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European operations guru, Maurice Rosengarten signed Erich Kleiber to the label, Kleiber already had a reputation with musicians, audiences, and critics alike that can without exaggeration be called immense. He held the status of Toscanini, Furtwngler, Walter, Beecham, Stokowski, and Koussevitzky, although in approach and interpretation he had little in common with any of them, other than Toscanini. The comparison is fourfold: their art is marked by a total fidelity to the score; they bore similarities in dramatic temperament; in the fastidious attention to contrasting detail and nuance; and in the razor-sharp rhythmic attack and tight precision of the playing they obtained. Kleibers repertoire for Decca mirrored that of his London concerts: symphonies by Mozart and Beethoven, overtures by Dvok and Handel as well as Strauss-family favourites; all done with superb attention to rhythmic lift and dynamic balance so that combined with Deccas pioneering ffrr technology full frequency range recording listeners could (and still can) hear inside the scores to a degree remarkable for the late 1940s. Kleiber was a conductors conductor, observed a reviewer for The Spectator, seeing him in concert at the time of these recordings; a conductor who obtained precisely what he wanted with instinctive ease and economy of means. Collected together in this set are his complete recordings for Decca from those early 78s through to the last piece he was to record: Die Schlittenfahrt (The Sleighride) from Mozarts Three German Dances K605 and a bonus audio documentary presented by Jon Tolansky which provides compelling first-hand evidence of just how highly musicians regarded him.
TRACKS:
CD 1
1 JOSEF STRAUSS: Sphrenklnge, Op. 235
2 J. STRAUSS II: Der Zigeunerbaron / Act 1: Overture
3 DVOK: Carnival Overture, Op. 92
4 London Philharmonic Orchestra
5 TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4
6 Orchestre de la Socit des Concerts du Conservatoire
CD 2
1 HANDEL: Berenice - Act 2: Andante Larghetto
2 MOZART: Symphony No. 40 in G minor
3 BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 in F major Pastoral
4 London Philharmonic Orchestra
CD 3
1 BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major Eroica Symphony No. 7 in A major
2 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
CD 4
1 BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 Choral
2 Hilde Gueden, Sieglinde Wagner, Anton Dermota, Ludwig Weber
3 Singverein Der Gesellschaft Der Musikfreunde, Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 5
1 BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5 in C minor Symphony No. 6 in F major Pastoral
2 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
CD 6
1 TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6 in B minor Pathtique
2 Orchestre de la Socit des Concerts du Conservatoire
CD 7
1 MOZART: Six German Dances, K.600: Nos. 1 & 5
2 Four German Dances, K.602: No. 3. Die Leierer
3 Three German Dances, K.605: No. 3 Die Schlittenfahrt
4 Symphony No. 39 in E flat major
5 SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9 in C major Great
6 Klner Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester
CD 8
1 BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major Eroica
2 Wiener Philharmoniker
3 WEBER: Symphony No. 1
4 Klner Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester
CD 9-11
1 R. STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier
2 Maria Reining, Sena Jurinac, Hilde Gueden, Ludwig Weber
3 Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 12-14
1 MOZART: Le Nozze di Figaro
2 Lisa della Casa, Hilde Gueden, Alfred Poell, Cesare Siepi
3 Wiener Philharmoniker
4 BONUS AUDIO DOCUMENTARY DISC
5 Produced by Jon Tolansky
CD 15
1 Erich Kleiber Testimonies
2 : Introduction and Overview
3 : Early Fame Berlin State Opera, Wozzeck Premiere Recollections, 1930's and Exile
4 : London Philharmonic Orchestra Recollections
5 : Covent Garden Opera Company (now Royal Opera) Recollections
6 : Conclusion"
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