Notes and Editorial Reviews
This seventh and final installment of the Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra covers the years 2000 to 2010, a rich period in the orchestra's history largely characterized by the changing perspectives of a new century. Indeed, it was in 2004 that Riccardo Chailly relinquished his position as chief conductor, to be replaced by the Latvian maestro Mariss Jansons, who shifted the orchestra's focus more towards Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and Shostakovich. A generation of orchestral players retired and were succeeded by a group of outstanding young musicians, most of them hailing from outside the Netherlands, resulting in a growing internationalization of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Also in this period, the launch of the
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Works on This Recording
1.
Jealousy by Leos Janácek
Conductor:
Mark Elder
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1894; Brno, Czech Republic
2.
Taras Bulba by Leos Janácek
Conductor:
Mark Elder
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1915-1918; Brno, Czech Republic
3.
Symphonia domestica, Op. 53 by Richard Strauss
Conductor:
Lorin Maazel
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1902-1903; Germany
4.
Elektra: Symphonic Suite by Alphons Diepenbrock
Conductor:
Claus Peter Flor
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1920; Netherlands (Holland
5.
Oedipus rex by Igor Stravinsky
Conductor:
Riccardo Chailly
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1926-1927; France
6.
Concerto for Violin in D major by Igor Stravinsky
Conductor:
Riccardo Chailly
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1931; France
7.
Frescoes of Piero della Francesca for Orchestra by Bohuslav Martinu
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1954; Nice, France
8.
Symphony no 3, Op. 45 "Gamelan" by Peter Schat
Conductor:
Hans Vonk
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
9.
Daphnis et Chloé Suite no 2 by Maurice Ravel
Conductor:
Mariss Jansons
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1913; France
10.
Pohjola's daughter, Op. 49 by Jean Sibelius
Conductor:
Sir Colin Davis
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906; Finland
11.
Concerto for Violin no 1, Op. 35 by Karol Szymanowski
Performer:
Vesko Eschkenazy (Violin)
Conductor:
Mark Elder
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1916; Poland
12.
Symphony no 5 in E flat major, Op. 82 by Jean Sibelius
Conductor:
Paavo Berglund
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1915/1919; Finland
13.
Symphony no 97 in C major, H 1 no 97 by Franz Joseph Haydn
Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1792; London, England
14.
Rendering by Luciano Berio
Conductor:
Heinz Holliger
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1989
15.
Konzertmusik for Brass and Strings, Op. 50 by Paul Hindemith
Conductor:
Kurt Masur
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1930; Germany
16.
Concerto for Cello "Tout un monde lointain" by Henri Dutilleux
Performer:
Godfried Hoogeveen (Cello)
Conductor:
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1968-1970; France
17.
Concerto for Piano "For Krystian Zimerman" by Witold Lutoslawski
Performer:
Lars Vogt (Piano)
Conductor:
Daniel Harding
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1988; Poland
18.
Marsyas: Rhapsody for Trumpet, Percussion and Orchestra by Wolfgang Rihm
Conductor:
George Benjamin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Contemporary
Written: 1998-1999; Germany
19.
Lied for Trombone and Orchestra by Theo Verbey
Performer:
Jorgen Van Rijen (Trombone)
Conductor:
Markus Stenz
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 21st Century
Written: 2007; Netherlands
20.
Symphony no 8 in C minor, WAB 108 by Anton Bruckner
Conductor:
Zubin Mehta
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: Vienna, Austria
21.
Musique pour l'esprit en deuil by Rudolf Escher
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1943; Netherlands (Holland
22.
No reason to panic, for orchestra by Mayke Nas
Conductor:
David Robertson
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Contemporary
Written: 2007
23.
Asyla by Thomas Adès
Conductor:
Daniel Harding
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: by 1997; England
24.
Pieces (6) for Orchestra, Op. 6 by Anton von Webern
Conductor:
Pierre Boulez
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1909/1928; Preglhof
25.
Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral" by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer:
Krassimira Stoyanova (Soprano),
Marianne Cornetti (Mezzo Soprano),
Robert Dean Smith (Tenor),
Franz-Josef Selig (Bass)
Conductor:
Mariss Jansons
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1822-1824; Vienna, Austria
26.
Symphony no 2 in C major, Op. 61 by Robert Schumann
Conductor:
Kurt Masur
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1845-1846; Germany
27.
Symphony no 4 in E minor, Op. 98 by Johannes Brahms
Conductor:
Herbert Blomstedt
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1884-1885; Austria
28.
Symphony no 13 in B flat minor, Op. 113 "Babi Yar" by Dmitri Shostakovich
Performer:
Sergei Leiferkus (Baritone)
Conductor:
Kurt Masur
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1962; USSR
29.
Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20 by Benjamin Britten
Conductor:
Stefan Asbury
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1940; England
30.
Les offrandes oubliées by Olivier Messiaen
Conductor:
George Benjamin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1930; France
31.
Adam-Interludes, for orchestra by Robert Zuidam
Conductor:
Ingo Metzmacher
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Contemporary
Written: 2007-2008
32.
La mer by Claude Debussy
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1903-1905; France
33.
Tragische Lieder (5) by Geert Van Keulen
Performer:
Detlef Roth (Baritone)
Conductor:
Lothar Zagrosek,
Mariss Jansons
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
34.
Symphony no 41 in C major, K 551 "Jupiter" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor:
Iván Fischer
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1788; Vienna, Austria
35.
Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59: Suite by Richard Strauss
Conductor:
Mariss Jansons
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1909-1910; Germany
36.
Symphony no 3 in D major, D 200 by Franz Schubert
Conductor:
Iván Fischer
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1815; Vienna, Austria
37.
Berceuse elégiaque, Op. 42a by Ferruccio Busoni
Conductor:
Ed Spanjaard
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1910; Berlin, Germany
38.
Autumnal Sketch, Op. 8 by Sergei Prokofiev
Conductor:
David Robertson
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
39.
Das Lied von der Erde by Gustav Mahler
Performer:
Robert Dean Smith (Tenor),
Anna Larsson (Alto)
Conductor:
Fabio Luisi
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1908-1909; Vienna, Austria
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