Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon (86CD + DVD Box Set)

Ferenc Fricsay

Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon (86CD + DVD Box Set)

Ferenc Fricsay died at only 48 years of age – suffering a death from illness that was as tragic as it was untimely. Even though Fricsay’s career as a recording artist barely lasted 12 years, he is considered a legend, the epitome of the enlightened master conductor who was good at everything he touched; he was a conductor of fastidious musicianship and personal warmth. The sleek and slender aspects of Ferenc Fricsay’s conductorial style paved the way for many aspects of what we consider informed conducting today, especially in Mozart.

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During the short timespan that he had as a recording artist, between 1949 and 1961, Fricsay, managed to make an abundance of records for Deutsche Grammophon, now amounting to an incredible 82 fully packed CDs. Even Herbert von Karajan in his heyday would have been hard-pressed to equal that. And, as critics then and now have pointed out, Fricsay made every single record count, especially in the last years of his stupendous career, when he knew that he had little time. One can only wonder what this genius would have achieved had he lived longer.

TRACK LIST

BARTÓK CD1: Piano Concertos 1–3 (1959/1960) CD2: Violin Concerto 2 · Two Portraits · Dance Suite CD3: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta CD4: Divertimento · Piano Concerto 3 (1954); Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra CD5: Herzog Blaubarts Burg · Cantata profana BEETHOVEN CD6: Piano Concerto 3 · Triple Concerto CD7: Symphonies 1 & 8 CD8: Symphony 3 · Leonore III; HANDEL Harp Concerto CD9: Symphonies 5 & 7 CD10: Overture to Egmont · Symphony 9 CD11–12: Fidelio CD13: BERLIOZ · BORODIN · MUSSORGSKY · GOUNOD CD14: ROSSINI Overtures · BIZET Carmen (Excerpts) CD15: BIZET Carmen (Highlights); Arias by BIZET · ROSSINI · VERDI · PUCCINI CD16: BLACHER Paganini Variations · Rondo; LIEBERMANN Furioso for Orchestra; EINEM Ballade · Piano Concerto CD17: BRAHMS Piano Concerto 2 · Double Concerto CD18: FRANCK Symphonic Variations; BRAHMS Haydn Variations · Symphony 2 CD19: DEBUSSY · DUKAS · RAVEL CD20: DVOŘÁK · BRUCH · GLAZUNOV: Violin Concertos CD21: DVOŘÁK Symphony 9 (1959); SMETANA The Moldau (1960); LISZT Les Préludes CD22: DVOŘÁK Symphony 9 (1953); SMETANA The Moldau (1953); From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields CD23: EGK · EINEM · HENZE · FORTNER · LIEBERMANN CD24: FALLA · FRANÇAIX · HONEGGER · TCHEREPNIN · RACHMANINOFF CD25: PROKOFIEV Symphony 1; GLIÈRE Symphony 3 CD26–27: GLUCK Orpheus und Eurydike CD28: HINDEMITH · HARTMANN · EINEM · MARTIN HAYDN CD29: Symphonies 44, 95 & 98 CD30: Symphonies 48, 100 & 101 CD31–32: Die Jahreszeiten (1952) CD33–34: Die Jahreszeiten (1961) · Te Deum KODÁLY CD35: Háry János Suite (1961) · Symphony in C major CD36: Dances of Marosszék · Dances of Galánta · Háry János Suite (1954) CD37: Psalmus hungaricus (1954 & 1959) CD38: MENDELSSOHN · LISZT · SARASATE · HUBAY CD39: MENDELSSOHN Ein Sommernachtstraum; BRAHMS Alt-Rhapsodie; MAHLER 5 Rückert-Lieder MOZART CD40: Symphonies 1, 4–9 CD41: Symphonies 23 & 27 · Bassoon Concerto Sinfonia concertante CD42: Cassation · Serenade · Ein musikalischer Spaß CD43: Serenata notturna · Divertimenti · Arias CD44: Symphonies 29 (1961) & 39 · Maurerische Trauermusik · Adagio & Fugue in C minor CD45: Symphonies 40 & 41 (1961) · Eine kleine Nachtmusik CD46: Symphonies 29 (1955), 35 & 41 (1953) CD47: Clarinet Concerto · Piano Concerto 20 · Concert Rondos CD48: Piano Concertos 19 & 27 CD49: Great Mass in C minor · Laudate Dominum · Exsultate, jubilate (1960) CD50: Requiem CD51–52: Die Entführung aus dem Serail · Exsultate, jubilate (1954) · Arias CD53–54: Die Zauberflöte CD55–57: Don Giovanni CD58–59: Idomeneo CD60–62: Le nozze di Figaro CD63: ROSSINI/RESPIGHI La Boutique fantasque; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade CD64: ROSSINI Stabat Mater CD65: SCHUBERT Symphony 8; SCHUMANN Symphony 1; WEBER Clarinet Concerto 1 CD66: J. STRAUSS II Overture to Die Fledermaus · Waltzes · Polkas CD67: J. STRAUSS I & II · JOSEF STRAUSS: Waltzes Polkas · Overtures · Radetzky-Marsch (1952) CD68–69: J. STRAUSS II Die Fledermaus · Frühlingsstimmen CD70: R. STRAUSS Don Juan · Duett-Concertino · Burleske in D minor · Till Eulenspiegel STRAVINSKY CD71: Le Sacre du printemps · Pétrouchka · Movements CD72: Capriccio · The Fairy’s Kiss; WEBER/BERLIOZ Invitation à la valse; WEBER Konzertstück CD73: Oedipus rex · Symphony of Psalms TCHAIKOVSKY CD74: Symphony 4 · Selections from Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty & Nutcracker Eugene Onegin (Waltz, 1957) CD75: Symphony 5 · Overture solennelle 1812 · Eugene Onegin (Waltz & Polonaise, 1960) CD76: Symphony 6 (1953) · Violin Concerto CD77: Serenade for Strings · Symphony 6 (1959) CD78: VERDI Overtures, Preludes & Ballet Music; PONCHIELLI Danza delle ore CD79: VERDI Requiem (1953) CD80–81: VERDI Requiem (1960) · Quattro pezzi sacri CD82–83: WAGNER Der fliegende Holländer CD84: Arias by BIZET · GOUNOD · ROSSINI · VERDI · GIORDANO · LEONCAVALLO; ORFF Carmina Burana (Excerpts) CD85: SMETANA The Moldau (Rehearsals and Performances) CD86: FRICSAY Erzähltes Leben (A Life Retold) DVD: DUKAS · KODÁLY Rehearsals and Performances