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Covering recordings from July 1956 to July 1961, here are early stereo spectaculars on Mercury, under the inspired baton of Antal Doráti: classic albums of Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and many more in a new ‘Original Jackets’ Limited Edition.
Eloquence has been making a systematic and critically acclaimed survey of the Mercury legacy of recordings made by the Hungarian conductor Antal Doráti. Boxes of his complete recordings with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia Hungarica have revived albums from the 1950s and 60s which set new standards for lifelike sound and intensely engaged performances in the recording studio.
Volume 1 of Doráti’s London recordings covers sessions from July 1956 to July 1961. Conductor and orchestra met for an intensive fortnight each year after the end of the concert season. Both the conductor and the Mercury engineers were demanding in their pursuit of perfection, in terms of orchestral attack, ensemble, balance, colour and all the disparate elements which contribute towards the kind of repeatability that made these albums such artistic and commercial successes.
The repertoire for these Mercury sessions in London played to Dorati’s strengths. Volume 1 includes library versions of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherezade, Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker and Stravinsky’s Firebird. Symphonies by Haydn (Nos. 45, 100 & 101) and Mozart (No. 40) are rhythmic and stylish. Anthologies of Verdi and Wagner orchestral music from operas tap into Dorati’s theatrical strengths, no less than ballet scores by Khachaturian (Gayaneh) and Copland (Appalachian Spring and Billy the Kid). A powerful meeting of minds is achieved with the pianist Byron Janis in the standard-setting Rachmaninoff Third Piano Concerto, with the violinist Henryk Szernyg in Brahms and the cellist János Starker in Dvo?ák.
As David Patmore reveals in his new essay for the collection, illuminating the background to Doráti’s relationships with both Mercury and with the LSO, the Mercury team wanted to make ‘event’ recordings of a new and unrivalled immediacy. Unique to this new collection is the first official release of Dvorák’s Carnaval Overture.
Title: Dorati in London - The Mercury Masters, Vol.1 (29CD Box Set)
Format: CD
Release Date: 21 Feb 2025
Artist: Antal Dorati
Sku: 3250692
Catalogue No: 4847015
Category: Classical
DISC 1
CD1
PROKOFIEV: The Love for Three Oranges: Suite; Scythian Suite
CD2
MOZART: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Symphony No. 36 Linz
CD3
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Le Coq dOr: Suite
BORODIN: Polovtsian Dances
CD4
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3
The Hebrides Overture
CD5
RESPIGHI: The Birds; Brazilian Impressions
CD6
BRAHMS: Variations on a Theme by Haydn; Hungarian Dances
CD7
HAYDN: Symphonies Nos. 100 & 101
CD8
VERDI: Overtures & Preludes
CD9
HANDELHARTY: Water Music: Suite
Music for the Royal Fireworks
CD10
KHACHATURIAN: Gayaneh
TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet
CD11
SMETANA: Vltava
MUSSORGSKY: Night on Bald Mountain
LISZT: Les Préludes
SIBELIUS: Finlandia
CD12
STRAVINSKY: The Firebird
CD13
WAGNER: Overtures & Preludes
CD14
ENESCU: Romanian Rhapsodies
LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos. 2 & 6
CD15
DVORÁK: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
Carnaval Overture (*FIRST CD RELEASE ON DECCA)
CD16
COPLAND: Appalachian Spring
Billy the Kid
CD17
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5
CD18
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Russian Easter Festival Overture; Capriccio espagnol
BORODIN: Polovtsian Dances
CD19
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1
CD20
BEETHOVEN: Wellingtons Victory
Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus Overture
Leonore Overture No. 3
Deems Taylor
CD21
BERG: Lulu Suite
Wozzeck (excerpts)
Helga Pilarczyk
CD22
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4
CD23
MOZART: Symphony No. 40
HAYDN: Symphony No. 45
CD24
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 3
Byron Janis
CD25
WAGNER: Overtures & Preludes
CD26
DVORÁK: Cello Concerto
BRUCH: Kol Nidrei
Janos Starker
CD27
TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker
CD28
BRAHMS: Violin Concerto
Henryk Szeryng
CD29
WEBER: Oberon Overture
SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 4
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6
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