Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: 100 Years 10 CD Set

One of Australia's cultural icons, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra celebrated its centenary this year. This historic occasion highlighted the MSO's status as the oldest professional orchestra in Australia, and Melbourne as the only city with a continuous history of orchestral performance.

To coincide with the celebrations, ABC Classics has released a 10CD box set featuring musical gems and rarities from the orchestra's live-performance and recording history. Many previously unreleased tracks dug out from the depths of the ABC archives have been included, from Hiroyuki Iwaki's thrilling Australian premiere of Messiaen's Turangalila-symphonie to Markus Stenz's acclaimed performances of Mahler's Fourth Symphony.

CD 1
IGOR STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
BÉLA BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra
Hiroyuki Iwaki conductor

CD 2
OLIVIER MESSIAEN Turangalîla-symphonie - Kaori Kimura piano,
Takashi Harada ondes martenot Hiroyuki Iwaki conductor

CD3
JEAN SIBELIUS The Swan of Tuonela
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 in E minor
JULES MASSENET Méditation from Thaïs
Leonard Dommett violin
Sir Bernard Heinze conductor IGOR STRAVINSKY Symphony in Three Movements
CÉSAR FRANCK Four Fragments from Psyche
GABRIEL FAURÉ Pavane
Willem van Otterloo conductor

CD4
PERCY ALDRIDGE GRAINGER
The Warriors: Music for an Imaginary Ballet
Green Bushes
Hill-Song No. 2
Spoon River
The Power of Love from Danish Folk-Music Suite
The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart
To a Nordic Princess: Bridal Song
My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone
Shepherd's Hey
Molly on the Shore
John Hopkins conductor

CD5
FRITZ HART The Bush - Symphonic Suite, Op. 59 (excerpt); GEORGE MARSHALL- HALL Largamento (2nd movement) from Symphony in E-flat major; Richard Divall conductor;ROBERT HUGHES Synthesis;Willem van Otterloo conductor; DORIAN LE GALLIENNE Concert Overture;Victorian Symphony Orchestra;Clive Douglas conductor;MARGARET SUTHERLAND Oboe Concertante;Jiři Tancibudek oboe;Patrick Thomas conductor; Haunted Hills;John Hopkins conductor

CD6
ROBERT HUGHES Symphony in Three Movements
Joseph Post conductor

BARRY CONYNGHAM Water…Footsteps…Time
John Hopkins conductor

BRETT DEAN Beggars and Angels
Markus Stenz conductor

CD7
PETER SCULTHORPE
Sun Music I-IV
Irkanda IV -Leonard Dommett violin
Small Town
John Hopkins conductor

Piano Concerto - Anthony Fogg piano
Myer Fredman conductor

CD 8
GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No. 4 - Yvonne Kenny soprano
CHARLES IVES Orchestral Set No. 1:Three Places in New England
Markus Stenz conductor

CD 9
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No. 35 in D major, KV385 'Haffner'
OTTO NICOLAI Overture from The Merry Wives of Windsor
GIUSEPPE VERDI Ballet Music from Macbeth
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Jazz Suite No. 1
PAUL STANHOPE Machinations
Oleg Caetani conductor

CD 10
ROBERT SCHUMANN Carnaval
Vernon Handley conductor

GEORGES BIZET arr. RAFAEL MÉNDEZ Habanera from Carmen
Geoffrey Payne trumpet
Jean-Louis Forestier conductor

LEROY ANDERSON Belle of the Ball
Paul Mann conductor

NIGEL WESTLAKE Cudmirrah Fanfare
Philip Green conductor

GEORGE DREYFUS Rush
George Dreyfus conductor

BRUCE SMEATON The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Bruce Smeaton conductor

GEORGES BIZET Prélude from L'Arlésienne - Suite No. 1
John Lanchbery conductor

STUART GREENBAUM 90 Minutes Circling the Earth
Brett Kelly conductor

GUSTAV HOLST Jupiter from The Planets, Op. 32
Sir Malcolm Sargent conductor

FRANZ LEH�R Gold und Silber (Gold and Silver Waltz)
JOHANN STRAUSS II Freikugeln (Magic Bullets Polka), Op. 326
Ola Rudner conductor