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20th Century Masterpieces (16 CDs)
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20th Century Masterpieces (16 CDs)
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Special Interest, Classical
 
  •  Track Listings (7) - Disc #1
  •  Track Listings (15) - Disc #2
  •  Track Listings (18) - Disc #3
  •  Track Listings (10) - Disc #4
  •  Track Listings (11) - Disc #5
  •  Track Listings (11) - Disc #6
  •  Track Listings (6) - Disc #7
  •  Track Listings (5) - Disc #8
  •  Track Listings (26) - Disc #9
  •  Track Listings (12) - Disc #10
  •  Track Listings (8) - Disc #11
  •  Track Listings (14) - Disc #12
  •  Track Listings (20) - Disc #13
  •  Track Listings (4) - Disc #14
  •  Track Listings (11) - Disc #15
  •  Track Listings (11) - Disc #16

The works in this set of 16 CDs have been arranged in strict chronological order of composition, the first disc beginning with a work from 1901 that has become one of the most popular works in the classical repertoire, mai...  more »

     
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All Artists: Various
Title: 20th Century Masterpieces (16 CDs)
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: EMI Classics
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 11/24/2008
Album Type: Box set
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Special Interest, Classical
Styles: Marches, Opera & Classical Vocal, Ballets & Dances, Ballets, Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Concertos, Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 16
SwapaCD Credits: 16
UPCs: 400000012551, 5099921750021

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Album Description
The works in this set of 16 CDs have been arranged in strict chronological order of composition, the first disc beginning with a work from 1901 that has become one of the most popular works in the classical repertoire, mainly through its use in another great 20th-century art form -- film (Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto). Thereafter each disc in the set takes the listener on a fascinating journey through the century, composer by composer and work by work, from Russian Romanticism, French Impressionism, English Pastoralism, Atonalism, Neo Classicism right up to Post Modernism, and from as wide a range of countries and genres as possible. Composers range from Elgar and Vaughan Williams to Stravinsky, Webern, Mahler, Barber, Boulez, Adés, Takemitsu, and many, many more! A fantastic entry point for those wishing to delve into the fascinating world of 20th-century music!
 

CD Reviews

A listing of contents
Santa Fe Listener | Santa Fe, NM USA | 09/27/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)

"For anyone wondering about duplications, it's helpful to know the complete contents here, as lifted from Presto.co.uk --



Adams, J:

The Chairman Dances



City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle



Adès:

Asyla



City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle



Barber:

Adagio for Strings, Op. 11



London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas



Bartók:

Piano Concerto No. 3, BB 127, Sz. 119



Martha Argerich (piano)



Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit



Berg:

Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel' (1935)



Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)



Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Gianluigi Gelmetti



Bernstein:

West Side Story - Symphonic Dances



City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi



Birtwistle:

Tragoedia



Melos Ensemble, Lawrence Foster



Boulez:

Le Soleil des Eaux



Josephine Nendick, Barry McDaniel & Louis Devos



BBC Chorus & Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez



Britten:

Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20



City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle



Copland:

Fanfare for the Common Man



Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México, Enrique Bátiz



Debussy:

La Mer



Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini



Delius:

Brigg Fair



Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham



Dutilleux:

Cello Concerto



Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)



Orchestre de Paris, Serge Baudo



Elgar:

Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85



Jacqueline du Pré (cello)



London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli



Falla:

Noches en los jardines de Espana



Gonzalo Soriano



Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos



Gershwin:

Rhapsody in Blue



orch. Grofé



London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn



Gorecki:

Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'



Zofia Kilanowicz



Kraków Symphony Orchestra, Jacek Kaspszyk



Henze:

Barcarola



City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle



Hindemith:

Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'



Philadelphia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch



Holst:

The Planets, Op. 32



Geoffrey Mitchell Choir & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult



Honegger:

Movement symphonique No. 1 'Pacific 231'



Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons



Janacek:

Sinfonietta



Pro Arte Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras



Khachaturian:

Masquerade



Philharmonia Orchestra, Efrem Kurtz



Landowski:

Adagio cantabile for string orchestra



Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Marcel Landowski



Lutoslawski:

Concerto for Orchestra



Mahler:

Der Abschied (Das Lied von der Erde)



Christa Ludwig (soprano)



Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer



Maw, N:

Dance Scenes



Philharmonia Orchestra, Daniel Harding



Messiaen:

Et Expecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum



Ensemble de Percussion de l'Orchestre de Paris & Orchestre de Paris, Serge Baudo



Milhaud:

La Création du Monde, Op. 81



Orchestre National de France, Leonard Bernstein



Nielsen:

Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 (FS97)



Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt



Orff:

Carmina Burana



Lucia Popp, Gerhard Unger, Raymond Wolansky & John Noble



Wandsworth School Boys' Choir & New Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos



Penderecki:

Tren (Threnody), "To the Victims of Hiroshima"



Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Krzysztof Penderecki



Poulenc:

Concerto in G minor for Organ, Strings & Timpani



Gillian Weir



City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox



Prokofiev:

Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major, Op. 10



Martha Argerich (piano)



Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit



Pärt:

Spiegel im Spiegel



Tasmin Little & Martin Roscoe



Rachmaninov:

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18



Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)



Berliner Philharmoniker, Antonio Pappano



Ravel:

Boléro



Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan



Respighi:

Pines of Rome



London Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli



Rodrigo:

Concierto de Aranjuez



Angel Romero



London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn



Schnittke:

Minuet for String Trio



Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet & Mstislav Rostropovich



Schoenberg:

5 orchestral pieces, Op. 16



City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle



Shostakovich:

Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47



Wiener Philharmoniker, Mariss Jansons



Sibelius:

Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82



Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Berglund



Strauss, R:

Four Last Songs



Nina Stemme



Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano



Stravinsky:

The Rite of Spring



London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras



Takemitsu:

Water-ways



London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen



Tavener:

The Protecting Veil



Steven Isserlis (cello)



London Symphony Orchestra, Gennadi Rhozdestvensky



Tippett:

Concerto for double string orchestra



Moscow Chamber Orchestra & Bath Festival Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai



Turnage:

Drowned Out



City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle



Vaughan Williams:

The Lark Ascending



Sarah Chang (violin)



London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink



Walton:

Cello Concerto



Lynn Harrell (cello)



City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle



Webern:

Six Pieces for Orchestra Op. 6



(revised version)



City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle

"
Grab It While You Can!
J Scott Morrison | Middlebury VT, USA | 08/31/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I have a deep suspicion that this is the sort of compilation that won't be on the market all that long. And it is good enough that anyone with any interest in 20th century music will want to have it at its super-budget price. I would suggest you grab it now if you're interested in it. The set comprises 16 CDs with 20th century music presented in chronological order -- from Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto (1901, here played by Leif Ove Andsnes) to Thomas Adès's Asyla (1997, played by Simon Rattle leading the City of Birmingham SO). These are all EMI releases, of course, and artists range from Adrian Boult (Holst's 'The Planets') to Michael Tilson Thomas (Barber's 'Adagio for Strings'), from Jacqueline du Pré (Elgar Cello Concerto) to Lynn Harrell (Walton Cello Concerto), from Sarah Chang (Vaughan Williams's 'The Lark Ascending') to Gidon Kremer (Schnittke's 'Minuet'), from Martha Argerich (Prokofiev's First Piano Concerto & Bartók's Third Piano Concerto) to André Previn (Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue'), from the Berlin Philharmonic (Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto, et al.) to the Philadelphia Orchestra (Hindemith's 'Mathis der Maler' Symphony), from Carlo Maria Giulini (Debussy's 'La Mer') to John Barbirolli (Elgar Cello Concerto) to Pierre Boulez (his own 'Le soleil des eaux') to Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Taverner's 'The Protecting Veil' with Steven Isserlis, cello). There are fifty-two individual works, all played absolutely complete (except for the 'Abschied' movement extracted from Mahler's 'Das Lied von der Erde' in a moving performance by Christa Ludwig with Klemperer conducting). And there's not a bad performance in the lot.



Among the more recent works are Gorecki's 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs', Birtwistle's 'Tragoedia', Henze's 'Barcarola', Takemitsu's 'Water-Ways', Adams's 'The Chairman Dances', Turnage's 'Drowned Out', and Maw's 'Dance Scenes'. Bernstein is represented by 'Symphonic Dances from West Side Story' (oddly sharing a CD with Penderecki's 'Threnody for Victims of Hiroshima'. There is a terrific 'Carmina Burana' by Orff, led by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Rostropovich plays Dutilleux's 'Tout un monde lointain'. Other favorites of mine include Lutoslawski's 'Concerto for Orchestra' with the composer conducting, and Tippett's Fantasia concertante on a Theme of Corelli under Rudolf Barshai. Obviously I haven't listed all that is here.



Many of you, of course, will have some of these performances on single CDs. But at this price a few duplications should not be a deterrent.



Heartily recommended.



Scott Morrison"