Heinz Holliger Edition (10 CD box set, FLAC)

Composer: Heinz Holliger
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 10 CD box set
Format: FLAC (tracks+cue)
Label: Brilliant Classics
Size: 2.46 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: no

CD 01
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in C RV452
Concerto in D minor RV454
Concerto in G RV545
Concerto in C RV446
Concerto in A minor RV463
Concerto in C RV447
Klaus Thunemann (bassoon),
I Musici
Recorded in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland in July 1975 and August 1981

CD 02
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto in E minor
Concerto in D minor
Concerto in C minor
Concerto in F minor
Concerto in D
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Iona Brown
Recorded in London in November 1981

CD 03-04
Tomaso Albinoni
Concerto Op 7 No 1 in D
Concerto Op 7 No 2 in C
Concerto Op 7 No 3 in B flat
Concerto Op 7 No 4 in G
Concerto Op 7 No 5 in C
Concerto Op 7 No 6 in D
Concerto Op 7 No 7 in A
Concerto Op 7 No 8 in D
Concerto Op 7 No 9 in F
Concerto Op 7 No 10 in B flat
Concerto Op 7 No 11 in C
Concerto Op 7 No 12 in C
Sonata a cinque Op 2 No 5 in D
Sonata a cinque Op 2 No 6 in G minor
Maurice Bourgue
I Musici
Recorded in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland 1990-1991

CD 05
Concerto Op 9 No 2 in D minor
Concerto Op 9 No 3 in C
Concerto Op 9 No 5 in C
Concerto Op 9 No 8 in G minor
Concerto Op 9 No 9 in C
Concerto Op 9 No 11 in B flat
Maurice Bourgue
I Musici
Recorded in Italy 1966-7

CD 06
Joseph Haydn
Oboe Concerto in C Hob.VIIg:C1

Arthur Benjamin
Oboe Concerto in D minor on themes by Domenico Cimarosa

Gaetano Donizetti
Concertino for Cor Anglais
Andante sostenuto for oboe and harp
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
David Zinman
Ursula Holliger
Recorded 1986-9

CD 07-08
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Oboe Quartet in F k370
Adagio in D K580a
Divertimento No 11 in D K251
Sinfonia Concertante in Eb K297b
Oboe Concerto in C K314
Orlando Quartet
Hermann Baumann
Michel Gasciarrino
Henk Guldemond
Recorded Enkhuizen, The Netherlands and elsewhere in 1984

CD 09
Vincenzo Bellini
Oboe Concerto in E flat

Bernard Molique
Oboe Concertino in G minor

Ignaz Moscheles
Concertante in G for flute and oboe

Julius Rietz
Konzertstück in F minor Op 33

Josef Fiala
Concerto for cor anglais in E flat

Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Adagio, theme and variations in F minor
Aurèle Nicolet
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Frankfurt
Eliahu Inbal
English Chamber Orchestra
Raymond Leppard
Recorded in London in November 1968 and in Germany in August 1975

CD 10
Frank Martin
Trois Danses
Petite complainte
Pièce Brève

Arthur Honegger
Concerto da camera
Petite Suite
Antigone

Bohuslav Martinu
Oboe Concerto
Ursula Holliger
Aurèle Nicolet
John Constable
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner
Recorded in St John’s, Smith Square, London in October 1991

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