❖ A unique collection of Philips, Columbia and Telefunken recordings, with some works represented twice, to allow the listener to appreciate Mengelberg’s different interpretations of the same composition
❖ Mengelberg's recordings with the Concertgebouw Orchestra are marked by frequent use of an unusually prominent portamento, which can be appreciated in the sliding from one note to the other of the string players
❖ He transformed the Concertgebouw, which he loved and considered his ‘instrument’, from being average, into a world-class orchestra, still regarded as one of the best ensembles
❖ The 23 November 1939 premiere of Zoltán Kodály’s Peacock Variation and the immortal and still unrivalled recording of Mahler’s Fourth, are both included in this set
❖ Mengelberg’s was unwavering in his mission to draw out flawless playing and effervescent living lingua franca from his orchestras.

Andriessen: Magna res est amor
J S Bach: Air,
Orchestral Suite No.2 (1931/1939)
J C Bach: Sinfonia in B flat major
Beethoven: Symphonies: No.1 (1938/1940), No.2, No.3, No.4 (1938/1940),
No.5 (1937/1940), No.6 (1937/1940), No.7, No.8: Allegretto scherzando,
No.8 (1938/1940), No.9 (1938/1940); Overtures: Coriolan (1926/1931),
Egmont (1926/1943), Fidelio, Leonore I, Leonore III, The Creatures of Prometheus, The Ruins of Athens (1930/1942)
Berlioz: Roman Carnival ouverture;
La Damnation de Faust: Ballet des Sylphes, Marche hongroise, Menuet des Follets
Bizet: L’Arlésienne: Adagetto
Borodin: In the Steps of Central Asia
Brahms: Symphonies: No.1 (3rd movement), No.1, No.2, No.3, No.4; Tragic Overture, Academic Festival Overture
Cherubini: Anacréon Ouverture (1927/1943)
Debussy: Prélude à L’après-midi d’un Faune; Fantaisie pour piano et orchestra
Dopper: Ciaconna gotica;
Symphony No.7 “Zuiderzee”
Dvořák: Symphony No.9
Franck: Symphony in D minor;
Psyché and Eros; Variations Symphoniques
Gluck: Alceste Overture
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No.1;
Two Elegiac Melodies
Kodály: Háry János Suite; Variations on the Hungarian Folksong “The Peacock”
Liszt: Les Préludes
Mahler: Symphony No.4;
Symphony No.5: Adagietto
St. Aldegonde: Wilhelmus von Nassauen
(arr. Rudolf Mengelberg)Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Scherzo
Mengelberg: Salve Regina
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte Ouvertüre; Serenade “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”
Ravel : Suite No.2 from Daphnis et Chloé; Boléro
Röntgen: Six Old Netherlands Dances
Schubert: Symphony No.8 (1939/1942); No.9 (1940/1942); Ständchen;
Rosamunde: Overture, Entr’acte No.3,
Ballet Music No.2;
Marche militaire Op.51
Suppé: Poet and Peasant Overture
Strauss II: Perpetuum mobile
R. Strauss: Don Juan (1938/1940);
Tod und Verklärung; Ein Heldenleben
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies: No.4,
No.5 (1928/1939, mov. II&III 1927),
No.6 (1937/1941); Ouverture 1812;
Serenade in C (1928/1938);
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Valerius: Altniederländisches Dankgebet: Wir treten zum Beten
Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op.3 No.8
Voormolen: Sinfonia
Wagenaar: Overtures: Cyrano de Bergerac, De getemde feeks (The Taming of the Shrew)
Wagner: Tannhäuser Overture (1926/1932/1940);
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude; Lohengrin: Prelude Act I
Weber: Overtures: Oberon (1928/1940), Euryanthe, Der Freischütz