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German composers conduct
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German Composers Conduct – Künneke,
Schrecker, von Schillings, Egk & Wagner
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
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Staatskapelle Berlin
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Berlin Opera Orchestra, Eduard Künneke
Franz Schrecker, Max von Schillings
Werner Egk, Siegfried Wagner
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T_h is disc features transfers from 78-rpm discs of German composers conducting
their own music. T_h e celebrated operetta composer Eduard Künneke conducts
his Tänzerische Suite, a pioneering 1929 combination of jazz band and orchestra.
In contrast, Franz Schreker conducts his Little Suite for chamber orchestra, again
written specifi cally for the microphone in 1929. Musically intriguing, Werner
Egk’s wartime ballet Joan von Zarissa is unknown outside Germany. Siegfried
Wagner conducts his father’s “Prelude and Liebestod” from Tristan und Isolde,
which crowns this fascinating compilation recalling a forgotten musical world.
Historic Sibelius
SIBELIUS
Symphonies Nos.2 & 5
London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Basil Cameron, Erich Leinsdorf
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Celebrated conductors Basil Cameron and Erich Leinsdorf are heard here
in two magnifi cent readings of Sibelius symphonies. Cameron’s reading of the
second symphony was admired in its day, even by comparison with versions by
starrier names such as Koussevitzky and Ormandy. Erich Leinsdorf recorded
Sibelius’s fi fth symphony in 1946. T_h e choice of which was a good one as
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England had not had a new recording of the work since the old Kajanus and
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Koussevitzky sets of the 1930s. Leinsdorf was not regarded as being particularly
a Sibelius specialist, but his approach — swift, unequivocal, in its conciseness
perhaps showing the influence of Toscanini — met with a wholehearted
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response from the LPO and was counted a great success.
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