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The new Böhm-cycle within the audite-series “Legendary Recordings” begins so to speak with a Böhm-portrait . The first CD of the cycle combines works from three composers which played a decisive role in Karl Böhm’s professional life: Strauss and Mozart were two of his main interests and...more
"The big surprise is his absolutely wonderful account of the Firebird Suite from 1963. With orchestral textures of supernatural clarity and not a trace of stodginess in tempos or stiffness in rhythm, this is certainly one of the most individual and impressive accounts of the piece currently available." (www.ClassicsToday.com)
R. Strauss: Don Juan, W. A. Mozart: Symphony No. 28 & I. Stravinsky: The Firebird | |
article number: | 95.591 |
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EAN barcode: | 4022143955913 |
price group: | BCB |
release date: | 18. April 2007 |
total time: | 57 min. |
The new Böhm-cycle within the audite-series “Legendary Recordings” begins so to speak with a Böhm-portrait. The first CD of the cycle combines works from three composers which played a decisive role in Karl Böhm’s professional life: Strauss and Mozart were two of his main interests and also the works of Stravinsky fascinated him early on.
Karl Böhm (1894-1981) made recording history. Documentary evidence in sound of his creative career spans the period from the 1930s to the year of his death; many of his recorded performances are regarded as definitive. Alongside the well-known recordings, many of them reissued several times, there exist radio and studio performances from the 1960s and 1970s which flesh out, and sometimes correct, the portrait of this internationally active conductor of operas and concerts. This CD presents three hitherto unknown recordings Böhm made with the Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester (today: WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln). Richard Strauss and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were what might be called Böhm’s household gods. In his time as director of the Hamburg and especially the Dresden State Opera (1934-41) he and Strauss were close friends and colleagues in a relationship in which Strauss often played the role of advisor and agent for himself. Böhm was regarded throughout his life as an authority on Strauss. The version of Don Juan presented here dates from 1976, when Böhm was 82, but he conducts it with consummate control and such fire that his advanced age seems irrelevant. The recording of Mozart’s Symphony No. 28 in C from 1973 documents Böhm’s Mozart style, then considered to be valid for all time: Moderation in tempo and dynamics, gentle, springy articulation and a style of phrasing schooled in vocal lines are still compelling despite, and perhaps because of, the radical changes the interpretation of the Mozart sound has undergone since the revival of interest in historical performance practice. The recording of Stravinsky’s Firebird suite, conducted by Böhm in 1963 for WDR, is a rarity: Until today Böhm’s released discography leaves out Stravinsky completely. But Böhm had included works of Stravinsky in his programme schedules already during his Munich years (1921-27) – a time when the music of the young Russian was excitingly new. The sophisticated score of the Firebird, even today a real challenge for orchestras and conductors alike, shows Böhm to be outstandingly capable of bringing out the full delicacy, power and luminosity of Stravinsky’s score.
Future releases of the Böhm-cycle will present historic recordings with works by Vieuxtemps, Brahms, Beethoven and Bruckner.
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