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George Szell

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Decca & Philips Recordings 1951-69

CATALOGUE NUMBER

475 6780 8 DC5

TRACKLISTING
CD 1
1-4 Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor, op.67
5-14 Complete incidental music to Egmont, op.84

CD 2
1-4 Mendelssohn: Incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op.61
5-8 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 in F minor, op.36

CD 3
1-4 Schubert: Incidental music to Rosamunde, D797
5-8 Sibelius: Symphony No.2 in D major, op.43

CD 4
1-6 Handel: Water Music — Suite *(arr.Harty/Szell)
7 Il pastor fido — Minuet* (arr.Beecham)
8-11 Music for the Royal Fireworks — Suite* (arr.Harty)
12 Serse — Largo* (“Ombra mai fu”)
13-15 Mozart: Symphony No.34 in C major, K338

CD 5
1-4 Brahms: Symphony No.3 in F major, op.90
5-8 Dvorák: Symphony No.8 in G major, op.58

RECORDING INFORMATION
Legendary conductor George Szell was born in Budapest on 7 June 1897 and died in Cleveland, USA, on 29 July 1970. His conducting debut took place with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in 1913 at the age of sixteen. Other important debuts followed and it was at the invitation of Richard Strauss that he was engaged at the Berlin Staatsoper in 1915. Further European debuts and engagements followed (including London in 1933) and in 1939 he went to the United States.

From 1946-70 he was music director of the Cleveland Orchestra and it was with that orchestra that he built an ensemble that attained world-class status and consolidated his own reputation. While the major part of his discography is with CBS/Sony and contains outstanding performances of the classical and romantic repertory his handful of recordings made for Decca and Philips have also been highly praised and sought-after. This set contains all his symphonic recordings on the Decca and Philips labels. He also recorded with Clifford Curzon on a number of occasions and most of those recordings are available in the Original Masters sets devoted to Curzon.

To see all Original Masters go to the homepage at www.deccaclassics.com/originalmasters.

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