MICHAEL GIELEN EDITION

MICHAEL GIELEN EDITION 50 years of recordings in 10 volumes

NEW in May 2018 SWR19022CD SWR19007CD SWR19014CD SWR19061CD SWR19028CD SWR19023CD SWR19042CD

KEY FEATURES • 10 boxed sets to be released between 2016 and 2019 • Each volume largely comprises recordings never previously released, remastered EMI and Intercord recordings, and previously issued SWR recordings • Michael Gielen is one of the most prominent conductors of the 20th and 21st centuries • He celebrates his 90th birthday in July 2017

On 30 October 2014, Michael Gielen issued a press release announcing that he had been forced to end his conducting activities for health reasons. On this occasion, and also with his 90th birthday on 20 July 2017 in mind, it is time to listen to the different phases of a long conducting career. The Michael Gielen EDITION offers this opportunity. It comprises several volumes of varying size, dedicated to individual composers – Beethoven, Bruckner, Brahms, Mahler, Bartók, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Berg and Webern – and others focusing on major historical periods: from Bach to Schubert; from Carl Maria von Weber to Sergei Rachmaninov; late Romantic or early modern works, while another volume is devoted to compositions written after the Second World War. The recordings presented here are from the archives of the former South German Radio, Stuttgart (SDR) and Southwestern Radio, Baden-Baden (SWF), as well as their successor organizations SWR, and Saarland radio (SR) – that is, recordings from a period of over 50 years: from the mid-1960s to Gielen’s last concert with the SWR Symphony Orchestra of Baden-Baden and Freiburg in January 2014. The course of those five decades saw changes in the standard of the orchestras, sound aesthetics in recording technology, and not least in the conductor Michael Gielen himself. This means that the time span encompassed by these recordings already makes this Michael Gielen EDITION unprecedented. Label contact: Naxos Deutschland GmbH, Gruber Str. 70, D-85586 Poing, Germany +49 8121 25007-40 • [email protected] • [email protected]

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MICHAEL GIELEN EDITION VOL. 7 Debussy | Hindemith | Ives | Janáček McPhee | Petrassi | Ravel | Ruggles Schreker | Scriabin | Steuermann Strauss Varèse | Wagner | Zemlinsky Recordings 1961–2006

Artists / Künstler: Christiane Boesiger | Cathérine Gayer | Ellen Shade | Waltraud Meier | Margit Neubauer Márta Szirmay | Thomas Moser | Günter Reich | | Peter Roggenkamp Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks | EuropaChorAkademie Slovakian Philharmonic Choir Bratislava | SWR Vokalensemble Item No. / CD-Nr.: SWR19061CD Michael Gielen 8 CDs Price Code / Preisgruppe: G9 (Special Price Box set) SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden u. Freiburg Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken 7 47313 90618 5

CD 5 Unterwegs in die Konsolidierung 68:27 Listen to an excerpt from Maurice Ravel’s On the Way to Consolidation Une barque sur l'ocean (CD7) Franz Schreker 1 Vorspiel zu einem Drama Paul Hindemith 2-4 Mathis der Maler * Tracklist Goffredo Petrassi 5-7 Concerto per orchestra no. 1 * CD 1 Prag I Prague 71:35 Leoš Janáček CD 6 Kitsch oder Kunst im TV 64:17 1-8 Glagolitische Messe I Glagolitic Mass Kitsch or Art on TV 9-11 Taras Bulba Richard Strauss Alexander Zemlinsky 1 Der Rosenkavalier: Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren 12 Psalm 23, Op. 14 Szene Sophie – Octavian 2. Akt (Überreichung der silbernen Rose) * CD 2 America 78:47 Giacomo Puccini Carl Ruggles 2 Madama Butterfly: Un bel di, vedremo * 1 Sun-Treader * 3 Madama Butterfly: Scuoti della fronda und Charles Ives Finale 2. Akt * 2 Central Park in the Dark * Richard Wagner 3 General Booth Enters into Heaven * 3 Der Engel (aus: Wesendonck-Lieder) * Colin McPhee 4 Träume (aus: Wesendonck-Lieder) * 4-6 Tabuh-Tabuhan * Richard Strauss Charles Ives 5 Wiegenlied op. 41,1 * 7 The Unanswered Question 6 Tod und Verklärung * Edgard Varèse 8 Arcana * CD 7 Ravel 73:27 1-12 Daphnis et Chloé (vollständige Ballettmusik) 9 Variationen für Orchester 13 Une barque sur l'ocean 14 Alborada del gracioso * CD 3 Debussy 78:01 1-5 Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien * CD 8 Ravel's Waltz und Scriabin 75:47 6-8 Nocturnes * Maurice Ravel CD 4 Musik des Übergangs I Musik of Transition 74:42 1-8 Valses nobles et sentimentales Ferruccio Busoni Alexander Scriabin 1 Berceuse élégiaque op. 42 9-11 Sinfonie Nr. 3 op. 43 Le divin poème 2 Nocturne symphonique op. 43 * Maurice Ravel 3-4 Sarabande und Cortége 12 La Valse * Max Reger 5-7 Klavierkonzert f-Moll op. 114 * Erstveröffentlichung I First release

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Michael Gielen EDITION 1 Michael Gielen EDITION 2 Michael Gielen EDITION 3 SWR19007CD SWR19014CD SWR19022CD Bach | Mozart | Haydn | Beethoven Bruckner Symphonies 1-9 Schubert (6 CDs) (10 CDs) (5 CDs) “If subsequent volumes of the Gielen "Michael Gielen’s Bruckner symphonies are "Michael Gielen and the SWR Orchestra Edition are as good as this then we have purified, svelte and transparent, and allow a Baden-Baden and Freiburg prove once again a good reason to be impatient for them.” deep impression of the architecture and the that they are the perfect intermediary with a – Gramophone June 2016 vast thoughts of the composer. For every fan lot of respect for the composition and of Bruckner’s music this box is a must." their lively interpretation." – Pizzicato June 2016 – Klassik-heute October 2016

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Michael Gielen EDITION 4 Michael Gielen EDITION 5 Michael Gielen EDITION 6 SWR19028CD SWR19023CD SWR19042CD Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | Smetana | Liszt Bartók | Strawinsky Mahler: Complete Symphonies Wagner | Berlioz | Weber | Strauß Jr. | Schumann (6 CDs) (17 CDs + 1 DVD) Dvorák | Tschaikowsky | Rachmaninov | Suk (9 CDs) "Narrative and expressive performances." “Gielen’s vision of Mahler’s world view really "An absolute winner!." – Pizzicato June 2017 forms one big whole... We can only be grateful – Gramophone May 2017 to the conductor for offering these profound insights.” – Pizzicato October 2017

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Michael Gielen EDITION 8 Michael Gielen EDITION 9 Michael Gielen EDITION 10 (Spring 2019) tbc (Autumn 2019) tbc (2019/2020) tbc Neue Wiener Schule – Music after 1945 (Ca. 5 CDs) Beethoven: Complete Symphonies (5 CDs) Schönberg | Berg | Webern

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