Dvorak, Brahms: Orchestral Music

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Release Date: 18th Sep 2020
Catalogue No: ELQ4840365
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

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Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70

Work length37:31

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Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Recorded: 1953-03-25
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

1. Allegro maestoso

Track length10:26

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2. Poco adagio

Track length10:26

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3. Scherzo. Vivace

Track length7:18

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4. Finale. Allegro

Track length9:21

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Excerpt, Dvořák: Slavonic Dances Nos. 1-8, Op. 46 Nos. 1-8

Work length14:10

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Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Recorded: 1953-03-25
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

No. 1 in C Major. Presto

Track length4:00

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No. 2 in E Minor. Allegretto scherzando

Track length5:05

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No. 3 in A-Flat Major. Poco allegro

Track length5:05

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Excerpt, Dvořák: Slavonic Dances Nos. 9-16, Op. 72 Nos. 1-8

Work length6:15

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Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Recorded: 1953-03-25
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

No. 8 in A-Flat Major. Lento grazioso, ma non troppo, quasi tempo di valse

Track length6:15

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Excerpt, Brahms: Hungarian Dances

Work length18:31

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Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Recorded: 1953-03-25
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

No. 1 in G Minor. Allegro molto (Orch. Brahms)

Track length2:45

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No. 2 in D Minor. Allegro non assai (Orch. Hallén)

Track length3:30

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No. 3 in F Major. Allegretto (Orch. Brahms)

Track length2:29

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No. 5 in G Minor. Allegro (Orch. Parlow)

Track length2:43

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No. 6 in D Major. Vivace (Orch. Parlow)

Track length3:45

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No. 7 in F Major. Allegretto (Orch. Hallén)

Track length1:37

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No. 10 in F Major. Presto (Orch. Brahms)

Track length1:42

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Dvořák: Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22, B.52

Work length28:35

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NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Recorded: 1963-12
Recording Venue: Musikhalle, Grosser Saal, Hamburg

I. Moderato

Track length4:03

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II. Tempo di valse

Track length6:33

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III. Scherzo. Vivace

Track length5:45

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IV. Larghetto

Track length5:55

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V. Finale. Allegro vivace

Track length6:19

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Dvořák: Serenade in D Minor, Op. 44, B.77

Work length24:37

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NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Recorded: 1963-12
Recording Venue: Musikhalle, Grosser Saal, Hamburg

I. Moderato, quasi marcia

Track length3:16

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II. Minuetto. Tempo di minuetto

Track length6:45

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III. Andante con moto

Track length8:17

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IV. Finale. Allegro molto

Track length6:19

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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 1968

Dvorak, Brahms: Orchestral Music

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