Dorti in Detroit: Complete Decca Recordings

Description

Collected here in one edition are the complete Decca recordings of Antal Dorti and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra:

• 18 CDs with spined wallets, original jackets
• Highlights include: Performances of Bartoks Suite No.1, 2 Pictures, Miraculous Mandarin and Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Bartok was in his [Dortis] blood-stream, wrote critic Robert Layton

And recordings of works by a trio of composers Dorti knew well and worked with: Strauss, Stravinsky and Copland including:

• The first-ever studio recording of Strausss opera Die gyptische Helena boasting a stunning cast headed by Gwyneth Jones, Willard White and the young Barbara Hendricks
• Sonically excellent interpretations of Firebird and The Rite of Spring that even half a century later still leap out of the loudspeakers some of the earliest Decca digital recordings that remain benchmarks to this day
• Dortis last sessions in Detroit included Coplands Appalachian Spring. Dorti had been a lifelong champion of the composer and the atmosphere was clearly special at those sessions
• The recordings are accompanied by a 52pp book (En/Fr/De) with new notes by Dominic Fyfe, Label Director, Decca Classics
• Two-piece capbox, 52pp booklet, 18 spined wallets, original jackets / Approx. dimensions: 128x128x46mm

CD1
1. TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture; Capriccio italien; Marche slave
CD2
1. LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 S.244/2 (arr. Karl Mller-Berghaus)
2. DVOK Slavonic Rhapsody in A flat Op.45/3 B.86/3
3. ENESCU Romanian Rhapsody No.1 in A Op.11/1
4. RAVEL Rapsodie espagnole M.54
CD3
1. BARTK Suite No.1 Sz. 31; 2 Pictures Sz. 46
CD45
1. R STRAUSS Die gyptische Helena Op.75 TrV 255 Jones, Kastu, Bryant, Hendrick, White
CD6
1. R STRAUSS Don Juan; Tod und Verklrung
CD7
1. STRAVINSKY Petrushka (1947 version)
CD8
1. SZYMANOWSKI Symphony No.2 Op.19; Symphony No.3 Op.27 Chant de la nuit
CD9
1. DVOK Czech Suite Op.39 B.93; Prague Waltzes B.99
2. Polonaise B.100; Polka Op.53a/1 B.114 For Prague Students; Nocturne Op.40 B.47
CD10
1. COPLAND El saln Mexico; Dance Symphony
2. Fanfare for the Common Man; Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo
CD11
1. STRAVINSKY Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
CD12
1. R STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra Op.30 TrV 176; Macbeth Op.23 TrV 163
CD13
1. STRAVINSKY LOiseau de feu (The Firebird)
CD14
1. GROF Grand Canyon Suite
2. GERSHWIN Porgy & Bess: A Symphonic Picture (arr. Robert Russell Bennett)
CD15
1. R STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier Op.59 TrV 227 (arr. Antal Dorti)
2. Symphonic Fantasy from Die Frau ohne Schatten TrV 234a
CD16
1. BARTK The Miraculous Mandarin Op.19 Sz. 73
2. Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Sz. 106
CD17
1. STRAVINSKY Symphony No.1 in E flat Op.1; Scherzo fantastique Op.3
CD18
1. COPLAND Appalachian Spring (1945 suite)
2. STRAVINSKY Apollon musagte (1947 version)