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Release Date: 14th May 2021
Catalogue No: ELQ4842049
Label: Eloquence
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

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Mozart: Idomeneo, K366: Overture

Work length5:20

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Berliner Philharmoniker
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1928

Mozart: German Dances (6), K600

Work length4:04

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Staatskapelle Berlin
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1927-06
Recording Venue: Unknown, Berlin

No. 2 in F Major

Track length2:20

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No. 5 in G Major

Track length1:44

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Mozart: German Dances (4), K602

Work length1:46

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Staatskapelle Berlin
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1927-06
Recording Venue: Unknown, Berlin

No. 3 in C Major

Track length1:46

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Excerpt, Mozart: German Dances (3), K605

Work length1:52

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Staatskapelle Berlin
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1927-06
Recording Venue: Unknown, Berlin

No. 3 in C Major

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Mozart: German Dances (6), K600

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Berliner Philharmoniker
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1928

No. 3 in B-Flat Major

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Excerpt, Mozart: German Dances (6), K571

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Berliner Philharmoniker
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1928

No. 6 in D Major

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No. 4 in G Major

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Excerpt, Mozart: German Dances (6), K509

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Berliner Philharmoniker
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1928

No. 6 in C Major

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Mozart: German Dances (6), K600

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Berliner Philharmoniker
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1928

No. 4 in E-Flat Major

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Excerpt, Mozart: German Dances (3), K605

Work length1:28

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Berliner Philharmoniker
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1928

No. 2 in G Major

Track length1:28

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36

Work length32:34

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Staatskapelle Berlin
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1929-06
Recording Venue: Unknown, Berlin

1. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio

Track length10:03

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2. Larghetto

Track length11:24

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3. Scherzo. Allegro

Track length4:02

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4. Allegro molto

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Schubert: Rosamunde, D797

Work length9:44

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Staatskapelle Berlin
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1927-06
Recording Venue: Unknown, Berlin

Entr'acte No. 3 - Andantino

Track length4:48

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No. 9 Ballet. Andantino

Track length4:56

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Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'

Work length24:12

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Berliner Philharmoniker
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1929
Recording Venue: Berlin

1. Allegro moderato

Track length11:09

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2. Andante con moto

Track length13:03

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Excerpt, Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61

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Berliner Philharmoniker
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1928

No. 1 Scherzo

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No. 7 Con moto tranquillo. Notturno

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No. 9 Wedding March. Allegro Vivace

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Rossini: Guillaume Tell Overture

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Berliner Philharmoniker
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1927
Recording Venue: Berlin

Berlioz: Le carnaval romain Overture, Op. 9

Work length9:15

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Berliner Philharmoniker
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1927
Recording Venue: Berlin

Nicolai, C O: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor overture

Work length9:13

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Berliner Philharmoniker
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1927
Recording Venue: Berlin

Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus Overture

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Berliner Philharmoniker
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1927
Recording Venue: Berlin

Excerpt, Smetana: Má Vlast

Work length22:08

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Staatskapelle Berlin, Orchester Der Staatsoper Berlin
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1928-12
Recording Venue: Hochschule für Musik, Berlin

2. Vltava

Track length11:04

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2. Vltava

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Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World'

Work length45:52

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Staatskapelle Berlin
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1929
Recording Venue: Hochschule für Musik, Berlin

1. Adagio - Allegro molto

Track length9:24

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2. Largo

Track length12:22

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3. Scherzo. Molto vivace

Track length8:16

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4. Allegro con fuoco

Track length11:26

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III. Molto vivace

Track length4:24

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Dvořák: Slavonic Dance No. 1 in C Major, Op. 46 No. 1

Work length3:57

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Staatskapelle Berlin
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1929
Recording Venue: Berlin

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Collected for the first time – Erich Kleiber’s rare recordings with the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Berliner Philharmoniker made for Polydor/Grammophon and newly remastered for this release.

Erich Kleiber’s appointment to the musical directorship of the Staatsoper Berlin in 1923 proved to be the making of his career. Hired on the strength of a single Fidelio, he thrilled audiences and critics with performances of unparalleled vigour and intensity. He soon began recording for the short-lived Vox company (not to be confused with the later US label) but in 1926 he agreed a contract with the Grammophon label, building on his regular season of orchestral concerts which were interspersed with opera performances.

Here, newly remastered by Mark Obert-Thorn and issued complete for the first time in any format, is that Grammophon legacy of Kleiber’s Berlin years with both the Staatskapelle and the celebrated Berliner Philharmoniker. Beginning modestly enough with four of Mozart’s German dances – to fill two sides of a 78rpm record – the scope of the sessions expanded to take in complete symphonies by Beethoven (No. 2), Schubert (No. 8 ‘Unfinished’) and Dvořák (No. 9 ‘From the New World’) alongside much popular repertoire such as the incidental music to Rosamunde and A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the overtures to William Tell and Die Fledermaus.

Many of these recordings were not marketed or reviewed abroad despite their artistic excellence, but Kleiber’s 1928 account of ‘Vltava’ from Má vlast soon gained classic status. No wonder, now, when listening again to the moonlit interlude and Kleiber’s gently flowing pulse, his superb balancing of parts which transcends the limitations of the technology and makes a nonsense of his apparent reluctance to record. Alternative versions of ‘Vltava’, as well as the second take of a side from the ‘New World’ Symphony which became Kleiber’s final Grammophon album (recorded in May and August 1929) are also presented. Alan Sanders provides an extensive note, and Mark Obert-Thorn provides a background to the sources for these recordings.

As a Musical Times critic noted in 1929, Kleiber ‘has a marked predilection for spirited, graceful, charming, and vivid music’. These Grammophon records bring out the very best in him, and his gifts as a superb orchestral trainer may readily be appreciated despite the age of the recordings. The best possible sources have been unearthed, and the set is an unmissable contribution to the discography of one of the last century’s great, but sometimes overlooked, maestros.

Erich Kleiber - the Complete Polydor 78s

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