Dvorak, Brahms: Orchestral Music

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Dvorak, Brahms: Orchestral MusicOpis:Newly remastered, and new to CD, the dramatically charged Dvorak recordings made by Hans-Schmidt-Isserstedt for Decca and Deutsche Grammophon, coupled with the composers (and Brahms) folkloric dances. Eloquence pays tribute to the self-effacing art of Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900-1973) combining three LPs onto a 2-CD set all recorded during his postwar reinvention as a symphonic conductor of subtle and collegial gifts who brought the best out of orchestras across Europe. In 1945 he was selected by British occupying forces in northern Germany to found and lead the Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra (later the NDR Sinfonieorchester) as a German counterpart to the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London. The orchestras program of repertoire classics leavened by new music became a model for radio orchestras established across postwar Germany, and Schmidt-Isserstedt enjoyed an Indian summer as a symphonic conductor after beginning his career in operatic posts in Darmstadt, Hamburg and Berlin. Schmidt-Isserstedt and the NDRSO undertook the first postwar tour of the UK by a German orchestra in politically sensitive conditions during 1951. The Dvorak symphony sessions duly took place at Kingsway Hall in London, during the orchestras second tour in the spring of 1953. Supervised by John Culshaw, the sessions included the Seventh Symphony and a selection of four Slavonic Dances. The dances were first issued on a separate LP, coupled with seven Hungarian Dances of Brahms, and then the Slavonic Dances separately released on a 10-inch medium-play (MP) disc. A decade later, Schmidt-Isserstedt and the NDRSO recorded the two Serenades, for ensembles of wind and strings, which count among Dvoraks freshest inspirations. Here again, both playing and conducting were praised for their energy, their joyful spirit and sensitivity to the Czech idiom, and yet these performances have been unavailable for many years: their first international release on CD will bring the conductors name to a new generation of music-lovers. Schmidt-Isserstedt seems to have a way with Dvorak; his warm, broad and thoroughly idiomatic treatment plus Deccas full-bodied reproduction, make this by far the preferred version of the work. High Fidelity, January 1954 (Symphony No. 7) The Decca recording is outstandingly well managed. The Record Guide, 1955 (Slavonic Dances) The playing in both works is everywhere first-rate, with a delightful buoyancy to the wind playing in Op.44 a most attractive record, one I shall play late at night when I want to be beguiled. Gramophone, October 1965 (Serenades) Schmidt-Isserstedt is an ideal, understanding interpreter of the [String Serenade]. This is a relaxed and mellow performance, just as it should be. Gramophone, June 1968Autor:Various Orchestras; Hans Schmidt-IsserstedtNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: Data wydania: 2020-09-18Waga: 0.23 gramWysokość: 0.4 cmSzerokość: 4.8 cmDługość: 5.6 cmNew Store StockUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.