LEIBOWITZ CONDUCTS

LEIBOWITZ CONDUCTS (CP 131.500)

(4 CDs)

BACH : Passacaglia & Fugue BWV 582 (1960)

BEETHOVEN : 12 German Dances (1956)

ROSSINI : Overtures: William Tell – Semiramis – The Thieving Magpie – The Italian Woman in Algiers (1955)

WAGNER : Die Meistersinger , Prelude Act I (1962)

J. STRAUSS JR : Die Fledermaus , overture (1961)

SAINT-SAËNS : Danse macabre (1960) – Introduction et Rondo capriccioso (1962)

BIZET : Symphony in C Major (1954)

MUSSORSKY : Pictures at an exhibition – A night on the bald mountain (1962)

WALDTEUFEL : Les patineurs (1961)

CHABRIER : Spain (1960)

FROM FAIL : Ritual Dance of Fire (1961)

RAVEL : Bolero, La Valse (1960)

ROSSINI-RESPIGHI : The Fantastique Boutique (1958)

New Symphony Orchestra London – Royal Phihlarmoni Orchestra

René Leibowitz

René Leibowitz (1913-1972) is remembered today primarily as an important French conductor of Polish origin. Beyond this, Leibowitz was above all a composer (with a catalogue of around 90 compositions) and a highly respected musicologist, author of a fundamental History of Opera and the first philological revision of Beethoven's Symphonies (whose recording we recently published, Urania WS 121. 278). This box collects the few recordings Leibowitz made between 1954 and 1962, and in any case it is the only document that testifies to the art of this important conductor, whose discography, unfortunately, is reduced to a few significant audio testimonies.