Europe: The Orchestral Recordings

~ Release by Sir Georg Solti (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Annotation

A collection of 44 CDs and 2 DVDs. Includes an 80-page booklet with original art on the CD jackets.

Annotation last modified on 2025-09-21 09:44 UTC.

Tracklist

1▶CD: Brahms: Violin Sonatas 1-3
2▶CD: Schubert: “In der Ferne” - “Abschied” / Mozart: Violin Sonata no. 32 / Beethoven: Violin Sonata no. 9 “Kreutzer” / Egmont Overture
3▶CD: Rossini: Guillaume Tell: Overture / Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra / Beethoven: “Heil sei dem Tag” Fidelio Act II Finale
4▶CD: Mahler: Symphony no. 5
5▶CD: Bartók: Cantata profane / Weiner: Serenade for small orchestra / Kodály: Psalmus hungaricus
6▶CD: Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 “Eroica”
7▶CD: Beethoven: Symphony no. 5 [1958]
8▶CD: Beethoven: Symphony no. 7
9▶CD: Suppé: Overtures: Light Cavalry / Poet and Peasant / Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna / Pique Dame
10▶CD: Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1
11▶CD: Wagner: Overtures: Rienzi / Der fliegende Holländer / Tannhäuser (Overture & Bacchanale)
12▶CD: Bruckner: Symphony no. 7 / Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
13▶CD: Bruckner: Symphony no. 8
14▶CD: Schumann: Overture, Scherzo and Finale / Symphony no. 1 “Spring”
15▶CD: Schumann: Julius Caesar Overture / Symphony no. 2
16▶CD: Schumann: Symphonies 3 & 4
17▶CD: Verdi: Requiem
18▶CD: R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
19▶CD: Schubert: Symphonies 5 [1984] & 8 “Unfinished”
20▶CD: Schubert: Symphony no. 9 “Great”
21▶CD: Wagner: Orchestral music from Der Ring des Nibelungen
22▶CD: Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 1 / Variations on a Theme by Schumann
23▶CD: R. Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder and other lieder
24▶CD: Mozart: Mass in C minor “Große Messe”
25▶CD: Mozart: Requiem
26▶CD: Shostakovich: Symphony no. 9 / Beethoven: Symphony no. 5 [LIVE, 1990]
27▶CD: Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4 “Italian” [LIVE, 1993] / Shostakovich: Symphony no. 5
28▶CD: Kodály: “Peacock” Variations / Blacher: Paganini Variations / Elgar: “Enigma” Variations
29▼CD: Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain / Music from Khovanshchina / Borodin: Prince Igor Overture / Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture
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1A Night on the Bare Mountain
recorded in:
Berlin (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
engineer:
Gordon Parry (engineer)
producer:
Ray Minshull (record producer)
orchestra:
Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
conductor:
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
recording of:
Une nuit sur le mont chauve: Fantaisie pour l’orchestre (Night on Bald Mountain, orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov) (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
orchestrator:
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Nikolai Rimsky‐Korsakov, Russian composer) (in 1886)
composer:
Modest Mussorgsky (composer) (from 1867-06-12 until 1867-06-23)
dedicated to:
Wladimir Stassoff (Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov)
publisher:
W. Bessel & Cie (in 1886)
is based on:
St. John’s Night on the Bare Mountain (original version)
Modest Mussorgsky10:34
2Prince Igor: Overture
recorded in:
Berlin (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
engineer:
Gordon Parry (engineer)
producer:
Ray Minshull (record producer)
orchestra:
Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
conductor:
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
recording of:
Prince Igor: Overture (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
orchestrator:
Александр Константинович Глазунов (Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer, 1865–1936) and Николай Андреевич Римский‐Корсаков (Nikolai Rimsky‐Korsakov, Russian composer)
additional composer:
Александр Константинович Глазунов (Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer, 1865–1936) and Николай Андреевич Римский‐Корсаков (Nikolai Rimsky‐Korsakov, Russian composer)
composer:
Александр Порфирьевич Бородин (Alexander Borodin, Russian composer)
part of:
Prince Igor (opera by Borodin, most contemporary performances shouldn't link to this work)
Alexander Borodin11:48
3Ruslan and Lyudmila: Overture
recorded in:
Berlin (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
engineer:
Gordon Parry (engineer)
producer:
Ray Minshull (record producer)
orchestra:
Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
conductor:
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
recording of:
Руслан и Людмила: Увертюра (Ruslan and Lyudmila: Overture) (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
composer:
Mikhail Glinka (Russian composer) (from 1837 until 1842)
part of:
Руслан и Людмила (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Mikhail Glinka5:07
4Khovanshchina: Introduction
recorded in:
Berlin (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
engineer:
Gordon Parry (engineer)
producer:
Ray Minshull (record producer)
orchestra:
Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
conductor:
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
recording of:
Khovanshchina: Prelude: Dawn Over the River Moscow (orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov) (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
orchestrator:
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Nikolai Rimsky‐Korsakov, Russian composer) (in 1882)
composer:
Modest Mussorgsky (composer) (in 1880)
librettist:
Modest Mussorgsky (composer)
orchestration of:
Khovanshchina: Act 1 Prelude "Dawn on the Moscow River"
Modest Mussorgsky5:33
5Khovanshchina: Dance of the Persian Slaves
recorded in:
Berlin (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
engineer:
Gordon Parry (engineer)
producer:
Ray Minshull (record producer)
orchestra:
Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
conductor:
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
recording of:
Khovanshchina: Act IV, Scene I. Dance of the Persian Slave Girls (orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov) (from 1959-06-02 until 1959-06-05)
orchestrator:
Николай Андреевич Римский‐Корсаков (Nikolai Rimsky‐Korsakov, Russian composer)
composer:
Модест Петрович Мусоргский (Modest Mussorgsky, composer)
orchestration of:
Khovanshchina: Act IV, Scene I. Dance of the Persian Slave Girls
Modest Mussorgsky6:52
30▶CD: Mozart: Piano Quartets 1 & 2
31▶CD: Mozart: Symphonies 40 & 41
32▶CD: R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
33▶CD: R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra / Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche / Salome's Dance
34▶CD: Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
35▶CD: Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 2 “Little Russian”
36▶CD: Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 5
37▶CD: Liszt: Tasso: Lamento e trionfo / Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe / Mephisto Waltz no. 1
38▶CD: Mahler: Symphony no. 4
39▶CD: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
40▶CD: Shostakovich: Symphony no. 1 / Stravinsky: Sacre du printemps (Rite of Spring)
41▶CD: Rossini / Respighi: La Boutique fantasque Suite / Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier
42▶CD: Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4 “Italian” [1958] / Schubert: Symphony no. 5 [1958]
43▶CD: Tchaikovsky: Serenade for String Orchestra / Mozart: Serenade no. 13 “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”
44▶CD: Solti in Europe: A Memoir
45▶DVD: Mozart: Requiem
46▶DVD: Rossini: Guillaume Tell Overture / Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra / Beethoven “Heil sei dem Tag” Fidelio Act II Finale