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

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January 7, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Anton Bruckner, Paul Hindemith
    • PERFORMER
      Werner Tripp, Gerhard Turetschek, Alfred Prinz, Ernst Pamperl, Hubert Jelinek, Karl Bohm, Wiener Phi
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 07, 2022
    • UPC
      4022143956491
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AUD95649
    • LABEL
      Audite Musikproduktion
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Massig, schnell

      Composer: Paul Hindemith

      Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic

      Performer: Werner Tripp, Gerhard Turetschek, Alfred Prinz, Ernst Pamperl, Hubert Jelinek

      Conductor: Karl Böhm

    2. II. Grazioso

      Composer: Paul Hindemith

      Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic

      Performer: Werner Tripp, Gerhard Turetschek, Alfred Prinz, Ernst Pamperl, Hubert Jelinek

      Conductor: Karl Böhm

    3. III. Rondo: Ziemlich schnell

      Composer: Paul Hindemith

      Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic

      Performer: Werner Tripp, Gerhard Turetschek, Alfred Prinz, Ernst Pamperl, Hubert Jelinek

      Conductor: Karl Böhm

    4. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Anton Bruckner

      Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic

      Conductor: Karl Böhm

    5. II. Adagio. Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam

      Composer: Anton Bruckner

      Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic

      Conductor: Karl Böhm

    6. III. Scherzo: Sehr schnell

      Composer: Anton Bruckner

      Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic

      Conductor: Karl Böhm

    7. IV. Finale: Bewegt, doch nicht schnell

      Composer: Anton Bruckner

      Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic

      Conductor: Karl Böhm


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.