Seiji Ozawa A Life For Music
2014 23x CD, Box Set
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
Modern
Choral

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tracks 3-1 to 3-6 a&r [artists & repertoire production] Anthony Freud
tracks 8-1 to 8-5, 20-1 to 20-4, 21-1 to 21-24 a&r [artists & repertoire production] Costa Pilavachi
tracks 21-1 to 21-24 a&r [artists & repertoire production] Hermine Sterringa
tracks 7-1 to 7-6, 22-1 a&r [artists & repertoire production] Louwrens Langevoort
tracks 17-1 to 17-16 a&r [artists & repertoire production] Wilhelm Hellweg
tracks 22-2, 22-3 a&r [artists & repertoire production] Wouter Hoekstra
tracks 19-4 to 19-6 arranged by [violin part] Robert Schumann
artwork Punto E Virgola
tracks 13-6, 13-8 baritone vocals Andreas Schmidt
tracks 15-1 to 16-11 baritone vocals [bauer (peasant)] David Arnold
tracks 5-1 to 6-16 baritone vocals [méphistophélès] Donald McIntyre
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 bass vocals Alastair Miles
tracks 5-1 to 6-16 bass vocals [brander] Thomas Paul
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 basso continuo, cello Sadao Harada
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 basso continuo, double bass Akira Akahoshi
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 basso continuo, organ Christine Schornsheim
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 bassoon Akio Koyama
tracks 22-1 to 22-23 biwa Kinshi Tsuruta
tracks 17-6 cello Sumiko Kurata
tracks 17-6 cello Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi
tracks 5-1 to 6-16 choir Boston Boy Choir
tracks 5-1 to 6-16, 11-1 to 11-15, 12-1 to 12-18, 15-1 to 16-11 choir Tanglewood Festival Chorus
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 choir Tokyo Opera Singers
tracks 5-1 to 6-16, 12-1 to 12-18, 15-1 to 16-11 chorus master John Oliver
tracks 5-1 to 6-16 chorus master Theodore Marier
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 chorus master [choral director] Peter Dijkstra
tracks 4-1, 4-2 composed by Alban Berg
tracks 8-1 to 8-5 composed by Antonín Dvořák
tracks 15-1 to 17-5 composed by Arnold Schoenberg
tracks 10-11 to 10-14 composed by Bill Russo
tracks 9-1 to 9-3 composed by César Franck
tracks 19-1 to 19-3 composed by Dmitri Shostakovich
tracks 11-1 to 11-15 composed by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
tracks 9-4 to 9-6, 12-1 to 12-18 composed by Francis Poulenc
tracks 3-5, 3-6, 20-1 to 20-4 composed by Franz Schubert
tracks 10-1 composed by George Gershwin
tracks 5-1 to 6-16 composed by Hector Berlioz
tracks 17-7 to 17-16 composed by Igor Stravinsky
tracks 4-3 to 4-6 composed by Igor Stravinsky
tracks 23-4 to 23-6 composed by Jean Sibelius
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
tracks 7-1 to 7-6 composed by Johannes Brahms
tracks 10-2 to 10-10 composed by Leonard Bernstein
tracks 3-1 to 3-4 composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
tracks 14-5 to 14-7 composed by Maurice Ravel
tracks 23-1 to 23-3 composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
tracks 17-6, 21-1 to 21-24 composed by Richard Strauss
tracks 19-4 to 19-6 composed by Robert Schumann
tracks 13-1 to 13-9, 14-1 to 14-4 composed by Sergei Prokofiev
tracks 22-1 to 22-23 composed by Toru Takemitsu
conductor Seiji Ozawa
tracks 14-1 to 14-7 edited by [editing] Christopher Alder
tracks 19-1 to 19-6 edited by [editing] Ingmar Haas
tracks 12-1 to 12-18 edited by [editing] Oliver Rogalla
tracks 4-3, to 4-6 edited by [editing] Reinhild Schmidt
tracks 22-1 to 22-3 edited by [tape editing] Gosia Jankowska
tracks 21-1 to 21-24 edited by [tape editing] Joram Pinxteren
tracks 22-1 to 22-3 edited by [tape editing] Kees de Visser
tracks 21-1 to 21-24 edited by [tape editing] Rico Yntema
tracks 17-1 to 17-16, 20-1 to 20-4 edited by [tape editor] Everett Porter
tracks 7-1 to 7-6 edited by [tape editor] Jan Wesselink
tracks 3-1 to 3-6 edited by [tape editor] Jean van Vugt
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 edited by [tape editor] Manabu Ohkoshi
tracks 7-1 to 7-6 edited by [tape editor] Raymond Rafael
tracks 14-1 to 14-7 engineer [assistant] Bastian Schick
tracks 14-1 to 14-7 engineer [assistant] Wolf-Dieter Karwatky
tracks 9-1 to 9-6, 11-1 to 11-15, 12-1 to 12-18, 13-1 to 13-9, 18-1 to 18-3, 19-1 to 19-6 engineer [balance] Hans-Peter Schweigmann
tracks 10-2 to 10-10 engineer [balance] Jack Hunt
tracks 10-1, 10-11 to 10-14 engineer [balance] Karl-August Naegler
tracks 5-1 to 6-16 engineer [balance] Klaus Hiemann
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 engineer [balance] Masamichi Ohashi
tracks 3-1 to 3-6, 8-1 to 8-5, 17-16, 20-1 to 21-24 engineer [balance] Onno Scholtze
tracks 7-1 to 7-6, 22-1 to 22-3 engineer [balance] Wilhelm Hellweg
tracks 9-1 to 9-6 engineer [recording] Andrew Wedman
tracks 21-1 to 21-24 engineer [recording] Cees Heijkoop
tracks 20-1 to 20-4 engineer [recording] Everett Porter
tracks 4-3, to 4-6 engineer [recording] Hans-Peter Schweigmann
tracks 8-1 to 8-5 engineer [recording] Jan Wesselink
tracks 9-1 to 9-6, 19-1 to 19-6 engineer [recording] Jobst Eberhardt
tracks 13-3, 13-5 to 13-9 engineer [recording] Jürgen Bulgrin
tracks 20-1 to 20-4 engineer [recording] Kiyoshi Fukiwa
tracks 11-1 to 11-15, 13-1, 13-2, 13-4 engineer [recording] Klaus Behrens
tracks 4-1, 4-2, 14-1 to 14-7 engineer [recording] Klaus Hiemann
tracks 8-1 to 8-5, 21-1 to 21-24 engineer [recording] Pieter Boer
tracks 19-1 to 19-6 engineer [recording] Reinhard Lagemann
tracks 3-1 to 3-6, 17-1 to 17-16 engineer [recording] Roger de Schot
tracks 3-1 to 3-6, 17-1 to 17-16, 20-1 to 20-4 engineer [recording] Suenori Fukui
tracks 7-1 to 7-6, 22-1 to 22-3 engineer [recording] Tony Faulkner
tracks 21-1 to 21-24 engineer [recording] Willem van Leeuwen
tracks 13-3, 13-5 to 13-9 engineer [recording] Wolf-Dieter Karwatky
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 engineer [recording] Youichi Umezawa
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 engineer [recording] Yuji Hirano
tracks 9-1 to 9-6, 11-1 to 11-15, 19-1 to 19-6 executive-producer Alison Ames
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 executive-producer Clive Bennett
tracks 12-1 to 12-18 executive-producer Hanno Rinke
tracks 13-1 to 13-9, 19-1 to 19-6 executive-producer Wolfgang Stengel
tracks 11-1 to 11-15 executive-producer [associate] Pål Christian Moe
tracks 14-1 to 14-7 executive-producer [associate], coordinator [project] Matthias Spindler
tracks 18-1 to 18-3 executive-producer, producer [recording] Thomas Mowrey
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 flute Shigenori Kudo
tracks 10-1 to 10-14 harmonica, piano Corky Siegel
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 horn Nobuyuki Mizuno
liner notes Sandro Cappelletto
liner notes [english translation] Karel Clapshaw
tracks 11-1 to 11-15 mezzo-soprano vocals [second fairy] Frederica von Stade
tracks 15-1 to 16-11 mezzo-soprano vocals [waldtaube (wood-dove)] Tatiana Troyanos
tracks 11-1 to 11-15 narrator Judi Dench
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 oboe Fumiaki Miyamoto
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 oboe Reinhard Holch
tracks 13-1 to 13-9, 14-1 to 14-7 orchestra Berliner Philharmoniker
tracks 4-1 to 6-16, 9-4 to 9-6, 11-1 to 11-15, 12-1 to 12-18, 15-1 to 16-11, 18-1 to 19-6, 23-1 to 23-6 orchestra Boston Symphony Orchestra
tracks 1-1 to 3-6, 7-1 to 7-6, 17-1 to 17-16, 20-1 to 20-4, 22-1 to 22-23 orchestra Saito Kinen Orchestra
tracks 10-1 to 10-14 orchestra San Francisco Symphony
tracks 8-1 to 8-5, 21-1 to 21-24 orchestra Wiener Philharmoniker
tracks 19-4 to 19-6 orchestrated by Dmitri Shostakovich
tracks 21-2 to 21-23 organ Rudolf Scholz
tracks 9-4 to 9-6 organ Simon Preston
photography by [photo] Gabriela Brandenstein
tracks 14-1 to 14-7 piano Yundi Li
tracks 14-1 to 14-7 producer Christopher Alder
tracks 5-1 to 6-16 producer Franz-Christian Wulff
tracks 9-1 to 9-6, 11-1 to 11-15 producer [recording] Christian Gansch
tracks 12-1 to 12-18 producer [recording] Cord Garben
tracks 1-1 to 3-6, 7-1 to 8-5, 17-1 to 17-16, 20-1 to 22-3 producer [recording] Wilhelm Hellweg
tracks 13-1 to 13-9, 19-1 to 19-6 producer [recording] Wolfgang Stengel
tracks 4-1 to 4-6 producer, recording supervisor Rainer Brock
producer, recording supervisor Thomas Mowrey
tracks 5-1 to 6-16 producer, recording supervisor Thomas Mowrey
tracks 22-1 to 22-23 shakuhachi Katsuya Yokoyama
tracks 6-15 soloist [bass vocals - "epilogue sur la terre] Thomas Paul
tracks 6-16 soloist [vocals - "dans le ciel"] Judith Dickison
tracks 12-1 to 12-18 soprano vocals Kathleen Battle
tracks 11-1 to 11-15 soprano vocals [first fairy] Kathleen Battle
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 soprano vocals [ii], contralto vocals Angelika Kirchschlager
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 soprano vocals [i] Barbara Bonney
tracks 5-1 to 6-16 soprano vocals [marguerite] Edith Mathis
tracks 15-1 to 16-11 soprano vocals [tove] Jessye Norman
tracks 15-1 to 16-11 speech [speaker] Werner Klemperer
tracks 14-1 to 14-7 technician [piano] Serge Poulain
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 tenor vocals John Mark Ainsley
tracks 5-1 to 6-16 tenor vocals [faust] Stuart Burrows
tracks 15-1 to 16-11 tenor vocals [klaus-narr (klaus the jester)] Kim Scown
tracks 15-1 to 16-11 tenor vocals [waldemar] James McCracken
tracks 5-1 to 6-16 text by Almire Gandonnière
tracks 5-1 to 6-16 text by Hector Berlioz
tracks 15-1 to 16-11 text by Jens Peter Jacobsen
tracks 11-1 to 11-15 text by [edited by] Evans Mirageas
tracks 11-1 to 11-15 text by [edited by] Seiji Ozawa
tracks 9-4 to 9-6 timpani Everett Firth
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 timpani Sawako Yasue
tracks 15-1 to 16-11 translated by [german translation] Robert Franz Arnold
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 trumpet Tim Morrison
tracks 17-6 viola Mazumi Tanamura
tracks 22-1 to 22-23 viola Nobuko Imai
tracks 17-6 viola Nobuko Okada
tracks 19-4 to 19-6 violin Gidon Kremer
tracks 4-1 to 4-6 violin Itzhak Perlman
tracks 1-1 to 2-15 violin Masuko Ushioda
tracks 17-6 violin Masuko Ushioda
tracks 17-6 violin Shoko Oki
tracks 23-1 to 23-6 violin Viktoria Mullova
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Published By B. Schott's Söhne
Published By Universal Edition Wien
Published By Amberson Enterprises, Inc.
Published By Éditions Salabert
Published By G. Schirmer Inc.
Recorded At Naganoken Matsumoto Bunka Kaikan
Published By Boosey & Hawkes Ltd
Published By Hans Sikorski Musikverlag
Recorded At Symphony Hall, Boston
Recorded At Wiener Musikverein
Recorded At Flint Center For The Performing Arts
Recorded At Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin
Recorded At Großer Saal, Wiener Musikverein
Recorded At Schauspielhaus Berlin
In a thick, full-colour card box. CDs individually housed in full colour card sleeves. With a 24 page booklet featuring performance and liner notes.

Editor's Note: character used to separate parts or acts that would ordinarily call for a Header, but is not used here, to keep complete works under a single Index Track.

Performance Notes -

CD 1 & CD 2 - Recording: Naganoken Matsumoto Buna Kaikan, Japan, 29 August - 4 September 2000. ℗ 2002 Universal International Music BV
CD 3 - Live recording: Matsumoto Bunka Kaikan, Matsumoto, Japan, 10/1993. ℗ 1994 Universal International Music BV
CD 4 - Publishers: Universal Edition, Wien (Berg); B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz (Stravinsky). ℗ 1980 Deutsche Grammophon International GmbH, Berlin
CD 5 & CD 6 - Recording: Boston, Massachussets USA, Symphony Hall, 10/1973. ℗ 1974 Deutsche Grammophon International GmbH, Berlin
CD 7 - Recording: Berlin, 9/1989. ℗ 1990 Universal International Music BV
CD 8 - Live recording: Musikverein, Vienna, 4/1992. ℗ 1993 Universal International Music BV
CD 9 - Recording: Boston, Symphony Hall, 11/1991 (Franck), 12/1991 (Poulenc). Publishers: Éditions Salbert (Poulenc). ℗ 1993 Deutsche Grammophon International GmbH, Berlin
CD 10 - Recordings: Cupertino, California, Flint Center, DeAnza College, 6/1972 (Bernstein), 5/1976 (Gershwin, Russo). Publishers: New World Music Corp., New York (Gershwin); Amberson Enterprises/G. Schirmer, New York (Bernstein). ℗ 1973 (Bernstein) / 1977 (Gershwin, Russo) Deutsche Grammophon International GmbH, Berlin
CD 11 - Recording: Boston, Symphony Hall, 10/1992. ℗ 1994 Deutsche Grammophon International GmbH, Berlin
CD 12 - Recordings: Boston, Symphony Hall, 11/1987. Publisher: Éditions Salabert, Paris. ℗ 1989 Deutsche Grammophon International GmbH, Berlin
CD 13 - Recordings: Berlin, Jesus-Christus-Kirche, 1 & 11/1990 (No. 5), 11/1990 (Kijé). Publishers: Boosey & Hawkes, London (Kijé); Musikverlag Hans Sikorski, Hamburg (No. 5). ℗ 1991 Deutsche Grammophon International GmbH, Berlin
CD 14 - Recordings: Berlin, Philharmonie (Großer Saal), 5/2007. Publishers: Boosey & Hawkes - Bote & Bock GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin (1-4); Editions Durand, Paris (5-7). ℗ 2007 Deutsche Grammophon International GmbH, Berlin
CD 15 & CD 16 - Liver recording: Boston Symphony Hall, 4/1979. ℗ 1979 Universal International Music BV
CD 17 - Recording: Matsumoto Bunka Kaikan, Matsumoto, Japan, 9/1993 (Schoenberg); 9/1994 (Stravinsky, Strauss). ℗ 1996 Universal International Music BV
CD 18 - Recording: Boston, Symphony Hall, 8/1975. Publisher: Belwin Hills. ℗ 1976 Deutsche Grammophon International GmbH, Berlin
CD 19 - Live recording: Boston Symphony Hall, 4/1992. Publishers: Musikverlag Hans Sikorski, Hamburg. ℗ 1994 Deutsche Grammophon International GmbH, Berlin
CD 20 - Recording: Nagano-Ken Bunka Kaikan, Matsumoto, Japan, 9/1996. ℗ 1997 Universal International Music BV
CD 21 - Recording: Großer Saal, Musikverein, Wien, 3/1996. ℗ 1997 Universal International Music BV
CD 22 - Recording: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, 9/1989 (1), Schauspielhaus, Berlin, 8/1990 (2, 3). ℗ 1991 Universal International Music BV
CD 23 - Recording: Boston, October, 1985. Publisher: Robert Lienau (Sibelius). ℗ 1986 Universal International Music BV

Additional Performance Notes -

CD 5 & CD 6 - 'Légende dramatique en quatre parties'. Text by Hector Berlioz and Almire Gandonnière based on Gérard de Nerval's translation of Goethe's Faust.
CD 7 - 'This recording, the last in which the late Sherman Walt performed, is respectfully dedicated to his memory by Seiji Ozawa. Mr. Walt was principal bassoonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1953-1989, and participated in the concerts of the Saito Kinen orchestra from it's inception.'
CD 9 - Live recording
CD 11 - 'Incidental Music to Shakespeare's play'. Text edited for a single narrator by Evans Miragaes and Seiji Ozawa
CD 14 - Live recording
CD 15 & CD 16 - Publishers: Universal Edition A.G., Wien
CD 17 - Publishers (1-6): Universal Edition. Publishers (7-16): Boosey & Hawkes
CD 21 - Publishers (1): Boosey & Hawkes. Composed for the Vienna Philharmonic Ball, the Fanfare was premiered on 4 March 1924. It is scored for 6 trumpets, 8 horns, 6 trombones, 2 tubas and 2 timpani. Publishers (2-23): F.E.C. Leuckart. Publishers (24): R. Lienau Verlag, Frankfurt. Composed in Garmisch in July 1909 and performed on 9 December 1909, this work is dedicated to Prince Frederich of Prussia, master of the Knights of St John of Balley-Brandenburg. The fanfare is scored for 12 trumpets, 3 solo trumpets, 4 horns, 4 trombones, 2 bass tubas and timpani.

Photo: © Gabriela Brandenstein

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