VA — Mercury Living Presence. The Collector\’s Edition 2 [55CD Box Set] (2013) MP3

2013 | ClassicalMP3 320 Kbps | 10 Gb

This new collection of 55 CDs from the acclaimed audiophile label offers a wealth of recordings from the 1950s and 1960s in an unrivaled range of repertory.
This ranges from solo Bach played by harpsichordist Rafael Puyana to American composer and conductor Howard Hanson in his own works as well as music by fellow-Americans. Key artists include Antal Dorati in works rag from Beethoven to Bartok and Berg; Frederick Fennell, Rafael Kubelík, Paul Paray and Janos Starker.
An extensive 182 page booklet includes new essays on the history and development of the Mercury label by Thomas Fine (son of Wilma Cozart Fine, legendary producer of the MLP label) and Mike Gray.
Numerous photographs are included and full recording information is documented. When we say full recording information, we mean it too. All the details collectors love to see is here: the microphones, the recording location, the original eeers, the subsequent remastering eeers, even the type of recording equipment.
Two CDs of true rarities are included: Doratis 1953 mono recording of The Rite of Spring; and making its first-ever appearance on CD is John Coriglianos Piano Concerto.
The CD also includes a rare 16 minute interview with Corigliano and pianist Hilde Somer.
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.
CD 01: Schoenberg: 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16; Webern: 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.10; Berg: Three Pieces For Orchestra, Op.6/Lulu Suite
CD 02: Dorati Conducts Respighi
CD 03: Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Dance Suite; Two Portraits
CD 04: Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances/Suites Nos.1-3
CD 05: Dvorák: Symphony No.7 in D Minor; Symphony No.8 in G Major
CD 06: Gershwin: An American In Paris; Copland: Rodeo; Schuller: Seven Studies On Themes Of Paul Klee
CD 07: Satie: Parade; Milhaud: Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit; Auric: Overture; Françaix: Concerto Fpr Piano & Orchestra; Fetler: Contrasts For Orchestra
CD 08: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 \»Pathétique\»; Romeo & Juliet
CD 09: Bartók: The Wooden Prince; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
CD 10: Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin; Sonata For 2 Pianos & Percussion; Divernto
CD 11: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4; Francesca da Rimini/Borodin: Prince Igor Overture
CD 12: Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6/The Creatures of Prometheus Overture
CD 13: Antal Dorati Conducts Albéniz: Iberia; Falla: La Vida Breve; Moussorgsky; Smetana
CD 14: Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite; Kodaly: Peacock Variations
CD 15: Beethoven: Symphony No.7 / 3 Overtures
CD 16: Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
CD 17: Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
CD 18: Delibes: Coppélia & Sylvia
CD 19: Delibes: Coppélia & Sylvia
CD 20: Delibes: Coppélia & Sylvia
CD 21: Widor: Symphony No.6: Allegro; Salve Ra/Franck: Pièce Héroïque; Three Chorales
CD 22: Frederick Fennell Conducts The Music Of Leroy Anderson
CD 23: Works for Wind Ensemble
CD 24: Gould: West Point Symphony/Hovhaness: Symphony No.4/Giannini: Symphony No. 3
CD 25: Grainger: Country Gardens /Coates:The Three Elizabeths
CD 26: Hands Across The Sea — Marches From Around The World
CD 27: Frederick Fennell Conducts The Music of Leroy Anderson & Eric Coates
CD 28: The Spirit of \’76/Ruffles and Flourishes
CD 29: Mozart: Wind Serenade in B flat / Strauss, R.: Serenade for Wind/Milhaud: Suite Française
CD 30: Holst: Suites 1 & 2/Vaughan Williams: Folksong Suite, etc.
CD 31: Hanson: Symphony Nos. 1 & 2 / Song of Democracy
CD 32: Gould: Spirituals; Fall River Legend; Barber: Medea
CD 33: Ives: 3 Places in New England; Symphony No.3; Schumann: New England Triptych
CD 34: Hanson: Symphony No. 3/Elegy/The Lament for Beowulf
CD 35: Howard Hanson Conducts American Masterworks
CD 36: McPhee: Tabuh-Tabuhan; Sessions:The Black Maskers; Thomson: Symphony On A Hymn Tune;The Feast of Love
CD 37: Howard Hanson Conducts — Moore/Carpenter/Rogers/Phillips
CD 38: Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches/MacDowell: Suite for Large Orchestra/Sinfonia in G
CD 39: Music For Quiet Listening Vol. 2
CD 40: Music For Quiet Listening Vol. 2
CD 41: Dvorák: Symphony No.9 (\»From The New World\»); Mozart: Symphony No.38 (\»Prague\»)
CD 42: Ibert / Ravel: Escales / Rapsodie Espagnole / La valse / Le Tombeau de Couperin etc.
CD 43: French Opera Highlights
CD 44: Saint-Saens: Symphony No.3 / Paray: Mass for Joan of Arc
CD 45: Chabrier: España; Suite pastorale; Fete Polonaise; Overture \»Gwendoline\»; Danse Slave; Roussel: Suite in F
CD 46: Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No.2; Valses nobles et senntales, etc./Debussy: Nocturnes; Petite Suite
CD 47: Bizet: Carmen Suite/La Patrie Overture/L\’arlésienne Suite Thomas: Mignon & Raymond Overtures
CD 48: Paul Paray conducts Dances of Death
CD 49: Debussy: La Mer; Ibéria; Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun
CD 50: The Golden Age of Harpsichord Music
CD 51: Puyana Plays Bach
CD 52: Rafael Puyana: Baroque Masterpieces For The Harpsichord
CD 53: Bartók / Chopin / Debussy / Mendelssohn: Cello Sonatas
CD 54: Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
CD 55: Corigliano: Piano Concerto; Richard Strauss: Parergon