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MICHAEL GIELEN EDITION

MICHAEL GIELEN E D I T I O N50 years of recordings in 10 volumes

On 30 October 2014, Michael Gielen issued a press release announcing that he had been forced to end his conducting activities for health reasons. On this occasion, and also with his 90th birthday on 20 July 2017 in mind, it is time to listen to the different phases of a long conducting career. The Michael Gielen EDITION offers this opportunity. It comprises several volumes of varying size, dedicated to individual composers – Beethoven, Bruckner, Brahms, Mahler, Bartók, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Berg and Webern – and others focusing on major historical periods: from Bach to Schubert; from Carl Maria von Weber to Sergei Rachmaninov; late Romantic or early modern works, while another volume is devoted to compositions written after the Second World War.

The recordings presented here are from the archives of the former South German Radio, Stuttgart (SDR) and Southwestern Radio, Baden-Baden (SWF), as well as their successor organizations SWR, and Saarland radio (SR) – that is, recordings from a period of over 50 years: from the mid-1960s to Gielen’s last concert with the SWR Symphony Orchestra of Baden-Baden and Freiburg in January 2014. The course of those five decades saw changes in the standard of the orchestras, sound aesthetics in recording technology, and not least in the conductor Michael Gielen himself. This means that the time span encompassed by these recordings already makes this Michael Gielen EDITION unprecedented.

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KEY FEATURES

• 10 boxed sets to be released between 2016 and 2019• Each volume largely comprises recordings never previously released, remastered EMI and Intercord recordings, and previously issued SWR recordings• Michael Gielen is one of the most prominent conductors of the 20th and 21st centuries• He celebrates his 90th birthday in July 2017

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MICHAEL GIELEN EDITION VOL. 7Debussy | Hindemith | Ives | Janáček McPhee | Petrassi | Ravel | Ruggles Schreker | Scriabin | Steuermann Strauss Varèse | Wagner | Zemlinsky Recordings 1961–2006

Artists / Künstler:Christiane Boesiger | Cathérine Gayer | Ellen ShadeCornelia Kallisch | Waltraud Meier | Margit NeubauerMárta Szirmay | Thomas Moser | Günter Reich | Claude HelfferSteven de Groote | Peter RoggenkampChor des Bayerischen Rundfunks | EuropaChorAkademieSlovakian Philharmonic Choir Bratislava | SWR Vokalensemble Michael GielenSWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden u. Freiburg Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWRRundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken

Listen to an excerpt from Maurice Ravel’sUne barque sur l'ocean (CD7)

Item No. / CD-Nr.: SWR19061CD8 CDsPrice Code / Preisgruppe: G9 (Special Price Box set)

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TracklistCD 1 Prag I Prague 71:35 Leoš Janáček1-8 Glagolitische Messe I Glagolitic Mass9-11 Taras Bulba Alexander Zemlinsky12 Psalm 23, Op. 14

CD 2 America 78:47 Carl Ruggles1 Sun-Treader * Charles Ives2 Central Park in the Dark *3 General Booth Enters into Heaven * Colin McPhee4-6 Tabuh-Tabuhan * Charles Ives7 The Unanswered Question Edgard Varèse 8 Arcana * Eduard Steuermann9 Variationen für Orchester

CD 3 Debussy 78:011-5 Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien *6-8 Nocturnes *

CD 4 Musik des Übergangs I Musik of Transition 74:42 Ferruccio Busoni 1 Berceuse élégiaque op. 422 Nocturne symphonique op. 43 *3-4 Sarabande und Cortége Max Reger5-7 Klavierkonzert f-Moll op. 114

CD 5 Unterwegs in die Konsolidierung 68:27 On the Way to Consolidation Franz Schreker1 Vorspiel zu einem Drama Paul Hindemith2-4 Mathis der Maler * Goffredo Petrassi5-7 Concerto per orchestra no. 1 *

CD 6 Kitsch oder Kunst im TV 64:17 Kitsch or Art on TV Richard Strauss 1 Der Rosenkavalier: Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren Szene Sophie – Octavian 2. Akt (Überreichung der silbernen Rose) * Giacomo Puccini2 Madama Butterfly: Un bel di, vedremo *3 Madama Butterfly: Scuoti della fronda und Finale 2. Akt * Richard Wagner 3 Der Engel (aus: Wesendonck-Lieder) *4 Träume (aus: Wesendonck-Lieder) * Richard Strauss 5 Wiegenlied op. 41,1 * 6 Tod und Verklärung *

CD 7 Ravel 73:271-12 Daphnis et Chloé (vollständige Ballettmusik)13 Une barque sur l'ocean14 Alborada del gracioso *

CD 8 Ravel's Waltz und Scriabin 75:47 Maurice Ravel1-8 Valses nobles et sentimentales Alexander Scriabin 9-11 Sinfonie Nr. 3 op. 43 Le divin poème Maurice Ravel12 La Valse *

* Erstveröffentlichung I First release



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PLEASE NOTE THAT THE COVERS ARE ONLY PRELIMINARY ONES

UPCOMING VOLUMES IN THE MICHAEL GIELEN EDITION

ALREADY RELEASED

Michael Gielen EDITION 2SWR19014CD

Bruckner Symphonies 1-9(10 CDs)

Michael Gielen EDITION 3 SWR19022CD

Johannes Brahms(5 CDs)


Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | Smetana | LisztWagner | Berlioz | Weber | Strauß Jr. | Schumann

Dvorák | Tschaikowsky | Rachmaninov | Suk(9 CDs)


Bartók | Strawinsky(6 CDs)


Bach | Mozart | Haydn | BeethovenSchubert (6 CDs)

“If subsequent volumes of the GielenEdition are as good as this then we havea good reason to be impatient for them.”

– Gramophone June 2016

"Michael Gielen’s Bruckner symphonies arepurified, svelte and transparent, and allow adeep impression of the architecture and thevast thoughts of the composer. For every fan

of Bruckner’s music this box is a must."– Pizzicato June 2016

"Michael Gielen and the SWR OrchestraBaden-Baden and Freiburg prove once againthat they are the perfect intermediary with a

lot of respect for the composition andtheir lively interpretation."

– Klassik-heute October 2016

"An absolute winner!." – Gramophone May 2017


Mahler: Complete Symphonies(17 CDs + 1 DVD)

“Gielen’s vision of Mahler’s world view really forms one big whole... We can only be grateful to the conductor for offering these profound

insights.”– Pizzicato October 2017

Michael Gielen EDITION 8 (Spring 2019) tbc

Neue Wiener Schule – Schönberg | Berg | Webern

Michael Gielen EDITION 9 (Autumn 2019) tbc

Music after 1945 (Ca. 5 CDs)

ARTWORK AVAILABLE

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Michael Gielen EDITION 10(2019/2020) tbc

Beethoven: Complete Symphonies (5 CDs)

ARTWORK AVAILABLE

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"Narrative and expressive performances."– Pizzicato June 2017

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