Title: A Passion for Music Artist: Georg Solti Release Date: 2007 Label: Decca Duration: 309:05 Album Type(s): live, performer(s) biography, lyrics/libretto UPC: 028947585251 Genre: Orchestral Music Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 5

1. Egmont, incidental music, Op. 84
   - Overture
2. Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 28 (TrV 171)
3. Don Juan, tone poem for orchestra, Op. 20 (TrV 156)
4. Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla, G. xivov
5. Prince Igor, opera (completed by Rimsky-Korsakov & Glazunov)
   - Polovtsian Dances

1. Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b
   - The Ride of the Valkyries
2. Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold), opera, WWV 86a
   - Entry of the Gods into Valhalla
3. Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b
   - Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music
4. Siegfried, opera, WWV 86c
   - Forest Murmurs
5. Die Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), opera, WWV 86d
   - Siegfried's Funeral March
6. Die Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), opera, WWV 86d
   - Final scene, closing section

1. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra
   - 1st Part: L'Adoration de la terre (The Adoration of the Earth). Introduction
2. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra
   - 1st Part: L'Adoration de la terre (The Adoration of the Earth). Les augures printaniers - Danses de
3. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra
   - 1st Part: L'Adoration de la terre (The Adoration of the Earth). Jeu du rapt (Ritual of Abduction)
4. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra
   - 1st Part: L'Adoration de la terre (The Adoration of the Earth). Rondes printanières (Spring Rounds)
5. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra
   - 1st Part: L'Adoration de la terre (The Adoration of the Earth). Jeux des cités rivales (Ritual of t
6. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra
   - 1st Part: L'Adoration de la terre (The Adoration of the Earth). Cortège du sage - Le sage (Processi
7. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra
   - 1st Part: L'Adoration de la terre (The Adoration of the Earth). Danse de la terre (Dance of the Ear
8. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra
   - 2nd Part: Le Sacrifice (The Sacrifice). Introduction
9. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra
   - 2nd Part: Le Sacrifice (The Sacrifice). Cercles mystérieux des adolescentes (Mystic Circles of the
10. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra
    - 2nd Part: Le Sacrifice (The Sacrifice). Glorification de l'élue (Glorification of the Chosen One)
11. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra
    - 2nd Part: Le Sacrifice (The Sacrifice). Évocation des ancêtres (Evocation of the Ancestors)
12. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra
    - 2nd Part: Le Sacrifice (The Sacrifice). Actions rituelles des ancêtres (Ritual Action of the Ancest
13. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra
    - 2nd Part: Le Sacrifice (The Sacrifice). Danse sacrale: l'élue (Sacrificial Dance: the Chosen One)
14. Symphony in Three Movements, for orchestra
    - 1. Quarter note = 160
15. Symphony in Three Movements, for orchestra
    - 2. Andante - Interlude: I'istesso tempo
16. Symphony in Three Movements, for orchestra
    - 3. Con moto
17. Symphony of Psalms, for chorus & orchestra
    - 1. Quarter note = 92
18. Symphony of Psalms, for chorus & orchestra
    - 2. Quarter note = 60
19. Symphony of Psalms, for chorus & orchestra
    - 3. Quarter note = 48 - half note = 80

1. Cantata profana, for tenor, baritone, double chorus & orchestra (or piano) ("The Enchanted Stags"), Sz. 94, BB 100
   - 1. Molto moderato "Volt egy öreg apó"
2. Cantata profana, for tenor, baritone, double chorus & orchestra (or piano) ("The Enchanted Stags"), Sz. 94, BB 100
   - 2. Andante "Hej, de az ó édes apjok"
3. Cantata profana, for tenor, baritone, double chorus & orchestra (or piano) ("The Enchanted Stags"), Sz. 94, BB 100
   - 3. Moderato "Volt egy öreg apó"
4. Serenade for small orchestra, Op 03
   - 1. Allegretto, quasi andantino
5. Serenade for small orchestra, Op 03
   - 2. Lebhaft, sehr rhythmisch
6. Serenade for small orchestra, Op 03
   - 3. Andantino
7. Serenade for small orchestra, Op 03
   - 4. Allegro molto
8. Psalmus Hungaricus, oratorio for tenor, chorus, children's chorus ad lib, orchestra & organ, Op. 13
   - Andante molto appassionato "Mikoron Dávid nagy búsultában"
9. Psalmus Hungaricus, oratorio for tenor, chorus, children's chorus ad lib, orchestra & organ, Op. 13
   - "Keserúségem annyi nem volna"
10. Psalmus Hungaricus, oratorio for tenor, chorus, children's chorus ad lib, orchestra & organ, Op. 13
    - Adagio "Te azért lelkem, gondolatodat"

1. Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
   - Part 1. 1. Trauermarsch: In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt - Plötzlich schneller. Leid
2. Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
   - Part 1. 2. Stürmisch bewegt. Mit größter Vehemenz - Bedeutend langsamer - Tempo 1 subito
3. Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
   - Part 2. 3. Scherzo: Kräftig, nicht zu schnell
4. Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
   - Part 3. 4. Adagietto: Sehr langsam
5. Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
   - Part 3. 5. Rondo - Finale: Allegro

Georg Solti fans will already have heard most of the performances offered here -- perhaps many times (Glinka and Borodin with the London Symphony, Strauss and Stravinsky with the Chicago Symphony, Wagner with the Wiener Philharmoniker, and Bartók and Kodály with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra). All have been readily available on Decca since they were first released. But the 1947 performance of Beethoven's Egmont Overture with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich was Solti's first recording as a conductor and is far less widely known. The Egmont has all the power and passion of his classic Chicago performance, if somewhat less polish and precision. The other rarity offered here is the 1997 performance of Mahler's Fifth Symphony, also with the Swiss orchestra. Solti's last live recording (perhaps there's a bookend theme going here...) lacks the strength and soulfulness of his earlier readings with the Chicago Symphony, but it does show that Solti was still the same fanatically driven and immensely ardent conductor who helped put Mahler on the musical map in the '60s and '70s. Those who have never heard Solti's recordings before are urged to try his Chicago Beethoven and Mahler symphony cycles, but those who already love Solti's conducting should hear at least the first and last works here. ~ James Leonard, All Music Guide

Name Credits Christiane Frobenius Liner Note Translation Darren Rumney Art Direction Dennis Collins Liner Note Translation Elfriede Hanak Photography Fabian Watkinson Booklet Editor Georg Solti Conductor Ivan March Liner Notes John Culshaw Author Terry O'Neill Cover Photo Vivianne Purdom Photography Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra Orchestra