Erik Then-Bergh: The Complete Electrola & Deutsche Grammophon Recordings

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Label
APR
Release Date
January 27, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH CHOPIN HANDEL
    • PERFORMER
      Erik Then-Bergh
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 27, 2017
    • UPC
      5024709160211
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      APR6021
    • LABEL
      APR
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    2. II. Allemande

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    3. III. Courante

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    4. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    5. V. Gigue

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    6. Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Chaconne (arr. F. Busoni for piano)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    7. I. Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfindung

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    8. II. Lebhaft. Marschmässig

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    9. III. Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    10. IV. Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr, und mit Entschlossenheit

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    11. I. So rasch wir möglich

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    12. II. Andantino

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    13. III. Scherzo

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    14. IV. Rondo

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    15. Nocturne No. 17 in B Major, Op. 62, No. 1

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    16. No. 2. Ziemlich langsam

      Composer: Max Reger

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    17. No. 6. Langsam, schwermüthig

      Composer: Max Reger

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    18. No. 1 in E-Flat Major

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    19. No. 4 in A Major

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    20. Theme - Variations 1-20 and 22-23

      Composer: Max Reger

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    21. Chorale and Fugue

      Composer: Max Reger

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

    22. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Max Reger

      Ensemble: Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

      Conductor: Hans Rosbaud

    23. II. Largo con gran espressione

      Composer: Max Reger

      Ensemble: Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

      Conductor: Hans Rosbaud

    24. III. Allegretto con spirito

      Composer: Max Reger

      Ensemble: Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks

      Performer: Erik Then-Bergh

      Conductor: Hans Rosbaud


Erik Then-Bergh (1916-1982) is almost forgotten today, content as he was to confine his career, the last twenty years of which were devoted to teaching, to Germany. But to hear this favorite of Furtwangler in his early recordings is to hear playing of the highest order- his combination of superlative technique at the service of deeply profound interpretation can only be compared with the very greatest of artists. We present here his almost complete 78rpm recordings, which were mostly made in Germany during the war and hence had littler international circulation. Then-Bergh was renowned as a Reger player and in this centenary year of Reger’s death, which is also the centenary of Then-Bergh’s birth, we include his stereo LP recording of the Reger Piano Concerto from 1958 which completes his Reger recordings. Perhaps this quote from ‘The Record Book’ (USA 1948) reviewing Beethoven’s Op101 still sums up Then-Bergh’s 78 recordings today: “The performance by a pianist of whom we know nothing, Erik Then-Bergh, is spectacularly fine, and is backed by some of the best reproduction of piano tone we have ever heard.”

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REVIEW:

Erik Then-Bergh was much respected as both pedagogue and performer. His stereo recording of Max Reger's Piano Concerto, with Hans Rosbaud conducting, is thought through from the first bar to the last. It has a naturalness to it that eluded even Rudolf Serkin's otherwise fine versions for Columbia. The solo piano Telemann-Reger Variations in particular are joyous, elegant, and crisply articulated. A highly desirable memorial collection overall to a much-undervalued pianist. Excellent transfers.

– Gramophone