CD: Boston Symphony Orchestra: Centennial Celebration (1943-2000): 12CD box (SEALED)

On off here is the deluxe and now out-of-print 12CD box set - a sealed copy - issued by the BSO in 2001: "The Boston Symphony Orchestra: A Centennial Celebration" (catalog number BSO CB 100). The exact contents are as follows:

BSO – Centennial Celebration

Volume 1: CD #1 - Serge Koussevitzky

Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra (broadcast première with original ending - 30 December 1944)

Anatol Liadov: "From the Apocalypse" Symphonic Picture (1 May 1943)

Leonard Bernstein: "The Age of Anxiety" Symphony #2 for Piano and Orchestra (world première with original ending of Epilogue - 9 April 1949) Leonard Bernstein, piano

Volume 1: CD #2 - Pierre Monteux

Richard Strauss:

Don Quixote (24 January 1959)

Suite from "Der Rosenkavalier" (17 February 1956)

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (20 December 1963)

Volume 2: CD #3 - Charles Munch

César Franck: "Le Chasser maudit" (10 October 1959)

Gabriel Fauré: Prélude to "Pénélope" (12 December 1959)

Albert Roussel: Suite in F (8 March 1958)

Claude Debussy: "La Mer" (30 March 1962)

Maurice Ravel: "La Valse" (2 February 1962)

Volume 2: CD #4 - Erich Leinsdorf

Leoš Janáček: Suite from "The Cunning Little Vixen" (30 September 1966)

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony #1 (26 September 1964)

Richard Wagner: "Siegfried Idyll" (1 or 2 October 1965)

Bedřich Smetana: "Die Moldau" (22 April 1967)

Volume 3: CD #5 - William Steinberg

Anton Bruckner: Symphony #8 (26 February 1972)

Volume 3: CD #6

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony #4 - Colin Davis (26 October 1973)

Franz Schubert: Symphony #3 - Bernard Haitink (2 May 1992)

Serge Prokofieff: Scythian Suite - Michael Tilson Thomas (22 September 1972)

Volume 4: CD #7 - Seiji Ozawa

Béla Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle (8 November 1980)

Richard Strauss: Duet Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon (12 March 1988)

Volume 4: CD #8 - Seiji Ozawa

Olivier Messiaen: Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence divine (7 Oct. 1978)

Frank Martin: Concerto for 7 Wind Instruments, Timpani, Percussion and String Orchestra (30 September 1977)

Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms (5 December 1987)

Volume 5: CD #9

Giuseppe Verdi: Overture to "La forsa del destino" - Thomas Schippers (18 March 1961)

Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky: "Roméo and Juliet" - Igor Markevitch (19 March 1955)

Ottorino Respighi: "Pines of Rome" - Guido Cantelli (24 December 1954)

Paul Hindemith: Symphony "Mathis der Maler - Carlo Maria Giulini (30 March 1974)

Volume 5: CD #10

Wolfgang Mozart: Overture to "Don Giovanni" - Leopold Stokowski (13 January 1968)

Bohuslav Martinů: Double Concerto for Piano and Timpani - Rafael Kubelík (14 January 1967)

Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky: "Hamlet" - Leopold Stokowski (13 January 1968)

Morton Gould: "Spirituals" - Dimitri Mitropoulos (16 December 1944)

Johannes Brahms: "Academic Festival" Overture" - Klaus Tennstedt (14 December 1974)

Volume 6: CDs #11 & #12

Encores and Rehearsals

Symphony no. 92 in G, "Oxford" / Haydn ; Bruno Walter, cond.

Divertimento from "Le baiser de la fée / Igor Stravinsky ; Richard Burgin, cond.

Music for a great city / Aaron Copland ; Aaron Copland, cond. Disc 12. Roman carnival overture / Hector Berlioz ; Seiji Ozawa, cond.

Royal hunt and storm from Les Troyens / Hector Berlioz ; Colin Davis, cond.

Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila / Mikhail Glinka ; Serge Koussevitzky, cond.

Die Mozartisten walzes, opus 196 / Joseph Lanner ; Erich Leinsdorf, cond.

Overture to La muette de Portici / Daniel Auber ; Charles Munch, cond.

Fileuse [and] Sicilienne from Pelléas et Mélisande / Gabriel Fauré ; Joseph Silverstein, cond.

Jupiter from The planets / Gustav Holst / Bernard Haitink, cond.

Scherzo [and] March from Love for three oranges / Serge Prokofiev ; Charles Munch, conductor

Rehearsal excerpts. Symphony no. 6 in E minor / Vaughan Williams ; Serge Koussevitzky, cond.

Turangalilia-symphonie / Messiaen ; Leonard Bernstein, cond.

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This still-sealed set is in MINT condition. This is not a cut-out or a club copy.

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