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Essential Overtures

Pilar Lorengar/Fritz Wunderlich/Gottlob Frick/Bamberger Symphoniker/Rudolf Kempe, Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus/Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra/Vilem Tausky, Elisabeth Grümmer (soprano), Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris/Georges Prêtre

Philharmonia Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart...

  • Release Date: 5th Jun 2012
  • Catalogue No: 3278662
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Series: Essential
  • Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia Overture

Work length7:29
$1.30
$1.70
  • Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Carlo Maria Giulini
  • Recorded: 1959-06-10
  • Recording Venue: 9,10.VI.1959. Kingsway Hall, London.

Rossini: La scala di seta: Sinfonia (Allegro - Andantino - Allegro)

Work length5:45
$1.30
$1.70
  • Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
  • Gianluigi Gelmetti
  • Recorded: 1991-07-05
  • Recording Venue: 1-5 July 1991, Villa Berg, Stuttgart Stuttgart

Rossini: Guillaume Tell Overture

Work length6:16
$1.30
$1.70
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Lamberto Gardelli
  • Recorded: 1972-09-07
  • Recording Venue: 11, 13-14, 18-22, 24-27, 31 July (Kingsway Hall, London) & 7 September 1972 (No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London)

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492: Overture

Work length4:20
$1.30
$1.70
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Sir Colin Davis
  • Recorded: 1961-02-06
  • Recording Venue: 6 February 1961 / No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527: Overture

Work length6:12
$1.30
$1.70
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Sir Colin Davis
  • Recorded: 1961-02-05
  • Recording Venue: 5 February 1961 / No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620: Overture

Work length7:05
$1.30
$1.70
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Sir Colin Davis
  • Recorded: 1961-06-05
  • Recording Venue: 5 February 1961 / No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: Sinfonia

Work length4:11
$1.30
$1.70
  • Choir of King's College Cambridge
  • Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Sir David Willcocks
  • Recorded: 1972-07-09
  • Recording Venue: 25 & 26 July 1969, 27-29 July 1971 and 8 & 9 July 1972, Chapel of King's College, Cambridge

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30: Overture. Allegro (Original Version, 1762)

Work length3:08
$1.30
$1.70
  • Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti
  • Recorded: 1981-11-30
  • Recording Venue: 25 & 27-30 June & 6 July 1981, Kingsway Hall, London, and 30 Nov 1981, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Glinka: Ruslan & Lyudmila Overture

Work length5:14
$1.30
$1.70
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Artur Rodzinski
  • Recorded: 1958-04-28
  • Recording Venue: 27 & 28 April 1958 / No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Smetana: Die verkaufte Braut: Öffnung

Work length6:41
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bamberger Symphoniker
  • Rudolf Kempe
  • Recorded: 1962-05-01
  • Recording Venue: V., VI. & X.1962, Bamberg, Kulturraum & Berlin, Grunewaldkirche

Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus: Overture (Allegro vivace - Allegretto - Tempo di Valse - Allegro)

Work length8:10
$1.30
$1.70
  • Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus/Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra/Vilem Tausky
  • Recorded: 1959-01-01
  • Recording Venue: 20 & 30 April and 1 May 1959, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Wolf-Ferrari: Il segreto di Susanna: Overture. Vivacissimo

Work length2:44
$1.30
$1.70
  • Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Sir Neville Marriner
  • Recorded: 1991-12-21
  • Recording Venue: 17-21 December 1991/No.1 Studio, Abbey Road

Offenbach: Orphée aux enfers: Ouverture (Allegro con fuoco - Allegretto - Lento - Allegro vivace - Andante - Allegro)

Work length9:38
$1.30
$1.70
  • Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Herbert von Karajan
  • Recorded: 1960-09-23
  • Recording Venue: 23 September 1960. Kingsway Hall, London

Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Op. 84

Work length6:47
$1.30
$1.70
  • London Classical Players
  • Sir Roger Norrington
  • Recorded: 1988-08-04
  • Recording Venue: 1-4 August 1988 / No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Weber: Der Freischütz Overture

Work length9:06
$1.30
$1.70
  • Elisabeth Grümmer
  • Berliner Philharmoniker
  • Joseph Keilberth
  • Recorded: 1958-04-23
  • Recording Venue: 23. April & 12.-14. Sept. 1958, Berlin, Grunewaldkirche

Suppe: Leichte Kavallerie Overture

Work length7:06
$1.30
$1.70
  • Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Sir Neville Marriner
  • Recorded: 1989-10-28
  • Recording Venue: 26-28 October 1989, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Nicolai, C O: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor overture

Work length4:37
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bayerisches Staatsorchester
  • Robert Heger
  • Recorded: 1963-01-01
  • Recording Venue: 27./28.2. & 01.03.63 München, Bürgerbräu

Verdi: La forza del destino, Act 1: Sinfonia (Allegro)

Work length7:10
$1.30
$1.70
  • New Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Riccardo Muti
  • Recorded: 1986-11-30
  • Recording Venue: 12 January 1977, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Wagner: Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 3

Work length2:53
$1.30
$1.70
  • Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Mariss Jansons
  • Recorded: 1991-08-24
  • Recording Venue: 14, 16, 19, 23 & 24th August 1991. Konserthus, Oslo

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96, Act 1: Prelude (Sehr mässig bewegt)

Work length10:07
Album only
Album only
  • New Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Sir Adrian Boult
  • Recorded: 1971-12-23
  • Recording Venue: 22-23 December 1971. No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel, EHWV 93 / 3: Prelude (Ruhige, nicht zu langsame Bewegung - Munter)

Work length8:04
$1.30
$1.70
  • Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
  • Jeffrey Tate
  • Recorded: 1989-07-12
  • Recording Venue: 6-12 July 1989, Herkulessaal, Munich

Shostakovich: Festival Overture in A Major, Op. 96

Work length5:53
$1.30
$1.70
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Andrew Litton
  • Recorded: 1988-04-09
  • Recording Venue: 8-9 April 1988 / St Augustine's Church, Kilburn,London

Bizet: Carmen: Prélude

Work length2:14
$1.30
$1.70
  • Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris/Georges Prêtre
  • Recorded: 1964-07-20
  • Recording Venue: 6-20 July 1964 / Salle Wagram, Paris

Bernstein: Candide - Overture

Work length4:18
$1.30
$1.70
  • London Symphony Orchestra
  • André Previn
  • Recorded: 1971-11-30
  • Recording Venue: 30 November 1971, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Introduction

Work length2:28
$1.30
$1.70
  • Philharmonia Orchestra
  • John Lanchbery
  • Recorded: 1982-01-01
  • Recording Venue: 12-16 & 21-22 July 1982, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture in E-Flat Major, Op. 49 (Excerpt)

Work length6:03
$1.30
$1.70
  • Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Mariss Jansons
  • Recorded: 1987-04-30
  • Recording Venue: 27-30 April 1987 Konserthus, Oslo

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