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Offer,Sir Georg Solti

The First Recordings as Pianist and Conductor 1947-1958

Georg Kulenkampff (violin), Georg Solti (piano), Mischa Elman (violin), Christel Goltz (Elektra), Elisabeth Höngen (Klytaemnestra), Ferdinand Frantz (Orest)

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Release Date: 22nd Mar 2003
Catalogue No: 4731272
Label: Decca
Series: Original Masters
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

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Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78

Work length25:48

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Georg Kulenkampff (violin), Sir Georg Solti (piano)
Recorded: 1947-01-28
Recording Venue: Radio Zürich

1. Vivace ma non troppo

Track length10:17

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2. Adagio

Track length7:34

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3. Allegro molto moderato

Track length7:57

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Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100

Work length19:09

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Georg Kulenkampff (violin), Sir Georg Solti (piano)
Recorded: 1948-07
Recording Venue: Radio Zürich

1. Allegro amabile

Track length7:59

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2. Andante tranquillo - Vivace - Andante - Vivace di più - Andante vivace

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3. Allegretto grazioso, quasi andante

Track length5:23

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Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108

Work length20:30

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Georg Kulenkampff (violin), Sir Georg Solti (piano)
Recorded: 1948-07
Recording Venue: Radio Zürich

1. Allegro

Track length7:19

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2. Adagio

Track length4:33

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3. Un poco presto e con sentimento

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4. Presto agitato

Track length5:28

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Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer'

Work length29:24

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Georg Kulenkampff (violin), Sir Georg Solti (piano)
Recorded: 1947-06-23
Recording Venue: Zurich Radio Studio, Zurich

1. Adagio sostenuto - Presto

Track length10:42

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2. Andante con variazioni

Track length12:17

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3. Finale. Presto

Track length6:25

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Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61

Work length46:42

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Mischa Elman (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti
Recorded: 1955-04-25
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

1. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length25:42

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2. Larghetto -

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3. Rondo. Allegro

Track length10:50

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Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D485

Work length24:03

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Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti
Recorded: 1958-05
Recording Venue: Frederic R. Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv

1. Allegro

Track length4:58

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2. Andante con moto

Track length9:30

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3. Menuetto (Allegro molto)

Track length4:24

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4. Allegro vivace

Track length5:11

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Bartók: Dance Suite, BB 86, Sz. 77

Work length15:44

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London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti
Recorded: 1952-11-12
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

1. Moderato

Track length3:36

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2. Allegro molto

Track length2:04

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3. Allegro vivace

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4. Molto tranquillo

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5. Comodo

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6. Finale (Allegro)

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Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, BB 114, Sz. 106

Work length27:57

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London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti
Recorded: 1955-02-23
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

1. Andante tranquillo

Track length6:54

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2. Allegro

Track length7:29

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3. Adagio

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4. Allegro molto

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Kodály: Háry János Suite

Work length22:16

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Philipp Haas (viola)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Sir Georg Solti
Recorded: 1949-05
Recording Venue: Prinzregententheater, Munich

Prelude; the fairy tale begins

Track length3:57

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Viennese musical clock

Track length2:17

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Song

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The battle and defeat of Napoleon

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Intermezzo

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Entrance of the emperor and his court

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Excerpt, Strauss, R: Elektra

Work length45:14

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Christel Goltz (soprano), Ferdinand Frantz (bass-baritone), Elisabeth Höngen (mezzo-soprano)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Sir Georg Solti
Recorded: 1952-08
Recording Venue: Amerikahaus, Theatersaal, Munich

"Allein! Weh, ganz allein."

Track length8:40

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"Ich will nichts hören!"

Track length16:24

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"Was willst du, fremder Mensch?"

Track length20:10

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When Sir Georg Solti died in September 1997, a month before his 85th birthday, he had been an exclusive Decca artist for 50 years.

During this incredible exclusive association (rivalled only by Isaac Stern who enjoyed an equally long exclusive association with CBS/Sony) Solti made some of the legendary recordings in the history of the gramophone — not least his acclaimed recording and the first-ever studio recording of Wagner's Ring (recorded in Vienna 1958–65). What is sometimes forgotten is that when Solti first signed to Decca in 1947 it was as a pianist and his first recordings were as partner to violinist Georg Kulenkampff. (All of their recordings are included here with the exception of one Mozart sonata.)

Solti was a musician of broad sympathies who, during his long career, continued to explore repertory that was new to him (a notable example is his “discovery” of Shostakovich during the last years of his life), but at the same time there were several composers whom he felt a particularly affinity with and he performed, recorded and re-recorded them during his career. Those composers include Bartók and Kodály (both of whom had also been his teachers during his student days in Budapest), Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert and Richard Strauss. All of the recordings included here are receiving their first international CD release and the recordings of Kodály and Richard Strauss are released with the co-operation of Deutsche Grammophon.

The three excerpts from Elektra (amounting to nearly half the complete opera) are particularly fascinating as this was an opera Solti conducted throughout his career and which he later recorded in its entirety in Vienna in the 1960s with the incomparable Birgit Nilsson in the title role. Even in this group of three scenes all the essential Solti characteristics are in evidence: tremendous rhythmic drive and an accute ear for orchestral colour and detail.

Offer,Sir Georg Solti

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