A midsummer night's dream: Overture ; Wedding march ; Funeral march ; Dance of the clowns / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio ; Rafael Kubelik, conductor) -- Etude no. 1 : harmonies / G. Ligeti (Gerd Zacher, organ) -- Orchestral suite no. 2 in B-minor : Ouverture ; Sarabande ; Bourrée ; Menuett ; Badinerie / (Aurèle Nicolet, flute ; Munich Bach Orchestra ; Karl Richter, conductor ; The well-tempered-clavier, part 1. Prelude and fugue no. 21 in B-flat major (Wilhelm Kempff, piano) ; St. Matthew-Passion. Introductory chorus (Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra ; Karl Richter, conductor) / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Symphony Nr. 3 in D-minor: 2nd movement ; 6th movement / Gustav Mahler (Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio ; Rafael Kubelik, conductor) -- Josephslegende : symphonic fragment / Richard Strauss (Staatskapelle Dresden ; Rudolf Kempe, conductor).
Call number
*LZR 5355 (F) & *MGS (German) 94-2620
Note
Music from ballets by John Neumeier for the Hamburg Ballet.
The first work is from incidental music to Shakespeare's play. The 7th work is an excerpt from a drama-ballet.
Fifth work sung in German.
Issued with pamphlet of the same title.
Program notes ([6] p.) in English and German inserted in container.