Europe: The Orchestral Recordings

~ Release by Sir Georg Solti (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Annotation

A collection of 44 CDs and 2 DVDs. Includes an 80-page booklet with original art on the CD jackets.

Annotation last modified on 2025-09-21 09:44 UTC.

Tracklist

1▶CD: Brahms: Violin Sonatas 1-3
2▶CD: Schubert: “In der Ferne” - “Abschied” / Mozart: Violin Sonata no. 32 / Beethoven: Violin Sonata no. 9 “Kreutzer” / Egmont Overture
3▼CD: Rossini: Guillaume Tell: Overture / Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra / Beethoven: “Heil sei dem Tag” Fidelio Act II Finale
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1Guillaume Tell: Overture
engineer:
John Pellowe (audio engineer)
producer:
Michael Woolcock (producer)
orchestra:
World Orchestra for Peace (on 1995-07-05)
conductor:
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) (on 1995-07-05)
recorded at:
Victoria Hall (Geneva) in Genève (Geneva), Genève (Canton of Geneva), Switzerland (on 1995-07-05)
recording of:
Guillaume Tell : Ouverture (William Tell: Overture) (on 1995-07-05)
composer:
Gioachino Rossini (composer)
librettist:
Hippolyte Louis-Florent Bis (librettist) and Étienne de Jouy
part of:
Guglielmo Tell (italian version by Calisto Bassi)
part of:
Guillaume Tell
Gioachino Rossini11:39
2Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116: I. Introduzione: Andante non troppo - Allegro vivace
engineer:
John Pellowe (audio engineer)
producer:
Michael Woolcock (producer)
orchestra:
World Orchestra for Peace (on 1995-07-05)
conductor:
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) (on 1995-07-05)
recorded at:
Victoria Hall (Geneva) in Genève (Geneva), Genève (Canton of Geneva), Switzerland (on 1995-07-05)
recording of:
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123: I. Introduzione. Andante non troppo – Allegro vivace (on 1995-07-05)
composer:
Bartók Béla (Béla Bartók, composer) (in 1943)
part of:
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123
Béla Bartók9:24
3Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116: II. Giuoco della coppie
engineer:
John Pellowe (audio engineer)
producer:
Michael Woolcock (producer)
orchestra:
World Orchestra for Peace (on 1995-07-05)
conductor:
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) (on 1995-07-05)
recorded at:
Victoria Hall (Geneva) in Genève (Geneva), Genève (Canton of Geneva), Switzerland (on 1995-07-05)
recording of:
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123: II. Giuoco delle coppie. Allegretto scherzando (on 1995-07-05)
composer:
Bartók Béla (Béla Bartók, composer) (in 1943)
part of:
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123
Béla Bartók5:59
4Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116: III. Elegia: Andante, non troppo
engineer:
John Pellowe (audio engineer)
producer:
Michael Woolcock (producer)
orchestra:
World Orchestra for Peace (on 1995-07-05)
conductor:
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) (on 1995-07-05)
recorded at:
Victoria Hall (Geneva) in Genève (Geneva), Genève (Canton of Geneva), Switzerland (on 1995-07-05)
recording of:
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123: III. Elegia. Andante non troppo (on 1995-07-05)
composer:
Bartók Béla (Béla Bartók, composer) (in 1943)
part of:
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123
Béla Bartók6:33
5Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116: IV. Intermezzo interrotto: Allegretto
engineer:
John Pellowe (audio engineer)
producer:
Michael Woolcock (producer)
orchestra:
World Orchestra for Peace (on 1995-07-05)
conductor:
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) (on 1995-07-05)
recorded at:
Victoria Hall (Geneva) in Genève (Geneva), Genève (Canton of Geneva), Switzerland (on 1995-07-05)
recording of:
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123: IV. Intermezzo interrotto. Allegretto (on 1995-07-05)
composer:
Bartók Béla (Béla Bartók, composer) (in 1943)
part of:
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123
Béla Bartók4:22
6Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116: V. Finale: Pesante - Presto
engineer:
John Pellowe (audio engineer)
producer:
Michael Woolcock (producer)
orchestra:
World Orchestra for Peace (on 1995-07-05)
conductor:
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) (on 1995-07-05)
recorded at:
Victoria Hall (Geneva) in Genève (Geneva), Genève (Canton of Geneva), Switzerland (on 1995-07-05)
recording of:
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123: V. Finale. Pesante – Presto (on 1995-07-05)
composer:
Bartók Béla (Béla Bartók, composer) (in 1943)
part of:
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123
Béla Bartók9:59
7Fidelio, op. 72: Act II Finale “Heil sei dem Tag”
engineer:
John Pellowe (audio engineer)
producer:
Michael Woolcock (producer)
baritone vocals [Don Pizarro]:
Albert Dohmen (bass-baritone) (on 1995-07-05)
bass vocals [Don Fernando]:
Andreas Kohn (operatic bass) (on 1995-07-05)
bass vocals [Rocco]:
Hans Tschammer (operatic bass) (on 1995-07-05)
choir vocals:
London Voices (on 1995-07-05)
soprano vocals [Leonore]:
Evelyn Herlitzius (soprano) (on 1995-07-05)
soprano vocals [Marzelline]:
Ruth Ziesak (soprano) (on 1995-07-05)
tenor vocals [Florestan]:
Stig Anderson (Stikkan) (on 1995-07-05)
tenor vocals [Jaquino]:
Herbert Lippert (tenor) (on 1995-07-05)
orchestra:
World Orchestra for Peace (on 1995-07-05)
conductor:
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) (on 1995-07-05)
chorus master:
Terry Edwards (British choir director) (on 1995-07-05)
recorded at:
Victoria Hall (Geneva) in Genève (Geneva), Genève (Canton of Geneva), Switzerland (on 1995-07-05)
recording of:
Fidelio, op. 72: Act II, Scene II, no. 16a. "Heil sei dem Tag" (Chor) (on 1995-07-05)
composer:
Ludwig van Beethoven (German composer) (in 1814)
additional librettist:
Georg Friedrich Treitschke
librettist:
Jean-Nicolas Bouilly
translator:
Joseph Sonnleithner
part of:
Fidelio, op. 72: Act II, Scene II, no. 16. Finale "Heil sei dem Tag" (Chor, Don Fernando, Rocco, Pizarro, Florestan, Leonore, Marzelline, Jaquino) (complete finale)
Ludwig van Beethoven14:00
4▶CD: Mahler: Symphony no. 5
5▶CD: Bartók: Cantata profane / Weiner: Serenade for small orchestra / Kodály: Psalmus hungaricus
6▶CD: Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 “Eroica”
7▶CD: Beethoven: Symphony no. 5 [1958]
8▶CD: Beethoven: Symphony no. 7
9▶CD: Suppé: Overtures: Light Cavalry / Poet and Peasant / Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna / Pique Dame
10▶CD: Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1
11▶CD: Wagner: Overtures: Rienzi / Der fliegende Holländer / Tannhäuser (Overture & Bacchanale)
12▶CD: Bruckner: Symphony no. 7 / Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
13▶CD: Bruckner: Symphony no. 8
14▶CD: Schumann: Overture, Scherzo and Finale / Symphony no. 1 “Spring”
15▶CD: Schumann: Julius Caesar Overture / Symphony no. 2
16▶CD: Schumann: Symphonies 3 & 4
17▶CD: Verdi: Requiem
18▶CD: R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
19▶CD: Schubert: Symphonies 5 [1984] & 8 “Unfinished”
20▶CD: Schubert: Symphony no. 9 “Great”
21▶CD: Wagner: Orchestral music from Der Ring des Nibelungen
22▶CD: Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 1 / Variations on a Theme by Schumann
23▶CD: R. Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder and other lieder
24▶CD: Mozart: Mass in C minor “Große Messe”
25▶CD: Mozart: Requiem
26▶CD: Shostakovich: Symphony no. 9 / Beethoven: Symphony no. 5 [LIVE, 1990]
27▶CD: Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4 “Italian” [LIVE, 1993] / Shostakovich: Symphony no. 5
28▶CD: Kodály: “Peacock” Variations / Blacher: Paganini Variations / Elgar: “Enigma” Variations
29▶CD: Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain / Music from Khovanshchina / Borodin: Prince Igor Overture / Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture
30▶CD: Mozart: Piano Quartets 1 & 2
31▶CD: Mozart: Symphonies 40 & 41
32▶CD: R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
33▶CD: R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra / Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche / Salome's Dance
34▶CD: Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
35▶CD: Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 2 “Little Russian”
36▶CD: Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 5
37▶CD: Liszt: Tasso: Lamento e trionfo / Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe / Mephisto Waltz no. 1
38▶CD: Mahler: Symphony no. 4
39▶CD: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
40▶CD: Shostakovich: Symphony no. 1 / Stravinsky: Sacre du printemps (Rite of Spring)
41▶CD: Rossini / Respighi: La Boutique fantasque Suite / Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier
42▶CD: Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4 “Italian” [1958] / Schubert: Symphony no. 5 [1958]
43▶CD: Tchaikovsky: Serenade for String Orchestra / Mozart: Serenade no. 13 “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”
44▶CD: Solti in Europe: A Memoir
45▶DVD: Mozart: Requiem
46▶DVD: Rossini: Guillaume Tell Overture / Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra / Beethoven “Heil sei dem Tag” Fidelio Act II Finale