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Eloquence Hans Knappertsbusch - The Orchestral Edition

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Gathered together for the first time on Universal Music labels, including several first CD releases on Decca, is the orchestral legacy of an inimitable genius of the podium: Hans Knappertsbusch. Even in his own lifetime, Hans Knappertsbusch divided opinion, between listeners affronted by technical slips caused by his notorious aversion to rehearsal and those who saw in him the last representative of a performing tradition dating back to Richard Wagner. Working mostly in the opera houses of Munich and Vienna, he never became music director of a symphony orchestra, but his postwar Decca recordings of central repertoire from Beethoven to Strauss, including three distinguished concerto collaborations with Clifford Curzon, preserve interpretations of a flexibility, sweep and grandeur scarcely imaginable today. For Decca, Knappertsbusch recorded with the great orchestras of London, Paris, Zurich, Geneva and Vienna. The orchestral discography began with Brahmss Second Symphony with the Suisse Romande, Wagnerian bleeding chunks in the Kingsway Hall in December 1947 and ended in February 1960 in the Sofiensaal of Vienna, conducting Tchaikovskys Nutcracker Suite with a delicacy and grace that will surprise listeners who think of him only as the high priest of Parsifal at Bayreuth. The box is full of such surprises: an album of Strauss waltzes and polkas that turns on a sixpence; nimble Bruckner scherzos; one of the swiftest versions of Tod und Verklarung on record. Once introduced to Clifford Curzon, Knappertsbusch was immediately enthusiastic about performing and recording with this great English gentleman; their versions of Beethovens Fourth and Fifth and Brahmss Second have long been mainstays of the Decca catalogue. Much else here is newly remastered and now widely available on Decca for the first time in many years, such as Wagnerian overtures and preludes with the Zurich Tonhalle (1947) and the London Philharmonic (1948) orchestras. Bruckners Symphonies Nos. 3-5 preserve Knappertsbuschs profound working relationship with the VPO at its most harmonious. A magnificently trenchant Brahms album with the VPO in 1957 also features Lucretia West in the Alto Rhapsody. For devotees and sceptics alike, this box offers revelations and the opportunity to reassess the art of a conductor held in the deepest affection by many of the musicians and singers who worked with him. This will please everyone who loves opulent brazen sound. As a Wagnerian, Prof. Knappertsbusch is plainly a great conductor The Wagner of burlesque lady wrestlers as Valkyries, heaving on Clydesdales and percherons; winds of two-miles-per-hour in the Dutchmans hurricane Still, the sound is splendid. High Fidelity, January 1954 (Wagner Preludes, VPO) There is less heaviness, more flexibility and true Viennese spirit in his reading than in any of the others. High Fidelity, February 1956 (Bruckner, Symphony No. 4) There apparently exists a wonderful rapport between the English virtuoso and the German conductor, for this performance is pervaded by a nearly tangible quality of artistic give-and-take. Stereo Review, April 1958 (Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5)

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Hans Knappertsbusch - The Orchestral Edition

Product Type: Abis Music

Brand: Australian Eloquence

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Audio CD
Pack Size
18 items
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Amazon UK
Release Date
11 March 2022
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21 January 2022

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