Artist: Wolfgang Sawallisch
Title: Wolfgang Sawallisch Edition
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: Profil
Genre: Classical
Total Time: 8 CDs, 08:26:30 min

The Profil label has rushed out this 8 CD box set to commemorate the death of conductor and pianist Wolfgang Sawallisch who died on 22 February 2013 aged eighty-nine. The set spans 43 years of his long and distinguished career with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks but includes examples of the great man’s other area of prowess, playing piano in a chamber recital. Renowned for his interpretations of Bruckner, Wagner and Richard Strauss, Sawallisch conducted extensively with the world famous Berliner Philharmoniker and held posts at the Bayreuth Festival, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg State Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Philadelphia Orchestra in America. In Britain Sawallisch enjoyed a long association with the Philharmonia in London. For more than three decades Sawallisch also conducted annually with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo.

CD 1 :
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
Symphony No. 35 in D major, K385 Haffner (1782) [19:04]
Symphony No. 41 in C major, K551 Jupiter (1788) [34:59]

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Wolfgang Sawallisch

CD 2:
Franz Schubert (1797-1828):
Trout Quintet, D. 667 (1819) [41:29]
Notturno, D. 897 (1825) [8:51]

Wolfgang Sawallisch – piano, Jan Pospischal – violin, Wolfgang Klos – viola, Wilfried Rehm – cello, Ernst Weissensteiner – double bass

CD 3-4:
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809):
The Seasons, oratorio Hob. XXI:3 (1801) [129:19]

Ruth Ziesak – soprano, Robert Gambill – tenor, Alfred Muff – bass
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Wolfgang Sawallisch

CD 5-6:
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847):
Elijah – oratorio, Op. 70 (1846) [121:08]

Michael Volle – baritone, Andrea Rost – soprano, Marjana Lipovsek – mezzo-soprano, Herbert Lippert – tenor, Letizia Scherrer – soprano, Thomas Cooley – tenor, Barbara Fleckenstein – soprano
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Wolfgang Sawallisch

CD 7-8:
Carl Orff (1895-1982):
Antigonae (1949) [143:06]

Martha Mödl – mezzo-soprano, Marianne Radev – mezzo-soprano, William Dooley – bass-baritone, Carlos Alexander – baritone, Paul Kuën – tenor, Fritz Uhl – tenor, Josef Traxel – tenor, Kurt Böhme – bass, Lilian Bennigsen – soprano
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Wolfgang Sawallisch