Ozawa - The Philips Years - 50 CDs

[Randy Lane]

Found today on Tower Japan:

http://tower.jp/item/3666622/Seiji-Ozawa---The-Philips-Years---Original-Jacket-Collection＜完全限定盤＞

Tells you something about the market when the similar box for Bernard Haitink is 20 CDs, Colin Davis 15 CDs, but Ozawa gets 50 CDs.

Ludicrous, ludicrous, ludicrous.

Absolutely ludicrous.

But because he's Asian the Ozawa will probably outsell the others by a long shot.



[CD 1] Seiji Ozawa Plays Bach (BSO) (Recording: 1989, 1990) and Fugue in D minor Toccata and BWV565 (Stokowski Edition) (Webern Edition) from ricercar BWV1079 6 voice Chaconne (from Partita No. 2) (Hideo Saito ed) "We Corelli than most high heaven" canon-like variation (Stravinsky Edition) Fugue in E flat major, BWV552 Prelude ( Schoenberg Edition)

[CD 2] Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra Music for, string, hitting, Celesta (SKO) (record: 2004)

[CD 3] Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (SKO) (Recording: 1997 year)

[CD 4] Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (NPO) (record: 1974)

[CD 5] Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (SKO) (record: 2007) Tchaikovsky: "The Sleeping Beauty" Suite (OdP 1974) *: (Record)

[CD 6] Symphony No. 1 (SKO) (Recording: Brahms: 1990) *

[CD 7] Britten: War Requiem (SKO) (record: 2009) *

[CD 8] (: 2003 recording) * (SKO) Symphony No. 7: Bruckner

[CD 9] Symphony No. 8, "Witch of the midday" Symphonic Poem (WP): Dvorak (Recording: 1992) + Overture "Carnival" (San Francisco Symphony) (record: 1975)

[CD 10] Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, "From the New World", in nature (WP) (record: 1991)

[CD 11] Holst: Planets (BSO) (recording : 1979)

[CDs 12-23] Mahler: Symphonies (No.1-10) (Recording: 1977-90 year) song remembering deceased child (BSO) (record: 1988)

[CD 24] Mozart: Symphony Symphony No. 2 (SKO): No. No. 32 and Brahms (Recording: 2008/2009) *

[CD 25] Orff: Carmina Burana (BPO) (record: 1988)

[CD 26] Poulenc: opera buffa "security breast of Regius ", secular cantata" Masquerade "(Bonney / Holzmair / Lafont / SKO) (recorded: 1996)

[CD 27] Puccini: opera "Tosca" and "Manon Lescaut" (excerpt) (Gorchakova / Shicoff / Maggio Musicale) (record: 1997)

[CD 28] Ravel: Scheherazade, Britain: Lee Ryumi Nation (McNair / Graham / BSO) (Recording: 1995/1996)

[CD 29] Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Russian Easter (WP) (record: 1993)

[CD 30] Schoenberg: Kiyoshiyoru, Stravinsky: Apollo, led by the God of Muse (1947) (SKO) (Recording: 1993/1994)

[CDs 31 & 32] Schoenberg: Song of gray (Norman / McCracken / BSO) (recorded: 1979)

[CD 33] Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 (SKO) (recorded: 2006) * Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (BSO) (Recording: 1979 )

[CD 34] Violin Concerto (Mullova / BSO) (record: 1985) Sibelius and Tchaikovsky

[CD 35] New Year's Concert 2002 (WP) (record: 2002)

[CD 36] R. Strauss: Zarathustra is The Zarathustra (BSO) (recorded: 1981)

[CD 37] R. Strauss: An Alpine Symphony (WP) (record: 1996)

[CDs 38 & 39] R. Strauss: opera "Salome" (All) (Norman / Staatsoper Dresden) (record: 1990)

[CDs 40 & 41] R. Strauss: opera "Electra" (Behrens / BSO) (record: 1988)

[CD 42] Stravinsky: Oedipus the King (Norman / Schreier / SKO) (recording : 1992)

[CDs 43 & 44] Stravinsky: course of hobbyists (McNair / Rolfe-Johnson / Bostridge / SKO) (record: 1995)

[CD 45] Takemitsu: Novu~enba STEPS, Eclipse, Viola Concerto (Imai / SKO) (Recording: 1989/1990)

[CD 46] Takemitsu: Ceremonial, Fanimi Tree, My Way of Life, Requiem, air (SKO) (recorded: 1991-1996 years)

[CD 47] Tchaikovsky : Symphony No. 6, and "The Nutcracker" Suite * (OdP) (record: 1974)

[CD 48] Wagner: Overtures Preludes "Flying Dutchman" Overture / "Lohengrin" in the first act / "Nuremberg Prelude Die Meistersinger von "to Act 1 /" Tannhauser "Overture / and Isolde" Prelude and "Liebestod Tristan (BPO) (record: 1989)

[CD 49] anthem Collection (New Japan Philharmonic) (recording : 1997)

[BONUS CD (CD 50)] China BSO performances * (record: 1997) "small sister of grassland" pipa concerto (RyuIsaoumi): Goso-kyo familiar Stars and Stripes Forever: Sousa list: Piano Concerto (RyushiKon) first International CD release * BSO: Boston Symphony Orchestra SKO: Saito Kinen Orchestra NPO: New Philharmonia Orchestra WP: Vienna Philharmonic OdP: Orchestre de Paris

[Oscar]

How are Ozawa's Brahms Symphonies with Saito Kinen SO? I believe Brahms 4 was his first recording with SKSO, recorded in Berlin in September 1989.

[jrsnfld]

On Thursday, July 17, 2014 7:58:24 PM UTC-7, Oscar wrote:
> How are Ozawa's Brahms Symphonies with Saito Kinen SO? I believe Brahms 4 was his first recording with SKSO, recorded in Berlin in September 1989.

I heard 3 and 4, and the distant memory is still positive. (Ozawa's Brahms with Boston wasn't bad either.) The music flows effortlessly, and I don't remember any strangeness of tempi. The refined and warm sounds of the Saito Kinen orchestra are particularly well suited to Brahms. Ozawa is sometimes inert or sterile-sounding, but I didn't sense that problem in the Brahms. All in all, worth hearing, though I admit I didn't feel compelled to buy it and it's been at least a decade now....

--Jeff

[Ed Presson]

"Randy Lane" wrote in message
news:e6dcbd42-84cc-4fac...@googlegroups.com...

>Found today on Tower Japan:

>http://tower.jp/item/3666622/Seiji-Ozawa---The-Philips-Years---Original-Jacket-Collection<?????>

<snip>

I don't find many of the recordings here of interest. Too bad. I remember
liking some of the early recordings he made for EMI (such as a pretty good
Janacek Sinfonietta). As time went on, his recordings seemed very polished
but flaccid to my ears.

What recording in this box do RCMR posters admire?

Ed Presson

[Randy Lane]

On Friday, July 18, 2014 10:20:35 AM UTC-7, Ed Presson wrote:
> "Randy Lane" wrote in message news:e6dcbd42-84cc-4fac...@googlegroups.com... >Found today on Tower Japan: >http://tower.jp/item/3666622/Seiji-Ozawa---The-Philips-Years---Original-Jacket-Collection<?????> <snip> I don't find many of the recordings here of interest. Too bad. I remember liking some of the early recordings he made for EMI (such as a pretty good Janacek Sinfonietta). As time went on, his recordings seemed very polished but flaccid to my ears. What recording in this box do RCMR posters admire? Ed Presson

Some of the Mahler is actually very good though I cannot remember for sure which specifically. I do however far prefer his Mahler #1 on DG to the Philips recording. I rank the DG in my top 5 or so of the dozens of Mahler #1 recordings I own.

I like his Carmen on Philips with Norman, which is not included in the box. He recorded the Carmen and L'Arlesienne Suites as well as the Bizet Symphony for EMI with the Orchestre de National de France, but I have never heard any of them. I'm not even sure the symphony has ever been on an international CD - surely it has been in Asia.

But most of the Ozawa recordings I would recommend and return to frequently are not Philips. The already mentioned Janacek is/was available on a Forte twofer with equally outstanding recordings fo the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra and Stravinsky Firebird Suite. My overall favorite Ozawa recording though has got to be the DG Berlioz Romeo and Juliet. Was continually disappointed for years when new rounds of the DG series The Originals would be released but not include that recording. I've given up any hope for that now.

[operafan]

On Friday, July 18, 2014 1:20:35 PM UTC-4, Ed Presson wrote:

> What recording in this box do RCMR posters admire?

The Britten War Requiem is outstanding, and so is the Stravinsky Oedipus (which also exists on DVD with incredible costumes and staging by Julie Taymor. I haven't heard a lot of the other Saito Kinen performances.

[Will Von]

"Ed Presson" <pe...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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I'm going out on a limb here and assume that Song of Gray is Gurrelieder. I
quite like that one, but I think its because I imprinted on it.

[Matthew B. Tepper]

Oscar <oscaredwar...@gmail.com> appears to have caused the
following letters to be typed in
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> How are Ozawa's Brahms Symphonies with Saito Kinen SO? I believe Brahms
> 4 was his first recording with SKSO, recorded in Berlin in September 1989.

I enjoy them, although the Brahms 1st I heard them perform in Edinburgh in
1990 was superb, one of the great experiences of my life.

--
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[Matthew B. Tepper]

"Ed Presson" <pe...@comcast.net> appears to have caused the following
letters to be typed in news:lqbl1j$n8j$1...@dont-email.me:

Don't laugh, but I think the Beethoven 9th is very fine indeed.

[Terry]

I always think of him as a sort of asian version of Eugene Ormandy. Rarely made a bummer; rarely made a stunner.

[Terry]

On Saturday, July 19, 2014 7:11:11 AM UTC+10, operafan wrote:
> On Friday, July 18, 2014 1:20:35 PM UTC-4, Ed Presson wrote:
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> > What recording in this box do RCMR posters admire?
>

The "Elektra" is damn good; and so is the recording of the two violin concertos with Mullova. I think they show Ozawa at his best. For me, the Gurrelieder is spoiled by McCracken and his lack of line, but the orchestral part is good, and so are the ladies.

[fymido...@yahoo.com]

On Friday, July 18, 2014 10:20:35 AM UTC-7, Ed Presson wrote:

Prokofiev Rome & Juliet on DG.

[Randy Lane]

On Thursday, July 24, 2014 1:09:25 PM UTC-7, fymido...@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Friday, July 18, 2014 10:20:35 AM UTC-7, Ed Presson wrote: > "Randy Lane" wrote in message > > news:e6dcbd42-84cc-4fac...@googlegroups.com... > > >Found today on Tower Japan: > > > > >http://tower.jp/item/3666622/Seiji-Ozawa---The-Philips-Years---Original-Jacket-Collection<?????> > > > > <snip> > > > > I don't find many of the recordings here of interest. Too bad. I remember > > liking some of the early recordings he made for EMI (such as a pretty good > > Janacek Sinfonietta). As time went on, his recordings seemed very polished > > but flaccid to my ears. > > > > What recording in this box do RCMR posters admire? > > > > Ed Presson Prokofiev Rome & Juliet on DG.

Same goes for his Swan Lake on DG. Forgot that one.

[pgaron]

On Friday, July 18, 2014 1:51:02 PM UTC-4, Randy Lane wrote:
> On Friday, July 18, 2014 10:20:35 AM UTC-7, Ed Presson wrote:
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> > "Randy Lane" wrote in message news:e6dcbd42-84cc-4fac...@googlegroups.com... >Found today on Tower Japan: >http://tower.jp/item/3666622/Seiji-Ozawa---The-Philips-Years---Original-Jacket-Collection<?????> <snip> I don't find many of the recordings here of interest. Too bad. I remember liking some of the early recordings he made for EMI (such as a pretty good Janacek Sinfonietta). As time went on, his recordings seemed very polished but flaccid to my ears. What recording in this box do RCMR posters admire? Ed Presson
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> Some of the Mahler is actually very good though I cannot remember for sure which specifically. I do however far prefer his Mahler #1 on DG to the Philips recording. I rank the DG in my top 5 or so of the dozens of Mahler #1 recordings I own.<

Ozawa's recording of the Mahler 8th Symphony is a very fine one, IMHO. Excellent group of soloists and good recorded sound.

pgaron

[Steve de Mena]

On 7/24/14, 1:09 PM, fymido...@yahoo.com wrote:

>> What recording in this box do RCMR posters admire?
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>> Ed Presson
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> Prokofiev Rome & Juliet on DG.
>

Ditto, and Respighi "Ancient Airs and Dances" on DG. Tchaikovsky Swan
Lake too.

Steve

[jrsnfld]

> Ditto, and Respighi "Ancient Airs and Dances" on DG. Tchaikovsky Swan
> Lake too.

The DG years were good ones for Ozawa--in addition to Ancient Airs and Dances, there's an excellent Respighi Roman Trilogy, the Bartok Miraculous Mandarin/MSPC, the aforementioned Swan Lake, Mahler 1, and Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet, a decent Nutcracker, and bunches of Berlioz, Ravel, and more. The orchestral playing is lovely and the interpretations are at worst unobjectionable and at best colorful, intelligent, and no-nonsense.

--Jeff

[Bob Harper]

I don't know the Brahms, but the Mahler 2 and 9 he made with the SK for
sony are both excellent.

Bob Harper

[RiRiIII]

The DG Berlioz Romeo and Juliet is reissued in Japan in January as a 2-SHM CD set ($23/18 Euro) part of large Ozawa DG/Philips series:
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCG-6096

Alex

[Terry]

The Strauss "Elektra" is a knockout.

[AcousticLevitation.org]

On Thursday, July 17, 2014 9:44:30 PM UTC-4, Randy Lane wrote:
[...]Seiji-Ozawa---The-Philips-Years---Original-Jacket-Collection
[...] Tells you something about the market when the similar box for Bernard Haitink is 20 CDs, Colin Davis 15 CDs, but Ozawa gets 50 CDs.


Then there's the 23-CD "Ozawa: A Life For Music" (DG) which seems to overlap only 2 1/2 CDs with the Philips set.

<sigh> I'd forgotten, in my box-mania, I already have the 11-CD "Ozawa: Anniversary" box (Decca), which doesn't have any overlap at all with the "Ozawa: A Life For Music" set, but has all in the "Philips Years" box except Tch 5, Poulenc Gloria/Stabat Mater/ Concerto Champêtre, and a clever R&J program CD of parts of Tchaikovsky Prokofiev Berlioz & West Side Story Symphonic Dances.

I suppose I should listen to my unlistened-to box I already have before I pounce on another.

I was able a clearer translation of the "Philips Years" contents from the amazon.it listing:

CONTENTS AND PERFORMERS

CD 1 J.S. Bach 20th-Century Transcriptions (BSO)
CD 2 Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (SKO)
CD 3 Beethoven 3 (SKO)
CD 4 Beethoven 9 (NPO)
CD 5 Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (SKO)
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Suite (OdP)*
CD 6 Brahms 1 (SKO)*
CD 7 Britten War Requiem (SKO, 2009)*
CD 8 Bruckner 7 (SKO)*
CD 9 Dvorák 8 & The Noon Witch (WP) + Carnival Overture (SFSO)
CD 10 Dvorák 9 & In Nature (WP)

CD 11 Holst Planets (BSO)

CDs 12 23 Mahler: Symphonies 1 10
Kindertotenlieder (BSO)
CD 24 Mozart 32 & Brahms 2 (SKO)*

CD 25 Orff: Carmina Burana (BPO)

CD 26 Poulenc: Les Mamelles de Tirésias
Le Bal masqué

(Bonney / Holzmair / Lafont / SKO)

CD 27 Puccini: Tosca & Manon Lescaut, excerpts

(Gorchakova / Shicoff / Maggio Musicale)

CD 28 Ravel: Shéhérazade
Britten: Les Illuminations
Debussy: La Damoiselle élue

(McNair / Graham / BSO)

CD 29 Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Russian Easter Festival (WP)
CD 30 Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht
Stravinsky: Apollon musagète (1947) (SKO)
CDs 31 & 32 Schoenberg: Gurrelieder

(Norman / McCracken / BSO)

CD 33 Shostakovich 5 (SKO)*
Stravinsky: Rite of Spring (BSO)
CD 34 Sibelius & Tchaikovsky:
Violin Concertos (Mullova / BSO)

CD 35 New Year's Concert 2002 (WP)

CD 36 R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra
Ein Heldenleben (BSO)
CD 37 R. Strauss: Alpensinfonie (WP)
CDs 38 & 39 R. Strauss: Salome (Norman / Staatsoper Dresden)
CDs 40 & 41 R. Strauss: Elektra (Behrens / BSO)
CD 42 Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex (Norman / Schreier / SKO)
CDs 43 & 44 Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress

(McNair / Rolfe-Johnson / Bostridge / SKO)

CD 45 Takemitsu: November Steps, Eclipse
& Viola Concerto (Imai / SKO)
CD 46 Takemitsu: Requiem, My Way of Life
& Ceremonial (SKO)
CD 47 Tchaikovsky 6 & Nutcracker Suite* (OdP)
CD 48 Wagner: Overtures (BPO)
CD 49 National Anthems (New Japan Philharmonic)
BONUS CD (CD 50) BSO in People s Republic of China*
Liszt Sousa Tsu-Chiang

First International CD release*
Boston Symphony Orchestra New Philharmonia Orchestra Orchestre de Paris
Saito Kinen Orchestra Wiener Philharmoniker


Steve Koenig

[Oscar]

On Saturday, July 26, 2014 5:08:53 PM, pgaron wrote:
>
> Ozawa's recording of the Mahler 8th Symphony is a very fine one, IMHO.

Especially Part 2, which is as good as any. And I love Mahler 8.

[Andy Evans]

I'm a fan of Ozawa. Like others I like some of his non-Philips recordings.

Favourite is his Chicago Rite. The last pages are absolutely stunning. The syncopation is so good it sounds like the Basie Band - you can actually get up and dance to it!

[gggg...@gmail.com]

Ozawa's studio recording of Holst's "The Planets" can be heard here:

https://www.classicalmpr.org/story/2018/09/27/for-holsts-the-planets-one-fans-online-quest-to-rank-every-recording-is-out-of-this-world

[msw design]

On Friday, July 12, 2019 at 12:59:35 AM UTC-5, gggg...@gmail.com wrote:

> Ozawa's studio recording of Holst's "The Planets" can be heard here:
>
> https://www.classicalmpr.org/story/2018/09/27/for-holsts-the-planets-one-fans-online-quest-to-rank-every-recording-is-out-of-this-world

Ozawa's the second best Planets and no sign of Steinberg in the top 10? Hahahahaaaaaahhhuuuhhhgh!

Ozawa reveals the connection between Mars and Bolero, and makes them both the worse for it.