Presto CD,
Presto CD - Mercury Living Presence
24 titles just released, from the mid-twentieth-century, including Respighi, Prokofiev, Kodály and Bártok from Antal Doráti and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, lollipops from Frederick Fennell and the Eastman-Rochester “Pops” Orchestra, and early recordings of works by American composers including Morton Gould, Howard Hanson and Alan Hovhaness.
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The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Hungarica under Antal Doráti are joined by Toni Koves on cimbalom for folk-inspired works by Kodály and Bártok.
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Antal Doráti conducts the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra in favourite Respighi works, including The Pines of Rome.
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János Starker joins the London Symphony Orchestra under Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Antal Doráti in cello concertos by Schumann, Lalo and Saint-Saëns.
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Frederick Fennell and the Eastman-Rochester “Pops” Orchestra play Leroy Anderson favourites, including Fiddle-Faddle, Jazz Pizzicato and Sleigh Ride.
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Howard Hanson leads the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra in orchestral suites by Morton Gould (Medea) and Samuel Barber (Fall River Legend).
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Gina Bachauer is the soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Fourth and Fifth Piano Concertos.
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Marcel Dupré is the soloist in the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony. Also includes Paul Paray’s Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc, with the Rackham Symphony Choir and soloists Frances Yeend, Frances Bible, David Lloyd & Yi-Kwei-Sze.
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Antal Doráti conducts the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra in Prokofiev Symphony No. 5. Also including the Scythian Suite and the Suite from The Love for Three Oranges.
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János Starker plays the Bach Cello Suites. Also includes the Sonatas in G major and D major, with György Sebok at the piano.
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Howard Hanson conducts his own Symphony No. 3, along with his Elegy Op. 44 and The Lament for Beowulf, with the Eastman Rochester Orchestra and the Eastman School of Music Chorus.
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Paul Paray conducts the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in works including Chabrier's España, Suite Pastorale and Danse Slave, and Roussel's Suite in F minor.
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Antal Doráti conducts the Philharmonia Hungarica in Respighi’s Ancient Airs and Dances.
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Antal Doráti conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Dvorak’s Seventh and Eight Symphonies.
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Howard Hanson conducts the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra in Adventures in a Perambulator, The Pageant of P.T. Barnum, Selections from McGuffey's Reader and Once Upon a Time.
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The Eastman Wind Ensemble under Frederick Fennell and A. Clyde Roller perform Morton Gould's Symphony No. 4 ‘West Point’, Vittorio Giannini's Symphony No. 3 for Winds and Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No. 4.
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Antal Doráti conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in the Brahms Hungarian Dances and Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody. Also includes the Variations on a Theme of Haydn.
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Frederick Fennell conducts the London “Pops” and Eastman-Rochester “Pops” Orchestras in works by Percy Grainger and Eric Coates, including Country Gardens, Shepherd's Hey, Handel in the Strand and Molly on the Shore.
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Henryk Szeryng is the soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra in the Schumann and Mendelssohn violin concertos, as well as encore pieces by composers such as Debussy, Brahms and Nováček, with Charles Reiner at the piano.
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János Starker and György Sebök perform works for cello and piano by Chopin, Mendelssohn, Martinu, Debussy, Bartok and Weiner.
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Gina Bachauer is joined by Sir John Gielgud for Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit, with a reading of Christopher Fry’s translation of the poems by Aloysius Bertrand. Also includes solo piano works by Debussy and Stravinsky.
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Rafael Puyana plays assorted works for harpsichord from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including John Bull’s The King’s Hunt and William Byrd’s La Volta.
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Anatole Fistoulari conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a complete performance of Giselle by Adolphe Adam. Also includes Antal Doráti and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra in J Strauss II’s Graduation Ball and Offenbach’s Gaîté Parisienne.
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Howard Hanson conducts his own music, including For the First Time and the Piano Concerto. He also narrates a discussion of the process of composing three of the four compositions on this disc.
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Antal Doráti conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 and the Prince Igor Overture by Borodin, and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini.
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