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Antal Dorati - Antal Dorati - Mercury Masters: Mono Recordings (CD SET 31CD Boxset CD BOX SET) A tour de force of thrilling orchestral playing and brilliant audio engineering, Antal Doráti’s mono recordings are collected for the first time. Newly remastered, this collection comprehensively documents a golden era in American classical recording and most of these vividly-characterized recordings appear on CD for the first time. “has to be heard to be believed … is it possible to exceed this in the art of reproduced sound?” The New Records Tracklisting CD 1 BORODIN Symphony No. 2- STRAVINSKY L’Oiseau de feu – Suite -FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 2 BERLIOZ Le Carnaval romain RAVEL Pavane; Alborada del gracioso DEBUSSY Nocturnes FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 3 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 4 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 5 MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4 ‘Italian’ MOZART Symphony No. 40 FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 6 RESPIGHI Pini di Roma Fontane di Roma FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 7 R. STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 8 GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess (A Symphonic Picture) GOULD Spirituals in Five Movements FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 9 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5; Overtures – Egmont; Coriolan; Leonore No. 3 FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 10 COPLAND Symphony No. 3 CD 11 JOHANN STRAUSS II Waltzes: Wiener Blut; Wein, Weib und Gesang; Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald; Kaiser-Walzer FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 12 STRAVINSKY Le Sacre du printemps FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 13 TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 14 BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 15 BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 16 RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 17 RESPIGHI Feste Romane Vetrate di Chiesa CD 18 GINASTERA Variaciones concertantes BRITTEN The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra CDs 19–20 TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake CD 21 TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture (including spoken commentary) Capriccio italien Deems Taylor CD 22 BRITTEN The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra TCHAIKOVSKY Nutcracker Suite (with narration) Deems Taylor FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 23 STRAVINSKY Petrouchka (Version 1947) FIRST RELEASE ON CD CDs 24–26 TCHAIKOVSKY The Sleeping Beauty FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 27 BRAHMS Symphony No. 3; Academic Festival Overture; Tragic Overture (mono and stereo versions) FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 28 BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8 FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 29 TCHAIKOVSKY Stories with Music The Story of the Nutcracker Prince The Story of the Twelve Dancing Princesses R. STRAUSS The Story of Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks Jerry Terheyden FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 30 SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8 ‘Unfinished’ TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet Chicago Symphony Orchestra FIRST RELEASE ON CD CD 31- KODÁLY Peacock Variations BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin – Suite Chicago Symphony Orchestra
