Various Artists - Decca Wiener Philharmoniker: The Orchestral Edition

Limited edition, numbered 180-gram six LP set

Original LP front and back covers

Luxury gold-wrap lift-off LP box

Full-colour booklet in English (English, German and Japanese) including full recording information, articles by Silvia Kargl of the Wiener Philharmoniker History Archive and by long-term Decca producers Christopher Raeburn, Erik Smith and John Culshaw. With Forewords from Paul Moseley, managing director of Decca and Clemens Hellsberg, Vorstand Wiener Philharmoniker

Lacquers cut by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios

This unique limited-edition LP set features six outstanding Decca/Vienna Philharmonic recordings, newly presented in luxury 180-gram vinyl pressings, celebrating one of the great relationships of recorded classical music in the 20th century.

Featuring the Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic), Richard Wagner (Composer), Gustav Theodore Holst (Composer), Anton Bruckner (Composer), Franz Peter Schubert (Composer), Sir Georg Solti (Conductor), Herbert von Karajan (Conductor), Zubin Mehta (Conductor), Karl Münchinger (Conductor), Willi Boskovsky (Conductor), Pilar Lorengar (Conductor) and George Szelll (Conductor).

LP 1

Wagner: Overtures

Side 1

Overture (Rienzi)

Overture (Der filiegende Hollander)

Side 2

Overture (Tannhauser)

Bacchanale (Tannhauser/Act 1)

LP 2

Sir Georg Solti

Holst: The Planets

Side 1

I. Mars, the Bringer of War

II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace

III. Mercury, the Winged Messenger

IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

Side 2

V. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age

VI. Uranus, the Magician

VII. Neptune, the Mystic

LP 3

Herbert von Karajan

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

Side 1

I. Feierlich. Misterioso

II. Scherzo (Bewegt lebhaft) – Trio (Schnell) – Scherzo da capo

Side 2

III. Adagio (Langsam, feierlich)

LP 4

Zubin Mehta

Schubert: Rosamunde

Side 1

Overture

Entr’acte No.1

Ballet Music No.1 – Andante un poco assai

Entr’acte No.2

Side 2

Romance: “Der Vollmond strahlt auf Bergeshoh’n”

Chorus Of Spirits: “In der Tiefe wohnt das Licht”

Entr’acte No.3 – Andantino

Shepherd’s Melody

Chorus Of Shepherds: “Hier auf den Fluren…”

Chorus Of Huntsmen: “Wie lebt sich’s so frohlich im Grunen”

Ballet Music No.2

LP 5

Karl Munchinger

Overtures of Old Vienna

Side 1

Overture (J. Strauss II: Die Fledermaus)

Overture (Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor)

Side 2

Overture (Von Reznicek: Donna Diana)

Overture (J. Strauss II: Prinz Methusalem)

Overture (Heuberger: Der Opernball)

LP 6

Willi Boskovsky

Beethoven: Egmont

Side 1

Overture

I. Lied: “Die Trommel geruhret”

II. Zwischenakt: Andante

III. Zwischenakt: Larghetto

Side 2

IV. Lied: “Freudvoll und leidvoll”

V. Zwischenakt: Allegro – Marcia

VI. Zwischenakt: Poco sostenuto e risoluto

VII. Melodram: Suber Schlaf du kommst wie ein

IX. Siegessymphonie: Allegro con brio

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