Sep 20, 2009

Famous Overtures


















CD 01
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Carmen: Prélude
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Sinfonia
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Claudio Abbado, conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Fidelio: Ouvertüre
Wiener Philharmoniker
Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Latraviata: Preludio
Bayerisches Staatorchester
Carlos Kleiber, conductor

Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
Orphée aux enfers: Ouverture
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan, conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Die Zauberflote: Ouvertüre
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan, conductor

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Der Freischütz: Ouvertüre
Staatskapelle Dresden
Carlos Kleiber, conductor

Emil von Reznicek (1860-1945)
Donna Diana: Ouvertüre
Gothernburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor

Christoph Willibard Gluck (1714-1787)
Orfeo ed Euridice: Overtura
The English Baroque Sololists
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Die Fledermaus: Ouvertüre
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan, conductor

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Akademische Festouvertüre
Wiener Philharmoniker
Leonard Bernstein, conductor

CD2

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Candide: Overture
London Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Overture "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
James Levine, conductor

Franz von Suppè (1819-1895)
Leichte Kavallerie: Ouvertüre
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan, conductor

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
La forza del destino: Sinfonia
Philharmonia Orchestra
Giuseppe Sinopoli, conductor

Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
Ruslan and Ludmilla: Overture
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Vorspiel zum 1. Aufzug
Orchestre de Paris
Daniel Barenboim, conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Le nozze di Figaro: Sinfonia
Wiener Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado, conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Egmont: Ouvertüre
Wiener Philharmoniker
Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Khovanschina: Prelude "Dawn over the River Moscow"
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Claudio Abbado, conductor

George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Cuban Overture
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
James Levine, conductor

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