Fritz Reiner - The Complete RCA Album Collection

Most of these recordings have been issued and reissued countless times. This “original jacket” box, however, contains everything that Reiner recorded for RCA. There are some quibbles that we need to get out of the way up front. First, ignore those “original disc” labels on the CDs. They only contain Side 1 of the original LP, and not the actual CD contents, for which you need to check the very attractive but somewhat clunky accompanying booklet. Some of the catalog numbers reflect the original mono issues, even though the actual recordings naturally favor the stereo masters. Also, the two-disc sets are packaged, as is Sony/BMG’s wont these days, with the open end of the paper CD pocket facing the folding spine, which makes the actual discs Read more almost impossible to remove without destroying either the package or risking damage to the CD. It’s a really annoying decision in what is otherwise a very nicely assembled package.

Further complaints would be churlish. Reiner’s legacy with the Chicago Symphony for RCA represents one of the most astonishingly, consistently excellent in the history of recorded music. Other conductors have recorded more, but none have done better. You can swim through one of the billion-disc Karajan sets and be alternately enchanted and frustrated. Finding a great performance in DG’s Furtwängler set is like digging for buried treasure, with success just about as likely. Only Sony’s Szell box offers a similarly high level of achievement over so many discs, but that set has not been released domestically, and in any case it is not complete.

Where to start? Reiner was not known as a particularly persuasive advocate of the classical repertoire, but listen to it here and you may well conclude that much of it is astonishingly fine. His Beethoven “Eroica”, Seventh, and Ninth symphonies sound pretty impressive today. His Haydn also holds up surprisingly well—Symphonies 88, 95, and 101. (I “imprinted” on the reissue of Haydn’s 88th coupled to Mozart’s “Jupiter”.) Reiner’s Mozart was unusually swift and edgy for its day, and his finale of the “Jupiter” (first sound clip) will still have period-instrument players turning green with envy. It makes most later versions sound awfully tame.

When most people think of Reiner and Chicago, however, they expect playing of ridiculous virtuosity and brilliance in the late Romantic repertoire, and that’s what we get, over and over. As a Strauss conductor he had no equal except, perhaps, Kempe and Karajan. His recordings of the tone poems are uniformly exceptional, and the excerpts from Salome, and especially Elektra (with soprano Inge Borkh), remain touchstones both interpretively and sonically (second sound clip). Equal credit here goes to RCA’s engineers, as Reiner himself admits in the bonus CD in which he talks briefly about his latest recording of Beethoven’s Seventh. How did they get such a glittering yet rich result in the opening of The Pines of Rome (third sound clip)? It’s a mystery and a blessing.

As a concerto accompanist Reiner worked with some of the best, and many of these performances are truly legendary: the Brahms and Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos with Heifetz; Brahms’ First Piano Concerto with Rubinstein; Rachmaninov, Strauss, Schumann, and Liszt with Byron Janis; Rachmaninov’s Paganini Rhapsody and Second Concerto with Rubinstein; the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto with Gilels; and (more of a mixed bag) concertos by Brahms, Beethoven, and Schumann with Van Cliburn. Other reference recordings in the orchestral repertoire include everything from Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition to Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Debussy’s La Mer, Wagner orchestral music, and just about anything by Bartók. Reiner’s Rossini Overtures and Strauss, Jr. waltzes are also worth mentioning. Like all great conductors he played “light” music with the same dedication and high quality standards that mark his work in more ostensibly serious repertoire. For what it’s worth, he basically owned Kabalevsky’s Colas Breugnon Overture.

Enough said. This set is a major collector’s item. Granted, the “original jacket” concept allows RCA to charge more by spreading the box out to 63 CDs when it could have been packaged on two-thirds that amount, but they deserve the premium for getting the job done, and for doing it right in all the ways that really matter.

-- David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com
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1. Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 by Richard Strauss

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1895-1896; Germany

2. Salome, Op. 54: Dance of the seven veils by Richard Strauss

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1903-1905; Germany

3. Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 by Richard Strauss

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1897-1898; Germany

4. Concerto for Piano no 1 in D minor, Op. 15 by Johannes Brahms

Performer: Artur Rubinstein (Piano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1854-1858; Germany
Date of Recording: 1954
Venue: Live Orchestra Hall, Chicago
Length: 46 Minutes 20 Secs.

5. Concerto for Jazz Band and Orchestra by Rolf Liebermann

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1954; Switzerland

6. Don Juan, Op. 20 by Richard Strauss

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1888-1889; Germany

7. Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica" by Ludwig van Beethoven

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1803; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 1954

8. Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 77 by Johannes Brahms

Performer: Jascha Heifetz (Violin)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1878; Austria
Date of Recording: 02/1955
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago
Length: 34 Minutes 21 Secs.

9. Concerto for Piano no 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Performer: Emil Gilels (Piano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: Russia

10. Divertimento for 2 Horns and Strings no 17 in D major, K 334 (320b) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1779-1780; Salzburg, Austria

11. Serenade no 13 in G major, K 525 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1787; Vienna, Austria

12. Elektra, Op. 58: Allein! Weh', ganz allein! by Richard Strauss

Performer: Inge Borkh (Soprano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906-1908; Germany

13. Elektra, Op. 58: Was willst du, fremder Mensch? by Richard Strauss

Performer: Paul Schöffler (Baritone), Inge Borkh (Soprano), Francis Yeend (Soprano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906-1908; Germany

14. Elektra, Op. 58: Elektra! Schwester! by Richard Strauss

Performer: Paul Schöffler (Baritone), Francis Yeend (Soprano), Inge Borkh (Soprano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Lyric Theatre Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906-1908; Germany

15. Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Op. 60: Suite by Richard Strauss

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1918; Germany

16. Salome, Op. 54: Final Scene by Richard Strauss

Performer: Inge Borkh (Soprano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1903-1905; Germany

17. Symphony no 7 in A major, Op. 92 by Ludwig van Beethoven

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1811-1812; Vienna, Austria

18. Fidelio, Op. 72: Overture in E major by Ludwig van Beethoven

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1814; Vienna, Austria

19. 1812 Overture, Op. 49 by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1880; Russia
Date of Recording: 1956

20. Episodes from Lenau's Faust, S 110: no 2, Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke "Mephisto Waltz no 1" by Franz Liszt

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1861; Weimar, Germany
Date of Recording: 1955

21. Schwanda the Bagpiper: Polka and Fugue by Jaromir Weinberger

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1927; Prague, Czech Republ

22. Bartered Bride, B 143/T 93: Overture by Bedrich Smetana

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Written: 1866

23. Carnival Overture, Op. 92 by Antonín Dvorák

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1891; USA

24. Concerto for Piano no 2 in C minor, Op. 18 by Sergei Rachmaninov

Performer: Artur Rubinstein (Piano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: Russia
Date of Recording: 01/09/1956
Venue: RCA Studios, Hollywood, California
Length: 33 Minutes 8 Secs.

25. Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Op. 43 by Sergei Rachmaninov

Performer: Artur Rubinstein (Piano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1934; USA
Date of Recording: 01/16/1956
Venue: RCA Studios, Hollywood, California
Length: 23 Minutes 7 Secs.

26. Nights in the gardens of Spain by Manuel de Falla

Performer: Artur Rubinstein (Piano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1911-1915; Spain

27. Morgenblätter, Op. 279 by Johann Strauss Jr.

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1864; Vienna, Austria
Length: 8 Minutes 10 Secs.

28. Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437 by Johann Strauss Jr.

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1889; Vienna, Austria
Length: 7 Minutes 42 Secs.

29. An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314 by Johann Strauss Jr.

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1867; Vienna, Austria
Length: 8 Minutes 12 Secs.

30. Dorfschwalben aus Österreich, Op. 164 by Josef Strauss

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1865; Vienna, Austria
Length: 7 Minutes 36 Secs.

31. Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59: Waltz sequence no 1, Acts 1-2 by Richard Strauss

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1944; Germany

32. Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 35 by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Performer: Jascha Heifetz (Violin)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1878; Russia
Date of Recording: 04/19/1957
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago
Length: 29 Minutes 30 Secs.

33. Concerto for Piano no 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 1 by Sergei Rachmaninov

Performer: Byron Janis (Piano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1891/1917; Russia
Date of Recording: 03/02/1957

34. Burleske for Piano and Orchestra in D minor, AV 85 by Richard Strauss

Performer: Byron Janis (Piano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1885-1886; Germany

35. Symphonia domestica, Op. 53 by Richard Strauss

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1902-1903; Germany

36. Symphony no 36 in C major, K 425 "Linz" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1783; Linz, Austria
Date of Recording: 1954

37. Symphony no 39 in E flat major, K 543 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1788; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 1955

38. Symphony no 40 in G minor, K 550 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1788; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 1955

39. Symphony no 41 in C major, K 551 "Jupiter" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1788; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 1954

40. Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 by Sergei Prokofiev

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1934; Paris, France

41. Chant du rossignol by Igor Stravinsky

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1917; Switzerland

42. Concerto for Piano no 2 in B flat major, Op. 83 by Johannes Brahms

Performer: Van Cliburn (Piano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1878-1881; Austria

43. Rapsodie espagnole by Maurice Ravel

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1907-1908; France

44. Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 by Sergei Rachmaninov

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1909; Russia

45. Pictures at an Exhibition for Orchestra (orchestrated by Ravel) by Modest Mussorgsky

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1874/1922; Russia

46. Symphony no 3 in F major, Op. 90 by Johannes Brahms

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1883; Austria
Date of Recording: 1957

47. Tragic Overture, Op. 81 by Johannes Brahms

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1880; Austria
Date of Recording: 1957

48. Symphony no 6 in B minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893; Russia
Date of Recording: 04/1957
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 45 Minutes 19 Secs.

49. Images for Orchestra: no 2, Ibéria by Claude Debussy

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1905-1908; France
Date of Recording: 1957

50. Valses nobles et sentimentales by Maurice Ravel

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1911; France
Date of Recording: 1957

51. Miroirs: Alborada del gracioso by Maurice Ravel

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1904-1905; France
Date of Recording: 1957

52. Symphony no 9 in E minor, Op. 95/B 178 "From the New World" by Antonín Dvorák

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893; USA

53. Goyescas: Intermezzo by Enrique Granados

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1914-1916; Spain
Date of Recording: 04/26/1958
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 5 Minutes 37 Secs.

54. La vida breve: Interlude and Dance by Manuel de Falla

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1904-1905; Spain
Date of Recording: 04/26/1958
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 6 Minutes 33 Secs.

55. El sombrero de tres picos: Neighbor's Dance "Seguidillas" by Manuel de Falla

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1919; Spain
Date of Recording: 04/26/1958
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 3 Minutes 19 Secs.

56. El sombrero de tres picos: Miller's Dance "Farruca" by Manuel de Falla

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1919; Spain
Date of Recording: 04/26/1958
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 2 Minutes 41 Secs.

57. El sombrero de tres picos: Final Dance "Jota" by Manuel de Falla

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1919; Spain
Date of Recording: 04/26/1958
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 6 Minutes 7 Secs.

58. Suite Iberia: no 13, Navarra [unfinished] by Isaac Albeniz

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906-1908; France
Date of Recording: 04/26/1958
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 5 Minutes 35 Secs.

59. Suite Iberia, Book 1: no 3, El Corpus en Sevilla by Isaac Albeniz

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906; France
Date of Recording: 04/26/1958
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 8 Minutes 1 Secs.

60. Suite Iberia, Book 2: no 3, Triana by Isaac Albeniz

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906; France
Date of Recording: 04/26/1958
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 5 Minutes 3 Secs.

61. Symphony no 2, Op. 132 "Mysterious Mountain" by Alan Hovhaness

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1955; USA
Date of Recording: 4/28/1958
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 19 Minutes 8 Secs.

62. Le baiser de la fée: Divertimento for Orchestra by Igor Stravinsky

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1934; France
Date of Recording: 4/28/1958
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 24 Minutes 0 Secs.

63. 1812 Overture, Op. 49 by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1880; Russia

64. Hebrides Overture, in B minor Op. 26 "Fingal's Cave" by Felix Mendelssohn

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1829-1832; Rome, Italy
Date of Recording: 1956

65. Episodes from Lenau's Faust, S 110: no 2, Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke "Mephisto Waltz no 1" by Franz Liszt

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1861; Weimar, Germany
Date of Recording: 12/10/1955
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 11 Minutes 16 Secs.

66. Tragic Overture, Op. 81 by Johannes Brahms

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1880; Austria

67. Guillaume Tell: Overture by Gioachino Rossini

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1829; Italy

68. La scala di seta: Overture by Gioachino Rossini

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1812; Italy

69. Il Signor Bruschino: Overture by Gioachino Rossini

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1813; Italy

70. Il barbiere di Siviglia: Overture by Gioachino Rossini

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1816; Italy

71. La gazza ladra: Overture by Gioachino Rossini

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1817; Italy

72. La Cenerentola: Overture by Gioachino Rossini

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Written: 1817

73. Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op. 67 by Ludwig van Beethoven

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1807-1808; Vienna, Austria

74. Coriolan Overture in C minor, Op. 62 by Ludwig van Beethoven

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1807; Vienna, Austria

75. Symphony no 4 in G major by Gustav Mahler

Performer: Lisa Della Casa (Soprano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1892-1900; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 12/1958
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 53 Minutes 39 Secs.
Language: German

76. Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106 by Béla Bartók

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1936; Budapest, Hungary
Date of Recording: 12/1958
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 27 Minutes 51 Secs.

77. Hungarian Sketches (5), Sz 97 by Béla Bartók

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1931; Budapest, Hungary
Date of Recording: 12/1958
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 10 Minutes 45 Secs.

78. Concerto for Orchestra, Sz 116 by Béla Bartók

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1943; USA
Date of Recording: 1955

79. Symphony no 88 in G major, H 1 no 88 by Franz Joseph Haydn

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: circa 1787 ; Eszterhazá, Hungary

80. Don Quixote, Op. 35 by Richard Strauss

Performer: Antonio Janigro (Cello)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1896-1897; Germany

81. Concerto for Piano no 25 in C major, K 503 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Performer: Andre Tchaikovsky (Piano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1786; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 2/15/1958

82. Don Giovanni, K 527: Overture by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1787; Prague, Czech Republ
Date of Recording: 3/14/1959

83. Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78 by Sergei Prokofiev

Performer: Rosalind Elias (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1938/1939; USSR

84. Colas Breugnon, Op. 24: Overture by Dmitri Kabalevsky

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1938/1969; USSR
Date of Recording: 03/14/1959
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 4 Minutes 48 Secs.

85. Marche slave, Op. 31 by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1876; Russia
Date of Recording: 03/14/1959
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 10 Minutes 29 Secs.

86. Prince Igor: Polovtsian March by Alexander Borodin

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1869-1887; Russia
Date of Recording: 03/14/1959
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 4 Minutes 48 Secs.

87. Night on the Bare Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1866; Russia
Date of Recording: 03/14/1959
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 10 Minutes 14 Secs.

88. Suite for Orchestra no 1 in D major, Op. 43: Marche miniature by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1878-1879; Russia
Date of Recording: 03/14/1959
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 2 Minutes 5 Secs.

89. Russlan and Ludmilla: Overture by Mikhail Glinka

Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1837-1842; Russia
Date of Recording: 03/14/1959
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 5 Minutes 19 Secs.

90. Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 54 by Robert Schumann

Performer: Van Cliburn (Piano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1841-1845; Germany
Date of Recording: 04/16/1960
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 30 Minutes 33 Secs.

91. Nutcracker, Op. 71: no 1a, Act 1 - Miniature Overture by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky