This month’s bumper boxes include celebrations of the great French pianists Yvonne Loriod and Anne Queffélec, an early commemoration of this year’s Berlioz anniversary from Daniel Barenboim and the Orchestre de Paris on Deutsche Grammophon, a fascinating anthology of music by black composers from three centuries, and DVD collections of documentaries, interviews, rehearsals and performances with Claudio Abbado and Sergiu Celibidache.
Recorded between 1956 and 1963, this survey of Loriod’s extensive repertoire includes eleven world premiere recordings, a new remastering of her husband’s Turangalîla-Symphonie, music by Liszt, Albéniz, Barraque, Webern and Boulez, and extensive booklet-notes by Loriod’s friend and producer Claude Samuel and her student Roger Muraro (himself an acclaimed interpreter of Messiaen).
Available Format: 13 CDs
A 10-CD collection of live recordings from the Polish-born German conductor, including Strauss waltzes and polkas, Handel concerti grossi, overtures by Mendelssohn, Weber, Nicolai and Wagner, the complete Brandenburg concertos, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7, Mozart’s ‘Prague’ and ‘Jupiter’ symphonies, Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, and Brahms’s Haydn Variations.
Available Format: 10 CDs
An anthology of previously unreleased radio recordings of French, German and Russian repertoire from the Swiss orchestra, marking their centenary last year, with conductors including Ernest Ansermet (the orchestra’s founder), Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Marek Janowski, Neeme Järvi and Jonathan Nott.
Available Formats: 5 CDs, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
