NEWS AND LINKS: DGG boxed set of Carlo Maria Giulini recordings with Chicago Symphony to be released July 5

By Robert D. Thomas

Music Critic

Pasadena Star-News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily
News

Deutsche Grammophon’s new retrospective of recordings by
Carlo Maria Giulini with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is scheduled to be
released in the U.S. on July 5. Here’s the rundown on what will be on this
five-CD boxed set.

CD 1

*SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D 417 “Tragic”

*DVORK: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op.95 From the New World

CD 2

*SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9 in C major, D 944 “The Great”

*PROKOFIEV: Symphony No .1 in D major, op. 25 Symphonie classique

CD 3

*DVORK: Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op.88

*MUSSORGSKY/RAVEL: Pictures
at an Exhibition

CD 4

MAHLER: Symphony No. 9 (Movements I-III)

CD 5

MAHLER: Symphony No. 9 (Movement IV)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D 759 “Unfinished”

*BRITTEN: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, op.31

Robert Tear, tenor / Dale Clevenger, horn

*Restored to the catalogue

As you can see by the asterisk, most of these recordings
have not been available for some time.

Last September, DGG released a boxed set of recordings that
the revered Italian conductor made while music director of the Los Angeles
Philharmonic (LINK). EMI Angel Classics has also issued a set of its recordings
with Giulini and the CSO (LINK). Giulini’s 97th birthday would have been May 9;
he died in 2005.

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