Serge Koussevitzky dirigiert on CD
Serge Koussevitzky dirigiert
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
Wagner: Holländer-Ouvertüre; Lohengrin (Vorspiel zu Akt 1); Parsifal (Vorspiel zu Akt 1);Siegfried-Idyll
+Brahms: Akademische Festouvertüre
- Artists:
- Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky
- Label:
- Naxos
- Year of recording ca.:
- 1946-49
- Item number:
- 9830635
- UPC/EAN:
- 0747313328321
- Release date:
- 29.2.2008
Serge Koussevitzky's tenure of the Boston Symphony lasted from 1924 to 1949, a notable time during the orchestra's history, owing to adventurous programming and wide-ranging commissions. The recordings on this release, made between 1946 and 1949, are representative of Serge Koussevitzky's final years with the orchestra and, although the conductor was in his early to mid-seventies, lack nothing for energy. The opening of the Overture to The Flying Dutchman inspires a typically dramatic and intense performance. Intimacy abounds in Siegfried Idyll, a lyrically shaped account with a gentle degree of forward thrust, beguiling strings and characterful woodwind solos. Brahms's Academic Festival Overture is given a lusty outing but not without light and shade, proof yet again that Serge Koussevitzky's conducting rarely if ever was without a sense of theatre and effective point-making.
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Richard Wagner: Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman): Overture
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2 Richard Wagner: Lohengrin, Act I: Prelude
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3 Richard Wagner: Parsifal, Act I: Prelude
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4 Richard Wagner: Parsifal, Act Iii: Good Friday Spell
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5 Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
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6 Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
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