Released in Europe on Oct 13 it will receive its North American release 4 December. If you have access to Spotify you can hear the entire two CD set below.Georg Solti: The Legacy 1937-1997
As Decca marks the centenary of Sir Georg Solti with several box sets devoted to many of his benchmark opera recordings comes a very special 2-CD set entitled Solti - The Legacy 1937-1997.
This 2-CD set contains 150 minutes of many previously unpublished live recordings and unpublished studio items spanning Sir Georg Solti's entire professional career as well as his 50-year exclusive association with Decca.
The accompanying booklet contains an essay by broadcaster, writer and former member of the orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Jon Tolansky (who played in the orchestra during part of Sir Georg Solti's tenure as Music Director); sung texts in the original language + English are included as well as a selection of photographs.
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1 79.48
FRANZ
SCHUBERT (1797–1828)
1 Abschied
Schwanengesang,
D957 no.7
Ludwig Rellstab 3.18
Max
Lichtegg tenor
· Georg Solti piano
Recording
location: Radio Studios, Zurich, 25 June 1947
Recording
producer: Victor Olof
Recording
engineer: Arthur Haddy
P
1949 Decca Music Group Limited
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
(1756–1791)
2 Ein
Mädchen oder Weibchen Die
Zauberflöte
3.57
Emanuel
Schikaneder
Willi
Domgraf-Fassbaender baritone
(Papageno)
Georg
Solti glockenspiel
Wiener
Philharmoniker/Arturo Toscanini
Recording
location: Salzburg Festival, 1937
P
2000 Naxos Rights International Ltd
RICHARD
STRAUSS (1864–1949)
3 Allein!
Weh, ganz allein Elektra
Hugo von Hofmannsthal 8.43
Christel
Goltz soprano
(Elektra)
Bayerisches
Staatsorchester/Georg Solti
Recording
location: Theatersaal, Amerika Haus, Munich, August 1952
Producers:
Dr Fred Hamel, Siegfried Janzen
Balance
engineers: Wilhelm Aulenkamp, Heinrich Keilholz, Alfred Steinke
Publisher:
Hawkes & Son (London) Ltd
P
1953 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg
ALBAN
BERG (1885–1935)
4 Wie
kannst du die Szene gegen mich ausspielen? 7.18
[Sonaten-Durchführung]
Lulu
Frank Wedekind
Ernst
Gutstein baritone
(Dr. Schön) · Helga Pilarczyk soprano
(Lulu)
Frankfurter
Opern- und Museumsorchester/Georg Solti
Recording
location: Munich, 1961
Publisher:
Universal Edition Wien
Licensed
courtesy of BRmedia on behalf of Bayerischer Rundfunk
P
1961 Bayerischer Rundfunk
R.
STRAUSS
5 Marie
Theres’! … Ist ein Traum Der
Rosenkavalier
Hofmannsthal 14.10
Sena
Jurinac soprano
(Octavian) · Elisabeth Schwarzkopf soprano
(Marschallin)
Hanny
Steffek soprano
(Sophie) · Ronald Lewis baritone
(Faninal)
Orchestra
of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Georg Solti
Recorded:
17 December 1959
Publisher:
Fürstner Editions
P
2012 Music Preserved
MOZART
6 Hai
già vinta la causa! … Vedrò mentr’io sospiro 4.49
7 Giunse
alfin il momento … Deh vieni, non tardar 5.09
Le
nozze di Figaro
Lorenzo da Ponte
Tito
Gobbi baritone
(Conte di Almaviva) · Mirella Freni soprano
(Susanna)
Orchestra
of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Georg Solti
Recorded:
11 June 1963
P
2012 Royal Opera House Covent Garden Limited
GIUSEPPE VERDI
(1813–1901)
8 Ora
e per sempre, addio … Sì, pel ciel Otello
Arrigo Boito 10.37
James
McCracken tenor
(Otello) · Tito Gobbi baritone
(Jago)
Orchestra
of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Georg Solti
Recording
location: Royal Albert Hall Proms, 10 August 1964
P
2012 Royal Opera House Covent Garden Limited
MOZART
9 Soave
sia il vento Così
fan tutte
Da Ponte 3.41
Pilar
Lorengar soprano
(Fiordiligi)
Josephine
Veasey mezzo-soprano
(Dorabella) · Kieth Engen bass
(Alfonso)
Orchestra
of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Georg Solti
Recorded:
July 1968
P
2012 Royal Opera House Covent Garden Limited
HECTOR
BERLIOZ (1803–1869)
10 Merci,
doux crépuscule! La
Damnation de Faust
5.05
Hector
Berlioz, Almire Gandonnière
Nicolai
Gedda tenor
(Faust)
Orchestra
of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Georg Solti
Recording
location: Edinburgh Festival, 18 August 1963
P
2012 Royal Opera House Covent Garden Limited
BENJAMIN
BRITTEN (1913–1976)
11 Helena!
— Hermia! — Demetrius! — Lysander! 5.30
A
Midsummer Night’s Dream Benjamin
Britten & Peter Pears,
after
Shakespeare
Delme
Bryn-Jones baritone
(Demetrius) · Kenneth Macdonald tenor
(Lysander)
Elizabeth
Robson soprano
(Helena) · Anne Howells mezzo-soprano
(Hermia)
Orchestra
of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Georg Solti
Recording
location: Kingsway Hall, London, 2 March 1968
Recording
producer: Christopher Raeburn
Recording
engineer: James Lock
Assistant
recording engineer: Stanley Goodall
Publisher:
Hawkes & Son (London) Ltd
P
1968 Decca Music Group Limited
UMBERTO
GIORDANO (1867–1948)
12 Vicino
a te Andrea
Chénier
Luigi Illica 7.31
Renata
Tebaldi soprano
(Maddalena de Coigny)
Richard
Tucker tenor
(Andrea Chénier)
Orchestra
of the Lyric Opera, Chicago/Georg Solti
Recording
location: Lyric Opera, Chicago, 10 November 1956
Publisher:
Casa Musicale Sonzogno di Piero Ostali, Milano
P
2012 Decca Music Group Limited
CD
2 77.15
MOZART
Concerto
in E flat major for two pianos and orchestra, K365
mi
bémol majeur · Es-dur
1 I Allegro 10.16
2 II Andante 7.23
3 III Rondeau:
Allegro 7.19
Murray
Perahia, Sir Georg Solti pianos
Chicago
Symphony Orchestra
Recorded:
9 October 1987
Producer:
Norman Pelligrini (WFMT)
Engineer:
Mitchell Heller (WFMT)
Restoration
engineer: Matthew Sohn (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
P
2012 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Murray
Perahia appears courtesy of Sony Classical
VERDI
4 Già
nella notte densa Otello
Boito 9.47 68
Plácido
Domingo tenor
(Otello) · Kiri Te Kanawa soprano
(Desdemona)
Chicago
Symphony Orchestra/Sir Georg Solti
Recorded:
9 October 1987
Producer:
Norman Pelligrini (WFMT)
Engineer:
Mitchell Heller (WFMT)
Restoration
engineer: Matthew Sohn (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
P
2012 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
MOZART
Le
nozze di Figaro
— 3 short rehearsal sequences from sessions
for
the Decca recording
5 Orchestral
introduction to “Porgi, amor” 3.28
6 Recitative
passages in Act Four 3.44
(Barbarina,
Figaro, Basilio and Bartolo)
7 Bartolo’s
Act One aria “La vendetta” 1.50
Samuel
Ramey bass-baritone (Figaro) · Kurt Moll bass
(Bartolo)
Robert
Tear tenor (Basilio) · Yvonne Kenny soprano
(Barbarina)
Jeffrey
Tate continuo
· London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir
Georg Solti
Recording
location: Kingsway Hall, London, May 1981
Producer:
Christopher Raeburn
Engineers:
John Dunkerley, Colin Moorfoot
P
2012 Decca Music Group Limited
8 Porgi,
amor Le
nozze di Figaro
Da Ponte 4.01
Margaret
Price soprano
(Contessa di Almaviva)
Chamber
Orchestra of Europe/Sir Georg Solti
Recording
location: Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 23 January 1991
P
2012 Chamber Orchestra of Europe
BRITTEN
9
O beauty, o handsomeness Billy
Budd
E.M. Forster, Eric Crozier 6.03
Forbes
Robinson bass
(Claggart)
Orchestra
of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Georg Solti
Recording
location: Kingsway Hall, London, 2 March 1968
Recording
producer: Christopher Raeburn
Recording
engineer: James Lock
Assistant
recording engineer: Stanley Goodall
Publisher:
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd
P
1968 Decca Music Group Limited
RICHARD
WAGNER (1813–1883)
10
Mild und leise Tristan
und Isolde
Richard Wagner 7.55
Birgit
Nilsson soprano
(Isolde)
Orchestra
of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Georg Solti
Recorded:
3 July 1971
P
2012 Royal Opera House Covent Garden Limited
11
Grane, mein Roß … Selig grüßt dich dein Weib!* 2.11
Götterdämmerung
Wagner
Hildegard
Behrens soprano
(Brünnhilde)
Orchester
der Bayreuther Festspiele/Sir Georg Solti
Recording
location: Bayreuth Festival Theatre, 16 July 1983
Producer:
Christopher Raeburn
Engineer:
James Lock
P
2012 Decca Music Group Limited
MOZART
12
Come scoglio Così
fan tutte
Da Ponte* 4.31
Renée
Fleming soprano
(Fiordiligi)
David
Syrus harpsichord
Chamber
Orchestra of Europe/Sir Georg Solti
Recording
location: Royal Festival Hall, London, May 1994
Recording
producers: Christopher Pope, Michael Woolcock
Balance
engineers: Neil Hutchinson, James Lock
P
1996 Decca Music Group Limited
SCHUBERT
13
An die Musik, D547 Franz von Schober* 3.02
Hans
Hotter bass-baritone
· Jeffrey Tate piano
Recording
location: The Ballroom, Buckingham Palace, October 1992
P
2012 A.G. Carrick Limited
Recording
licensed courtesy of A.G. Carrick Limited
VERDI
14
Pace, pace mio Dio La
forza del destino
Francesco Maria Piave* 5.45
Angela
Gheorghiu soprano
(Leonora)
London
Symphony Orchestra/Sir Georg Solti
Recording
location: Abbey Road Studios, London, January 1997
Producer:
Michael Haas
Engineer:
John Dunkerley
P
2012 Decca Music Group Limited
