{"product_id":"keilberth-conducts-reger-and-wolf-1941-44-pasc647","title":"KEILBERTH conducts Reger and Wolf (1941-44) - PASC647","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eREGER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eMozart Variations \u0026amp; Fugue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eREGER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e4 Tone Poems after Arnold Böcklin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWOLF \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eItalian Serenade (arr. for small orchestra)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003ebonus track: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWOLF \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eDer Rattenfänger*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1941-44 (*1939)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 66:01\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eDeutsches Philharmonisches Orchester Prag\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e*Arno Schellenberg\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, baritone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e*Leipziger Sinfonie-Orchester\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eJoseph Keilberth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC647.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\nJoseph Keilberth (1908–1968) was a conductor who did not essentially strive\nfor international fame. He was born in Karlsruhe and started his career in\n1925 as repetiteur at the Badisches Staatstheater, soon taking over\nconducting duties as assistant to Josef Krips. In 1935 he succeeded in\nbeing appointed the first general music director of the Badische\nStaatskapelle (one of the other candidates for the position being Herbert\nvon Karajan), remaining with the orchestra until 1940. From 1939 Keilberth\ntook over some conducting duties with the Leipziger Sinfonie-Orchester, the\norchestra of the Leipzig state radio station (Reichssender Leipzig). In\n1940 he became, on the suggestion of Wilhelm Furtwängler, the general music\ndirector of the Deutsches Philharmonisches Orchester in Prague, an\norchestra that had already existed during the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and\nthat was retained during the Nazi occupation in the Protectorate of Bohemia\nand Moravia. Keilberth conducted the orchestra on 400 occasions, and he\nsucceeded in obtaining full performing permission well through the war, so\nthat the orchestra survived undamaged without loss of staff. Likewise was\nKeilberth exempted from military service, though being listed in Adolf\nHitler’s so-called “Gottbegnadeten-Liste” of system-relevant artists\nresulted in him being interned in 1945, albeit only for a short period. As\nearly as 1945 he became chief conductor of the Sächsische Staatskapelle,\nDresden, reviving the musical life of the city until 1949. From 1948 to\n1951 he was additionally first conductor of the Berlin Staatskapelle and in\n1950 became chief conductor of the Bamberger Symphoniker, an orchestra\nwhich had been founded in 1946 largely by members of the then disbanded\nDeutsches Philharmonisches Orchester Prag. Simultaneously with the Bamberg\npost he was, from 1951 to 1959, chief conductor of the Philharmonisches\nStaatsorchester Hamburg, and a regular conductor at the Bayreuth Festival,\nfrom 1952 to 1956 (his outstanding live recordings of \u003cem\u003eDer fliegende Holländer\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDer Ring des Nibelungen\u003c\/em\u003e,\nreleased on Testament, document this aspect of his activities). In 1959 he\nbecame Ferenc Fricsay’s successor as general music director of the\nBayerische Staatsoper, Munich, retaining the Bamberg post until his death.\nAn iconic Richard Strauss conductor, \u003cem\u003eArabella\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDie Frau ohne Schatten\u003c\/em\u003e are the most celebrated of his many\noperatic recordings of the composer; but also broadcasts of works as\ndiverse as say Rossini’s \u003cem\u003eThe Barber of Seville\u003c\/em\u003e or Tchaikovsky’s \u003cem\u003eEugene Onegin\u003c\/em\u003e (both in German, with Fritz Wunderlich, Hermann Prey\nand Hans Hotter) are good examples of his conducting. His \u003cem\u003eFreischütz\u003c\/em\u003e recording with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (an\norchestra he had conducted from 1936) and the Cologne radio production of\nHindemith’s \u003cem\u003eCardillac\u003c\/em\u003e (with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the title\nrole) still rank amongst the most important renderings of these two works\never made.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nIt was during an operatic performance, of Wagner’s \u003cem\u003eTristan und Isolde\u003c\/em\u003e at the Nationaltheater München on 20 July 1968,\nthat Joseph Keilberth died from a heart attack, on the upbeat of the words\n“Nun stürben wir, um ungetrennt”, having felt unwell the entire day and\nadditionally worried by the incompetence of the singer of Tristan who\nmissed his entries and sang the wrong notes.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nKeilberth’s commercial recordings were, from fairly early on, made by the\nTelefunken recording company (now part of the Warner group); he remained\n(with very few exceptions) faithful to the company until 1963. But while\nseveral of his radio broadcasts have meanwhile been released on CD, several\nof the Telefunken studio recordings (particularly those prior to 1953) have\nremained unissued or issued only in some kind of distorted form. The\npresent CD is in a double or triple way coherent. With his later Reger\nrecordings for Telefunken from 1955 and 1962 respectively, Keilberth\noffered benchmark recordings that have long remained unsurpassed. Yet his\ncredentials as an important Reger conductor go back to his Prague period\n(in Karlsruhe he had not had sufficient opportunity to perform music of the\nfellow-Upperpalatinatine composer); the recording of the Four Tone Poems\nafter Arnold Böcklin, Op. 128 of 1913, was the second of the work made (the\nother one being conducted by Hermann Abendroth, in 1941), and his rendering\nof the Mozart Variations, Op. 132 of 1914, had only been precursed by Karl\nBöhm’s 1937 Dresden recording and Hermann Abendroth’s incomplete 1941\nrecording for Disques Gramophone, lacking the fugue (PASC 256; Fritz\nBusch’s 1919 attempt in Stuttgart had been abandoned after a few takes).\nThe course of time prevented a release of the 1944 recording, which has\nsurvived only on tape in the Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv, Frankfurt am Main.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe early releases of the shellac 78 recordings of Hugo Wolf’s Italienische\nSerenade (in fact only the opening movement of an otherwise unwritten work)\nhad on their label, next to the composer’s name, “arr. Max Reger”; in fact\nthis is wrong as Reger only prepared the posthumous first edition of the\nwork for his publishers Lauterbach and Kuhn in 1903; a few months later he\nworked out a version for piano duet. This was only part of his substantial\nwork on behalf of Wolf’s musical estate, which occupied him for several\nmonths not only as an editorial task, but which involved him emotionally as\nwell. And it was ten years later, in 1914, that Reger transcribed four Hugo\nWolf lieder for voice and orchestra (published by C. F. Peters), taking up\nthe tradition which Wolf himself had established from 1889 with no less\nthan 26 orchestrations of his own piano lieder which had been printed from\nthe estate by C. F. Peters in 1904.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nKeilberth’s special qualities as a conductor – penetration into the depths\nof the work, creative willpower and constant awareness of the overal\nconcept – come into their own in the present recordings. He occasionally\nproves to be ‘more robust’ than other conductors, i.e. not the beautiful\nsound in itself, but the organic freshness of the approach is of\nimportance. There may be imprecisions in detail, but his readings are never\nuninvolved. Keilberth offers immediately compelling, emotionally charged\nperformances that are very far from the ‘well-pressed’ ideal of the hi-fi\nera, but convince with their strong coherence and emotional depth. These\nearly recordings are even stronger in terms of freshness, emotional density\nand creative purposefulness than Keilberth’s later Reger recordings from\n1955 and 1962; at the same time, the density and tension of the\ninterpretive grasp in the two Reger works has been preserved even over the\ntwo years that the recordings were made apart.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJürgen Schaarwächter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMax-Reger-Institut, Karlsruhe\n\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eKEILBERTH \u003c\/b\u003econducts Reger and Wolf\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eREGER \u003c\/b\u003eVariationen und Fuge über ein Thema von Mozart op. 132 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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Böcklin op. 128 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11. I. Der geigende Eremit  (9:15)\u003cbr\u003e12. II. Im Spiel der Wellen  (3:43)\u003cbr\u003e13. III. Die Toteninsel  (8:18)\u003cbr\u003e14. IV. 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