This remarkable collection of recordings celebrates the seventieth birthday of one of the world’s leading conductors, Gerard Schwarz, whose career in music spans over half a century. He has made numerous significant recordings as a virtuoso trumpet player, and became renowned for his innovative and wide-ranging programming with the Seattle Symphony, emphasizing music by the great American symphonic composers and embracing classics such as an “utterly magical” Dvorak Sixth Symphony. From Baroque to contemporary and everything in between, this festive compilation is the best birthday gift we could imagine. With too many fine recordings to list, today’s musical landscape would be entirely different and very much the poorer without the tireless presence of conductor Gerard Schwarz. Not content with raising the Seattle Symphony Orchestra to its highest artistic level, he continues to innovate with the All Star Orchestra, and maintains an ongoing involvement in numerous artistic roles both in the USA and abroad.

• Albert, S: Flower of the Mountain
• Bach, J S: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV1047
• Barber: Serenade for String Orchestra, Op. 1
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
• Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus Overture, Op. 43
• Bernstein: Symphony No. 3 'Kaddish'
• Biber: Sonata a 7 in C major
• Borodin: Symphony No. 3 in A minor (unfinished)
• Brahms: Hungarian Dances
• Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
• Brahms: Serenade No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
• Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
• Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
• Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
• Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
• Busoni: Concertino for Clarinet and Small Orchestra, Op. 48
• Carter, E: Canon for 3 - In memoriam Igor Stravinsky
• Carter, E: Elegy
• Carter, E: The Minotaur
• Cherubini: Symphony in D major
• Creston: Invocation and Dance Op. 58
• Davies, Peter Maxwell: Trumpet Sonata, Op. 1
• Diamond: Rounds for String Orchestra
• Diamond: Symphony No. 4
• Dlugoszewski: Space is a Diamond
• Dvořák: Czech Suite, Op. 39
• Dvořák: Serenade for Winds in D minor, Op. 44
• Dvořák: Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60
• Elgar: Fantasia & Fugue in C minor, Op. 86 (after Bach, BWV 537)
• Fine, I G: Notturno for Strings
• Fine, I G: Serious Song
• Foote: Suite in E major, Op. 63
• Frescobaldi: Canzona Prima
• Frescobaldi: Canzona quinta
• Frescobaldi: Canzona seconda
• Gabrieli, G: Sonate e Canzoni
• Griffes: The White Peacock
• Gruber, F: Silent Night
• Handel: Alexander's Feast
• Handel: Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 1 in G major, HWV319
• Handel: Messiah
• Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV74
• Handel: Rinaldo
• Handel: Samson
• Hanson, H: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 21 'Nordic'
• Harbison: Rubies (after Thelonius Monk)
• Hindemith: Kammermusik No. 1 Op. 24 No. 1 für 12 Solo-Instrumente
• Honegger: Concerto da camera for Flute, Cor Anglais & String Orchestra
• Hovhaness: Prelude And Quadruple Fugue For Orchestra, Op. 128
• Jones, Samuel: Tuba Concerto
• Joplin: Pleasant Moments - ‘Ragtime Waltz'
• Kodály: Dances of Galanta
• Mahler: Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major
• Mendelssohn: Heimkehr aus der Fremde, Op. 89
• Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 'Lobgesang'
• Mennin: Moby Dick - Concertato for Orchestra
• Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'
• Panufnik, A: Autumn Music
• Panufnik, A: Heroic Overture
• Panufnik, A: Symphony No. 3 'Sinfonia sacra'
• Panufnik, A: Symphony No. 10
• Perle: Serenade No. 3 for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
• Piston: Suite for Orchestra
• Respighi: Passacaglia in do minore di Giovanni Sebastiano Bach
• Rimsky Korsakov: Mlada Suite
• Rimsky Korsakov: Snow Maiden Suite
• Rossini: Grand' overtura obbligata a contrabbasso
• Rossini: Sinfonia al Conventello
• Scarlatti, A: Cantata 'Su le sponde del Tebro'
• Schoenberg: 5 orchestral pieces, Op. 16
• Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 9
• Schoenberg: Concerto for String Quartet & Orchestra
• Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D major, D200
• Schuman: Symphony No. 3
• Schumann: Overture, Scherzo, and Finale, Op. 52
• Schwarz, G: Above and Beyond
• Schwarz, G: In Memoriam
• Schwarz, G: Rudolf and Jeanette
• Schwarz, G: Variations on Greensleeves
• Shchedrin: Carmen Suite
• Sheng: Tibetan Swing
• Shostakovich: October, Op. 131
• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93
• Strauss, R: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
• Strauss, R: Divertimento (after Couperin) Op. 86
• Strauss, R: Don Juan, Op. 20
• Strauss, R: Duett-Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon & Strings, AV147
• Strauss, R: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Op. 60
• Strauss, R: Symphonic Fantasy on Die Frau ohne Schatten, TrV234a
• Strauss, R: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28
• Strauss, R: Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24
• Strauss, R: Waltz Sequence No. 2 (from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59)
• Stravinsky: Le Chant du Rossignol
• Stravinsky: Scherzo Fantastique, Op. 3
• Telemann: Quartet TWV 43:D7 in D major for trumpet, 2 oboes & b.c.
• Wagner: Götterdämmerung
• Webern: Langsamer Satz, (slow movement), Op. post. (1905)
• Whittenberg: Polyphony
• Wolpe: Solo Piece for Trumpet