London Philharmonic Orchestra - 4CD-BOX: 75th Anniversary Edition, Vol. 3

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As it celebrated its 50th anniversary, the London Philharmonic Orchestra stood on the threshold of global acclaim. The arrival in 1982 of Principal Conductor Klaus Tennstedt brought a major recording contract with EMI and regular concert engagements in Japan and the Far East; Franz Welser-Möst followed in the early
1990s with further enhancement of the Orchestra’s strengths as a highly skilled instrument of accompaniment and Kurt Masur presided over interpretations of the great masterworks as the authoritative elder statesman of the conducting world. As the Orchestra celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2007, Vladimir Jurowski becomes the Orchestra’s 12th Principal conductor – truly an orchestral conductor for the 21st century.

Volume 3, the final instalment in the London Philharmonic Orchestra Anniversary collection, holds many treasures.

Klaus Tennstedt’s offering of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (previously unreleased) comes from one of his last concerts with the Orchestra on 8 October 1992. As the conductor struggled with ill health, every one of his late concerts became an event, with members of the Orchestra and soloists responding and rising to the sense of occasion. This is an interpretation of grandeur and vastness deeply rooted in the central European tradition of the early 20th century.

Franz Welser-Möst was appointed the Orchestra’s principal conductor at 30 years of age – the youngest in the Orchestra’s history. His outstanding strength is in working with singers, his reading of vocal music and its accompaniment. Testament to this is his appointment as Music Director of the Vienna State Opera in its 2010/11 season. On this disc Dame Felicity Lott is heard in a previously unreleased broadcast recording of the last scene of Richard Strauss’s Capriccio.

Over the last two years, Vladimir Jurowski has undertaken in concert an extensive survey of the works of Shostakovich. This included the Fourteenth Symphony - a vivid and memorable performance which threw piercing light into the dark corners of Shostakovich’s harrowing and teasing premonition of death.

CD 1
Klaus Tennstedt conducts
the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 ‘Choral’
Lucia Popp, soprano / Ann Murray, mezzo-soprano
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor / René Pape, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
LPO-0026

CD 2
Franz Welser-Möst conducts
the London Philharmonic Orchestra
R. Strauss: Capriccio, closing scene
Mozart: Mass in C minor / Requiem (excerpts)
Schubert: Stabat Mater in G minor
Bruckner: Te Deum
Jane Eaglen, soprano / Birgit Remmert, contralto
Deon van der Walt, tenor / Alfred Muff, bass
Mozart-Chor Linz
LPO-0027

CD 3
Kurt Masur conducts
the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5
(LPO-0001, previously released)

CD 4
Vladimir Jurowski conducts
the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Shostakovich: Symphony No.14
LPO-0028