Seiji Ozawa: The Complete RCA Recordings

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Release Date: 21st Apr 2017
Catalogue No: 88985392102
Label: RCA
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1, BB 91, Sz. 83

Work length26:26

$3.90

$5.10

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Peter Serkin (piano)
Seiji Ozawa

I. Allegro moderato - Allegro

Track length9:47

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II. Andante - attacca

Track length9:20

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III. Allegro molto

Track length7:19

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Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3, BB 127, Sz. 119

Work length25:48

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Peter Serkin (piano)
Seiji Ozawa

I. Allegretto

Track length7:14

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II. Adagio religioso

Track length11:36

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III. Allegro vivace

Track length6:58

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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Work length30:15

$19.50

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa

Promenade I

Track length1:36

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Gnomus

Track length2:17

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Promenade II

Track length1:01

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Le vieux château

Track length4:03

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Promenade III

Track length0:34

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Les tuileries

Track length1:07

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Bydlo

Track length2:27

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Promenade IV

Track length0:47

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Ballet des poussin dans leurs coques

Track length1:11

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Samuel Goldenberg et Schmuyle

Track length2:16

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Le marché de limoges

Track length1:27

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Catacombes

Track length1:37

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Con mortuis in lingua mortua

Track length1:48

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La cabane sur des pattes de poule

Track length3:19

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La grande porte de kiev

Track length4:45

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Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34

Work length17:08

$26.00

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa

Theme: Full Orchestra

Track length0:28

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Theme: Woodwinds

Track length0:25

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Theme: Brass

Track length0:20

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Theme: Strings

Track length0:20

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Theme: Percussion

Track length0:17

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Theme: Full Orchestra (Reprise)

Track length0:22

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Variation I: Flute, Piccolo (Presto)

Track length0:36

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Variation II: Oboes (Lento)

Track length0:57

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Variation III: Clarinets (Moderato)

Track length0:38

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Variation IV: Bassoons (Allegro alla marcia)

Track length0:53

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Variation V: Violins (Brilliante alla pollaca)

Track length0:37

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Variation VI: Violas (Meno mosso)

Track length0:58

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Variation VII: Cellos

Track length1:04

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Variation VIII: Doublebasses (Comminciando lento, ma poco accel.)

Track length1:08

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Variation IX: Harp (Maestoso)

Track length0:52

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Variation X: French Horns (Il stesso tempo)

Track length0:51

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Variation XI: Trumpets (Vivace)

Track length0:30

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Variation XII: Trombones & Tuba (Allegro pomposo)

Track length1:06

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Variation XIII: Percussion (Moderato)

Track length1:49

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Fugue: Full Orchestra (Allegro molto)

Track length2:57

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Stravinsky: Fireworks, Op. 4

Work length3:32

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Work length32:39

$18.20

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa

Introduction

Track length3:09

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Harbingers of Spring (Dances of the Young Girls and Boys)

Track length3:09

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Mock Abduction

Track length1:22

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Spring Rounds

Track length3:33

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Games of the Rival Tribes

Track length1:48

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Procession of the Wise Elder

Track length0:40

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Adoration of the Earth (Wise Elder)

Track length0:20

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Dance of the Earth

Track length1:06

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Introduction

Track length4:27

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Mystic Circles of the Young Girls

Track length3:15

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Glorification of the Chosen One

Track length1:25

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Summoning of the Ancients

Track length0:53

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Ritual of the Ancients

Track length3:30

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Sacrificial Dance (Chosen One)

Track length4:02

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Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, Op. 42

Work length23:58

$5.20

$6.80

Peter Serkin (piano), Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa

I. Andante

Track length5:54

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II. Molto allegro

Track length2:47

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III. Adagio

Track length8:24

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IV. Giocoso (moderato)

Track length6:53

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Schoenberg: Klavierstücke (5), Op. 23

Work length14:11

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Peter Serkin (piano)

Nr. 1: Sehr langsam (1920)

Track length3:09

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Nr. 2: Sehr rasch (1920)

Track length1:27

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Nr. 3: Langsam (1923)

Track length4:58

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Nr. 4: Schwungvoll (1920 / 1923)

Track length1:40

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Nr. 5: Walzer (1923)

Track length2:57

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Schoenberg: Phantasy for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, Op. 47

Work length9:51

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Arnold Steinhardt (violin), Peter Serkin (piano)

Grave - Più mosso - Meno mosso - Lento - Grazioso - Tempo I - Più mosso

Track length6:53

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Scherzando - Poco tranquillo - Scherzando - Meno mosso - Tempo I

Track length2:58

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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

Work length44:18

Album only

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa

I. Andante - Allegro con anima

Track length14:06

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II. Andante cantabile con alcuna licenza

Track length12:20

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III. Valse. Allegro moderato

Track length5:54

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IV. Finale. Andante maestoso - Allegro vivace

Track length11:58

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Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain

Work length10:50

Album only

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Work length31:51

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa

I. Allegro con brio

Track length7:25

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II. Andante con moto

Track length10:36

Album only

III. Allegro

Track length5:18

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IV. Allegro

Track length8:32

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Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'

Work length23:07

Album only

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa

I. Allegro moderato

Track length12:10

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II. Andante con moto

Track length10:57

Album only

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He is “one of those rarities, a natural conductor”, exclaimed one reviewer after Seiji Ozawa’s Chicago Symphony debut on July 16, 1963 at the orchestra’s Ravinia Festival. “His technical facility is phenomenal, his sense of rhythm both solid and subtle, and his knowledge of scores… detailed and intimate.” Another Chicago critic concurred: “His conducting technique reminds you of his teacher, Herbert von Karajan, in that it lays the score in the lap of the orchestra with transparency of gesture and human communication, then commands acceptance.” At the end of the season, the 27-year-old podium sensation was appointed the festival’s first-ever music director, and in the years that followed Ozawa also became a regular CSO guest at Orchestra Hall, its downtown home.

Between 1965 and 1968, he and the orchestra made a series of remarkable albums for RCA. Collected here for the first time in a single box of 6 CDs, they represent an early high-point – perhaps unsurpassed – in the Japanese maestro’s long and distinguished recording career. Featured among these dynamic Ozawa/Chicago performances are three cornerstones of the symphonic repertoire: the Beethoven and Tchaikovsky Fifth Symphonies and the Schubert “Unfinished”, all remastered from the original analogue tapes for this edition.

“The Chicago Symphony is one of the greatest orchestras I have ever conducted, and I have had no greater glory in music than I have experienced here.” With those words, Seiji Ozawa singled out the significance of his Ravinia tenure and ensuing collaboration with the CSO.

Seiji Ozawa: The Complete RCA Recordings

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