Wolfgang Sawallisch: Complete Symphonic, Lieder & Choral Recordings - Warner Classics Edition, Vol. 1

$199.98
Label
WARNER CLASSICS
Release Date
August 9, 2024
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For five decades Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923-2013) held a central position in the musical world. That centrality was reflected in a series of top orchestral and operatic posts and in his interpretations, free of self-regarding eccentricities. His modest but highly effective conducting technique also made him the ideal recording artist. Sawallisch was a Bavarian born in Munich, city of orchestras and a great opera company, which he headed for 21 years. He started his career as an outstanding pianist and remained a sought-after accompanist to great Lieder singers and instrumentalists. Volume 1 of a complete conspectus of his Warner Classics recordings (made for Electrola and EMI Classics between 1954 to 1997) includes wonderful Lieder and song collaborations, as well as famous concerto accompaniments for eminent soloists and a heartwarming traversal of Schubert's secular vocal and sacred choral music with Bavarian Radio colleagues. But the main focus among the 65 discs is on his symphonic achievements: Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bruckner and Dvor�k - the latter's Eighth Symphony was his first published recording, from 1954. Richard Strauss, an early influence, is strongly represented. This 65CD-box brings together all the non-operatic recordings that the German conductor and pianist Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923-2013) made in the years from 1954 to 1997 for EMI Classics and Electrola (now Warner Classics).


Product Description:

  • Release Date: August 09, 2024


  • UPC: 5054197832178


  • Catalog Number: WCL783217.2


  • Label: WARNER CLASSICS


  • Number of Discs: 0


  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Carl Maria von Weber, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner, Anton Bruckner, Antonín Dvořák, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss, Hans Pfitzner, Paul Hindemith, Carl Orff, Henri Tomasi, Bohuslav Martinů, George Enescu, Alexander Glazunov, Alexander Goedicke, Niels Viggo Bentzon, Edvard Hagerup Bull, Eugene Bozza, Gabriel Pares, Jacques Ibert, Leopold Stokowski


  • Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Chor des Städtischen Musikvereins zu Düsseldorf, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Ambrosian Singers, Philharmonia Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Capella Bavariae, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Staatskapelle Dresden, Philadelphia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra


  • Performer: Youri Egorov, Annie Fischer, Johanna Martzy, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Margaret Price, Marjana Lipovšek, Peter Seiffert, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Peter Schreier, Brigitte Fassbaender, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Hildegard Behrens, Helen Donath, Adolf Dallapozza, Lucia Popp, Francisco Araiza, Erika Rüggeberg, Julia Falk, Maria Venuti, Josef Protschka, Robert Tear, Thomas Hampson, Krisztina Laki, Mitsuko Shirai, Stephen Kovacevich, Ann Murray, Nobuko Imai, Marie Luise Neunecker, Natalia Gutman, Emanuel Ax, Richard Woodhams, Dennis Brain, Agnes Giebel, Paul Kuen, Marcel Cordes, Ole Edvard Antonsen, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Heinrich Schiff