Tomaso Albinoni, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Vincenzo Bellini, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Johannes Brahms, Benjamin Britten, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, Frederick Delius, Gaetano Donizetti, Antonín Dvorák, Sir Edward Elgar, Gabriel Fauré, César Franck, Charles Gounod, Georg Friedrich Händel, Joseph Haydn, Jacques Ibert, Gustav Mahler, Jules Massenet, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jules Massenet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Modest Mussorgsky, Carl Nielsen, Giacomo Puccini, Henry Purcell, Maurice Ravel, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Gioachino Rossini, Camille Saint-Saëns, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Jean Sibelius, Johann Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Carl Maria von Weber, Henryk Wieniawski
Featured artists:
Fritz Kreisler, Jascha Heifetz, Yehudi Menuhin, Jacqueline du Pré, Arthur Rubinstein, Alfred Cortot, Edwin Fischer, Artur Schnabel, Daniel Barenboim, Janet Baker, Montserrat Caballé, Jon Vickers, Mischa Elman, Guilhermina Suggia, Gregor Piatigorsky
Spanning over 40 years, these recordings trace the career of Sir John Barbirolli, a conductor of proverbial warmth and generosity, a transformative force in British music and a legendary figure who collaborated with the greatest artists of his time. Shortly before his death in 1970 he completed a Sibelius cycle with the Hallé Orchestra, whose fortunes he had steered for nearly three decades, and among other composers closely linked with his name are Elgar, Delius, Brahms, Mozart, Mahler and Puccini. The wide-ranging contents of this landmark109-disc set, which comprises all the recordings Barbirolli made for HMV and PYE, include previously unpublished items and documentary material. Everything has been remastered in high definition, LP-era recordings from the original tapes, and 78-era recordings from the best available sources.
