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Lucerne Festival, Vol. 16: Karl Böhm conducts Hindemith & Bruckner (Live) / Vienna Philharmonic

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Details

Composer
Anton Bruckner, Paul Hindemith
Artist
Werner Tripp, Gerhard Turetschek, Alfred Prinz, Ernst Pamperl, Hubert Jelinek, Karl Bohm, Wiener Phi
Format
CD
Label
Audite Musikproduktion
Released
Jan 07, 2022
Catalog #
AUD95649
UPC
4022143956491

About

Between 1950 and 1980, he was one of the most important conductors of international standing, and yet he has been somewhat forgotten: Karl Böhm was the antistar among the podium greats of his time, a decidedly businesslike servant of the music. For the first time, two Lucerne concert recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic, with whom he was closely associated for decades, are released: Bruckner's Seventh Symphony and - a solitaire in Böhm's discography - an upbeat Hindemith concerto. In the summer of 1970, Böhm, by all means an advocate of contemporary music in his younger years, performed Paul Hindemith's 1949 Concerto for Woodwinds, Harp and Orchestra in Lucerne. The three-movement work offers the five-member Concertino group grateful playing tasks and, with its quotation from Mendelssohn's Wedding March, makes reference to Hindemith's own silver wedding anniversary. In addition to Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, and Strauss, the symphonies of Anton Bruckner were also central to Böhm's concert repertoire. Böhm's Bruckner interpretations possess an aura, but it is neither the religiously pathos-laden one of Eugen Jochum, nor the pathetically worldly one of Sergiu Celibidache, nor the matter-of-factly austere one of Nikolaus Harnoncourt. This is also evident in the Lucerne recording of the Seventh Symphony from September 1964: Böhm never loses sight of the whole and yet plays out every articulatory detail with almost scrupulous fidelity to the text. He follows Bruckner's blocky editing technique without aggressively emphasizing it. He does not avoid the music's solemn monumentality, but neither does he exaggerate it into false, violent pathos.

Tracklist 7 tracks

  1. 1 I. Massig, schnell 08:01
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Massig, schnell
    Duration
    08:01
    Composer
    Paul Hindemith
    Performer
    Werner Tripp, Gerhard Turetschek, Alfred Prinz, Ernst Pamperl, Hubert Jelinek
    Ensemble
    Vienna Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Karl Böhm
  2. 2 II. Grazioso 02:57
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Grazioso
    Duration
    02:57
    Composer
    Paul Hindemith
    Performer
    Werner Tripp, Gerhard Turetschek, Alfred Prinz, Ernst Pamperl, Hubert Jelinek
    Ensemble
    Vienna Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Karl Böhm
  3. 3 III. Rondo: Ziemlich schnell 04:34
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Rondo: Ziemlich schnell
    Duration
    04:34
    Composer
    Paul Hindemith
    Performer
    Werner Tripp, Gerhard Turetschek, Alfred Prinz, Ernst Pamperl, Hubert Jelinek
    Ensemble
    Vienna Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Karl Böhm
  4. 4 I. Allegro moderato 19:40
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    19:40
    Composer
    Anton Bruckner
    Ensemble
    Vienna Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Karl Böhm
  5. 5 II. Adagio. Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam 22:09
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Adagio. Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam
    Duration
    22:09
    Composer
    Anton Bruckner
    Ensemble
    Vienna Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Karl Böhm
  6. 6 III. Scherzo: Sehr schnell 09:35
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Scherzo: Sehr schnell
    Duration
    09:35
    Composer
    Anton Bruckner
    Ensemble
    Vienna Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Karl Böhm
  7. 7 IV. Finale: Bewegt, doch nicht schnell 11:12
    Track
    7
    Title
    IV. Finale: Bewegt, doch nicht schnell
    Duration
    11:12
    Composer
    Anton Bruckner
    Ensemble
    Vienna Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Karl Böhm