Neeme Järvi Highlights from a Remarkable 30-Year Recording Career Neeme Järvi Järvi Neeme

neeme järvi Highlights from a remarkable 30-year recording career Neeme Järvi Järvi Neeme

Highlights from a remarkable 30-year recording career

COMPACT DISC ONE

Antonín Dvořák (1841 – 1904)

1 Carnival, Op. 92 (B 169) 9:04 Concert Overture Scottish National Orchestra (CHAN 9002 – download only)

Johan Halvorsen (1864 – 1935)

2 La Mélancolie 2:27 Mélodie de Ole Bull (1810 – 1880) Melina Mandozzi violin Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (CHAN 10584)

Antonín Dvořák

3 Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op. 72 (B 147) No. 2 5:30 Second Series Scottish National Orchestra (CHAN 6641)

3 Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911)

4 Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen 4:52 No. 2 from Kindertotenlieder Linda Finnie mezzo-soprano Scottish National Orchestra (CHAN 9545 – download only)

Franz von Suppé (1819 – 1895)

5 March from ‘Fatinitza’ 2:26 Royal Scottish National Orchestra (not previously released)

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)

6 Hungarian Dance No. 19 in B minor 2:23 Orchestrated by Antonín Dvořák London Symphony Orchestra (CHAN 10073 X)

Ferruccio Busoni (1866 – 1924)

7 Finale from ‘Tanzwalzer’, Op. 53 4:03 BBC Philharmonic (CHAN 9920)

4 Giovanni Bolzoni (1841 – 1919)

8 Minuetto 3:58 Detroit Symphony Orchestra (CHAN 6648)

Zoltán Kodály (1882 – 1967)

9 Intermezzo from ‘Háry János Suite’ 5:03 Laurence Kaptain cimbalom Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CHAN 8877)

Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)

10 La Valse 12:07 Poème chorégraphique pour orchestre Detroit Symphony Orchestra (CHAN 6615)

Johann Severin Svendsen (1840 – 1911)

11 Träume 3:45 Studie zu Tristan und Isolde Arrangement of No. 5 from Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme (‘Wesendonck Lieder’) by Richard Wagner Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (CHAN 10693)

5 Richard Strauss (1864 – 1949)

12 Morgen! 4:03 No. 4 from Vier Lieder, Op. 27 Felicity Lott soprano Scottish National Orchestra (CHAN 9054)

Johan Halvorsen

13 Bojarernes Indtogsmarsch 4:26 (Entry March of the Boyars) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (CHAN 10584)

Carl Maria von Weber (1786 – 1826)

14 Jubel-Ouvertüre, Op. 59 (J 245) 7:44 Philharmonia Orchestra (CHAN 9066)

Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)

15 Huldigungsmarsch, WWV 97 5:21 Orchestrated by the composer and Joachim Raff (1822 – 1882) Royal Scottish National Orchestra (CHSA 5097) TT 78:25

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Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975)

1 Festive Overture, Op. 96 5:57 Scottish National Orchestra (CHAN 10088(2) X)

Duke Ellington (1899 – 1974)

2 Solitude 3:55 Transcribed for strings by Morton Gould (1913 – 1996) Detroit Symphony Orchestra (CHAN 9909)

Samuel Barber (1910 – 1981)

3 The School for Scandal, Op. 5 8:55 Overture Detroit Symphony Orchestra (CHAN 9684)

4 Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 8:37 Arrangement of the second movement from the String Quartet Detroit Symphony Orchestra (CHAN 9684)

7 William Grant Still (1895 – 1978)

5 Third movement, Animato, from Symphony No. 1 ‘Afro-American’ 3:05 Detroit Symphony Orchestra (CHAN 9154)

Heino Eller (1887 – 1970)

6 Finale, Cantando espressivo, from Five Pieces 4:19 for String Orchestra Scottish National Orchestra (CHAN 241 – 26)

Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891 – 1953)

7 Waltz, Scene 4 (Act II), from ‘The Tale of the Stone Flower’, Op. 118 3:37 Scottish National Orchestra (CHAN 10077 X)

8 Serge Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943)

8 Vocalise 6:47 No. 14 from Fourteen Songs, Op. 34 Arranged for voice and orchestra Suzanne Murphy soprano Scottish National Orchestra (CHAN 10327 X)

Dmitri Shostakovich

9 Lyric Waltz from Ballet Suite No. 1 2:16 Edited by Lev Atovmyan Scottish National Orchestra (CHAN 10088(2) X)

10 Tea for Two (Tahiti Trot), Op. 16 3:25 Orchestration of the song by Vincent Youmans (1898 – 1946) Scottish National Orchestra (CHAN 2027)

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (1872 – 1915)

11 Rêverie, Op. 24 3:48 Scottish National Orchestra (CHAN 241 – 5)

9 Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)

12 Credo 12:34 Boris Berman piano Philharmonia Chorus Philharmonia Orchestra (CHAN 9134)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) Three movements from the incidental music to ‘The Snow Maiden’, Op. 12 7:55 13 7 Second Song of Lei 1:27 14 10 Melodrama 4:04 15 13 Jester’s Dance 4:23 Irina Mishura-Lekhtman mezzo-soprano Detroit Symphony Orchestra (CHAN 9324) TT 78:23

10 Fritz Curzon Fritz

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Fritz Curzon Neeme Järvi: Highlights from a remarkable 30-year recording career

This collection of recordings is released Neeme Järvi has in spades. The tracks on this to mark both the seventy-fifth birthday of two-disc set have been personally chosen Neeme Järvi, in 2012, and his thirty years as by the Maestro and encompass a number of a recording artist with Chandos Records. To his ‘signature’ pieces. The recordings range represent in this way the recording career of across his career with Chandos, from the any conductor is a difficult task, but in the vintage recordings he made with the then case of Neeme Järvi it is an impossibility – so Scottish National Orchestra (with which he comprehensive is his repertoire. His first disc received two Gramophone Awards), through for Chandos, of Weber’s Clarinet Concertos his tenure with the Detroit Symphony with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. But the set also includes some Orchestra, was recorded in 1981. At the time, novelties and surprises – including a new we had no idea of the vast range of repertoire recording made with the Royal Scottish that Maestro Järvi could and would bring to National Orchestra, which shows that he has the label, but we might have had an inkling lost nothing of his magical touch with that in Neeme Järvi, the man himself. He is a fine orchestra. powerhouse of energy, which translates into Indeed, Chandos is proud to have been an almost manic enthusiasm for recording and associated with Neeme Järvi for so many for the exploration of new repertoire. In his years, and extremely proud of all that we have zeal for this quest, he is simply indefatigable. achieved together. At seventy-five, he is fired His own excitement rubs off on the musicians by an enthusiasm that burns as brightly as with whom he comes into contact, and the ever. Both he and we look forward to making results are unfailingly impressive. many more recordings, in that adventurous From a record company’s point of view, tradition which has already given us – and the he is the ideal recording artist. The ability music-loving public – so many outstanding to bring a studio recording to life, to create releases. a real performance from a set of recording sessions, is a rare quality, and a quality which © 2012 Chandos Records Ltd

13 Chandos Records signs an exclusive contract with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra: (l. to r.) Neeme Järvi, Music Director (D.S.O.), Mark Volpe, Executive Director (D.S.O.), Brian Couzens, Managing Director (Chandos Records Ltd) The head of a musical dynasty, Neeme Järvi Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre de Highlights of an impressive discography Arvo Pärt. Among many international awards is one of today’s most respected maestros. He Paris, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen of more than 450 recordings include and accolades, he has received an honorary is Music and Artistic Director of the Orchestre Rundfunks, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, critically acclaimed cycles of the complete doctorate from the Music Academy of Estonia de la Suisse Romande, Artistic Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony symphonies of Prokofiev, Sibelius, Nielsen, in Tallinn, the Order of the National Coat of Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and Brahms, as well as recent series of Arms from the President of the Republic of Chief Conductor Emeritus of the Residentie and Wiener Symphoniker, as well as, in the orchestral works by Halvorsen and Svendsen, Estonia, honorary doctorates of Humane Orchestra The Hague, as well as Music US, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and National and a cycle of symphonic arrangements Letters from Wayne State University in Detroit Director Emeritus of the Detroit Symphony Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C., by Henk de Vlieger of operas by Wagner. and the University of Michigan, as well as Orchestra, Principal Conductor Emeritus of among others. He has collaborated with Neeme Järvi has also championed less widely honorary doctorates from the University of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and soloists such as Janine Jansen, Martha known Nordic composers such as Wilhelm Aberdeen and the Royal Swedish Academy Conductor Laureate of the Royal Scottish Argerich, Mischa Maisky, Vadim Repin, Evgeny Stenhammar, Hugo Alfvén, and Niels W. Gade, of Music. He has also been appointed National Orchestra. He has appeared as guest Kissin, Truls Mørk, Hélène Grimaud, and Vadim and composers from his native Estonia, Commander of the North Star Order by conductor with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Gluzman. including Rudolf Tobias, Eduard Tubin, and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. Fritz Curzon Fritz

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Recording producers Brian Couzens, Brian Pidgeon, Ralph Couzens, Mike George, and Charles Greenwell Sound engineers Ralph Couzens, Stephen Rinker, Dan Dene, Robert Shafer, Mitchell G. Heller, and Ben Connellan Assistant engineers Philip Couzens, Gunnar Herleif Nilsen (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation [NRK]), Ben Connellan, Janet Middlebrook, Peter Newble, Phil Booth, Jeffrey Ginn, Jonathan Cooper, Robert Shafer, and Richard Smoker Editors Jonathan Cooper, Richard Lee, Jeffrey Ginn, Rachel Smith, Bob Mansell, Tim Oldham, Peter Newble, Tim Handley, and Ben Connellan Mastering Jonathan Cooper Recording venues Various Front cover Photograph of Neeme Järvi by Simon van Boxtel Back cover Photograph of Neeme Järvi rehearsing with the Scottish National Orchestra © Eric Thorburn Design and typesetting Cassidy Rayne Creative (www.cassidyrayne.co.uk) Booklet editor Finn S. Gundersen p 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2002, 2010, 2011, and 2012 Chandos Records Ltd This compilation p 2012 Chandos Records Ltd c 2012 Chandos Records Ltd Chandos Records Ltd, Colchester, Essex CO2 8HX, England Country of origin UK

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