CD Releases

BARBIROLLI IN NEW YORK
WAGNER CONCERT
Rienzi Overture Tannhäuser – Venusberg Music Tristan und Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Suite from Act 3 (recorded ‘live’ 20 November 1938)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra/John Barbirolli
SJB 1035 (previously CDSJB 1001)

BARBIROLLI • FRENCH MUSIC
DEBUSSY Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
FAURE Pelléas et Mélisande – suite
IBERT Divertissement SAINT SAËNS Le Carnaval des animaux BIZET L’Arlésienne – excerpts
(recorded 1950-54)
Rawicz & Landauer – pianos
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1002

HAYDN SYMPHONIES
Symphony No.83 The Hen – No.88 Letter V (previously unpublished) No.96 The Miracle
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli (recorded 1949-53)
CDBP 9750 (previously CDSJB 1003)

BARBIROLLI AT THE OPERA
R. STRAUSS Die Liebe der Danae – Der Rosenkavalier suites
WEBER Der Freischütz & Euryanthe – VERDI La Traviata Preludes WAGNER Lohengrin Prelude – MOZART Le Nozze di Figaro Overture Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli (recorded 1946-55)
CDSJB 1004 (reissued as SJB 1062-63)

A SONG OF SUMMER – DELIUS
The Walk to the Paradise Garden – Irmelin Prelude – Two Aquarelles
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring – Intermezzo from Fennimore and Gerda
Idyll: ‘Once I passed through a populous city’ – A Song of Summer – A Song before Sunrise Hallé Orchestra/New Symphony Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
(recorded 1929-56)
CDSJB 1005 (reissued as SJB 1059-60)

HALLÉ FAVOURITES • 1
MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana
PONCHIELLI Dance of the Hours
ROSSINI William Tell – Ballet Music
MASSENET Under the Lime Tree
GERMAN Nell Gwyn Dances
GRAINGER Shepherd’s Hey – Molly on the Shore – Londonderry Air
+ rehearsal sequence and unpublished recording of Shepherd’s Hey Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli (recorded 1957-58)
SJB 1036 (previously CDSJB 1006)

BARBIROLLI IN NEW YORK
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.5 – SCHUMANN Symphony No.4
New York Philharmonic Orchestra/John Barbirolli (recorded ‘live’ 1937-39)
SJB 1007

BARBIROLLI • BBC SO
BEETHOVEN Symphony No.3 Eroica
BARBIROLLI An Elizabethan Suite
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli (recorded 1967)
SJB 1040 (previously CDSJB 1008)

OBOE CONCERTOS • 1
CORELLI and PERGOLESI (arr. Barbirolli)
CIMAROSA (arr. Benjamin)
ALBINONI Op.7 No.3 & No.6
MARCELLO (arr. Rothwell)
HANDEL Oboe Concerto No.1
Evelyn Rothwell – oboe/Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli (recorded 1957-59)
SJB 1009

VIENNESE NIGHT
STRAUSS Emperor Waltz – Gypsy Baron – Radetzky March – Tales from the Vienna Woods – The Blue Danube – Annen Polka – Die Fledermaus Overture
Pizzicato Polka – Perpetuum mobile – A Strauss Fantasy (Rawicz & Landauer)
LEHÁR Gold and Silver
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli (recorded 1954-57)
SJB 1037 (previously CDSJB 1010)

BARBIROLLI IN NEW YORK
BEETHOVEN Symphony No.4
MOZART Symphony No.33
MENDELSSOHN Scherzo
New York Philharmonic Orchestra/John Barbirolli (recorded ‘live’ 1936)
SJB 1038 (previously CDSJB 1011)

BARBIROLLI • GRIEG
Norwegian Dances – Lyric Suite – Symphonic Dances
Homage March Sigurd Jorsalfar
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli (recorded 1957-70)
SJB 1012

HALLÉ FAVOURITES • 2
SUPPÉ The Beautiful Galatea – TURINA Danzas fantásticas – CHABRIER España LEHÁR Gold and Silver – SIBELIUS Valse triste – WALDTEUFEL The Skaters’ Waltz GRIEG Two Elegiac Melodies – GRIEG Peer Gynt Suite No.1
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli (recorded 1951-57)
SJB 1041 (previously CDSJB 1013)

BARBIROLLI • BEETHOVEN
Symphony No.1 – Symphony No.5 – Symphony No.8 – Overture Egmont Piano Concerto No.5 Emperor – Overture Leonora No.3
Mindru Katz/Hallé Orchestra/ Sir John Barbirolli (recorded 1947-59)
SJB 1048-49 (previously CDSJB 1014) • 2 CD set

BARBIROLLI • MAHLER
Symphony No.1 (recorded 1957 – FIRST STEREO RELEASE) PURCELL/BARBIROLLI Suite (recorded 1969)
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1015

OBOE CONCERTOS • 2
HAYDN Oboe Concerto No.1 (recorded 1957)
MARCELLO (arr. Rothwell) CORELLI (arr. Barbirolli) (recorded 1969)
Evelyn Rothwell/Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
and C P E BACH Sonata in G minor – LOEILLET Sonata in C major
HANDEL Air & Rondo – MORGAN NICHOLAS Melody – TELEMANN Sonata in E flat major – MICHAEL HEAD Siciliana with Wilfred Parry, Dennis Nesbitt, and Valda Aveling (recorded 1951 & 1973)
SJB 1016

THE BARBIROLLI ELGAR ALBUM
Symphony No.1 (recorded 1956)
Introduction & Allegro – 2 recordings (recorded 1947 & 1956)
Elegy for Strings – 2 recordings (recorded 1947 & 1956)
Enigma Variations (recorded 1947) – Bavarian Dance No.2 (recorded 1947) Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1017 • 2 CD set

BARBIROLLI • SIBELIUS
Symphony No.1 – Symphony No.2 – Symphony No.5 – Symphony No.7
The Swan of Tuonela
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli (recorded 1949-57)
SJB 1053-54 • 2 CD set (previously CDSJB 1018)

BARBIROLLI • TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No.1 – John Ogdon – piano
Francesca da Rimini – Romeo & Juliet (incomplete – coda missing) Philharmonia Orchestra/New Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli (recorded 1962-69)
CDSJB 1019

BARBIROLLI • SCHUBERT • BRAHMS
SCHUBERT – Symphony No.9 Great (recorded 1953)
Overture Rosamunde (recorded 1949)
BRAHMS – Symphony No.3 (recorded 1952) – Double Concerto – André Navarra & Alfredo Campoli (recorded 1959)
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1020 • 2 CD set

BARBIROLLI • VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
A London Symphony – Symphony No.8
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli (recorded 1956-57)
SJB 1021

THE BARBIROLLI ENGLISH MUSIC ALBUM
BAX The Garden of Fand – BUTTERWORTH A Shropshire Lad
IRELAND The Forgotten Rite – Mai-Dun – These Things Shall Be
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’ – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis ELGAR Enigma Variations – Bavarian Dance No.2 (FIRST RELEASES recorded 1947) arr. BARBIROLLI An Elizabethan Suite
PURCELL arr. BARBIROLLI Suite
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli (recorded 1946-56)
SJB 1022 • 2 CD set

HALLÉ FAVOURITES • 3
MENDELSSOHN Fingal’s Cave – NICOLAI The Merry Wives of Windsor
TCHAIKOVSKY Andante Cantabile – WEBER Oberon
ROSSINI Semiramide & William Tell – CLARKE arr. WOOD Trumpet Voluntary
PUCCINI Manon Lescaut – Intermezzo Act 3
HUMPERDINCK Hansel & Gretel – SOUSA The Stars and Stripes Forever Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli (recorded 1957-58)
SJB 1023

THE BARBIROLLI VIENNESE ALBUM
J STRAUSS II The Blue Danube – Thunder and Lightning polka
The Gypsy Baron Overture – Perpetuum mobile – Champagne Polka
J STRAUSS I Radetzky March – LEHÁR Gold and Silver
R STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite (recorded 1967)
SUPPÉ The Beautiful Galatea – Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna Pique Dame – Poet and Peasant – Light Cavalry (recorded 1957) SCHUBERT Symphony No.9 Great (recorded 1964)
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1050-51 (previously CDSJB 1024) • 2 CD set

THE COLUMBIA MASTERS • VOLUME 1
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio Espagnol
TCHAIKOVSKY Suite No.3 – Theme & Variations
SIBELIUS Symphony No.1
New York Philharmonic Orchestra/John Barbirolli (recorded1940-2)
SJB 1025

THE COLUMBIA MASTERS • VOLUME 2
MOZART Piano Concerto No.27 – Robert Casadesus – Symphony No.25 Clarinet Concerto K.622 – Benny Goodman (FIRST RELEASE)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra/John Barbirolli (recorded1940)
SJB 1026

THE COLUMBIA MASTERS • VOLUME 3
BERLIOZ Le Carnaval romain
DEBUSSY Petite Suite (Ballet) – Premiere Rapsodie – Benny Goodman RAVEL La Valse – BRUCH Violin Concerto No.1 – Nathan Milstein New York Philharmonic Orchestra/John Barbirolli (recorded1940-2)
SJB 1027

THE COLUMBIA MASTERS • VOLUME 4
BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture – Symphony No.2
SMETANA The Bartered Bride Overture
BARBIROLLI An Elizabethan Suite (FIRST RELEASE)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra/John Barbirolli (recorded1940-2)
SJB 1039 (previously CDSJB 1028)

BARBIROLLI • WILLIAM ALWYN
Symphony No.1 (FIRST RELEASE) – Symphony No.2 (FIRST RELEASE)
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli (recorded1952-3)
CDSJB 1029

BARBIROLLI – NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35
MISHEL PIASTRO violin (recorded 1942)
BALAKIREV Tamara – symphonic poem (recorded 1937)
WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Prelude (recorded 1937)
WAGNER Die Walküre – Ride of the Valkyries (recorded 1938)
BARBIROLLI Purcell Suite (recorded 1937)
PORTNOFF Piano Concerto – NADIA REISENBERG piano
(recorded 1941 – World premiere performance)
WEINBERGER Christmas (recorded 1939)
COLLINS Overture – Sir Andrew and Sir Toby (recorded 1942 )
CRESTON Threnody (recorded c. 1942)
MENOTTI Overture – The Old Maid and the Thief (recorded c. 1942)
BONUS TRACK – MOZART Symphony No. 34 in C, K. 338
– Finale: Allegro vivace (recorded c. 1938)
SJB 1030/31 The Barbirolli Society • 2 CD set

BARBIROLLI – TURANDOT
PUCCINI Turandot – highlights
with Eva Turner and Giovanni Martinelli
recorded ‘live’ at Covent Garden – 5 and 10 May 1937

Giovanni Inghilleri
sings arias from Tosca, Otello, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Un ballo in maschera Orchestra and Chorus of Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (rec. 1929)
SJB 1032 The Barbirolli Society

HALLÉ CENTENARY CONCERT – 30 January 1958
Introduction by Sir Malcolm Sargent & National Anthem
WEBER Der Freischütz – Overture
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, Op. 83 – Clifford Curzon, piano
ELGAR Symphony No. 1 in A flat, Op. 55
The Hallé and its Conductor – a conversation with Sir John Barbirolli, Leonard Behrens and Kenneth Crickmore – introduced by Alec Robertson
SJB 1033-34 The Barbirolli Society • 2 CD set

BUCHAREST & TURIN CONCERTS – 1957-58
WAGNER Die Meistersinger – Overture
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
DEBUSSY La Mer
BEETHOVEN Symphony No.7
George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra (13 September 1958)
HOLST The Planets (Mars, Venus, Mercury, Uranus & Jupiter) RAI Symphony Orchestra, Turin (15 November 1957)
SJB 1042-43 The Barbirolli Society • 2 CD set

BARBIROLLI – PROMS 1958 & 1959
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.4 (25 August 1958)
MARTINU Oboe Concerto – Evelyn Rothwell, oboe (24 August 1959) Hallé Orchestra
SJB 1044 The Barbirolli Society

EVELYN ROTHWELL – CENTENARY ALBUM
R. STRAUSS Oboe Concerto (Hallé Orchestra/Barbirolli c. 1950s)
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Oboe Concerto (Hallé Orchestra/Barbirolli, 1950) MARTINU Oboe Concerto (Hallé Orchestra/Barbirolli, 1959)
MOZART Oboe Concerto (Hallé Orchestra/Barbirolli, 1959)
GEOFFREY BUSH Oboe Concerto (Hallé Orchestra/Weldon, 1956)
RUBBRA Sonata for Oboe & Piano (Rubbra, piano, 1959)
WORDSWORTH Quartet for Oboe & Strings (Robert Masters String Trio, 1958)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Oboe Concerto
(London Symphony Orchestra/Barbirolli, 1955)
Interview and concert preview – ABC Radio, Melbourne, 1951
SJB 1045-46 The Barbirolli Society • 2 CD set

BARBIROLLI – MOZART
Symphony No.41 Jupiter (11 December 1956) Symphony No.29 (11 December 1956) Overture The Magic Flute (April 1959)
Hallé Orchestra
SJB 1047 The Barbirolli Society

BARBIROLLI – WAGNER
Die Meistersinger – Overture and Orchestra Suite from Act III
Overture Tannhäuser; Overture Der fliegende Holländer; Prelude Act I Lohengrin Tristan un Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod (1957-59)
Hallé Orchestra
SJB 1052 The Barbirolli Society

BARBIROLLI – VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Symphony No.8 – ‘live’ recording of the premiere, 2 May 1956
The Wasps Overture, Tuba Concerto (with Philip Catelinet)
Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, Fantasia on Greensleeves (1953-54) Hallé Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra
SJB 1055 The Barbirolli Society

BARBIROLLI – HERRMANN & CADMAN
HERRMANN Moby Dick – A Cantata for Male Chorus, Soloists and orchestra William Hain, Robert Weede, William Horne, Philip Reep, Gean Greenwell, Male Chorus of the Westminster Choir (11 April 1940)
CADMAN Dark Dances of the Mardi Gras (C. Cadman, piano) (5 December 1937) Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
SJB 1056 The Barbirolli Society

BARBIROLLI – BOSTON CONCERTS 1959
arr. BARBIROLLI An Elizabethan Suite
DELIUS The Walk to the Paradise Garden
WALTON Partita for Orchestra
BRAHMS Symphony No.2 (30 January 1959) arr.
BARBIROLLI An Elizabethan Suite
DELIUS The Walk to the Paradise Garden
WALTON Partita for Orchestra (31 January 1959) Boston Symphony Orchestra
SJB 1057-58 The Barbirolli Society

BARBIROLLI CONDUCTS DELIUS
STUDIO RECORDINGS
The Walk to the Paradise Garden – Irmelin Prelude – Two Aquarelles
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring – Intermezzo from Fennimore and Gerda Idyll: ‘Once I passed through a populous city’ (Fisher/Walters)
(Pye stereo recordings 1956)
A Song of Summer – Hallé Orchestra (recorded 1950)
A Song before Sunrise – New Symphony Orchestra (recorded 1929)
‘LIVE’ RECORDINGS
Idyll: ‘Once I passed through a populous city’ – Fisher/Walters
BBC Symphony Orchestra (1950s broadcast recording)
The Walk to the Paradise Garden – Boston Symphony Orchestra (recorded 1959)
The Walk to the Paradise Garden – Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1947)
Appalachia (excerpt) – Schola Cantorum/New York Philharmonic Orchestra (recorded 1938)
SJB 1059-60 The Barbirolli Society

NIELSEN AND BRAHMS
NIELSEN Symphony No.4 ‘The Inextinguishable’ (recorded 1959)
BRAHMS Symphony No.4 (recorded 1959)
Hallé Orchestra
SJB 1061 The Barbirolli Society

BARBIROLLI AT THE OPERA
R. STRAUSS Die Liebe der Danae – Der Rosenkavalier suites
WEBER Der Freischütz & Euryanthe – VERDI La Traviata Preludes
WAGNER Lohengrin Prelude – MOZART Le Nozze di Figaro Overture
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli (recorded 1946-55)
PUCCINI Love duets from Manon Lescaut, La bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly Lenora Lafayette & Richard Lewis
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli (recorded 1958)
SJB 1062-63 The Barbirolli Society

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS AND BENJAMIN
BENJAMIN Symphony
Hallé Orchestra/John Barbirolli (recorded 1948)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No.4
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli (recorded 1950)
SJB 1064 The Barbirolli Society

BERLIOZ, RAVEL & DEBUSSY
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique (recorded 1959)
BERLIOZ Le Damnation de Faust – three movements and rehearsal sequence (1957) RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé – Suite No.2 (recorded 1959)
RAVEL La Valse (recorded 1959)
RAVEL Ma Mère l’oye – Suite (recorded 1957)
DEBUSSY La Mer (recorded 1959)
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1065-66 The Barbirolli Society

NEW YORK CONCERTS, 1962
MILHAUD Ouverture philharmonique
DELIUS Intermezzo from ‘Fennirmore and Gerda’ BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No.4 (Gina Bachauer) BRAHMS Symphony No.2
HAYDN Cello Concerto in D major (Aldo Parisot)
recorded 30 November 1962 and 9 December 1962 (Haydn) New York Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1067-68 The Barbirolli Society

1961 LUGANO CONCERT & BERNE RECORDINGS
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No.8 arr: BARBIROLLI An Elizabethan Suite RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio espagnole CHABRIER España
Recorded ‘live’ in the Teatro Kursaal, Lugano 11 April 1961 MENDELSSOHN Symphony No.4 ‘Italian’ RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio espagnole
recorded in the Casino, Berne, 13 April 1961
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1069-70 The Barbirolli Society

DVORÁK
Symphony No.7, Symphony No.8 & Symphony No.9 ‘From the New World’ Legends Nos.4, 6 & 7, Op.59
recorded 1957-1959
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1071-72 The Barbirolli Society

TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No.4, Symphony No.5 & Symphony No.6 ‘Pathetique’
Marche slave
recorded 1957-1959
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1073-74 The Barbirolli Society

ELGAR
Enigma Variations (recorded 1956)
Introduction & Allegro (recorded 1953)
Serenade in E minor (recorded 1949)
Dream Children No.1 (recorded 1950)
Cockaigne Overture (1949/50 and 1954 recordings)
Symphony No.2 (recorded 1954)
Land of Hope & Glory (Kathleen Ferrier) – ‘live’ Free Trade Hall, 16 November 1951 Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1075-76 The Barbirolli Society

ALWYN
Lyra Angelica (Sidonie Goossens, harp) (recorded 2 January 1955)
The Magic Island (recorded 11 June 1953)
Autumn Legend (Roger Winfield, cor anglais) (recorded 5 September 1955) BBC Symphony Orchestra/Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1077 The Barbirolli Society

MAHLER
Symphony No.2 Resurrection
Free Trade Hall, 12 March 1959
STRAVINSKY
Symphony of Psalms
Recorded Edinburgh Festival, 28 August 1957 Eugenia Zareska/Victoria Elliot
Hallé Orchestra/Hallé Choir/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1078-79 The Barbirolli Society

KATHLEEN FERRIER
MAHLER Kindertotenlieder
Albert Hall, Manchester 13 October 1948
BERKELEY Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila
BBC broadcast, 23 November 1949
CHAUSSON Poeme de l’amour et de la mer
BBC broadcast, 9 March 1951
Hallé Orchestra/Strings of the Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1080 The Barbirolli Society

RUBBRA
Symphony No.6
Cheltenham Festival, 17 July 1956
Symphony No.5 & Loth to depart
Abbey Road Studios, London, 14-15 December 1950 Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1081 The Barbirolli Society

MAHLER
Symphony No.1
BARBIROLLI
Elizabethan Suite
Interview with Sir John Barbirolli (Czech Radio 15 May 1960) Prague Spring Festival, Smetana Hall, 24 May 1960
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1082 The Barbirolli Society

WEBER Overture Oberon
BRAHMS Symphony No.1
Prague Spring Festival, Smetana Hall, 25 May 1958 Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1083 The Barbirolli Society

NIELSEN Symphony No.5
MAHLER Symphony No.7
Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 20 October 1960
Hallé Orchestra/BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1084-85 The Barbirolli Society

HANDEL Messiah
Bell Vue, Manchester, 6 December 1964 Harwood/Thomas/English/Borg/Hallé Choir/Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
SJB 1086-87 The Barbirolli Society
LIMITED EDITION [SOLD OUT]

DVORÁK Cello Concerto – Paul Tortleier, cello
ROSSINI Semiramide Overture
WEBER Konzertstück – Rayson Whalley, piano† Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 29 January 1963
Royal Albert Hall, London, Proms, 25 August 1958† SJB 1088 The Barbirolli Society

JOHN BARBIROLLI CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
ELGAR Introduction & Allegro MOZART Eine kleine Nachtmusik
PURCELL Hornpipe – The Married Beau HAYDN Symphony No.104 ‘London’ ROSSE The Merchant of Venice – suite
The John Barbirolli Chamber Orchestra/John Barbirolli (recorded 1928-29)
SJB 1089 The Barbirolli Society

BRUCKNER Symphony No.8†
DELIUS In a Summer Garden
SIBELIUS Symphony No.5
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 17 July 1963† Grieghallen, Bergen, 5 June 1963
SJB 1090-91 The Barbirolli Society

DVORÁK Symphony No.8
R. STRAUSS Don Juan
STRAVINSKY Firebird Suite
SIBELIUS Symphony No.2
Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli Teatro Colon, Buenos Aries, 25 & 28 August 1963
SJB 1092-93 The Barbirolli Society

ELGAR Sea Pictures – Constance Shacklock, contralto
MOERAN Serenade‡
DELIUS A Song of Summer†
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Tallis Fantasia†
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
Royal Albert Hall, London, 21 October 1958 Town Hall, Cheltenham, 16 July 1952‡ Grieghallen, Bergen, 5 June 1963†
SJB 1094 The Barbirolli Society

R. STRAUSS Tod und Verklärung
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.5
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 21 January 1963
SJB 1095 The Barbirolli Society

FIRST ORCHESTRAL RECORDINGS 1927-1928
Edison Bell 78s: Wagner, Humperdinck, Puccini & Mascagni
Spanish HMV 78s: Casals & Mozart (arr. Barbirolli)
NGS 78s: Elgar, Warlock, Delius, Debussy & Marcello
Chenil Galleries Chamber Orchestra (NGS Chamber Orchestra)/John Barbirolli
SJB 1096 The Barbirolli Society

MOZART Eine kleine Nachtmusik
DELIUS Fennimore and Gerda – Intermezzo
BEETHOVEN Symphony No.4
CRESTON Fantasy for trombone and orchestra – Maisie Ringham, trombone† Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
Milton Hall, Manchester, 5 December 1947 and 10 May 1951†
SJB 1097 The Barbirolli Society

70th BIRTHDAY CONCERT
ELGAR Introduction and Allegro
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No.6
BEETHOVEN Symphony No.7
Tributes to Barbirolli and David Gerber interviews Sir John Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 18 December 1969
SJB 1098-99 The Barbirolli Society

SUPPÉ The Beautiful Galatea – Overture
FRANCK Symphonic Variations – David Wilde, piano
BRUCH Kol Nidrei – Jacqueline du Pré, cello
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio espagnol
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 9 September 1965 (BBC2 transmission)
SJB 1100 The Barbirolli Society

WAGNER Tristan und Isolde – Act II Wolfgang Windgassen, Martha Mödl, Constance Shacklock and George Hancock (Scene 3 is incomplete)
Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
WAGNER Tristan und Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod† New York Philharmonic Orchestra/John Barbirolli Royal Albert Hall, London, Proms, 26 August 1954 Carnegie Hall, New York, 20 November 1938†
SJB 1101 The Barbirolli Society

ELGAR Cello Concerto – Jacqueline du Pre, cello†
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto – Alfredo Campoli, violin‡ Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
Bolshoi Hall, Moscow, 7 January 1967†
Royal College of Advanced Technology, 16 March 1965 (BBC2 transmission)‡
Both works are included on the CD and the DVD contains a video recording of the Sibelius
SJB 1102-03 (CD+DVD) The Barbirolli Society

BARBIROLLI CONDUCTS BRITTEN
Sinfonia da Requiem†
Violin Concerto – Ralph Holmes, violin‡
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra* BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli† Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli‡*
Royal Albert Hall, 8 August 1967†
Royal Festival Hall, 30 April 1969‡
Milton Hall, Manchester, 20 July 1967*
SJB 1104 The Barbirolli Society

BARBIROLLI CONDUCTS ELGAR
Enigma Variations
RAI Symphony Orchestra, Turin/Sir John Barbirolli Turin, 15 November 1960

The Dream of Gerontius
Jon Vickers, Constance Shacklock, Marian Nowakowski
RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Rome/Sir John Barbirolli RAI Auditorium, Rome, 20 November 1957
SJB 1105-06 The Barbirolli Society

BARBIROLLI CONDUCTS ELGAR
Symphony No.2
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
Coventry Cathedral, 20 May 1964
SJB 1107 The Barbirolli Society

BARBIROLLI CONDUCTS PROKOFIEV, BARTOK and SCHUBERT
SCHUBERT Symphony No.5
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No.2 – ION VOICU, violin
Orchestra Filharmonicci George Enescu/Sir John Barbirolli
Festival Enescu, Bucharest 16 & 17 September 1961 (stereo)
BARTOK Concerto for Orchestra
The Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
Budapest 26 September 1961
SJB 1108-09 The Barbirolli Society

GLORIOUS JOHN – CENTENARY ALBUM
VAN BIENE The Broken Melody MOZART String Quartet K428 – Menuetto
MASCAGNI Santuzza’s Aria
VERDI Otello – Niun me tema
PUCCINI Tosca – Tre sbirri, una carozza
JSTRAUSS Die Fledermaus – Brother dear
SAINT-SAËNS Valse caprice
BALFE The Bohemian Girl Overture
COLLINS Sir Toby & Sir Andrew‡
WEINBERGER Christmas‡
WEBER Euryanthe Overture‡
DELIUS The Walk to the Paradise Garden‡
STRAVINSKY Concerto in D
MOZART Andante K63 & Minuet K251
VILLA LOBOS Bachianas Brasileiras No.4 FALLA (arr. Halffter) Seguidilla murciana
LEHÁR Gold & Silver
GRIEG (arr. Barbirolli) Secret
J S BACH Sheep may safely graze
+ rehearsal sequence and interview
(recorded 1911-1969) (‡ ‘live’ recordings)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Hallé Orchestra etc.
SJB 1999 • 2 CD set The Barbirolli Society

BARBIROLLI • NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
TCHAIKOVSKY Francesca da Rimini – DEBUSSY Ibéria SCHUBERT Symphony No.4 (recorded 1938-39)
CDEA 5000

BARBIROLLI • NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
RESPIGHI Fountains of Rome – Arie de corte
PURCELL/BARBIROLLI Suite for Strings SCHUBERT Five German Dances (recorded 1938-39) CRESTON Threnody (FIRST RELEASE – recorded c. 1942) MENOTTI Overture – The Old Maid and the Thief (FIRST RELEASE – c. 1942)
CDEA 5019

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BARBIROLLI AT THE PROMS – 24 August 1954
HAYDN The Uninhabited Island – Overture The Creation – In Native Worth
BRAHMS Symphony No.1
David Galliver/Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
GHCD 2320

BARBIROLLI – RUSSIAN FAVOURITES
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio espagnol (rec. 1953)
LIADOV The Enchanted Lake (rec. 1953)
TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake – excerpts (rec. 1950)
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet (rec. 1957) Marche slave (rec. 1959) Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
GHCD 2325

BARBIROLLI – NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC 1937-1943
FRANCK Symphony in D minor (recorded: 15 October 1939)
BERLIOZ Benvenuto Cellini – Overture (recorded: 30 October 1938)
GRIFFES The White Peacock (recorded: 30 October 1938)
DEBUSSY Ibéria (Images) (recorded: 14 November 1937)
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO King John – Overture (recorded: 15 March 1942)
BRAHMS Concerto for Violin, Cello & Orchestra in A minor, Op.102
– Albert Spalding (violin), Gaspar Cassadó (cello) (recorded: 26 March 1939) BENJAMIN Overture to an Italian Comedy (recorded: 20 April 1941 CORELLI/BARBIROLLI Concerto Grosso (recorded: 23 February 1943)
BONUS TRACK MAHLER: Adagietto – excerpt (17 December 1939)
GHCD 2330/31

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