CD1:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K 550

Joseph Haydn:
Symphony No. 53 in D major, Hob. I:53 ‘L’Impériale’
Symphony No. 95 in C minor, Hob. I:95

CD2:
Ludwig Van Beethoven:
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

Franz Schubert:
Symphony No. 8 in B minor ‘Unfinished’ D 759

CD3:
Johannes Brahms:
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90

CD4:
Hector Berlioz:
Symphonie fantastique, op. 14
Overture ‘Benvenuto Cellini’, Op. 23

CD5:
Claude Debussy:
„La Damoiselle élue“. Poeme lyrique, L 62
„Die Erwählte“ für Sopran, Alt, Frauenchor und Orchester
“The Blessed Damozel” for soprano, alto, female chorus and orchestra

Richard Wagner:
The Flying Dutchmann (Overture), Tristan und Isolde
Vorspiel
Isoldes Liebestod

This collection commemorates the long-standing cooperation between conductor Gary Bertini, who was born in today’s Moldova, and the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, which began in 1978 with Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. Their final recording featured also on this box set was the 1996 performance of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor in Tokyo. Bertini conducted several Israeli orchestras for many years before subsequently moving to Germany and Japan (the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra). During his lifetime he did not always earn the respect he deserved because he did not play the part of the glamourous conductor that was the accepted stereotype. But as time went by his aim to be faithful to the composer’s intentions became widely appreciated.