He was attractive, charismatic, elegant and bursting with youthful enthusiasm and an extraordinary musical talent, the Italian conductor Guido Cantelli. His death in a plane crash in 1956 at the age of only 36 years left a painful gap in the international music scene. Maestro Toscanini, who had chosen him as his successor, emphasized that he had never met a more gifted young musician. Cantelli was feted on both sides of the Atlantic as being among the most impressively gifted among the young generation of conductors. His rise to fame was downright meteoric, after benchmark recordings and concerts with Toscaini’s NBC Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra among others in the early 1950s. Cantelli especially loved German romanticism, as well as Debussy and Ravel, whose compositions were included in almost all of his programs. This compilation of original albums from the years 1952 to 1960 (+ bonus tracks) shows a musician who indisputably had the je ne sais quoi and was determined to produce a maximum of artistic achievement. The box contains Brahms symphonies (# 1 and # 3), the legendary recording of Mendelssohn’s “Italian,” the much acclaimed Mozart recordings with the Philharmonia Orchestra (A Musical Joke and Symphony No. 29), Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” and “La Mer”, as well as other French gems. In addition, there are other symphonic masterpieces by Beethoven, Schumann, Vivaldi, Wagner, Schubert, Ravel, Dukas, Liszt and others.
Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 3 in F major Op. 90
I. Allegro con brio. Un poco sostenuto
II. Andante
III. Poco allegretto
IV. Allegro. Un poco sostenuto
Paul Hindemith – Mathis de Maler
I. Angelic concert
II. Entombment
III. Temptation of St. Anthony
Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures At An Exhibition
1. Promenade
Gnomus
Promenade
The Old Castle
Promenade
Tuileries
Bydlo
Promenade
Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
Samuel Goldenberg & ?Schmuyle?
Limogesÿ: The Market
Catacombs (Sepulcrum romanum)
Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
The Hut on Fowls Legs
The Great Gate of Kiev
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Romeo And Juliette Fantasie Overture
Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 1 in C Minor Op. 68
I. Un poco sostenuto. Allegro
II. Andante sostenuto
III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso
IV. Adagio. Pi andante. Allegro non troppo ma con brio
Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons
La Primavera “Spring”
I. Allegro.
II. Largo.
III. Allegro
L’Estate
I. Allegro non molto. II. Adagio. III. Presto
L’Autunno
I. Allegro.
II. Adagio molto.
III. Allegro
Antonio Vivaldi
L’Inverno
I. Allegro non molto.
II. Largo.
III. Allegro
Alfredo Casella – Paganiniana op. 65 I. Allegro agitato
II. Polachetta
III. Romanza
IV. Tarantella
Gioachino Rossini – L?Assedio di Corinto Overture
Maurice Ravel – Pavane pour une infante defunte
Manuel de Falla – El sombrero de tres picos – Danza de los vecinos
Danza del molinero
Danza final
Claude Debussy – Prelude l’apres-midi d’un faune
Paul Dukas – L’apprenti sorcier
Franz Liszt – Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major I. Adagio sostenuto assai. Allegro agitato assai
II. Allegro moderato
III. Allegro deciso. Marziale un poco meno allegro
IV. Allegro animato
Claude Debussy – La Mer I. De l’aube midi sur la mer
II. Jeux de vagues
III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer
Claude Debussy – Nocturnes Nuages
Fetes
Prlude l’aprs-midi d’un faune
Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 4 in A Major Op. 90 ?Italian? I. Allegro vivace
II. Andante con moto
III. Con moto moderato
IV. Saltarello: Presto
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 6 in B Minor Op. 74 “Pathtique”
I. Adagio. Allegro non troppo
II. Allegro con grazia
III. Allegro molto vivace
IV. Finale: Adagio lamentoso
Maurice Ravel – Daphnis et Chloe – Suite No. 2
I. Lever du jour
II. Pantomime
III. Danse generale
Robert Schumann – Symphony No. 4 in D Minor
I. Ziemlich langsam. Lebhaft
II. Romanze: Ziemlich langsam
III. Scherzo: Lebhaft & Trio
IV. Langsam. Lebhaft. Schneller. Presto
Richard Wagner – Siegfried Idyll
Siegfrieds Hornruf
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 29 in A Major K 201
I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante
III. Menuetto & Trio
IV. Allegro con spirito
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – A Musical Joke K 522
I. Allegro
II. Menuetto: Maestoso. Trio
III. Adagio cantabile
IV. Presto
Franz Schubert – Symphony No. 8 in B Minor D 750 “Unfinished”
I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante con moto
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 7 in A Major Op. 92
I. Poco sostenuto
II. Allegretto
III. Presto. Assai meno presto
IV. Allegro con brio