Artur Rodziński: The Complete Cleveland Orchestra Recordings

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Label
Sony Masterworks
Release Date
November 3, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Ludwig van Beethoven, Alban Berg, Hector Berlioz, Claude Debussy, Armas Jarnefelt, Jerome Kern, Feli
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      The Cleveland Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      The Cleveland Orchestra
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 03, 2023
    • UPC
      194399287729
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      19439928772
    • LABEL
      Sony Masterworks
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      13
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No. 2

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    2. Rapsodie Espagnole

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    3. Alborada del gracioso

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    4. La Mer

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    5. Show Boat (Scenario for Orchestra)

      Composer: Jerome Kern

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    6. Symphony no. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    7. Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    8. Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    9. Der Rosenkavalier: Waltzes

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    10. Romeo & Juliet - Fantasy Overture

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    11. 1812 Overture

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    12. Marche slave, Op. 31

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    13. Khovanschina: Dawn on the Moscow River

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    14. Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    15. Praeludium for Small Orchestra

      Composer: Armas Järnefelt

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    16. Finlandia, Op. 26

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    17. Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    18. Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    19. Scheherazade, Op. 35

      Composer: Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    20. Variations & Fugue on 'Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree'

      Composer: Mieczysław Weinberg

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    21. Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    22. A Midsummer Night's Dream: Incidental Music, Op. 61

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    23. Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    24. Der Freischütz: Overture

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    25. Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    26. Violin Concerto, Op. 36

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Louis Krasner (Violin)

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    27. Violin Concerto

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Louis Krasner (Violin)

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński

    28. Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Ensemble: The Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Nathan Milstein (Violin)

      Conductor: Artur Rodziński


Following Sony Classical’s 16-CD release of Artur Rodziński’s New York Philharmonic recordings, here is the label’s eagerly awaited 13-disc collection of his complete recordings with the Cleveland Orchestra, which Rodziński headed from 1933 to 1943. The fiery, volatile Polish conductor (1892–1958) – whose lean, propulsive style emulated that of his idol Toscanini – earned a reputation as a builder of great orchestras: he led and developed the Los Angeles Philharmonic before taking up his position in Cleveland. In 1935, he brought nationwide attention to the midwestern orchestra when he conducted it in the US première of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. During his tenure in Cleveland, Rodziński moulded its orchestra into a brilliant ensemble which his successor, George Szell, would then elevate to international pre-eminence. Meanwhile, Rodziński was also active in Europe, becoming the first naturalized American to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival. There Toscanini admired his work and in 1938 picked him to train his new NBC Symphony Orchestra. In Cleveland between 1939 and 1942, Rodziński conducted a number of important recordings for Columbia Masterworks, all of them contained in this new set.

With dedicatee Louis Krasner as soloist, he made the first studio recording of the Berg Violin Concerto. His other acclaimed 78-sets include the Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade (“among the finest statements ever given this incorrigibly popular score” – High Fidelity), Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben, the Fifth Symphony of Tchaikovsky (“Remarkable here is the tension of the second movement and the heroic close to the first” – Gramophone) as well as those of Sibelius and Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet (“Unsullied excitement” – Gramophone), Debussy’s La Mer and the orchestral “scenario” from Jerome Kern’s Show Boat – plus a previously unreleased recording of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with Nathan Milstein. Until now, most of these albums have only been released on 78s and reissued on LP. Thus Sony Classical’s meticulously transferred and mastered 13-disc collection of Rodziński’s Cleveland recordings fills a large gap in this still widely admired conductor’s CD discography.