VA - Mercury Living Presence - The Collector's Edition [51CD Box Set] (2011)
Artist: Various Artists Title Of Album: Mercury Living Presence - The Collector's Edition Year Of Release: 2011 Label (Catalog#): Mercury/Universal Music Limited [00289 480 5233] Genre: Classical, Baroque, Romantic, Modern Quality: WAV (*image +.cue,log,scans) Time: 51CD Full Size: 35.60 gb Upload: Turbobit
Mercury Living Presence is special in many ways - an American company, from the heyday of classical recording in the U.S. that reproduced some of the most sonically realistic recordings at the dawn of the stereo era. Precious few stereo LPs were pressed when these recordings were issued, and they became some of the rarest, most collectible classical discs ever. Mercury Living Presence continues to enjoy a special reputation as one of the most enterprising, prestigious and sonically-spectacular labels in the history of classical recording.
Some of these recording have been available on CD and on SACD. However, many are now deleted and only available 2nd-hand or through auction sellers at premium prices. This 50-album Box Set (plus bonus interview CD with Wilma Cozart Fine, Mercury s producer) affords collectors an opportunity to acquire 50 classic recordings at a terrific price, in a box which may well become collectible itself.
CD 1 Kubelik / CSO Mussorgsky / Ravel: Pictures at an exhibition Bart k: Music for strings, percussion and celesta
CD 2 Kubelik / CSO Smetana: M Vlast
CD 3 Howard Hanson / Eastman-Rochester Orchestra Fiesta in Hi-Fi
CD 4 Dorati / Minneapolis Symphony / Philharmonia Hungarica Kod ly & Bart k
CD 5 Menuhin / Dorati / Minneapolis Symphony Bart k: Violin Concerto No.2; Second Suite
CD 6 Frederick Fennell / Estman-Rochester Pops Hi-Fi a la Espa ola
CD 7 Dorati / London Symphony Orchestra / Minneapolis Symphony Prokofiev: Scythian Suite; Love for Three Oranges; Symphony 5
CD 8 Howard Hanson - The Composer and his Orchestra
CD 11 Howard Hanson / Eastman-Rochester Orchestra Grof : Grand Canyon Suite; Herbert: Cello Concerto No.2
CD 12 Frederick Fennell / Eastman Wind Ensemble British and American Band Classics
CD 13 Dorati / Minneapolis Symphony / London Symphony Orchestra Stravinsky: Petrouchka; Le Sacre du printemps
CD 14 Paray / Detroit Symphony Orchestra Supp & Auber: Overtures
CD 15 Paray / Detroit Symphony Orchestra Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, etc.
CD 16 Frederick Fennell / Eastman Wind Ensemble Sousa: Sound Off! & Sousa on Review: Favourite Marches
CD 17 Dorati / London Symphony Orchestra Enesco: Roumanian Rhapsody No.1 / Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies 1-6
CD 18 Dorati / London Symphony Orchestra Khachaturian: Gayaneh Skrowaczewski / Minneapolis Symphony Shostakovich: Symphony No.5
CD 19 Dorati / London Symphony Orchestra Enesco: Roumanian Rhapsody No.2 / Brahms: Hungarian Dances; Haydn Variations
CD 20 The Civil War Its music and its sounds Part 1 Fort Sumter to Gettysburg Frederick Fennell / Eastman Wind Ensemble
CD 21 The Civil War Its music and its sounds Part 2 Gettysburg to Appomattox Frederick Fennell / Eastman Wind Ensemble
CD 22 Byron Janis / London Symphony Orchestra / Minneapolis Symhony / Dorati Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 3 & 2
CD 23 Dorati / London Symphony Orchestra / Minneapolis Symphony Copland: Appalachian Spring; Billy the Kid; Danz n Cubano; El Sal n M xico
CD 24 Byron Janis / Minneapolis Symphony / Dorati Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition piano original + Ravel orchestration
CD 25 Minneapolis Symphony / Skrowaczewski London Symphony Orchestra / Dorati Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 & 2 Mussorgsky: Night on the bare mountain
CD 26 Byron Janis / Minneapolis Symphony / Skrowaczewski / Lonodn Symphony / Menges Schumann: Piano Concerto; Arabeske Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1
CD 27 Pepe Romero Flamenco!
CD 28 The Romeros The Royal Family of the Spanish Guitar
CD 29 Frederick Fennell / Eastman Wind Ensemble Screamers - Circus Marches March Time
CD 30 Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra / Vitaly Gnutov
CD 31 Byron Janis Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra / Kondrashin Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Rozhdestvensky Liszt: Piano Concertos 1 & 2, etc.
CD 32 Byron Janis Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra / Kondrashin Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3 Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.1, etc.
CD 33 Janos Starker / London Symphony Orchestra / Dorati Dvor k: Cello Concerto Bruch: Kol Nidrei; Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations
CD 34 Janos Starker London Symphony Orchestra / Skrowaczewski / Dorati Schumann: Cello Concerto Lalo: Cello Concerto Saint-Sa ns: Cello Concerto in A minor
CD 35-36 Dorati / London Symphony Orchestra / Philharmonia Hungarica Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker; Serenade for Strings
CD 37 Henryk Szeryng / London Symphony Orchestra / Dorati Brahms; Violin Concerto Khachaturian: Violin Concerto
CD 38 Dorati / London Symphony Orchestra Bart k: Bluebeard's Castle Berg: Wozzeck: 3 excerpts
CD 39 Gina Bachauer / London Symphony Orchestra / Skrowaczewski Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, etc.
CD 40 Henryk Szeryng Kteisler Favourites
CD 41-42 Janos Starker Bach: 6 Suites for unaccompanied cello, etc.
CD 43 Gina Bachauer / London Symphony Orchestra / Dorati / Skrowacewski Beethoven: Piano Concertos 4 & 5
CD44 Gina Bachauer / London Symphony Orchestra / Dorati Chopin: Piano Concertos 1 & 2
CD 45 Gina Bachauer / Sir John Gielgud Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit; Debussy: Pour le piano Stravinsky: 3 Movements from Petrouchka, etc.