Enescu
George Enescu (1881-1955) was a composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher, and one of the most complete musicians of the twentieth century. He studied in Vienna and Paris and later became admired both as a creator and as a performer.
His best-known works include the two Romanian Rhapsodies, the opera Oedipe, three symphonies, chamber music, violin sonatas and the Octet for strings. His catalogue ranges from...
TCHAIKOVSKY, GLINKA, RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, LIADOV
GLAZUNOV From the Middle Ages
DUBENSKY Stephen Foster – Theme, Variations and Finale
DUBENSKY Fugue for 18 Violins
CESANA Negro Heaven
GERSHWIN-BENNETT Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture
KHATCHATURIAN Gayaneh – Ballet Suite ENESCU 2 Romanian Rhapsodies
DVOŘÁK 4 Slavonic Dances
BRAHMS 3 Hungarian Dances
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 1, 'Winter Dreams'
KALINNIKOV Symphony No. 1
HAYDN L’Isola Disabitata – Overture
HAYDN Symphony No. 73, “La Chasse”
GRIEG Sigurd Jorsalfar – Suite
GRIEG Peer Gynt – Suite No. 2
GRIEG Symphonic Dances
DELIBES Coppélia - Suite
DELIBES Sylvia - Suite
KHACHATURIAN Masquerade - Suite
music by KREISLER, SGAMBATI, WEBER, J. STRAUSS II
Studio recordings, 1941-53
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Fabien Sevitzky
Music by
BACH, BARBER, BEETHOVEN, BRAHMS, LISZT, MOZART, RAVEL, RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, SCHUBERT, SCHUMANN, SIBELIUS, J. Strauss, R. STRAUSS, TCHAIKOVSKY, TELEMANN, WAGNER and more
The Philadelphia Orchestra
conducted by Eugene Ormandy
Studio & live recordings, 1936-1945
BACH Prelude and Fugue in E-flat, “St. Anne”
BACH Toccata and Fugue in D minor
BENJAMIN Overture to an Italian Comedy
BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 1
CHAUSSON Symphony in B-flat
DVOŘÁK Carnival Overture
DVOŘÁK In Nature’s Realm
ELGAR Enigma Variations
GLAZUNOV The Seasons
GLINKA Ruslan and Ludmila - Overture
GOLDMARK Rustic Wedding Symphony
GRIEG Peer Gynt excerpts
MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream excerpts
R. STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra
R. STRAUSS Aus Italien - On the Shores of Sorrento
SAINT-SAËNS Danse macabre
SMETANA The Bartered Bride - Overture
STOCK Symphonic Waltz
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Marche slave
WAGNER Siegfried - Forest Murmurs
WAGNER Die Meistersinger - Prelude
PLUS MUSIC BY: BIZET, CAREY, DOHNÁNYI, ENESCU, François Schubert, GLIÈRE, HANDEL, IPPOLITOV-IVANOV, J. Strauss II, Järnefelt, LIADOV, MACDOWELL, MEACHAM, MOZART, PAGANINI, Ponchielli, Rezniček, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Simonetti, Suk, Suppé, Thomas, Toch, Volkmann, Walton, Weber and Wolf-Ferrari
Studio recordings, 1930-1941
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Frederick Stock
