Hindemith: Concerto & Bruckner: Symphony No 7: Hindemith & Bruckner

Release Date: 10th Sep 2021
Catalogue No: AUDITE95649
Label: Audite
Length: 78 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2022

Nominated - Historical

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Hindemith: Concerto for winds, harp and orchestra

Work length15:32

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Werner Tripp, Gerhard Turetschek, Alfred Prinz, Ernst Pamperl, Hubert Jelinek
Wiener Philharmoniker
Karl Böhm

I. Massig, schnell

Track length8:01

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II. Grazioso

Track length2:57

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III. Rondo. Ziemlich schnell

Track length4:34

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major

Work length1:02:36

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Wiener Philharmoniker
Karl Böhm

I. Allegro moderato (Modified 1885 Version, ed. A. Gutmann)

Track length19:40

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II. Adagio. Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam (Modified 1885 Version, ed. A. Gutmann)

Track length22:09

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III. Scherzo. Sehr schnell (Modified 1885 Version, ed. A. Gutmann)

Track length9:35

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IV. Finale. Bewegt, doch nicht schnell (Modified 1885 Version, ed. A. Gutmann)

Track length11:12

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Between 1950 and 1980, he was one of the eminent conductors of international standing, and yet in the meantime he has somewhat faded into obscurity: Karl Böhm epitomised the anti-star amongst the great conductors of his time, emphatically at the service of music alone. Now available for the first time are two Lucerne concert recordings made with the Vienna Philharmonic, with whom he was closely associated for decades: Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony alongside a buoyant Hindemith concerto (the latter recorded only once by Böhm). An advocate for contemporary music in his youth, Böhm performed Paul Hindemith’s Concerto for Woodwinds, Harp and Orchestra (1949) in Lucerne in the summer of 1970. Cast in three movements, this work offers especially rewarding passages to the five-part concertino grouping and, via a quotation of Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March”, refers to Hindemith’s own silver wedding anniversary.

Alongside symphonic works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Strauss, Anton Bruckner’s symphonies were also at the centre of Böhm’s concert repertoire. Böhm’s Bruckner interpretations possess a special aura, though he neither follows the pious, pathos-laden manner of Eugen Jochum, nor the solemn worldly style of Sergiu Celibidache, nor the austere and matter-of-fact interpretations of Nikolaus Harnoncourt. This is also demonstrated by the Lucerne concert recording of the Seventh Symphony, made in September 1964: Böhm never loses sight of the whole, but plays out every articulatory detail as notated, with almost scrupulous textual fidelity. He follows Bruckner’s block-like editing technique without aggressively emphasising it. He does not evade the solemn monumentality of the music, but he also does not exaggerate it into a sense of false, violent pathos.

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