Tchaikovsky - Francesca da Rimini - Barbirolli

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Francesca da Rimini, Fantasia after Canto V of the Inferno from Dante's Divine Comedy, Op. 32

John Barbirolli

New Philharmonia Orchestra (1969).

Boulanger - Faust et Hélène, Psaumes - Tortelier

Lili Boulanger

D’un matin de printemps
D’un soir triste
Faust et Hélène, épisode lyrique d'après le second 'Faust' de Goethe *
Psaume 130, 'Du fond de l'abîme' **
Psaume 24, 'La terre appartient à l’Éternel' ***

Yan Pascal Tortelier 

Lynne Dawson *
Bonaventura Bottone *
Jason Howard *
Ann Murray **
Neil MacKenzie **/***

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus */**/*** (1999)

Gounod - Messe solennelle de Sainte-Cécile - Markevitch

Charles Gounod

Messe solennelle de Sainte-Cécile, CG 56

Igor Markevitch

Irmgard Seefried

Gerhard Stolze

Hermann Uhde

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus (1966)

Tchaikovsky - Orchestral Suites - Doráti

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Orchestral Suite No. 1, Op. 43

Orchestral Suite No. 2, Op. 53

Orchestral Suite No. 3 in G major, Op. 55

Orchestral Suite No. 4 in G major, 'Mozartiana', Op. 61

Antal Doráti

New Philharmonia Orchestra (1966)

Dukas - L'Apprenti sorcier - 16 recordings

Paul Dukas

L'Apprenti sorcier, scherzo d'après une ballade de Goethe

Ernest Ansermet
Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire (1955)

Daniel Barenboim
Orchestre de Paris (1977)

Leonard Bernstein
New York Philharmonic (1965)

Charles Dutoit
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (1987)

Jean Fournet
Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (1993)

Armin Jordan
Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique (1992)

James Levine
Berliner Philharmoniker (1987)

Igor Markevitch
Philharmonia Orchestra (1953)

Jean Martinon
Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux (1953)

Jean Martinon
Orchestre National de l'ORTF (1971)

Charles Munch
Boston Symphony Orchestra (1957)

Michel Plasson
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse (1995)

Leonard Slatkin
Orchestre National de France (1999)

Yan Pascal Tortelier
Ulster Orchestra (1989)

Arturo Toscanini
NBC Symphony Orchestra (1950)

David Zinman
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (1978)

Schubert - Symphony No. 9 - Böhm

Franz Schubert

Symphony No. 9 in C major, 'The Great', D. 944

Karl Böhm

Staatskapelle Dresden (1979).

Beethoven - Orchestral music - Markevitch

Ludwig van Beethoven

Egmont, Op. 84 - I. Overture
Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b
Fidelio-Ouvertüre, Op. 72
Ouvertüre 'Coriolan', Op. 62
Overtüre zur Namensfeier, Op. 115
Die Weihe des Hauses, Op. 124

Igor Markevitch

Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux (1958).

Shostakovich - The Nose - Rozhdestvensky

Dmitri Shostakovich

The Nose, Op. 15

Gennady Rozhdestvensky 

Eduard Akimov
Valery Belykh
Nina Sasulova
Boris Tarkhov
Alexander Lomosonov
Boris Druzhinin
Igor Paramonov
Valery Solovyanov
Lyudmila Sokolenko
Ahot Sarkisov
Alexander Braim
Lyudmila Sapegina

Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Moscow Chamber Musical Theatre (1975).

Shostakovich - Symphony No. 15 - Sanderling

Dmitri Shostakovich

Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141

Kurt Sanderling

Berliner Philharmoniker (1999).

Un especial agradecimiento a Fernando López Vargas-Machucha y su amabilidad infinita por compartir esta joya discográfica, difícil de encontrar.

Strauss - Tanz der sieben Schleier - 10 conductors, 14 recordings

Richard Strauss

Salome, Op. 54 - Tanz der sieben Schleier

Richard Strauss
Berliner Philharmoniker (1928)

Otto Klemperer
Staatsoper Berlin (1928)

                                       

Fritz Reiner
Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1954)

Herbert von Karajan
Wiener Philharmoniker (1960)

Otto Klemperer
Philharmonia Orchestra (1960)

Georg Solti
Wiener Philharmoniker (1962)

Karl Böhm
Berliner Philharmoniker (1963)

Erich Leinsdorf
London Symphony Orchestra (1968)

Herbert von Karajan
Berliner Philharmoniker (1973)

Karl Böhm
Wiener Philharmoniker (1974)

Leonard Bernstein
Orchestre National de France (1977)

Herbert von Karajan
Wiener Philharmoniker (1978)

Giuseppe Sinopoli
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin (1990)

Andris Nelsons
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (2010)

Saint-Saëns - Le carnaval des animaux - My 2 reference recordings

Camile Saint-Saëns

Le carnaval des animaux

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Victoria Postnikova, Jean-François Heisser, Pierre Amoyal, Ami Flammer, Jeanne Marie Conquer, Jean Dupouy, Alain Meunier, Gabin Lauridon, Guy Dangain, Philippe Pierlot, Didier Benetti (1992)

Antonio Pappano (conductor and piano)

Martha Argerich
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (2016)