Simon Rattle – The CBSO Years (CD52)

CD1

1. JANÁČEK - Mša Glagolskaja (Glagolitc Mass), I. Úvod (Introduction)
2. JANÁČEK - Mša Glagolskaja (Glagolitc Mass), II. Gospodi Pomiluj (Kyrie)
3. JANÁČEK - Mša Glagolskaja (Glagolitc Mass), III. Slava (Gloria)
4. JANÁČEK - Mša Glagolskaja (Glagolitc Mass), IV. Věruju (Credo)
5. JANÁČEK - Mša Glagolskaja (Glagolitc Mass), V. Svet (Sanctus)
6. JANÁČEK - Mša Glagolskaja (Glagolitc Mass), VI. Agneče Božij (Agnus Dei)
7. JANÁČEK - Mša Glagolskaja (Glagolitc Mass), VII. Postludium: Varhany Solo (Organ Solo)
8. JANÁČEK - Mša Glagolskaja (Glagolitc Mass),VIII. Intrada
9. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, I. Requiem Aeternam: Requiem Aeternam Dona Eis Domine (Chorus/boys)
10. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, I. Requiem Aeternam: What Passing Bells For These Who Die As Cattle? (Tenor)
11. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, I. Requiem Aeternam: Kyrie Eleison (Chorus)

CD2

1. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, II. Dies Irae: Dies Irae, Dies Illa (Chorus)
2. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, II. Dies Irae: Bugles Sang, Saddening The Evening Air (Baritone)
3. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, II. Dies Irae: Liber Scriptus Proferetur (Soprano/Semi-chorus)
4. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, II. Dies Irae: Out There, We've Walked Quite Friendly Up To Death (Tenor/Baritone)
5. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, II. Dies Irae: Recordare Jesu Pie (Chorus)
6. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, II. Dies Irae: Be Slowly Lifted Up, Thou Long Black Arm (Baritone)
7. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, II. Dies Irae: Dies Irae, Dies Illa (Chorus)
8. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, II. Dies Irae: Lacrimosa Dies Illa (Soprano/Chorus)
9. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, II. Dies Irae: Move Him Into The Sun (Tenor/Soprano/Chorus)...Pie Jesu (Chorus)
10. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, III. Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe (Boys/Chorus)
11. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, III. Offertorium: So Abram Rose, And Clave The Wood, And Went (Tenor/Baritone/Boys)
12. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, IV. Sanctus: Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus (Soprano/Chorus)
13. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, IV. Sanctus: Benedictus Qui Venit In Nomine Domini (Soprano/Chorus)
14. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, IV. Sanctus: After The Blast Of Lightning From The East (Baritone)
15. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, V. Agnus Dei (Tenor/Chorus)
16. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, VI. Libera Me: Libera Me, Domine, de Morte Aeterna (Soprano/Chorus)
17. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, VI. Libera Me: It Seemed That Out Of Battle I Escaped (Tenor/Baritone)
18. BRITTEN - War Requiem Op.66, VI. Libera Me: Let Us Sleep Now...In Paradisum (Tenor/Baritone/Boys/Soprano/Chorus)

CD3

1. BRITTEN - An American Overture
2. BRITTEN - Ballad of Heroes Op.14, I: Funeral March
3. BRITTEN - Ballad of Heroes Op.14, II. Scherzo
4. BRITTEN - Ballad of Heroes Op.14, III: Recitative And Choral
5. BRITTEN - Diversions Op.21 For Piano (Left Hand) And Orchestra, Theme
6. BRITTEN - Diversions Op.21 For Piano (Left Hand) And Orchestra, Variation I: Recitative
7. BRITTEN - Diversions Op.21 For Piano (Left Hand) And Orchestra, Var. II: Romance
8. BRITTEN - Diversions Op.21 For Piano (Left Hand) And Orchestra, Var. III: March
9. BRITTEN - Diversions Op.21 For Piano (Left Hand) And Orchestra, Var. IV: Arabesque
10. BRITTEN - Diversions Op.21 For Piano (Left Hand) And Orchestra, Var. V: Chant
11. BRITTEN - Diversions Op.21 For Piano (Left Hand) And Orchestra, Var. VI: Nocturne
12. BRITTEN - Diversions Op.21 For Piano (Left Hand) And Orchestra, Var. VII: Badinerie
13. BRITTEN - Diversions Op.21 For Piano (Left Hand) And Orchestra, Var. VIII: Burlesque
14. BRITTEN - Diversions Op.21 For Piano (Left Hand) And Orchestra, Var. IX: Toccata I - Toccatta II - Cadenza
15. BRITTEN - Diversions Op.21 For Piano (Left Hand) And Orchestra, Var. X: Adagio
16. BRITTEN - Diversions Op.21 For Piano (Left Hand) And Orchestra, Var. XI: Finale (Tarantella)
17. BRITTEN - The Building Of The House Op.79, Overture
18. BRITTEN - Praise We Great Men, Praise We Great Men
19. BRITTEN - Praise We Great Men, Praise We The Just
20. BRITTEN - Praise We Great Men, (Coda)
21. BRITTEN - Suite On English Folk Tunes: 'A Time There Was...' Op.90, I. Cakes And Ale
22. BRITTEN - Suite On English Folk Tunes: 'A Time There Was...' Op.90, II. The Bitter Withy
23. BRITTEN - Suite On English Folk Tunes: 'A Time There Was...' Op.90, III. Hankin Booby
24. BRITTEN - Suite On English Folk Tunes: 'A Time There Was...' Op.90, IV. Hunt The Squirrel
25. BRITTEN - Suite On English Folk Tunes: 'A Time There Was...' Op.90, V. Lord Melbourne

CD4

1. BRITTEN - Canadian Carnival Op.19
2. BRITTEN - Young Apollo Op.16 (For Piano And Strings)
3. BRITTEN - Quatre Chansons Françaises (Four French Songs), No.1 Nuits de Juin (June Nights)
4. BRITTEN - Quatre Chansons Françaises (Four French Songs), No.2 Sagesse (Wisdom)
5. BRITTEN - Quatre Chansons Françaises (Four French Songs), No.3 L'Enfance (Childhood)
6. BRITTEN - Quatre Chansons Françaises (Four French Songs), No.4 Chanson D'Automne (Autumn Song)
7. BRITTEN - Scottish Ballad Op.26
8. BRITTEN - Occasional Overture Op.38
9. BRITTEN - Sinfonia Da Requiem Op.20, I. Lacrymosa: Andante Ben Marcato
10. BRITTEN - Sinfonia Da Requiem Op.20, II. Dies Irae: Allegro Con Fuoco
11. BRITTEN - Sinfonia Da Requiem Op.20, III. Requiem Aeternam: Andante Molto Tranquillo

CD5

1. WEILL - Die Sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins), 5-1–Prolog (Anna I & II)
2. WEILL - Die Sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins), I. Faulheit (Sloth) (Family)
3. WEILL - Die Sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins), II. Stolz (Pride) (Anna I/Family)
4. WEILL - Die Sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins), III. Zorn (Anger) (Anna I & II/Family)
5. WEILL - Die Sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins), IV. Völlerei (Gluttony) (Family)
6. WEILL - Die Sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins), V. Unzucht (Lust) (Anna I & II/Family)
7. WEILL - Die Sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins), VI. Habsucht (Covetousness) (Family)
8. WEILL - Die Sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins), VII. Neid (Envy) (Anna I/Family)
9. WEILL - Die Sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins), Epilog (Anna I & II)
10. WILLIAMS - On Wenlock Edge, No.1 On Wenlock Edge
11. WILLIAMS - On Wenlock Edge, No.2 From Far, From Eve And Morning
12. WILLIAMS - On Wenlock Edge, No.3 Is My Team Ploughing
13. WILLIAMS - On Wenlock Edge, No.4 Oh, When I Was In Love With You
14. WILLIAMS - On Wenlock Edge, No.5 Bredon Hill
15. WILLIAMS - On Wenlock Edge, No.6 Clun
16. WILLIAMS - Songs Of Travel, No. 1 The Vagabond
17. WILLIAMS - Songs Of Travel, No.2 Let Beauty Awake
18. WILLIAMS - Songs Of Travel, No.3 The Roadside Fire
19. WILLIAMS - Songs Of Travel, No.4 Youth And Love
20. WILLIAMS - Songs Of Travel, No.5 In Dreams
21. WILLIAMS - Songs Of Travel, No.6 The Infinite Shining Heavens
22. WILLIAMS - Songs Of Travel, No.7 Whither must I Wander
23. WILLIAMS - Songs Of Travel, No.8 Bright Is the Ring Of Words
24. WILLIAMS - Songs Of Travel, No.9 I Have Trod The Upward And Downward Slope

CD6

1. RACHMANINOV - Symphonic Dances Op.45, I. Non Allegro
2. RACHMANINOV - Symphonic Dances Op.45, II. Andante Con Moto (Tempo Di Valse)
3. RACHMANINOV - Symphonic Dances Op.45, III. Lento Assai - Allegro Vivace
4. RACHMANINOV - Vocalise Op.34 No.14
5. MAHLER - Symphony No.2 "Resurrection", I. Allegro Maestoso

CD7

1. MAHLER - Symphony No.2 "Resurrection", II. Andante Moderato
2. MAHLER - Symphony No.2 "Resurrection", III. In Ruhig Fließender Bewegung
3. MAHLER - Symphony No.2 "Resurrection", IV. Urlicht. Sehr Feierlich, Aber Schlicht
4. MAHLER - Symphony No.2 "Resurrection", V. Im Tempo Des Scherzos.Wild Herausfahrend
5. MAHLER - Symphony No.2 "Resurrection", V. Wieder Sehr Breit
6. MAHLER - Symphony No.2 "Resurrection", V. Ritardando... Maestoso
7. MAHLER - Symphony No.2 "Resurrection", V. Wieder Zurückhaltend
8. MAHLER - Symphony No.2 "Resurrection", V. Langsam. Misterioso
9. MAHLER - Symphony No.2 "Resurrection",Etwas Bewegter
10. MAHLER - Symphony No.2 "Resurrection", Mit Aufschwung Aber Nicht Eilen

CD8

1. MAHLER - Das Klagende Lied, I. Waldmärchen28:31
2. MAHLER - Das Klagende Lied, II. Der Speilmann17:35
3. MAHLER - Das Klagende Lied, II. Hochzeitsstück18:57

CD9

1. BRAHMS - Piano Quartet No.1 In G Minor Op.25, I. Allegro
2. BRAHMS - Piano Quartet No.1 In G Minor Op.25, II. Intermezzo: Allegro, ma Non Troppo
3. BRAHMS - Piano Quartet No.1 In G Minor Op.25, III. Andante Con Moto
4. BRAHMS - Piano Quartet No.1 In G Minor Op.25, IV. Rondo Alla Zingareste: Presto
5. MAHLER - Symphony No.6 In A Minor, I. Allegro Energico, Ma Non Troppo. Heftig, Aber Markig

CD10

1. MAHLER - Symphony No.6 In A Minor, II. Andante Moderato
2. MAHLER - Symphony No.6 In A Minor, III. Scherzo: Wuchtig
3. MAHLER - Symphony No.6 In A Minor, IV. Finale: Allegro Moderato

CD11

1. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.1 InE Minor Op.39, I. Allegro, Ma Non Troppo - Allegro Energico
2. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.1 InE Minor Op.39, II. Andante, Ma Non Troppo Lento
3. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.1 InE Minor Op.39, III. Scherzo: Allegro
4. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.1 InE Minor Op.39, IV. Finale: Quasi Una Fantasia: Andante - Allegro Molto
5. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.5 In E Flat Op.82, I. Tempo Molto Moderato - Largemente - Allegro Moderato - Presto
6. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.5 In E Flat Op.82, II. Andante Mosso, Quasi Allegretto
7. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.5 In E Flat Op.82, III. Allegro Molto - Un Pochettino Largemente

CD12

1. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.2 In D Op.43, I. Allegretto
2. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.2 In D Op.43, II. Tempo Andante, Ma Rubato
3. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.2 In D Op.43, III. Vivacissimo
4. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.2 In D Op.43, IV. Finale: Allegro Moderato
5. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.3 In C Op.52, I. Allegro Moderato
6. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.3 In C Op.52,II. Andantino Con Moto, Quasi Allegretto
7. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.3 In C Op.52,III. Moderato - Allegro (Ma Non Tanto)

CD13

1. SIBELIUS -Symphony No.4 In A Minor Op.63, I. Tempo Molto Moderato, Quasi Adagio
2. SIBELIUS -Symphony No.4 In A Minor Op.63, II. Allegro Molto Vivace
3. SIBELIUS -Symphony No.4 In A Minor Op.63, III. Il Tempo Largo
4. SIBELIUS -Symphony No.4 In A Minor Op.63, IV. Allegro
5. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.6 In D Minor Op.104, I. Allegro Molto Moderato
6. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.6 In D Minor Op.104, II. Allegretto Moderato
7. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.6 In D Minor Op.104, III. Poco Vivace
8. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.6 In D Minor Op.104, IV. Allegro - Allegro Assai
9. SIBELIUS - The Oceanides (Aallottaret) Op.73

CD14

1. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.7 In C Op.105, I. Adagio
2. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.7 In C Op.105, II. Un Pochettino Meno Allegro - Vivacissimo - Adagio
3. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.7 In C Op.105, III. Allegro Molto Moderato
4. SIBELIUS - Symphony No.7 In C Op.105, IV. Vivace - Presto - Adagio
5. SIBELIUS - Kuolema Op.44 - Scene With Cranes
6. NIELSEN - Pan And Syrinx Op.49
7. NIELSEN - Symphony No.4 Op.29 'The Inextinguishable', I. Allegro
8. NIELSEN - Symphony No.4 Op.29 'The Inextinguishable', II. Poco Allegretto
9. NIELSEN - Symphony No.4 Op.29 'The Inextinguishable', III. Poco Adagio Quasi Andante
10. NIELSEN - Symphony No.4 Op.29 'The Inextinguishable', IV. Allegro

CD15

1. MESSIAEN - Turangalîla-Symphonie, I. Introduction
2. MESSIAEN - Turangalîla-Symphonie, II. Chant D'amour I (Love Song)
3. MESSIAEN - Turangalîla-Symphonie, III. Turangalîla I
4. MESSIAEN - Turangalîla-Symphonie, IV. Chant D'amour II
5. MESSIAEN - Turangalîla-Symphonie, V. Joie Du Sang Des Étoiles (Joy Of The Blood Of The Stars)
6. MESSIAEN - Turangalîla-Symphonie, VI. Jardin Du Sommeil D'amour (Garden Of Love's Sleep)
7. MESSIAEN - Turangalîla-Symphonie, VII. Turangalîla II
8. MESSIAEN - Turangalîla-Symphonie, VIII. Développement De L'amour (Development Of Love)
9. MESSIAEN - Turangalîla-Symphonie, IX. Turangalîla III
10. MESSIAEN - Turangalîla-Symphonie, X. Final

CD16

1. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part I: Prelude: Lento, Mistico - Moderato - Andantino - Come Prima
2. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part I: Jesu, Maria - I Am Near To Death (Gerontius)
3. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part I: So Pray For Me... Kyrie Eleison...Holy Mary, Pray For Him (Geronius/semi-chorus/chorus)
4. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part I: Rouse Thee, My Fainting Soul...Be Merciful (Gerontius/chorus)
5. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part I: Sanctus Fortis, Sanctus Deus (Gerontius)
6. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part I: I Can No More (Gerontius)
7. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part I: Rescue Him, O Lord (chorus)
8. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part I: Novissima Hora Est (semi-chorus/chorus/Gerontius)
9. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part I: Profisciscere, Anima Christiana (The Priest)
10. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part I: Go In The Name Of Angels (Chorus/The Priest/semi-chorus)
11. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part I: Go Forth Upon Thy Journey (chorus/The Priest/semi-chorus)

CD17

1. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: (Andantino)
2. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: I Went To Sleep (Soul Of Gerontius)
3. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: Another Marvel (Soul Of Gerontius)
4. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: My Work Is Done (Angel/Soul Of Gerontius)
5. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: It Is A Member Of That Family... A Presage Falls Upon Thee (Angel/Soul Of Gerontius)
6. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: But Hark! Upon My Senses (Soul Of Gerontius)
7. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: Low-born Clods Of Brute Earth (chorus)
8. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: Dispossessed, Aside Thrust (chorus)
9. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: Thy Mind Bold And Independent (chorus)
10. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: I See Not These False Spirits (Soul Of Gerontius/Angel)
11. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: There Was A Mortal (Angel)
12. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: Praise To The Holiest (semi-chorus/chorus/Angel)
13. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: The Sound Is Like The Rushing Of The Wind (Soul Of Gerontius)
14. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: Glory To Him (chorus)
15. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: They Sing Of Thy Approaching Agony (Angel/Soul Of Gerontius/chorus)
16. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: But Hark! A Grand Mysterious Harmony (Soul Of Gerontius/Angel/chorus)
17. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: And Now On The Threshold (Angel)
18. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: Praise To The Holiest (chorus)
19. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: Thy Judgement Is Now Near (Angel/Soul Of Gerontius)
20. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: Jesu! By That Shuddering Dread (Angel Of The Agony/Soul Of Gerontius)
21. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: Be Merciful, Be Gracious (semi-chorus/chorus)
22. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: Praise To His Name! (Angel)
23. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: Take Me Away (Soul Of Gerontius)
24. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: Lord Thou Hast Been Our Refuge (chorus)
25. ELGAR - Dream Of Gerontius Op.38, Part II: Softly And Gently (Angel/Chorus/Semi-Chorus)

CD18

1. STRAVINSKY - Petrushka (1947 Version), Tableau I - Fête Populaire De La Semaine Grasse
2. STRAVINSKY - Petrushka (1947 Version), Tableau I - Le Tour De Passe-Passe - Danse Russe
3. STRAVINSKY - Petrushka (1947 Version), Tableau II - Chez Petrushka
4. STRAVINSKY - Petrushka (1947 Version), Tableau III - Chez Le Maure - Danse De La Ballerine
5. STRAVINSKY - Petrushka (1947 Version), Tableau III - Valse: La Ballerine Et Le Maure
6. STRAVINSKY - Petrushka (1947 Version), Tableau IV - Fête Populaire De La Semaine Grasse
7. STRAVINSKY - Petrushka (1947 Version), Tableau IV - Danse Des Nounous
8. STRAVINSKY - Petrushka (1947 Version), Tableau IV - Paysan Et L'ours
9. STRAVINSKY - Petrushka (1947 Version), Tableau IV - Bohémien Et Marchand Malhonnête
10. STRAVINSKY - Petrushka (1947 Version), Tableau IV - Danse Des Cochers Et Des Palefreniers
11. STRAVINSKY - Petrushka (1947 Version), Tableau IV - Les Déguisés
12. STRAVINSKY - Petrushka (1947 Version), Tableau IV - Le Rixe: Le Maure et Petrushka
13. STRAVINSKY - Petrushka (1947 Version), Tableau IV - Mort De Petrushka
14. STRAVINSKY - Petrushka (1947 Version), Tableau IV - Police Et L'enchanteur - Vocifération Du Double De Petrushka
15. STRAVINSKY - Symphony In Three Movements, I. (Crochet: 160)
16. STRAVINSKY - Symphony In Three Movements, II. Andante - Interlude (L'istesso Tempo)
17. STRAVINSKY - Symphony In Three Movements, III. Con Moto

CD19

1. STRAVINSKY - L'Oiseau De Feu (The Firebird) (1947 Version), Introduction - Tableau I: Le Jardin Enchanté De Kachtcheï - Apperition De L'Oiseau De Feu Poursuivi Par Ivan Tsarévitch
2. STRAVINSKY - L'Oiseau De Feu (The Firebird) (1947 Version), Tableau I: Danse De L'Oiseau De Feu - Capture De L'Oiseau De Feu Par Ivan Tsarévitch - Supplications De L'Oiseau De Feu - Apparition Des Treize Princesses Enchantées
3. STRAVINSKY - L'Oiseau De Feu (The Firebird) (1947 Version), Tableau I: Jes Des Princesses Avec Les Pommes D'or (Scherzo)
4. STRAVINSKY - L'Oiseau De Feu (The Firebird) (1947 Version), Tableau I: Brusque Apparition D'Ivan Tsarévitch - Khorovode Des Princesses (Ronde) - Lever Du Jour - Ivan Tsarévitch Pénètre Dans Le Palais De Kachtcheï - Carillon Féerique - Apperition Des Monstres-gardiens De Kachtcheï - Capture D'Ivan Tsarévitch - Arrivée De Kachtcheï L'Immortel - Dialogue De Kachtcheï Avec Ivan Tsarévitch - Intercession Des Princesses - Apparition De L'Oiseau De Feu
5. STRAVINSKY - L'Oiseau De Feu (The Firebird) (1947 Version), Tableau I: Danse De La Suite De Kachtcheï Enchantée Par L'Oiseau De Feu - Danse Infernale De Tous Les Sujets De Kachtcheï
6. STRAVINSKY - L'Oiseau De Feu (The Firebird) (1947 Version), Tableau I: Berceuse (L'Oiseau De Feu) - Réveil de Kachtcheï - Mort De Kachtcheï - Profunds Ténébres
7. STRAVINSKY - L'Oiseau De Feu (The Firebird) (1947 Version), Tableau II: Disparition Du Palais Et Des Sortilèges De Kachtcheï - Animation Des Chevaliers Pétrifiés - Allégresse Générale
8. STRAVINSKY - Scherzo à la Russe (Jazz Band Version),
9. STRAVINSKY - Four Studies, I. Danse
10. STRAVINSKY - Four Studies, II. Excentrique
11. STRAVINSKY - Four Studies, III. Cantique
12. STRAVINSKY - Four Studies, IV. Madrid
13. STRAVINSKY - Scherzo à la Russe (Orchestral Version)

CD20

1. STRAVINSKY - Apollo, Tableau I (Prologue): Naissance D'Apollon
2. STRAVINSKY - Apollo,Tableau II: Variation D'Apollon (Apollon Et Les Muses)
3. STRAVINSKY - Apollo,Tableau II: Pad D'action (Apollon Et Les Muses: Calliope, Polymnie Et Terpsichore)
4. STRAVINSKY - Apollo,Tableau II: Variation De Calliope (L'Alexandrin)
5. STRAVINSKY - Apollo,Tableau II: Variation De Polymnie
6. STRAVINSKY - Apollo,Tableau II: Variation De Terpsichore
7. STRAVINSKY - Apollo,Tableau II: Variation D'Apollon
8. STRAVINSKY - Apollo,Tableau II: Pas De Deux (Apollon Et Terpsichore)
9. STRAVINSKY - Apollo,Tableau II: Coda (Apollon Et Les Muses)
10. STRAVINSKY - Apollo,Tableau II: Apothéose
11. STRAVINSKY - Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring), Première Partie: L'Adoration De La Terre - Introduction - Les Augures Printaniers - Danses Des Adolescents - Jeu Du Rapt
12. STRAVINSKY - Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring), Première Partie: L'Adoration De La Terre - Rondes Printanières - Jeux Des Cités Rivales - Cortège Du Sage
13. STRAVINSKY - Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring), Première Partie: L'Adoration De La Terre - Le Sage - Danse De La Terre
14. STRAVINSKY - Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring), Seconde Partie: Le Sacrifice - Introduction
15. STRAVINSKY - Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring), Seconde Partie: Le Sacrifice - Cercles Mystérieux Des Adolescents
16. STRAVINSKY - Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring), Seconde Partie: Le Sacrifice - Glorification De L'élue - Évocation Des Ancêtres - Action Rituelle Des Ancêtres
17. STRAVINSKY - Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring), Seconde Partie: Le Sacrifice - Danse Sacrale (L'élue)

CD21

1. SCHOENBERG - Five Orchestral Pieces Op.16 (Original Version, 1909), I. Vorgefühle (Premonitions): Sehr Rasch
2. SCHOENBERG - Five Orchestral Pieces Op.16 (Original Version, 1909), II. Vergangenes (The Past): Mässige Viertel
3. SCHOENBERG - Five Orchestral Pieces Op.16 (Original Version, 1909), III. Farben (Chord-Colours): Mässige Viertel
4. SCHOENBERG - Five Orchestral Pieces Op.16 (Original Version, 1909), IV. Peripetie (Peripetia): Sehr Rasch
5. SCHOENBERG - Five Orchestral Pieces Op.16 (Original Version, 1909), V. Das Obligate Rezitativ (The Obbligato Recitative): Bewegte Achtel
6. WEBERN - Six Orchestral Pieces Op.6, I. Langsam
7. WEBERN - Six Orchestral Pieces Op.6, II. Bewegt
8. WEBERN - Six Orchestral Pieces Op.6, III. Mässig
9. WEBERN - Six Orchestral Pieces Op.6, IV. Sehr Mässig
10. WEBERN - Six Orchestral Pieces Op.6, V. Sehr Langsam
11. WEBERN - Six Orchestral Pieces Op.6, VI. Langsam
12. BERG - Lulu Suite, I. Rondo: Andante Und Hymne
13. BERG - Lulu Suite, II. Ostinato: Allegro
14. BERG - Lulu Suite, III. Lied Der Lulu (Lulu's Song): Comodo
15. BERG - Lulu Suite, IV. Variationen: Moderato
16. BERG - Lulu Suite, V. Adagio

CD22

1. DEBUSSY - Le Roi Lear, Fanfare D'ouverture
2. DEBUSSY - Le Roi Lear, Le Sommeil De Lear
3. DEBUSSY - Jeux ('Poème Danse')
4. DEBUSSY - Images (Orchestral Version), I. Gigues
5. DEBUSSY - Images (Orchestral Version), II. Ibéria - 1. Par Les Rues Et Par Les Chemins
6. DEBUSSY - Images (Orchestral Version), II. Ibéria - 2. Les Parfums De La Nuit
7. DEBUSSY - Images (Orchestral Version), II. Ibéria - 3. Le Matin D'un Jour De Fête
8. DEBUSSY - Images (Orchestral Version), III. Gigues

CD23

1. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part I, Overture: Representation Of Chaos
2. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part I, No.1: In The Beginning (Raphael/Chorus/Uriel)
3. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part I, No.2: Now Vanish Before The Holy Beams (Uriel/Chorus)
4. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part I, No.3: And God Made The Firmament (Raphael)
5. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part I, No.4: The marvellous works (Gabriel/Chorus)
6. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part I, No.5: And God Said, Let The Waters (Raphael)
7. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part I, No.6: Rolling In Foaming Billows (Raphael)
8. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part I, No.7: And God Said, Let The Earth (Gabriel)
9. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part I, No.8: With Verdure Clad (Gabriel)
10. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part I, No.9: And The Heavenly Host (Uriel)
11. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part I, No.10: Awake The Harp (Chorus)
12. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part I, No.11: And God Said, Let There Be Light (Uriel)
13. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part I, No.12: In Splendour Bright (Uriel)
14. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part I, No.13: The Heavens Are Telling (Chorus/Gabriel/Uriel/Raphael)
15. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part II, No.14: And God Said, Let The Waters (Gabriel)
16. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part II, No.15: On Mighty Pens (Gabriel)
17. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part II, No.16: And God Created Great Whales (Raphael)
18. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part II, No.17: And The Angels (Raphael)
19. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part II, No.18: Most Beautiful Appear (Gabriel/Uriel/Raphael)
20. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part II, No.19: The Lord Is Great (Chorus/Gabriel/Uriel/Raphael)

CD24

1. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part II, No.20: And God Said, Let The Earth (Raphael)
2. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part II, No.21: Straight Opening Her Fertile Womb (Raphael)
3. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part II, No.22: Now Heaven In All Her Glory Shines (Raphael)
4. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part II, No.23: So God Created Man (Uriel)
5. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part II, No.24: In Native Worth (Uriel)
6. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part II, No.25: And God Saw Everything (Raphael)
7. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part II, No.26: Achieved Is The Glorious Work (Chorus)
8. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part II, No.27: On Thee Each Living Soul (Gabriel/Uriel/Raphael)
9. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part II, No.28: Achieved Is The Glorious Work (chorus)
10. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part III, No.29: In Rosy Mantle (Uriel)
11. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part III, No.30: By Thee With Bliss (Adam/Eve/Chorus)
12. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part III, No.30: Of Stars The Fairest (Adam/Eve/Chorus)
13. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part III, No.30: Hail! Bounteous Lord! (Chorus)
14. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part III, No.31: Our Duty We Have Now Performed (Adam)
15. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part III, No.32: Graceful Consort (Adam/Eve)
16. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part III, No.32: The Dew-dropping Morn (Adam/Eve)
17. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part III, No.33: O Happy Pair (Uriel)
18. HAYDN - The Creation Hob.XXI:2, Part III, No.34: Sing The Lord (Chorus And Soloists)

CD25

1. HAYDN - Symphony No.60 In C Hob.I:60 'The Distracted', I. Adagio - Allegro Di Molto
2. HAYDN - Symphony No.60 In C Hob.I:60 'The Distracted', II. Andante
3. HAYDN - Symphony No.60 In C Hob.I:60 'The Distracted', III. Menuetto & Trio
4. HAYDN - Symphony No.60 In C Hob.I:60 'The Distracted', IV. Presto
5. HAYDN - Symphony No.60 In C Hob.I:60 'The Distracted', V. Adagio (Di Lamentatione)
6. HAYDN - Symphony No.60 In C Hob.I:60 'The Distracted', VI. Finale: Prestissimo
7. HAYDN - Symphony No.70 In D Hob.I:60, I. Vivace Con Brio
8. HAYDN - Symphony No.70 In D Hob.I:60, II. Specie D'un Canone In Contrapunto Doppio: Andante
9. HAYDN - Symphony No.70 In D Hob.I:60, III. Menuet: Allegretto & Trio
10. HAYDN - Symphony No.70 In D Hob.I:60, IV. Finale: Allegro Con Brio
11. HAYDN - Symphony No.90 In C Hob.I:90, I. Adagio - Allegro Assai
12. HAYDN - Symphony No.90 In C Hob.I:90, II. Andante
13. HAYDN - Symphony No.90 In C Hob.I:90, III. Menuet & Trio
14. HAYDN - Symphony No.90 In C Hob.I:90, IV. Finale

CD26

1. RAVEL - Fanfare (For The Ballet L'Éventail De Jeanne)
2. RAVEL - Shéhérazade, I. Asie
3. RAVEL - Shéhérazade, II. La Flûte Enchantée
4. RAVEL - Shéhérazade, III. L'Indifférent
5. RAVEL - Allborada Del Gracioso
6. RAVEL - La Vallée Des Cloches
7. RAVEL - Ma Mere L'Oye (Orchestral Version) - Excerpts, I. Prélude
8. RAVEL - Ma Mere L'Oye (Orchestral Version) - Excerpts,II. Danse Du Rouet Et Scéne
9. RAVEL - Ma Mere L'Oye (Orchestral Version) - Excerpts,III. Pavane De La Belle Au Bois Dormant
10. RAVEL - Ma Mere L'Oye (Orchestral Version) - Excerpts,V. (Interlude] - Les Entretiens De La Belle Et De La Bête
11. RAVEL - Ma Mere L'Oye (Orchestral Version) - Excerpts,VI. [Interlude] - Petit Poucet
12. RAVEL - Ma Mere L'Oye (Orchestral Version) - Excerpts,IX. [Interlude] - Laideronnette, Impératrice Des Pagodes
13. RAVEL - Ma Mere L'Oye (Orchestral Version) - Excerpts,XI. (Interlude] - Le Jardin Féerique
14. RAVEL - La Valse ('Poème Chorégraphique')

CD27

1. RAVEL - Daphnis Et Chloé, Première Partie: Introduction Et Danse Religieuse
2. RAVEL - Daphnis Et Chloé, Première Partie: Les Jeunes Filles Attirent Daphnis Et L'entourent De Leurs Danses... Danse Générale...
3. RAVEL - Daphnis Et Chloé, Première Partie: ... Danse Grotesque De Dorcon...
4. RAVEL - Daphnis Et Chloé, Première Partie: ... Danse Légère Et Gracieuse De Daphnis...
5. RAVEL - Daphnis Et Chloé, Première Partie: Tous Invitent Daphnis À Recevoir La Récompense... Danse De Lyceion...
6. RAVEL - Daphnis Et Chloé, Première Partie: L'on Perçoit Des Bruits D'armes, Des Cris De Guerre Qui Se Rapprochent... Des Femmes Traversent La Scène, Poursuivies Pas Les Pirates... Fou De Désespoir, Il Maudit Les Divinités Qui N'ont Su Protéger La Jeune De La Grotte
7. RAVEL - Daphnis Et Chloé, Première Partie: Une Lumière Irréelle Enveloppe Le Paysage... Danse Lente Et Mystérieuse
8. RAVEL - Daphnis Et Chloé, Interlude... Deuxième Partie: Au Camp Des Pirates
9. RAVEL - Daphnis Et Chloé, Deuxième Partie: Bryaxis Ordonne D'amener La Captive, Chloé Est Trainée Par Deux Pirates... Danse Suppliante De Chloé
10. RAVEL - Daphnis Et Chloé, Deuxième Partie: Bryaxis Veut L'entraîner... Le Chef L'emporte, Triomphant... Soudain L'atmosphère Semble Chargée D'éléments Insolites... La Terre S'entr'ouvre. Formidable, L'ombre De Pan Se Profile Sur Les Montagnes Du Fond. Tous Fuient Éperdus...
11. RAVEL - Daphnis Et Chloé, Troisième Partie: Lever Du Jour...
12. RAVEL - Daphnis Et Chloé, Troisième Partie: Le Vieux Berger Lammon Explique Que, Si Pan A Sauvé Chloé... Daphnis Et Chloé Miment L'aventure De Pan Et De Syrinx...
13. RAVEL - Daphnis Et Chloé, Troisième Partie: Devant L'autel Des Nymphes, Il Jure Sa Foi Sur Deux Brebis... Entre Un Groupe De Jeunes Filles Costumées En Bacchantes... Daphnis Et Chloé's S'enlacent Tendrement... Joyeux Tumulte... Danse Générale
14. RAVEL - Boléro

CD28

1. MAHLER - Symphony No. 7 In E Minor, I. Langsam - Allegro Risoluto, Ma Non Troppo
2. MAHLER - Symphony No. 7 In E Minor, II. Nachtmusick I: Allegro Moderato
3. MAHLER - Symphony No. 7 In E Minor, III. Scherzo: Schattenhaft
4. MAHLER - Symphony No. 7 In E Minor, IV. Nachtmusick II: Allegro Amoroso
5. MAHLER - Symphony No. 7 In E Minor, V. Rondo - Finale

CD29

1. MAHLER - Blumine
2. MAHLER -  Symphony No. 1 In D, I. Langsam. Schleppend - Im Anfang Sehr Gemächlich
3. MAHLER -  Symphony No. 1 In D, II. Kräftig Bewegt, Doch Nicht Zu Schnell
4. MAHLER -  Symphony No. 1 In D, III. Feierlich Und Gemessen, Ohne Zu Schleppen
5. MAHLER -  Symphony No. 1 In D, IV. Stürmisch Bewegt

CD30

1. PROKOFIEV - Symphony No.5 In B Flat Op.100, I. Andante
2. PROKOFIEV - Symphony No.5 In B Flat Op.100, II. Allegro Marcato
3. PROKOFIEV - Symphony No.5 In B Flat Op.100, III. Adagio
4. PROKOFIEV - Symphony No.5 In B Flat Op.100, IV. Allegro Giocoso
5. PROKOFIEV - Scythian Suite Op.20 'Ala And Lolli', I. The Adoration Of The Veles And Ala: Allegro Feroce
6. PROKOFIEV - Scythian Suite Op.20 'Ala And Lolli', II. The Alien God And The Dance Of The Evil Spirits: Allegro Sostenuto
7. PROKOFIEV - Scythian Suite Op.20 'Ala And Lolli', III. Night: Andantino
8. PROKOFIEV - Scythian Suite Op.20 'Ala And Lolli', IV. Lolli's March And The Cortège Of The Sun

CD31

1. HENZE - Barcarola
2. HENZE - Symphony No.7, I. Tanz - Lebhaft Und Beseelt
3. HENZE - Symphony No.7, II. Ruhig Bewegt
4. HENZE - Symphony No.7, III. Unablässig In Bewegung
5. HENZE - Symphony No.7, IV. Ruhig, Verhalten

CD32

1. BRITTEN The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Op.34: Variations And Fugue On A Theme Of Purcell, Theme (Allegro Maestoso E Largamente)
2. BRITTEN The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Op.34: Variations And Fugue On A Theme Of Purcell, Variation A: Flute And Piccolo (Presto)
3. BRITTEN The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Op.34: Variations And Fugue On A Theme Of Purcell, Variation B: Oboes (Lento)
4. BRITTEN The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Op.34: Variations And Fugue On A Theme Of Purcell, Variation C: Clarinets (Moderato)
5. BRITTEN The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Op.34: Variations And Fugue On A Theme Of Purcell, Variation D: Bassoons (Allegro Alla Marcia)
6. BRITTEN The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Op.34: Variations And Fugue On A Theme Of Purcell, Variation E: Violins (Brillante: Alla Polacca)
7. BRITTEN The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Op.34: Variations And Fugue On A Theme Of Purcell, Variation F: Violas (Meno Mosso)
8. BRITTEN The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Op.34: Variations And Fugue On A Theme Of Purcell, Variation G: Cellos
9. BRITTEN The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Op.34: Variations And Fugue On A Theme Of Purcell, Variation H: Double Basses (Cominciando Lento Ma Poco Accel. Al Allegro)
10. BRITTEN The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Op.34: Variations And Fugue On A Theme Of Purcell, Variation I: Harp (Maestoso)
11. BRITTEN The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Op.34: Variations And Fugue On A Theme Of Purcell, Variation J: Horns (L'istesso Tempo)
12. BRITTEN The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Op.34: Variations And Fugue On A Theme Of Purcell, Variation K: Trumpets (Vivace)
13. BRITTEN The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Op.34: Variations And Fugue On A Theme Of Purcell, Variation L: Trombones And Bass Tuba (Allegro Pomposo)
14. BRITTEN The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Op.34: Variations And Fugue On A Theme Of Purcell, Variation M: Percussion (Moderato)
15. BRITTEN The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Op.34: Variations And Fugue On A Theme Of Purcell, Fugue (Allegro Molto)
16. MAW - Odyssey, Introduction
17. MAW - Odyssey, Part I
18. MAW - Odyssey, Part II

CD33

1. MAW - Odyssey, Part III
2. MAW - Odyssey, Part IV
3. MAW - Odyssey, Epilogue (misnamed as 'Part V' on the rear of the cardboard sleeve)

CD34

1. ELGAR - Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma'), Theme
2. ELGAR - Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma'), I. C.A.E. (The Composer's Wife)
3. ELGAR - Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma'), II. H.D.S-P. (Hew David Steuart-Powell)
4. ELGAR - Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma'), III. R.B.T. (Richard Baxter Townshend)
5. ELGAR - Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma'), IV. W.M.B. (William Meath Baker)
6. ELGAR - Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma'), V. R.P.A. (Richard Penrose Arnold)
7. ELGAR - Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma'), VI. Ysobel (Isabel Fitton)
8. ELGAR - Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma'), VII. Troyte (Troyte Griffith)
9. ELGAR - Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma'), VIII. W.N. (Winifred Norbury)
10. ELGAR - Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma'), IX. Nimrod (A..J. Jaeger)
11. ELGAR - Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma'), X. Intermezzo: Dorabella (Dora Penny)
12. ELGAR - Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma'), XI. G.R.S. (George Robinson Sinclair)
13. ELGAR - Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma'), XII. B.G.N. (Basil G. Nevinson)
14. ELGAR - Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma'), XIII. Romanza: *** (Lady Mary Lygon)
15. ELGAR - Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma'), XIV. Finale: E.D.U. (The Composer)
16. ELGAR - Grania And Diarmid, Op.42, Incidental Music
17. ELGAR - Grania And Diarmid, Op.42, Funeral March
18. ELGAR - Falstaff - Symphonic Study In C Minor Op.68, I. Falstaff And Prince Henry
19. ELGAR - Falstaff - Symphonic Study In C Minor Op.68, II. Eastcheap - Gadshill - The Boar's Head. Revelry And Sleep
20. ELGAR - Falstaff - Symphonic Study In C Minor Op.68, Dream Interlude (Poco Allegretto): 'Jack Falstaff, Now Sir, John, A Boy, And Pade To Thomas Mowbray, Duke Of Norfolk'
21. ELGAR - Falstaff - Symphonic Study In C Minor Op.68, III. Falstaff's March - The Return Through Gloucestershire
22. ELGAR - Falstaff - Symphonic Study In C Minor Op.68, Interlude: Gloucestershire. Shallow's Orchard (Allegretto) - The New King - The Hurried Ride To London
23. ELGAR - Falstaff - Symphonic Study In C Minor Op.68, IV. King Henry's Progress - The Redudiation Of Falstaff, And His Death

CD35

1. ADAMS - Harmonielehre, Part I
2. ADAMS - Harmonielehre, Part II: The Anfortas Wound
3. ADAMS - Harmonielehre, Part III: Meister Eckhardt And Quackie
4. ADAMS - The Chairman Dances 'Foxtrot For Orchestra'
5. ADAMS - Two Fanfares, Tromba Lontana
6. ADAMS - Two Fanfares, Short Ride In A Fast Machine

CD36

1. TURNAGE - Drowned Out
2. TURNAGE - Three Screaming Popes (After Francis Bacon)
3. TURNAGE - Momentum
4. ADÈS Asyla, I.
5. ADÈS Asyla, II.
6. ADÈS Asyla, III. Ecstasio
7. ADÈS Asyla, IV.

CD37

1. BARTÓK - The Miraculous Mandarin Op.19 (Complete Ballet), Beginning
2. BARTÓK - The Miraculous Mandarin Op.19 (Complete Ballet), First Seduction Game
3. BARTÓK - The Miraculous Mandarin Op.19 (Complete Ballet), Second Seduction Game
4. BARTÓK - The Miraculous Mandarin Op.19 (Complete Ballet), Third Seduction Game - The Manderin Enters
5. BARTÓK - The Miraculous Mandarin Op.19 (Complete Ballet), Dance Of The Girl
6. BARTÓK - The Miraculous Mandarin Op.19 (Complete Ballet), The Chase
7. BARTÓK - The Miraculous Mandarin Op.19 (Complete Ballet), Suddenly The Manderin's Head Appears
8. BARTÓK - The Miraculous Mandarin Op.19 (Complete Ballet), The Manderin Falls To The Floor
9. BARTÓK - Concerto For Orchestra, Sz.116, I. Introduzione: Andante Non Troppo - Allegro Vivace
10. BARTÓK - Concerto For Orchestra, Sz.116, II. Giouco Delle Coppie: Allegretto Scherzando
11. BARTÓK - Concerto For Orchestra, Sz.116, III. Elegia: Andante Non Troppo
12. BARTÓK - Concerto For Orchestra, Sz.116, IV. Intermezzo Interrotto: Allegretto
13. BARTÓK - Concerto For Orchestra, Sz.116, V. Finale: Pesente - Presto

CD38

1. SCHOENBERG - Erwartung Op.17, I. Szene: Hier Hinein? Man Sieht Den Weg Nicht...
2. SCHOENBERG - Erwartung Op.17, II. Szene: Ist Das Noch Der Weg? Hier Ist Es Eben.
3. SCHOENBERG - Erwartung Op.17, III. Szene: Da Kommt Ein Licht!...
4. SCHOENBERG - Erwartung Op.17, IV. Szene: Er Ist Auch Nicht Da...
5. SCHOENBERG - Erwartung Op.17, IV. Szene: Das Mondlicht...Nein Dort...
6. SCHOENBERG - Erwartung Op.17, IV. Szene: Was Soll Ich Tun...
7. SCHOENBERG - Erwartung Op.17, IV. Szene: Aber So Seltsam Ist Dein Auge...
8. SCHOENBERG - Erwartung Op.17, IV. Szene: Du Siehst Wieder Dort Hin!...
9. SCHOENBERG - Erwartung Op.17, IV. Szene: Oh! Nicht Einmal Die Gnade...
10. SCHOENBERG - Erwartung Op.17, IV. Szene: Liebster, Liebster, Der Morgen Kommt...
11. SCHOENBERG - Variations For Orchestra, Indroduction And Theme
12. SCHOENBERG - Variations For Orchestra, Variation I: Moderato
13. SCHOENBERG - Variations For Orchestra, Variation II: Adagio
14. SCHOENBERG - Variations For Orchestra, Variation III: Mässig
15. SCHOENBERG - Variations For Orchestra, Variation IV: Waltzer - Tempo
16. SCHOENBERG - Variations For Orchestra, Variation V: Bewegt
17. SCHOENBERG - Variations For Orchestra, Variation VI: Andante
18. SCHOENBERG - Variations For Orchestra, Variation VII: Langsam
19. SCHOENBERG - Variations For Orchestra, Variation VIII: Sehr Rasch
20. SCHOENBERG - Variations For Orchestra, Variation IX: L'istesso Tempo
21. SCHOENBERG - Variations For Orchestra, Finale

CD39

1. SZYMANOWSKI - Stabat Mater Op.53, Stała Matka Bolejąca (Stabat Mater Dolorosa)
2. SZYMANOWSKI - Stabat Mater Op.53, I Któż Widząc Tak Cierpiąją (Qui Est Homo)
3. SZYMANOWSKI - Stabat Mater Op.53, O Matko, żródło Wszechmiłości (O Eja, Mater)
4. SZYMANOWSKI - Stabat Mater Op.53, Spraw, Niech Placzę Z Tobą Razem (Fac Me Tecum)
5. SZYMANOWSKI - Stabat Mater Op.53, Panno Słodka Racz Modołem (Virgo Virginum Praeciara)
6. SZYMANOWSKI - Stabat Mater Op.53, Chrystus Niech Mi Będzie Grodem (Christe, Cum Sit Hic Exire)
7. SZYMANOWSKI - Litany To The Virgin Mary Op.59, Dwunastodźwięczna Cytaro
8. SZYMANOWSKI - Litany To The Virgin Mary Op.59, Jak Krzak Skarlały
9. SZYMANOWSKI - Symphony No.3 Op.27 'Song Of The Night', I. Moderato Assai
10. SZYMANOWSKI - Symphony No.3 Op.27 'Song Of The Night', II. Vivace, Scherzando
11. SZYMANOWSKI - Symphony No.3 Op.27 'Song Of The Night', III. Largo

CD40

1. HAYDN - Symphony No.22 In E Flat Hob.I:22 'The Philosopher', I. Adagio
2. HAYDN - Symphony No.22 In E Flat Hob.I:22 'The Philosopher', II. Presto
3. HAYDN - Symphony No.22 In E Flat Hob.I:22 'The Philosopher', III. Menuetto & Trio
4. HAYDN - Symphony No.22 In E Flat Hob.I:22 'The Philosopher', IV. Finale: Presto
5. HAYDN - Symphony No.102 In B Flat Hob.I:102, I. Largo - Vivace
6. HAYDN - Symphony No.102 In B Flat Hob.I:102, II. Adagio
7. HAYDN - Symphony No.102 In B Flat Hob.I:102, III. Menuet: Allegro & Trio
8. HAYDN - Symphony No.102 In B Flat Hob.I:102, IV. Finale: Presto
9. HAYDN - Symphony No.86 In D Hob.I:86, I. Adagio - Allegro Spiritoso
10. HAYDN - Symphony No.86 In D Hob.I:86, II. Capriccio: Largo
11. HAYDN - Symphony No.86 In D Hob.I:86, III. Menuet (Allegretto) & Trio
12. HAYDN - Symphony No.86 In D Hob.I:86, IV. Finale: Allegro Con Spirito

CD41

1. SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony No.4 In C Minor Op.43, I. Allegretto Poco Moderato - Presto - (Tempo I)
2. SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony No.4 In C Minor Op.43, II. Moderato Con Moto
3. SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony No.4 In C Minor Op.43, III. Largo - Allegro
4. BRITTEN - Russian Funeral (For Brass And Percussion Ensemble), Andante Alla Marcia - Un Pochissimo Animando - Tempo Primo Più Maestoso

CD42

1. MAHLER - Das Lied von Der Erde (from H. Bethge's Die Chinesische Flöte), I. Das Trinklied Vom Jammer Der Erde (The Drinking Song Of Earth's Misery)
2. MAHLER - Das Lied von Der Erde (from H. Bethge's Die Chinesische Flöte), II. Der Einsame Im Herbst (The Lonely One In Autumn)
3. MAHLER - Das Lied von Der Erde (from H. Bethge's Die Chinesische Flöte), III. Von Der Jugend (Of Youth)
4. MAHLER - Das Lied von Der Erde (from H. Bethge's Die Chinesische Flöte), IV. Von Der Schönheit (Of Beauty)
5. MAHLER - Das Lied von Der Erde (from H. Bethge's Die Chinesische Flöte), V. Der Trunkene Im Frühling (The Drunkard In Spring)
6. MAHLER - Das Lied von Der Erde (from H. Bethge's Die Chinesische Flöte), VI. Der Abschied (The Farewell)

CD43

1. BRUCKNER - Symphony No.7 In E, I. Allegro Moderato
2. BRUCKNER - Symphony No.7 In E, II. Adagio (Sehr Feierlich Und Sehr Langsam)
3. BRUCKNER - Symphony No.7 In E, III. Scherzo: Sehr Schnell - Trio (Etwas Langsamer) - Scherzo Da Capo
4. BRUCKNER - Symphony No.7 In E, IV. Finale: Bewegt, Doch Nicht Schnell

CD44

1. GRAINGER - In A Nutshell, I. Arrival Platform Humlet
2. GRAINGER - In A Nutshell, II. 'Gay But Wistful' (Tune In A Popular London Style)
3. GRAINGER - In A Nutshell, III. Pastoral9:01
4. GRAINGER - In A Nutshell, IV. 'The Gum-Suckers' March
5. GRAINGER - Train Music
6. GRAINGER - Country Gardens (English Morris Dance Tune; Version For Stokowski)
7. RAVEL - La Vallée Des Cloches
8. GRAINGER - Lincolnshire Posy (For Military Band), I. Lisbon (Sailor's Song)
9. GRAINGER - Lincolnshire Posy (For Military Band), II. Horkstow Grange (The Miser And His Man - A Local Tragedy)
10. GRAINGER - Lincolnshire Posy (For Military Band), III. Rufford Park Poachers (Poaching Song)
11. GRAINGER - Lincolnshire Posy (For Military Band), IV. The Brisk Young Sailor (Who Returned To Wed His True Love)
12. GRAINGER - Lincolnshire Posy (For Military Band), V. Lord Melbourne (War Song)
13. GRAINGER - Lincolnshire Posy (For Military Band), VI. The Lost Lady Found (Dance Song)
14. DEBUSSY - Pagodes
15. GRAINGER - The Warriors (Music To An Imaginary Ballet)

CD45

1. MAHLER - Symphony No.4 In G, I. Bedächtig. Nicht Eilen
2. MAHLER - Symphony No.4 In G, II. In Gemächlicher Bewegung. Ohne Hast
3. MAHLER - Symphony No.4 In G, III. Ruhevoll
4. MAHLER - Symphony No.4 In G, IV. Sehr Behaglich (Text: Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

CD46

1. WALTON - Symphony No.1 In B Flat Minor, I. Allegro Assai
2. WALTON - Symphony No.1 In B Flat Minor, II. Scherzo: Presto, Con Malizia
3. WALTON - Symphony No.1 In B Flat Minor, III. Andante Con Malinconia
4. WALTON - Symphony No.1 In B Flat Minor, IV. Maestoso - Allegro, Brioso Ed Ardentemente - Vivacissimo - Maestoso
5. WALTON - Belshazzar's Feast, Thus Spake Isaiah: Maestoso
6. WALTON - Belshazzar's Feast, Babylon Was A Great City: Quasi Recitativo
7. WALTON - Belshazzar's Feast, Thus In Babylon, The Mighty City: Allegro Molto
8. WALTON - Belshazzar's Feast, And In The Same Hour, As They Feasted: Quasi Recitativo
9. WALTON - Belshazzar's Feast, Then Sing Aloud To God Our Strength: Lento - Allegro Giocoso
10. WALTON - Belshazzar's Feast, Then Sing Aloud To God Our Strength: Allegro

CD47

1. MAHLER - Symphony No.3 In D Minor, Erste Abteilung: I. Kräftig. Entschieden
2. MAHLER - Symphony No.3 In D Minor, Zweite Abteilung: II. Tempo Di Menuetto. Sehr Mäßig
3. MAHLER - Symphony No.3 In D Minor, Zweite Abteilung: III. Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast

CD48

1. MAHLER - Symphony No.3 In D Minor, Zweite Abteilung: IV. Sehr Langsam. Misterioso. Durchaus ppp
2. MAHLER - Symphony No.3 In D Minor, Zweite Abteilung: V. Lustig Im Tempo Und Keck Im Ausdruck (Text: Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
3. MAHLER - Symphony No.3 In D Minor, Zweite Abteilung: VI. Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden
4. MAHLER - Des Knaben Wunderhorn - 8 Lieder, Der Schildwache Nachtlied
5. MAHLER - Des Knaben Wunderhorn - 8 Lieder, Verlor'ne Müh'
6. MAHLER - Des Knaben Wunderhorn - 8 Lieder, Wer Hat Dies Liedlein Esdacht?
7. MAHLER - Des Knaben Wunderhorn - 8 Lieder, Wo Die Schönen Trompeten Blasen
8. MAHLER - Des Knaben Wunderhorn - 8 Lieder, Revelge
9. MAHLER - Des Knaben Wunderhorn - 8 Lieder, Der Tamboursg'sell
10. MAHLER - Des Knaben Wunderhorn - 8 Lieder, Des Antonius Von Padua Fischpredigt
11. MAHLER - Des Knaben Wunderhorn - 8 Lieder, Ablösung Im Sommer

CD49

1. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act I: Hagios, Hagios! (Chorus/Archbishop)
2. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act I: Boże Pobłogosław Panie Praodwieczny (Chorus/Solo Tenor/Archbishop/Deaconess)
3. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act I: Czyś Słyszał? (Roger/Edrisi/Archbishop/Deaconess/Chorus/Roxana)
4. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act I: Oto Blużnierca! (Chorus/Roger/Shepherd)
5. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act I: Mój Bóg Jest Piȩkny Jako Ja (Shepherd/Archbishop/Deaconess/Chorus/Roxana/Roger)
6. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act I: W Jego Uśmiechu! (Roxana/Roger/Shepherd/Chorus/Deaconess/Archbishop/Edrisi)
7. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act I: Niech Odejdzie Pasterz (Roger/Chorus/Roxana/Shepherd)
8. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act II: Orchestral Introduction
9. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act II: Niepokój Bladych Gwiazd (Roger/Chorus/Edrisi)
10. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act II: A...! - Roksana! Jej śpiew! (Roxana/Roger/Edrisi/Chorus)
11. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act II: Ktoś Mglisty Przeszedł Miȩdzy Strażą! (Roger/Edrisi/Chorus/Shepherd)
12. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act II: O Przychodzȩ Sam, Jako Kazałeś, Królu (Shepherd/Roger)
13. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act II: A...! Uśpij Swój Lȩk I Gniew, Rogerze! (Roxana/Shepherd/Roger/Edrisi)
14. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act II: Tajemnych Głȩbin życla żar Wszechmocną (Shepherd)
15. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act Ii: Dance Of The Shepherd's Followers
16. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act II: A...! - W Rodosnym Tańcu (Chorus/Roxana/Shepherd/Roger)
17. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act II: Kto śmie Mój Czar łańcuchem Pȩtać Rabów? (Shepherd/Roxana/Chorus)
18. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act II: Słuchajcie... W Ciszy Nocy, Słuchajcie (Shepherd/Roxana/Chorus/Roger/Edrisi)
19. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act II: Appendix: Roxana's Aria With Concert Ending: A...! - Roxana! Jej śpiew! (Roxana/Roger/Edrisi/Chorus)

CD50

1. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act III: Orchestral Introduction
2. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act III: Wokół Martwota Głazów (Roger/Edrisi)
3. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act III: Rogerze! Rogerze! (Rozana/Edrisi/Roger/Shepherd/Solo Soprano/Chorus)
4. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act III: Na Sąd, Na Sąd Stav Siȩ Królu! (Chorus/Roger/Shepherd/Edrisi/Roxana)
5. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act III: Syć Ofiarny (Roxana/Roger/Shepherd/Chorus)
6. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act III: Edrisi, Już świt! (Roger)
7. SZYMANOWSKI - Król Roger Op.46, Act III: Słońce! Słońce! Edrisi! (Roger)
8. SZYMANOWSKI - Symphony No.4 (Symphonie Concertante) Op.60 For Piano And Orchestra, I. Moderato. Tempo Comodo
9. SZYMANOWSKI - Symphony No.4 (Symphonie Concertante) Op.60 For Piano And Orchestra, II. Andante Molto Sostenuto
10. SZYMANOWSKI - Symphony No.4 (Symphonie Concertante) Op.60 For Piano And Orchestra, III. Allegro Non Troppo, Ma Agitato Ed Ansioso

CD51

1. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Erster Teil: Veni, Creator Spiritus
2. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Erster Teil: Imple Superna Gratia
3. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Erster Teil: Infima nostri Corporis
4. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Erster Teil: [Tempo I: Allegro, Etwas Hastig]
5. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Erster Teil: Infirma Nostri Corporis
6. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Erster Teil: Accenda Lumen Sensibus
7. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Erster Teil: Qui Paraclitus Diceris
8. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Erster Teil: Gloria Patri Domino
9. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Zweiter Teil: (Poco Adagio)
10. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Zweiter Teil: (Più Mosso: Allegro Moderato)
11. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Zweiter Teil: Waldung, Sie Schwankt Heran (Chorus And Echo)
12. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Zweiter Teil: Ewiger Wonnebrand (Pater Ecstaticus)
13. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Zweiter Teil: Wie Felsenabgrund Mir Zu Füßen (Pater Profundis)
14. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Zweiter Teil: Gerettet Ist Das Edle Glied (Chorus Of Angels)
15. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Zweiter Teil: Uns Bleibt Ein Erdenrest (Chorus Of Angels)
16. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Zweiter Teil: Ich Spür' Soeben (Chorus Of Young Angels)
17. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Zweiter Teil: Höchste Herrscherin Der Welt! (Doctor Marianus)
18. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Zweiter Teil: Dir, Der Unberührbaren (Chorus)
19. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Zweiter Teil: Bei Der Liebe, Die Den Füßen (Magna Peccatrix)
20. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Zweiter Teil: Neige, Neige, Du Ohnegleiche (Una Poenitentium (Gretchen))
21. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Zweiter Teil: Er überwächst Uns Schon (Chorus Of Blessed Boys)
22. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Zweiter Teil: Komm! Hebe Dich Zu Höhern Sphären! (Mater Gloriosa/Chorus)
23. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Zweiter Teil: Blicket Auf Zum Retterblick (Doctor Marianus/Chorus)
24. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Zweiter Teil: Alles Vergängliche Ist Nur Ein Gleichnis (Chorus Mysticus)
25. MAHLER - Symphony No.8 In E Flat ('Symphony Of A Thousand'), Zweiter Teil: Alles Vergängliche Ist Nur Ein Gleichnis (Chorus Mysticus)

CD52

1. SZYMANOWSKI - Songs Of A Fairy-Tale Princess Op.31, Samotny Ksiȩżyc (The Lonely Moon)
2. SZYMANOWSKI - Songs Of A Fairy-Tale Princess Op.31, Słowik (The Nightingale)
3. SZYMANOWSKI - Songs Of A Fairy-Tale Princess Op.31, Taniec (Dance)
4. SZYMANOWSKI - Harnasie Op.55: Ballet-Pantomime In Two Tableaux, Tableau I - In The Highland Pasture: No.1 Redyk (Driving The Sheep)
5. SZYMANOWSKI - Harnasie Op.55: Ballet-Pantomime In Two Tableaux, Tableau I - In The Highland Pasture: No.2 Scena Mimiczna: Zaloty (Mimed Scene: Courtship)
6. SZYMANOWSKI - Harnasie Op.55: Ballet-Pantomime In Two Tableaux, Tableau I - In The Highland Pasture: No.3 Marsz Zbójnicki (The Tatra Robbers' March)
7. SZYMANOWSKI - Harnasie Op.55: Ballet-Pantomime In Two Tableaux, Tableau I - In The Highland Pasture: No.4 Scena Mimiczna: Harnaś I Dziewczyna (Mimed Scene: The Harnaś And The Girl)
8. SZYMANOWSKI - Harnasie Op.55: Ballet-Pantomime In Two Tableaux, Tableau I - In The Highland Pasture: No.5 Taniec Zbójnicki. Final (The Tatra Robbers' Dance. Finale)
9. SZYMANOWSKI - Harnasie Op.55: Ballet-Pantomime In Two Tableaux, Tableau II - In The Inn: No.6a Wesele (The Wedding)
10. SZYMANOWSKI - Harnasie Op.55: Ballet-Pantomime In Two Tableaux, Tableau II - In The Inn: No.6b Cepiny (Entry Of The Bride)
11. SZYMANOWSKI - Harnasie Op.55: Ballet-Pantomime In Two Tableaux, Tableau II - In The Inn: No.6c Pieśń Siuhajów (Drinking Song)
12. SZYMANOWSKI - Harnasie Op.55: Ballet-Pantomime In Two Tableaux, Tableau II - In The Inn: No.7 Taniec Góralski (The Tatra Highlanders' Dance)
13. SZYMANOWSKI - Harnasie Op.55: Ballet-Pantomime In Two Tableaux, Tableau II - In The Inn: No.8 Napad Harnasiów. Teniec (Raid Of The Harnasie. Dance)
14. SZYMANOWSKI - Harnasie Op.55: Ballet-Pantomime In Two Tableaux, Tableau II - In The Inn: No.9 Epilog (Epilogue)
15. SZYMANOWSKI - Love Songs Of Hafiz Op.26, Życzenia (Desires)
16. SZYMANOWSKI - Love Songs Of Hafiz Op.26, Zakochany Wiatr (The Infatuated East Wind)
17. SZYMANOWSKI - Love Songs Of Hafiz Op.26, Taniec (Dance)
18. SZYMANOWSKI - Love Songs Of Hafiz Op.26, Serca Mego Perły (Pearls Of My Soul)
19. SZYMANOWSKI - Love Songs Of Hafiz Op.26, Wieczna Młodość (Eternal Youth)
20. SZYMANOWSKI - Love Songs Of Hafiz Op.26, Głos Twój (Your Voice)
21. SZYMANOWSKI - Love Songs Of Hafiz Op.26, Pieśń Pijacka (Drinking Song)
22. SZYMANOWSKI - Love Songs Of Hafiz Op.26, Grób Hafiza (Hafiz' Grave)

 

The Birmingham Effect: Simon Rattle and the CBSO

In September 1980, when Simon Rattle stepped on stage at Birmingham Town Hall for the first time as principal conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, he was just twenty-five years old. Fast-forward to 30 August 1998, when he performed his final concert as music director of the CBSO: Rattle, or Sir Simon, now stood on the podium of Symphony Hall, a purpose-built venue whose acoustics had been specified by the man himself and which had turned out to be amongst the finest in Europe. He and the orchestra had just returned from the Salzburg Festival, and the first half of their programme had included a recent commission from a twenty-seven-year-old British composer. A 2000-strong audience had cheered it to the rafters.

The transformation that Rattle wrought in Birmingham over an unprecedented eighteen-year tenure went beyond the artistic fortunes of one particular orchestra. Indeed, the CBSO’s prestige had transformed the economic prospects of the UK’s second city — planners talked of a “Birmingham Effect”. Rattle and his musicians had done this on the basis of a repertoire that had transformed the definition of a symphony orchestra in the late twentieth century. “Don’t expect me to conduct Beethoven symphonies and all the great works”, he told the CBSO’s chairman in 1978.

In fact, Rattle performed the Austro-German classics throughout those eighteen years, often in radically imaginative contexts. But boldly (and refreshingly) he insisted that his artistic journey with the CBSO was a joint process of growth. London-based critics who grumbled that he should move on to a more glamorous music directorship missed the point; orchestra-building, audience-building, artistic exploration and Rattle’s own self-education went hand in hand.

Rattle and the CBSO performed and recorded the repertoire in which they felt they had the most urgent things to say. Sibelius and Mahler took pride of place, the starting point for a bright-eyed, open-minded exploration of those composers’ twentieth-century legacy. Messiaen, Stravinsky and the music of Henze, John Adams and the young Mark-Anthony Turnage began to attract sizeable and inquisitive audiences.

“The 934 concerts that he did included music by 113 composers, of whom 84 were twentieth-century and no fewer than 36 were living when we played their pieces”, notes Ed Smith, chief executive of the CBSO from 1978 to 1999. Rattle’s decision to wait until 1995 before undertaking his first full Beethoven cycle was profoundly considered.

Even then, he viewed it as a first step. “What Simon is quietly doing there has the potential to create a model of change for every orchestra in the country”, commented the composer Oliver Knussen, as early as 1987. “The conductor is growing into the repertory with the orchestra; it’s unique, and it’s how it should be done.”

“For me, the most important thing about recordings is that they are the most effective way to make the orchestra play better […]
None of these recordings I’m making now is my last will and testament.” - Simon Rattle, 1986

The Recordings

“I do believe that there are certain things ― such as human discourse, friendship and music ― that are meant to be live”, Rattle told The Daily Telegraph in 1999. “To be limited to recordings is like choosing snapshots of your children over the children themselves.” His approach to recording with the CBSO was to try and re-create the energy, spontaneity and living quality of a concert performance.

“We try now to do more and more straight performances in the recording studio, with as few re-takes as possible”, he told Nicholas Kenyon during the recording of Mahler’s Resurrection symphony in 1986. Later, he would come to favour recordings based wholly on live performances ― “You need to hear the rough edges.” Rattle’s discs with the CBSO are snapshots not just of a living relationship between conductor and orchestra, but of an ongoing process of artistic exploration.

That process begins with a series of major statements of intent: the first British recording of Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass ― one of the high points of Rattle’s first full season in Birmingham, recorded barely five months after his first concert as principal conductor ― and only the second recording ever made of Britten’s War Requiem. As the orchestra that gave its premiere in 1962, the CBSO has a unique performance tradition in this work.

A series of shorter Britten works signalled a determination to widen the canon: Rattle had conducted (incredibly) the world premiere of Britten’s American Overture just six months before recording it in early 1984. He was to have conducted the UK premiere of the equally rare Occasional Overture in October 1983, had the birth of his son Sacha not intervened: Rattle’s mentor John Carewe covered for the new dad. Elise Ross, then Rattle’s wife, had already featured on his September 1982 recording of Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins, the first to use Weill’s original keys. “Rattle really appreciates the colour and wit”, wrote Opera magazine.

Growing together

By now a “Rattle sound” was emerging. “The Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances at the end of the [1981–2] season were incredibly important”, he recalls. “If I had to specify a work which created the orchestra’s sound as it is now, it would be those pieces.” That sound is already evident in the Ravel-like sumptuousness of two Vaughan Williams song cycles, and glitters through his recordings of the major Stravinsky ballets, recorded in the lucid acoustic of the new Butterworth Hall at Warwick Arts Centre.

And it can be heard at its most thrillingly raw in Rattle’s headlong 1986 reading of Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie. “What a great Mars Bar of a piece!” exclaimed Rattle at the sessions. Turangalîla had been central to his repertoire with the CBSO since the 1981–2 season; the piano soloist Peter Donohoe — a friend from Rattle’s Merseyside Youth Orchestra days — recalls their 1982 BBC Proms performance as the single greatest musical experience of his career.

That Turangalîla could become staple fare in Birmingham speaks for the revolution that Rattle was working in audience taste, building programmes in which invested Berg’s Lulu Suite and Schoenberg’s Erwärtung with the same emotional commitment and sonic beauty as Debussy’s Jeux or Ravel’s La Valse. Maria Ewing’s presence in Ravel’s Shéhérazade is evidence of the calibre of soloist flocking to work in Birmingham by 1989. Two decades later, in 2008, Alex Ross recommended Rattle’s CBSO Berg/Webern/Schoenberg CD as still the finest single-disc introduction to the Second Viennese School.

Sibelius and Mahler

Two symphonic cycles stand at the centre of Rattle’s recorded legacy with the CBSO. Sibelius has been a constant in Rattle’s musical life. As early as 1980 he described Sibelius’s Fifth as one of “my showpieces”, but a weekend-long live cycle at Warwick Arts Centre in 1983 revealed that his vision of this music ran far deeper. “For a long time now I’ve had strong views on how Sibelius should be performed”, he told Nicholas Kenyon in 1987. “He’s not taken as seriously as he deserves […] The music has had a romantic tradition foisted onto it. ”

Rattle found a sympathetic response in Birmingham (the CBSO had been conducted by Sibelius himself in the 1920s), and although his engagement with this music has continued to deepen, the freshness, clarity and organic momentum of his CBSO cycle make it an enduring benchmark. “A mighty account of the work, one which has enormous breadth and power”, said Gramophone of the Seventh. “It is the measure of a great performance that it can persuade the listener that this is not only a new and refreshing point of view, it is the only one.”

The other touchstone in Rattle’s Birmingham career was Mahler’s Resurrection symphony. He recalls his first encounter with the symphony at the age of eleven as “a completely transfiguring experience. It was the road to Damascus and it knocked me for six.” His multi-award-winning 1986 recording still conveys that sense of the overwhelming with an immediacy unmatched in the catalogue. “We are dealing here with conducting akin to genius,” pronounced Gramophone, “with insights and instincts that cannot be measured with any old yardstick.”

Rattle’s relationship with Mahler is intensely personal — and it’s for this reason that there’s no Birmingham Fifth or Ninth (although there is a poetic performance of Das klagende Lied). He approached each symphony as he felt ready for it, with results that gain accordingly in sincerity (the Seventh, in particular, took numerous attempts before a concert performance in the slightly boxy surroundings of Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh provided the “as live” urgency Rattle sought). In the case of the Eighth, that meant waiting until 2004, over a decade after the completion of Birmingham’s new Symphony Hall. The symphony was originally intended to be Rattle’s final Birmingham disc (though he continues to work regularly with the CBSO, never failing to tell players and audience that “I’m home”), but it’s telling that when he said farewell before an exultant and tearful capacity audience in August 1998, he did so with a final, heartfelt return to the Resurrection.

Sonic adventures

With the opening of Symphony Hall in May 1991, Rattle and his orchestra finally had a venue in which they could both perform and record. “It’s like a Christmas present for me”, declared the delighted conductor, and his final seven years with the CBSO found him revelling in the sonic glory of Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony and Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast and venturing into the Austro-German repertoire with a spacious rendition of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony. Growing Birmingham audiences heard the local Elgar tradition renewed (Elgar had conducted the orchestra’s inaugural symphonic concert in 1920), following on from Rattle’s 1986 recording of another Birmingham fixture, The Dream of Gerontius.

It also gave him renewed scope to explore personal passions: joyous, swashbuckling performances of Haydn symphonies (he’d recorded The Creation in 1990), informed but never compromised by his work with the period-instrument Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. A gloriously breezy album of Percy Grainger was released; and a new love affair with the music of Karol Szymanowski began, leading to a best-selling disc of the Third Symphony and Stabat Mater, a concert performance of Król Roger that made full use of Symphony Hall’s vast space, and a return after the end of his Birmingham tenure for exquisitely bejewelled accounts of the song-cycles. At the end of the Songs of a Fairy-Tale Princess he turned to the audience and, grinning, asked “I think we should play them again — don’t you?”

New worlds

And with his decade-long festival Towards the Millennium (1990–2000), Rattle had a fresh impetus to perform the music of living composers (were any needed). Though he denies that he’d made it a condition of his ongoing contract with EMI, he’d lobbied forcefully for the chance to record Nicholas Maw’s epic Odyssey — the longest single-movement orchestral work in existence — in 1990. An impassioned recording of Henze’s Seventh Symphony prompted the composer to write his Tenth Symphony specifically for Rattle and the CBSO. And John Adams, visiting Birmingham, was astonished to find Rattle queuing at a local supermarket to buy soap and toothpaste for his stay in the city; the CBSO’s vibrant reading of Harmonielehre places this American composer’s music in the tradition of Mahler.

Most importantly of all, Rattle and the CBSO continued to create new music. The first official concert in Symphony Hall, on 12 June 1991, ended with Mahler’s Second, but it began with Momentum by the CBSO’s new Composer in Association, the 31-year-old Mark-Anthony Turnage. Momentum, Three Screaming Popes and Drowned Out were all commissioned for and premiered by Rattle and the CBSO, and the recorded performances of these works have a unique electricity; if Rattle believed in “definitive” recordings, these, perhaps, would be such. In 1998 Rattle began his farewell concert with another CBSO commission by an even younger composer: the rave-influenced single-movement symphony Asyla by Thomas Adès, then twenty-seven.

Four years later, on 7 September 2002, he began his first concert with the Berlin Philharmonic with exactly the same work. For a conductor who views his whole career as a work in progress, the message couldn’t have been clearer. Nicholas Maw, speaking after the premiere of Odyssey, summed it up:

I have often thought about the musical qualities that produced those memorable performances: musical gifts of a high order, of course, but also spiritual and intellectual curiosity, appetite, dedication, concentration, and the ability of all great conductors to make musicians give the best of themselves — to make them want to play. We are all fortunate to be living through the Rattle era.

© Richard Bratby

Simon Rattle – The CBSO Years in Numbers

From 1980 to 1998 Simon conducted 934 concerts with the Orchestra including 16 world premieres. Three hundred and thirty-seven of those concerts were in Birmingham, 339 elsewhere in the UK including 28 Henry Wood Proms, 46 Royal Festival Hall and 39 Barbican concerts. Two hundred and eight of the total were on foreign tours to 25 countries on 4 continents. Those 934 concerts included music by 113 composers – 84 of them being 20th century and no less than 36 living at the time we performed their works. To accomplish all that, Simon rehearsed the Orchestra for a staggering (and I use the work advisedly!) 5,098 hours.

Which  works top the bill as the most often performed work that Simon conducted with the CBSO? No, it’s not Sibelius 5th (37 times) or the 7th (30), but Beethoven’s Eroica (42). And which Mahler Symphony have we performed most? Perversely, it’s the least often performed of them all –No.7 (31). Mahler has been so pivotal to Simon’s work with us that a complete list is worth recording: No.1 – 17, No.2 – 13, No.3 – 8, No.4 – 12, No.5 -18, No.6 – 19, No.7 – 31, No.8 – 0 [subsequently recorded in 2005], No.9 – 14, No.10 – 11. Of other major symphonists Dvorak appears with only one (no.7 twice), Vaughan Williams one (No.5) and Tchaikovsky not at all!

Singers and instrumental soloists joining Simon for CBSO concerts add up to 261. Many of those, of course appear many times – and pianists and tenors head the list for the most frequent collaborators. It’s probably no surprise that most frequent guest instrumentalist was Peter Donohoe (47 times) followed by Alfred Brendel (20). Two tenors heading the singers are John Mitchinson (32) and Philip Langridge (27) with baritone Willard White (30) coming between them.

On top of all that public concert-giving activity wil all those artists, Simon and the Orchestra made 69 recordings for EMI [latterly Warner Classics] and spent 978 hours in the recording studio making them. In addition they made 25 programmes for both BBC and Independent Television.