Beethoven, Schoenberg, Stravinsky & Others: Works For Orchestra (Live)

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Label
Orfeo
Release Date
November 11, 2014
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      STRAVINSKY MUSSORGSKY
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Jeuness-Choir Vienna, European Community Youth Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Schell, Gustav Maher Jugendorchester, Abba
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 11, 2014
    • UPC
      4011790892122
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ORF-C892141B
    • LABEL
      Orfeo
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Die Geschopfe des Prometheus (The Creatures of Prometheus), Op. 43: Overture

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: European Community Youth Orchestra

      Conductor: Claudio Abbado

    2. A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Vienna Youth Choir, European Community Youth Orchestra

      Performer: Maximilian Schell

      Conductor: Claudio Abbado

    3. I. Introduction - II. L'oiseau de feu et sa danse (The Firebird)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: European Community Youth Orchestra

      Conductor: Claudio Abbado

    4. III. Ronde des Princesses (Round of the Princesses)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: European Community Youth Orchestra

      Conductor: Claudio Abbado

    5. IV. Danse infernale du roi Kastchei (King Kastchei's Infernal Dance)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: European Community Youth Orchestra

      Conductor: Claudio Abbado

    6. V. Berceuse (Lullaby) - VI. Finale

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: European Community Youth Orchestra

      Conductor: Claudio Abbado

    7. VI. Finale

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: European Community Youth Orchestra

      Conductor: Claudio Abbado

    8. Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 1, Op. 64bis: VII. Death of Tybalt

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: European Community Youth Orchestra

      Conductor: Claudio Abbado

    9. St. John's Night on Bald Mountain, "A Night on the Bare Mountain" (original version)

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Ensemble: Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester

      Conductor: Claudio Abbado


For Claudio Abbado, the European youth orchestras he founded and conducted were always an affair of the heart. + With them he could live out his enthusiasm without compromising either quality or repertoire. + Mr. Abbado, who died in January 2014, conducted many concerts and operas in Salzburg, and not just with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics. + He also led international youth orchestras to major Festival successes. + This CD impressively documents his live recording of the very first concert of the European Community Youth Orchestra from 1979 in a program both varied and ambitious, ranging from Beethoven via Prokofiev and Stravinsky to Schoenberg’s Survivor from Warsaw with the Vienna Jeunesse Choir and the great actor Maximilian Schell as narrator. + The program is complemented by a 1994 recording of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in the ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ by Modest Mussorgsky – a composer whom Abbado did much to rehabilitate through championing the original versions of his works.