Audite Musikproduktion
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2; Schubert: Symphony No 9 / Karolyi, Blech
$14.99
Details
- Composer
- CHOPIN SCHUBERT
- Artist
- Von Karolyi, Blech, Rias-Symphonie-Orchester
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Audite Musikproduktion
- Released
- Oct 25, 2011
- Catalog #
- AUD95640
- UPC
- 4022143956408
About
These are the original analogue tapes, which attain an astonishingly high quality, even measured by today‘s standards, with their tape speed of up to 76 cm/sec. The remastering – professionally competent and sensitively applied – also uncovers previously hidden details of the interpretations.
The conductor Leo Blech and the pianist Julian von Károlyi, whose live performance of the Chopin Second Piano Concerto given at the Berlin Titania Palast in 1950 is documented on this CD, are nowadays ranked amongst the greatest but unjustly forgotten interpreters of the twentieth century. Blech, whose sophisticated mature reading of Schubert’s Symphony in C major, “The Great”, can also be admired on this recording, had been a leading German conductor since 1908 until he was pushed out of his post by the Nazis in 1933, due to his Jewish faith, and was forced to emigrate. Károlyi, a leading pianist of his generation in the 1950s, was later accused of being routine-driven. His masterful Chopin interpretation demonstrates, however, that his ability to combine musicianship and virtuosity is exemplary even today.
The production is part of our series „Legendary Recordings“ and bears the quality feature „1st Master Release“. This term stands for the excellent quality of archival productions at audite. For all historical publications at audite are based, without exception, on the original tapes from broadcasting archives. In general these are the original analogue tapes, which attain an astonishingly high quality, even measured by today‘s standards, with their tape speed of up to 76 cm/sec. The remastering – professionally competent and sensitively applied – also uncovers previously hidden details of the interpretations. Thus, a sound of superior quality results. CD publications based on private recordings from broadcasts or old shellac records cannot be compared with these.
The conductor Leo Blech and the pianist Julian von Károlyi, whose live performance of the Chopin Second Piano Concerto given at the Berlin Titania Palast in 1950 is documented on this CD, are nowadays ranked amongst the greatest but unjustly forgotten interpreters of the twentieth century. Blech, whose sophisticated mature reading of Schubert’s Symphony in C major, “The Great”, can also be admired on this recording, had been a leading German conductor since 1908 until he was pushed out of his post by the Nazis in 1933, due to his Jewish faith, and was forced to emigrate. Károlyi, a leading pianist of his generation in the 1950s, was later accused of being routine-driven. His masterful Chopin interpretation demonstrates, however, that his ability to combine musicianship and virtuosity is exemplary even today.
The production is part of our series „Legendary Recordings“ and bears the quality feature „1st Master Release“. This term stands for the excellent quality of archival productions at audite. For all historical publications at audite are based, without exception, on the original tapes from broadcasting archives. In general these are the original analogue tapes, which attain an astonishingly high quality, even measured by today‘s standards, with their tape speed of up to 76 cm/sec. The remastering – professionally competent and sensitively applied – also uncovers previously hidden details of the interpretations. Thus, a sound of superior quality results. CD publications based on private recordings from broadcasts or old shellac records cannot be compared with these.
Tracklist 7 tracks
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1 I. Maestoso 13:19
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Maestoso
- Duration
- 13:19
- Composer
- Frédéric Chopin
- Performer
- Julian von Károlyi
- Ensemble
- Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
- Conductor
- Leo Blech
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2 II. Larghetto 08:15
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Larghetto
- Duration
- 08:15
- Composer
- Frédéric Chopin
- Performer
- Julian von Károlyi
- Ensemble
- Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
- Conductor
- Leo Blech
-
3 III. Allegro vivace 07:50
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Allegro vivace
- Duration
- 07:50
- Composer
- Frédéric Chopin
- Performer
- Julian von Károlyi
- Ensemble
- Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
- Conductor
- Leo Blech
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4 I. Andante - Allegro ma non troppo 13:40
- Track
- 4
- Title
- I. Andante - Allegro ma non troppo
- Duration
- 13:40
- Composer
- Franz Schubert
- Ensemble
- Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
- Conductor
- Leo Blech
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5 II. Andante con moto 14:18
- Track
- 5
- Title
- II. Andante con moto
- Duration
- 14:18
- Composer
- Franz Schubert
- Ensemble
- Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
- Conductor
- Leo Blech
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6 III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace 09:16
- Track
- 6
- Title
- III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
- Duration
- 09:16
- Composer
- Franz Schubert
- Ensemble
- Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
- Conductor
- Leo Blech
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7 IV. Allegro vivace 11:33
- Track
- 7
- Title
- IV. Allegro vivace
- Duration
- 11:33
- Composer
- Franz Schubert
- Ensemble
- Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
- Conductor
- Leo Blech