VA - Mercury Living Presence vol.3 (53CD BOX SET) (2015)

Artist: VA
Title Of Album: Mercury Living Presence vol.3
Year Of Release: 2015
Label (Catalog#): Decca
Country: German
Genre: Classical > Orchestral, Concertos & Symphonies
Quality: APE (*image+.cue+.log,scans)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 53 CD
Full Size: 16,2 Gb

OVERVIEW
This landmark release marks the point at which the entire Mercury Living Presence catalogue, as remastered by original recording producers in the 1990s, is available in physical form. Decca are also proud to present, in this concluding cube, no fewer than 10 albums that have never before been on CD, restored and remastered from fragile tapes, to allow the fullest possible ever appreciation of a landmark label in the history of classical recorded music. Furthermore, the booklet is a model of its kind, setting out in the fullest possible detail everything about the recording, from the engineers and producers to the microphones, tapes, dates and locations.

NEVER BEFORE ON CD…
Working with Wilma Cozart Fine’s son, Thomas Fine, and Andrew Walter at London’s Abbey Road Studios, Decca proudly present 10 new albums, never before on CD, restored from the original tapes, restored and remastered. This has involved the application of new technology combined with delicate handling of these fragile tapes, some untouched since original release in the late 1950s, to secure the best possible sound. The results are remarkable and beyond all expectation, due in part to new processes which can eliminate the mechanical distortion, wow and flutter and smearing inherent in the recording techniques of the 1950s without destroying the original, bright, clear sound which made the label so famous. The ten albums are:

-CD15: Frederick Fennell conducts Victor Herbert [NEW TO CD]
-CD38: Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes; Britten: The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra [Mono recording]
-CD39: Copland: Symphony No.3 [Mono recording]
-CD40: Respighi: Church Windows; Roman Festivals [Mono recording]
-CD43: Beethoven: Symphony No.3 in E Flat - "Eroica"
-CD48: World Of Flamenco
-CD49: Baroque Concertos For Recorders & Strings
-CD50: Hindemith: Symphony in B Flat; Schoenberg: Theme & Variations; Stravinsky: Symphonies for Wind
-CD52: Tchaikovsky: Overture 1812; Capriccio Italien [Mono recording]
-CD53: Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 4 & 8

Contents:

CD1: Brahms Symphonies 1&3
London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti
CD2: Brahms Symphonies 2&4*
Minnesota Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti
*London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti

CD3: Wiener Walzer Paprika
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Philharmonia Hungarica, Antal Dor?ti

CD4: Handel-Harty: Water Music Suite; Music For The Royal Fireworks; Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti
Festival Chamber Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti

CD5: Mendelssohn: Symphony No.3 – “Scottish” & Symphony No.4 – “Italian”; Fingal’s Cave Overture
London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

CD6: Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Sibelius: Valse Triste; Liszt: Les Pr?ludes;
Smetana: The Moldau
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti, Rafael Druian
London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti

CD7: Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol; Borodin: Polovtsian Dances etc.
London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti

CD8: Rossini & Verdi Overtures
London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti

CD9: Strauss, R.: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier; Don Juan
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti

CD10-11: Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos.1-3/Arensky: Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky
London Symphony Orchestra
Philharmonia Hungarica
Antal Dor?ti

CD12: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; Marche Slav; Waltz & Polonaise
London Symphony Orchestra
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti

CD13: Wagner: Preludes & Overtures
London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti

CD14: Frederick Fennell Conducts George Gershwin
Studio Orchestra, Frederick Fennell

CD15: Frederick Fennell Conducts Victor Herbert [NEW TO CD]
Studio Orchestra, Frederick Fennell

CD16: Frederick Fennell Conducts Cole Porter
Studio Orchestra, Frederick Fennell

CD17: Carousel Waltz & Other Favourites
London "Pops" Orchestra
Eastman-Rochester "Pops" Orchestra, Frederick Fennell

CD18: Sullivan: Pineapple Poll Suite; Rossini-Respighi: La boutique fantasque; Gounod: Faust Ballet Music; Wagner: Lohengrin & Das Rheingold
Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

CD19: Fabulous Marches For Orchestra
Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

CD20-21: Adam: Giselle/Offenbach: Gait? Parisienne; Strauss, J. II: Graduation Ball London Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari

CD22: Bloch: Concerto Grosso No. 1 & No. 2/Schelomo* Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson, Georges Miquelle *Georges Miquelle, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson

CD23: Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Concerto in F; Cuban Overture Eugene List, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson

CD24-25: Howard Hanson - The Composer & His Orchestra
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson

CD26: Kaleidoscope: An Orchestral Extravaganza
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

CD27: Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Hungarian March; Trojan March, etc.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

CD28: Dvor?k: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"/Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

CD29: Franck: Symphony in D minor/Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

CD30: Lalo: Namouna / Chausson: Symphony, etc.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

CD31: Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream; Symphony No.5 / Haydn: Symphony No.96
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

CD32-33: Schumann: The Symphonies
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

CD34: Marches & Overtures ? la Fran?aise
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

CD35: Paul Paray Conducts Wagner: Die Meistersinger suite; Der fliegende
Holl?nder Overture; Rienzi Overture, etc.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

CD36: Schubert: Symphonies Nos.5 & 8; Rosamunde Incidental Music
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

CD37: Schubert: Symphony No. 9; Symphony No. 6
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

CD38: Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes; Britten: The Young Person's Guide To
The Orchestra
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti [Mono recording - NEW TO CD]

CD39: Copland: Symphony No.3 [Mono recording – NEW TO CD]
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti

CD40: Respighi: Church Windows; Roman Festivals [Mono recording – NEW TO CD]
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti

CD41-42: Tchaikovsky: The Four Suites [NEWLY REMASTERED]
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti

CD43: Beethoven: Symphony No.3 in E Flat - "Eroica" [NEW TO CD]
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti

CD44: Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Sviatoslav Richter, London Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin

CD45-46: Beethoven: The Cello Sonatas
Mstislav Rostropovich, Sviatoslav Richter

CD47: Songs by Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev
Galina Vishnevskaya, Mstislav Rostropovich

CD48: World Of Flamenco [NEW TO CD]
Los Romeros

CD49: Baroque Concertos For Recorders & Strings [NEW TO CD]
Bernard Krainis, The London Strings, Sir Neville Marriner

CD50: Hindemith: Symphony in B Flat; Schoenberg: Theme & Variations;
Stravinsky: Symphonies for Wind [NEW TO CD]
Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

CD51: Soler: Works for Harpsichord [NEWLY REMASTERED]
Rafael Puyana
Genoveva G?lvez

CD52: Tchaikovsky: Overture 1812; Capriccio Italien [1954 Mono recording – NEW TO CD!]
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor?ti

CD53: Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 4 & 8 [NEW TO CD]
Borodin Quartet

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