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This year, we celebrate the thirty-year conducting career of Neeme Järvi with Chandos records, as well as the conductor’s own seventy-fifth birthday. Chandos marks the occasion with this two-disc set of highlights, featuring a varied selection of concert hall rarities and core classics, along with some popular showpieces and examples of Järvi’s championing of Estonian and American music. Gramophone said of his recently concluded Halvorsen series, “Järvis finds in the music a drama and pathos that might come as a revelation even to the composer.”
This year, we celebrate the thirty-year conducting career of Neeme Järvi with Chandos records, as well as the conductor’s own seventy-fifth birthday. Chandos marks the occasion with this two-disc set of highlights, featuring a varied selection of concert hall rarities and core classics, along with some popular showpieces and examples of Järvi’s championing of Estonian and American music. Gramophone said of his recently concluded Halvorsen series, “Järvis finds in the music a drama and pathos that might come as a revelation even to the composer.” Read less
Works on This Recording
1.
Carnival Overture, Op. 92 by Antonín Dvorák
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Romantic
Written: 1891; USA
Length: 9 Minutes 9 Secs.
2.
La Mélancolie by Johan Halvorsen
Performer:
Melina Madozzi (Violin)
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Romantic
Written: Norway
Length: 2 Minutes 31 Secs.
3.
Slavonic Dances (8) for Orchestra, Op. 72/B 147: no 2 in E minor, Dumka by Antonín Dvorák
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Romantic
Written: 1886-1887; Bohemia
Length: 5 Minutes 33 Secs.
4.
Kindertotenlieder: Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen by Gustav Mahler
Performer:
Linda Finnie ()
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Romantic
Written: 1901-1904; Vienna, Austria
Length: 4 Minutes 57 Secs.
5.
Fatinitza: March by Franz von Suppé
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Romantic
Written: 1876; Vienna, Austria
Length: 2 Minutes 29 Secs.
6.
Hungarian Dances (21) for Piano 4 hands, WoO 1: no 19 in B minor by Johannes Brahms
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Romantic
Written: 1880; Austria
Length: 2 Minutes 24 Secs.
7.
Tanzwalzer, Op. 53: Finale by Ferruccio Busoni
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Modern
Length: 4 Minutes 8 Secs.
8.
Minuetto by Giovanni Bolzoni
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Romantic
Written: Italy
Length: 4 Minutes 3 Secs.
9.
Háry János Suite: Intermezzo by Zoltán Kodály
Performer:
Laurence Kaptain (Cimbalom)
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Modern
Written: 1926-1927
Length: 5 Minutes 8 Secs.
10.
La valse by Maurice Ravel
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1920; France
Length: 12 Minutes 13 Secs.
11.
Träume (Dreams), Studie zu Tristan und Isolde, for orchestra by Johan Svendsen
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Length: 3 Minutes 50 Secs.
12.
Vier lieder, Op. 27: 4. Morgen! by Richard Strauss
Performer:
Felicity Lott ()
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Post-Romantic
Written: 1894
Length: 4 Minutes 8 Secs.
13.
Entry March of the Boyars by Johan Halvorsen
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Romantic
Written: 1895; Norway
Length: 4 Minutes 30 Secs.
14.
Jubel Overture, J 245/Op. 59 by Carl Maria von Weber
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Romantic
Written: 1818; Dresden, Germany
Length: 7 Minutes 49 Secs.
15.
Huldigungsmarsch by Richard Wagner
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Romantic
Written: 1864; Germany
Length: 5 Minutes 23 Secs.
16.
Festive Overture, Op. 96 by Dmitri Shostakovich
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1954; USSR
Length: 6 Minutes 2 Secs.
17.
Solitude by Edward "Duke" Ellington
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1934; USA
Length: 4 Minutes 0 Secs.
18.
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 by Samuel Barber
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1936; Rome, Italy
Length: 8 Minutes 45 Secs.
19.
Symphony No. 1 'Afro-American': 3. Animato by William Grant Still
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Modern
Written: 12/06/1930; United States of Ame
Length: 3 Minutes 9 Secs.
20.
Five Pieces: Finale. Cantando espressivo by Heino Eller
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Modern
Written: 1953
Length: 4 Minutes 25 Secs.
21.
The Tale of the Stone Flower, Op. 118: Act 2. Scene 4. Waltz by Sergei Prokofiev
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Modern
Written: 1948-1953
Length: 3 Minutes 41 Secs.
22.
Songs (14), Op. 34: no 14, Vocalise by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer:
Suzanne Murphy ()
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Romantic
Written: 1912-1915; Russia
Length: 6 Minutes 52 Secs.
23.
Ballet Suite No. 1: Lyric Waltz by Dmitri Shostakovich
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Written: 1949
Length: 2 Minutes 19 Secs.
24.
Tahiti Trot, Op. 16 "Tea for Two" by Dmitri Shostakovich
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1928; USSR
Length: 3 Minutes 30 Secs.
25.
Rêverie, Op. 24 by Alexander Scriabin
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Romantic
Written: 1898; Russia
Length: 3 Minutes 53 Secs.
26.
Credo by Arvo Pärt
Performer:
Boris Berman (Piano)
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1968; Estonia
Length: 12 Minutes 42 Secs.
27.
The Snow Maiden, incidental music, Op. 12: 7. Second Song of Lei by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performer:
Irina Mishura ()
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Romantic
Written: 1873
Length: 1 Minutes 26 Secs.
28.
The Snow Maiden, incidental music, Op. 12: 10. Melodrama by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performer:
Irina Mishura ()
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Romantic
Written: 1873
Length: 4 Minutes 4 Secs.
29.
The Snow Maiden, incidental music, Op. 12: 13. Jester's Dance by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performer:
Irina Mishura ()
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Romantic
Written: 1873
Length: 4 Minutes 25 Secs.
30.
The School for Scandal, overture for orchestra, Op. 5 by Samuel Barber
Conductor:
Neeme Järvi
Period: Modern
Written: 1931-1933; United States of Ame
Length: 9 Minutes 0 Secs.
Sound Samples
La melancolie (arr. J. Halvorsen): La melancolie
Slavonic Dances, Series 2, Op. 72, B. 147: No. 2 in E minor
Kindertotenlieder (version for voice and orchestra): Kindertotenlieder: No. 2. Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen (version for voice and orchestra)
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (version for orchestra): 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: Hungarian Dance No. 19 in B minor (orch. A. Dvorak) (version for orchestra)
Tanzwalzer, Op. 53: Finale
Hary Janos Suite: V. Kozjatek (Intermezzo)
La valse (version for orchestra)
5 Gedichte fur eine Frauenstimme, "Wesendonck Lieder": No. 5. Traume (Dreams) (arr. J. Svendsen for orchestra): 5 Gedichte fur eine Frauenstimme, "Wesendonck Lieder": No. 5. Traume (Dreams) (arr. J. Svendsen)
4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170 (version for voice and orchestra) (text by J.H. Mackay): 4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170: No. 4. Morgen (version for voice and orchestra)
Bojarernes Indtogsmarsch (Entry March of the Boyars)
Jubel-Overture, Op. 59, J. 245
Huldigungsmarsch in E flat major (arr. J. Raff)
The School for Scandal, Overture, Op. 5
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11
Symphony No. 1, "Afro-American": III. Animato "Humor"
5 Pieces: No. 5. Love Song: Cantado espressivo
Skaz o kammenom tsvetke (The Tale of the Stone Flower), Op. 118: Skaz o kammenom tsvetke (The Tale of the Stone Flower), Op. 118, Act II Scene 4: Waltz
14 Songs, Op. 34: No. 14. Vocalise in E minor (version for voice and orchestra)
Ballet Suite No. 1 (arr. L. Atovmyan): Ballet Suite No. 1: I. Lyric Waltz (Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1) (arr. L. Atovmyan)
Tahiti Trot, Op. 16 (orchestral transcription of Youmans' Tea for Two)
The Snow Maiden, Op. 12: Act I: Lel's Second Song
The Snow Maiden, Op. 12: Act II: Melodrama
The Snow Maiden, Op. 12: Act I: Dance of the Jesters
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