonin Dvořák: Slavonic Dances for Orchestra, B. 83 Op. 46: No. 4 in F major
• Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 102 in B flat major, Hob. I:102 (London)
• Darius Milhaud: Saudades do Brasil, Op. 67
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K. 626
• Serge Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - Suite No. 2, Op. 64ter
• Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé - Suite for Orchestra No. 1, M. 57a
• Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé - Suite for Orchestra No. 2, M. 57b
• Maurice Ravel: La valse - Ballet, M. 72
• Maurice Ravel: Ma mère l'oye - Suite for Orchestra, M. 60
• Maurice Ravel: Miroirs arr. for Orchestra, M. 43 No. 4 Alborada del gracioso
• Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales arr. for Orchestra, M. 61
• Ottorino Respighi: Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome) for Orchestra, P 141
• Albert Roussel: Symphony No. 3 in G minor, L. 53 Op. 42
• Arnold Schoenberg: Lieder, Op. 8
• Franz Schubert: Die Zauberharfe/Rosamunde - Overture, D 644
• Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D 485
• Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 7 (8) in B minor, D 759 'Unfinished'
• Robert Schumann: Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 54
• Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61
• Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus
• Johann Strauss II: Figaro - Polka, Op. 320
• Johann Strauss II: G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald - Waltz, Op. 325
• Johann Strauss II: Kaiser - Waltz, Op. 437
• Johann Strauss II: Pizzicato - Polka (with Josef Strauss)
• Igor Stravinsky: Petrouchka - Ballet, K0012
• Igor Stravinsky: Suite for Chamber Orchestra No. 2, K038
• Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz - Overture, J. 277 Op. 77
• Anton Webern: 6 Deutsche Tänze (after Schubert's D. 820)