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Rezension www.musicweb-international.com 01.08.2003 | Gerald Fenech | 1. August 2003 Kubelik's Mahler credentials have long been established ever since his...

Kubelik's Mahler credentials have long been established ever since his trailblazing Decca recording of the First with the VPO in 1957 indeed many collectors still prefer that version to others for its verve and drive. This 1981 live relay from Munich shows the Czech conductor at his most inspired with the orchestra that was part of his life for most of his recording career. The bold strokes of the Trauermarsch are magnificent in their eerie solemnity with a rich resonant recording aiding the imposing nature of the music no end. 'Sturmisch bewegt' is constructive and fullsome although other conductors like Karajan and Bernstien have brought greater character to his music, indeed Kubelik's own previous 1967 recording was much more involved. The Scherzo moves about with terrific swagger, the BRSO horns have a field day and the contributions of the strings are also quite dizzying. In the famous Adagietto, Kubelik almost finds a heavenly pace; this is music from another planet in such a conductor's hands. One cannot fault the Finale for its irresistible rhythmic verve and drive that bring the work to an end in typically vigorous fashion. Audite's recording is admirably clear and extremely vivid, indeed the famous spacious acoustic of the Herkulessaal is quite dazzlingly captured. There is a whole host of Fifths in the bargain and mid-price range but this recording demands to be heard, both as a souvenir of Kubelik's immense charisma and for its place as a unique testament of Mahler conducting to range alongside the Bernsteins, Soltis and Karajans of the past century.

Neuigkeit 20.11.2014 | Sabine Wiedemann Neues Acht audite-Produktionen für ICMA 2015 nominiert

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Wir freuen uns daher besonders über die Nominierungen, spiegeln sie doch die kenntnisreiche Wertschätzung unserer Produktionen durch die Jurymitglieder!

Die Gewinner der ICMA 2015 werden am 20. Januar 2015 bekannt gegeben. Die Award Ceremony und das Galakonzert finden am 28. März 2015 mit dem Bilkent Symphony Orchestra in Ankara, Türkei statt.

Folgende audite-Produktionen wurden nominiert:

1) Kategorie Kammermusik:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete String Quartets - Vol. 2
Quartetto di Cremona


Piano Trios by Rachmaninov (Trio élégiaque, No. 1) & Tchaikovsky (Op. 50)
Trio Testore


2) Kategorie Barock vokal:
Fortuna Scherzosa
Ina Siedlaczek, Hamburger Ratsmusik


3) Kategorie Historische Aufnahme:
Rafael Kubelik conducts Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
LUCERNE FESTIVAL Historic Performances, Vol. IV

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Irmgard Seefried
Schweizerisches Festspielorchester
Rafael
Kubelík

Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
LUCERNE FESTIVAL Historic Performances, Vol. VI

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisa Cavelti, Ernst Haefliger, Otto Edelmann
Philharmonia Orchestra, Luzerner Festwochenchor
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Pilar Lorengar: A portrait in live and studio recordings from 1959-1962
Pilar Lorengar, Siegfried Behrend, Hertha Klust, Richard Klemm
Berliner Philharmoniker, RIAS-Orchester, RIAS Kammerchor, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Ferdinand Liva, Fried Walter, Arthur Rother

The RIAS Amadeus Quartet Recordings, Vol. II: Schubert
Amadeus-Quartett


The RIAS Amadeus Quartet Recordings, Vol. III: Mozart
Amadeus-Quartett

Cecil Aronowitz, Heinrich Geuser

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American Record Guide

Rezension American Record Guide 01/2001 | John P. Mckelvey | 1. Januar 2001 Clifford Curzon was a finicky perfectionist who never liked the recording...

Clifford Curzon was a finicky perfectionist who never liked the recording process and never seemed satisfied with his recorded performances, however favorably they were viewed by everyone else. His repertoire was not very extensive, but what he played, he played exceedingly well. In this respect he resembles Michelangeli and Lipatti. We are left with a somewhat sparse catalog of mostly splendid performances--far less complete than it could have been.

Curzon recorded expressive and powerful accounts of these two concertos with Knappertsbusch and the VPO in the mid-1950s. They are scheduled to be released soon on a low-cost Decca CD. Why, then, do we need these items from Audite?

Well, simply because these 1977 performances are even more poetic, grandly shaped, spontaneous, luminous, splendidly proportioned, and totally effective than the earlier ones. What is more, Kubelik and his great orchestra supply as sensitive and romantically supportive an orchestral backing as one could imagine--a framework for Curzon\'s pianism even more elegant than the formidable Knappertsbusch manages. Also, the sound here, though exhibiting less warmth and resonance than one expects from the Herculessaal, is more spacious, better focussed, and precisely imaged than in the earlier issue. Curzon is more expansive, and his sensitive and poetic shaping of phrases and paragraphs puts this release right into the top drawer. This is most impressive in No. 4, a work that is clearly structured on a Mozartean model. The Emperor is a little more straightforward, though still grandly proportioned and nobly expressed. Curzon\'s runs and trills are often slightly uneven, intentionally so I think, to give each of them i ts unique and individual profile. The uniquely poetic quality of these readings really puts them in a class by themselves. This is a full-price release, and it is worth far more than the asking price. It demonstrates this artist\'s work at its best.
American Record Guide

Rezension American Record Guide September 2014 | Ralph V Lucano | 1. September 2014 Fischer-Dieskau seemed to like the role of Bluebeard. He made two studio...

Fischer-Dieskau seemed to like the role of Bluebeard. He made two studio recordings of it for DG, one in German (with Hertha Töpper) conducted by Fricsay in 1958 and a second in Hungarian (with Julia Varady) conducted by Sawallisch in 1979. The performance we have here dates from 1962 and is also in German. The best thing about it is the Judith of the vivacious, personable Irmgard Seefried. She was just past her prime in 1962, and she has to reach for some top notes (she releases the high C almost as soon as it is emitted); but her voice is still round and steady, and she utters each word with personal commitment. Her intensity as she asks Bluebeard to open door after door is almost frightening, and she’s particularly eloquent describing the flowers she sees through the fourth of them. Her final phrases, after the opening of the last door, are heartbreaking.
She can, perhaps, seem too outgoing a singer, but next to Fischer-Dieskau she’s a model of restraint. His role does not lie in a comfortable part of his voice. In particular, it needs a depth and resonance he doesn’t have—his first few lines already take him below the point where he can produce singing tone. After the fifth door opens, you want his voice to expand confidently, but instead he tends to bark and shout rather than muster the needed fullness. He’s interesting to listen to, and when he doesn’t have to strain for volume, he can be direct and communicative, but he’s still wrong.
Kubelik draws spirited playing out of the Swiss Festival Orchestra, and the monaural sound is good—deep and undistorted; all the drama and color in the score come across.
No texts are supplied. As usual nowadays, Audite directs you to their website; but the German libretto given does not match the words we actually hear, though it’s close enough to follow. Worth having for Seefried’s sake. If you insist on a Fischer-Dieskau Bluebeard, go with the Hungarian one.
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Rezension www.musicweb-international.com September 2014 | Brian Wilson | 1. September 2014 There’s no special price for the Audite recording but, at $12.02 – just over...

There’s no special price for the Audite recording but, at $12.02 – just over £7 at current rates – it won’t break the bank and it’s well worth considering if you’re in the market for just these two symphonies. Tempi are a shade faster throughout than on Linn, especially in the third movement of No. 2 (8:26 against 10:13) and the opening movement of the Rhenish (8:58 against 9:37). The former is marked adagio espressivo and most take that to indicate a timing of a little over 10 minutes – Sawallisch takes 10:18 – but Heinz Holliger makes his faster tempo seem perfectly natural and unhurried. The opening movement of the Rhenish, marked lebhaft, certainly benefits from the faster treatment: Sawallisch is even a shade faster at 8:55, though, surprisingly, the speed-merchant Szell takes longer at 9:13. It seems that Szell was not such a speedy Gonzalez in this work as I recall – in fact, TH’s review in 1963 comments on the comparatively spacious speed in the second movement: at 6:15 he’s slower than Holliger (5:40) or Ticciati (6:02). I like the way that Holliger keeps the music moving here without seeming hurried; listening to Szell again, in lossless sound via Qobuz, I now think he’s inclined to make the movement sound a little arthritic and Sawallisch at 6:42 seems impossibly slow after hearing Holliger. So much for cherished benchmarks: of those that I mentioned at the outset, only Kubelík, at an ideal compromise of 6:08, holds up here.

The Audite recording is good throughout, though I miss those powerful drum thwacks, so apparent on the Linn recording. If you bought the first volume (Audite 97.677, Symphony No. 1 and No. 4, original version, and Overture, Scherzo and Finale) I’m sure you’ll want the second. The third volume, containing the Cello Concerto and final version of the Fourth Symphony, is due for release in October 2014.

I should add that I haven’t yet heard the new, highly-regarded BPO/Simon Rattle set – review – except for the 1-minute segments from Qobuz, but I see that he attributes his appreciation of Schumann to a meeting long ago with Heinz Holliger, whom he describes as a Schumann ‘nut’ – endorsement of a kind for his mentor’s new recording.
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Rezension www.musicweb-international.com September 2014 | Brian Wilson | 1. September 2014 There’s no special price for the Audite recording but, at $12.02 – just over...

There’s no special price for the Audite recording but, at $12.02 – just over £7 at current rates – it won’t break the bank and it’s well worth considering if you’re in the market for just these two symphonies. Tempi are a shade faster throughout than on Linn, especially in the third movement of No. 2 (8:26 against 10:13) and the opening movement of the Rhenish (8:58 against 9:37). The former is marked adagio espressivo and most take that to indicate a timing of a little over 10 minutes – Sawallisch takes 10:18 – but Heinz Holliger makes his faster tempo seem perfectly natural and unhurried. The opening movement of the Rhenish, marked lebhaft, certainly benefits from the faster treatment: Sawallisch is even a shade faster at 8:55, though, surprisingly, the speed-merchant Szell takes longer at 9:13. It seems that Szell was not such a speedy Gonzalez in this work as I recall – in fact, TH’s review in 1963 comments on the comparatively spacious speed in the second movement: at 6:15 he’s slower than Holliger (5:40) or Ticciati (6:02). I like the way that Holliger keeps the music moving here without seeming hurried; listening to Szell again, in lossless sound via Qobuz, I now think he’s inclined to make the movement sound a little arthritic and Sawallisch at 6:42 seems impossibly slow after hearing Holliger. So much for cherished benchmarks: of those that I mentioned at the outset, only Kubelík, at an ideal compromise of 6:08, holds up here.

The Audite recording is good throughout, though I miss those powerful drum thwacks, so apparent on the Linn recording. If you bought the first volume (Audite 97.677, Symphony No. 1 and No. 4, original version, and Overture, Scherzo and Finale) I’m sure you’ll want the second. The third volume, containing the Cello Concerto and final version of the Fourth Symphony, is due for release in October 2014.

I should add that I haven’t yet heard the new, highly-regarded BPO/Simon Rattle set – review – except for the 1-minute segments from Qobuz, but I see that he attributes his appreciation of Schumann to a meeting long ago with Heinz Holliger, whom he describes as a Schumann ‘nut’ – endorsement of a kind for his mentor’s new recording.
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Rezension www.musicweb-international.com September 2014 | Brian Wilson | 1. September 2014 There’s no special price for the Audite recording but, at $12.02 – just over...

There’s no special price for the Audite recording but, at $12.02 – just over £7 at current rates – it won’t break the bank and it’s well worth considering if you’re in the market for just these two symphonies. Tempi are a shade faster throughout than on Linn, especially in the third movement of No. 2 (8:26 against 10:13) and the opening movement of the Rhenish (8:58 against 9:37). The former is marked adagio espressivo and most take that to indicate a timing of a little over 10 minutes – Sawallisch takes 10:18 – but Heinz Holliger makes his faster tempo seem perfectly natural and unhurried. The opening movement of the Rhenish, marked lebhaft, certainly benefits from the faster treatment: Sawallisch is even a shade faster at 8:55, though, surprisingly, the speed-merchant Szell takes longer at 9:13. It seems that Szell was not such a speedy Gonzalez in this work as I recall – in fact, TH’s review in 1963 comments on the comparatively spacious speed in the second movement: at 6:15 he’s slower than Holliger (5:40) or Ticciati (6:02). I like the way that Holliger keeps the music moving here without seeming hurried; listening to Szell again, in lossless sound via Qobuz, I now think he’s inclined to make the movement sound a little arthritic and Sawallisch at 6:42 seems impossibly slow after hearing Holliger. So much for cherished benchmarks: of those that I mentioned at the outset, only Kubelík, at an ideal compromise of 6:08, holds up here.

The Audite recording is good throughout, though I miss those powerful drum thwacks, so apparent on the Linn recording. If you bought the first volume (Audite 97.677, Symphony No. 1 and No. 4, original version, and Overture, Scherzo and Finale) I’m sure you’ll want the second. The third volume, containing the Cello Concerto and final version of the Fourth Symphony, is due for release in October 2014.

I should add that I haven’t yet heard the new, highly-regarded BPO/Simon Rattle set – review – except for the 1-minute segments from Qobuz, but I see that he attributes his appreciation of Schumann to a meeting long ago with Heinz Holliger, whom he describes as a Schumann ‘nut’ – endorsement of a kind for his mentor’s new recording.
Diapason

Rezension Diapason N° 549 - Juillet-Août 2007 | Rémy Louis | 1. Juli 2007 Ce CD inaugure une édition Karl Böhm élaborée à partir d'archives toutes...

Ce CD inaugure une édition Karl Böhm élaborée à partir d'archives toutes inédites (excellent son radio), comme précédemment la splendide édition Kubelik. Mozart et Strauss nous emmènent en terrain connu. Le flux de Don Juan est somptueux, son élan interne irrésistible, sa respiration toujours large et organique. Comme dans la récente version « Kurier Edition » du Philharmonique de Vienne, Böhm trace un portrait complexe, à l'épaisseur humaine fascinante. La mélancolie des épisodes féminins, les mouvements de l'âme qui sous-tendent la moindre coloration des bois, le moindre soupir des cuivres, évoquent une espèce de retour sur soi désabusé, peut-être pessimiste, mais d'une rare densité psychologique. Mozart, lui, ne jouit pas de la déflagration, de l'hystérie des contrastes, mais du frémissement incessant de la ligne, toujours parfaitement tracée, même dans des tempos modérés. L'Andante évoque une mélodie continue où tout chante et respire, et toutes les lignes du Presto vibrent en même temps, à la façon d'un perpetuum mobile intérieur au charme certain.

Pour beaucoup, la découverte sera un Oiseau de feu absolument original (Böhm a plus joué Stravinsky qu'on le pense en général : première bavaroise du Chant du Rossignol, Munich 1923, première allemande de Jeu de cartes, Dresde 1937, Oedipus Rex avec Jean Cocteau en récitant, Vienne 1952...). En s'ingéniant à vouloir faire tout entendre, à détailler les timbres, les couleurs, à demander à l'orchestre un jeu espressivo (hautbois, flûte, le cor au début du finale), le chef autrichien ouvre la porte d'une étrange et mystérieuse version stravinskienne de la Klangfarbenmélodie. Le temps paraît suspendu, et le monde sonore très présent qui naît peu à peu, perpétuellement mouvant, évoque au passage d'autres ambiances fin (et début) de siècle : la Danse des princesses suggère que Böhm aurait fait un très beau Prélude à l'après midi d'un faune ! Est-ce là une vision décadente ? Sans annoncer la violence rythmique du Sacre du Printemps pourtant proche, elle ne se limite pas non plus à un simple souvenir rimskien, fut-il assombri. D'évidence, cette lecture intrigante est à recommander à ceux qui connaissent bien leur Oiseau de feu.

Précisons, contrairement aux dires de l'éditeur, qu'il existait déjà dans la discographie du chef : avec Berlin à Salzbourg (1968, plus noire encore, mais son médiocre, Memories), et à Tokyo avec Vienne (1975, deux captations différentes à quelques jours d'intervalles, son glorieux, DG Japon). La parenté du propos esthétique est frappante, mais les témoignages viennois sont à part : l'or liquide de la sonorité, sa lumière, sont indescriptibles... et déclenchent une ovation colossale du public japonais.
International Record Review

Rezension International Record Review September 2014 | Nigel Simeone | 1. September 2014 It should be obvious from the list of selected comparisons that Bluebeard's...

It should be obvious from the list of selected comparisons that Bluebeard's Castle is a work that has done extremely well on record: the classic Kertész recording sounds amazingly good for its age, and Ludwig and Berry are an engrossing pair of soloists. I can't make any useful comment on their sung Hungarian except to say that it sounds credible, but in terms of singing they are both magnificent, and Ludwig has one of the best top Cs of anyone at the opening of the Fifth Door. The Fischer recording, originally on Philips but reissued (and superbly remastered) by Channel Classics, is probably the outstanding modern version in Hungarian, with two involving and idiomatic soloists. The recording in English by Sally Burgess and John Tomlinson, with the Opera North Orchestra conducted by Richard Fames, is another striking success – and hearing such a conversational opera sung in English is pretty much all gain as far as I'm concerned. I want to have it in Hungarian too, of course, but listening to it in English adds a degree of dramatic involvement that makes the whole experience even more intense – not least because this is also such a well-sung and well-played performance too, conducted with blazing commitment and attention to detail by Farnes.

So where does this newcomer – in fact more than half a century old – fit into the scheme of things? Recorded live at the Lucerne Festival in 1962, it's sung in German, which may put some people off, but honestly doesn't worry me when the singing has such conviction. Second, it has the benefit of Rafael Kubelik's conducting. Devotees of this piece may know his live recording made in 1981 with the New York Philharmonic with Tatiana Troyanos and Sigmund Nimsgern (it was included in a box of broadcast performances issued by the orchestra). He's a wonderful conductor of this work: never overdoing the drama, but underlining the turning points with the utmost sensitivity and an acute ear for telling details – and his sense of dramatic timing and pacing is unerring.

Then there's the singing: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is on magnificent form, bringing a kind of world-weary resignation to Bluebeard's ever more chilling revelations, and doing so in resonant voice. There's no barking or hectoring, but some very clear diction and complete involvement in the role. lrmgard Seefried is rather an unexpected choice of Judith. A stunning Mozart and Strauss singer, she’s not always comfortable in this role – and, be warned, her top C is a sort of strangled shriek. And yet, the sense that she is in a situation from which there can be no escape is tangible, and terrifying. Her singing near the end has devastating poignancy. Incidentally, the spoken prologue is omitted.

The Swiss Festival Orchestra plays admirably and the broadcast sound is acceptable – it has been very carefully restored by audite for this release. The notes include an interesting essay on the performance, but the absence of a libretto is to be regretted. What matters more than the language or the slightly boxy sound is the tangible intensity of this Bluebeard's Castle, and that makes it a version that really has to be heard.

Ensemble Klavier Clara Haskil

Clara Haskil (7. Januar 1895 - 7. Dezember 1960) war eine jüdisch-rumänische klassische Pianistin, die sich bereits früh einen Namen als Interpretin des klassischen und romantischen Repertoires machte.

Haskil schenkte man besonders für ihre Aufführungen und Einspielungen Mozartscher Werke Aufmerksamkeit, und viele hielten sie für die führende Mozart-Interpretin ihrer Zeit. Aber auch als hervorragende Interpretin von Beethoven, Schumann und Scarlatti wurde sie zur Kenntnis genommen.

Haskil wurde in eine sephardische jüdische Familie in Bukarest, Rumänien geboren und studierte in Wien bei Richard Robert (unter dessen namhaften Schülern sich auch Rudolf Serkin und George Szell befanden) und kurz unter Ferruccio Busoni. Später zog sie nach Paris, wo sie das Studium bei Gabriel Fauré-Schüler Joseph Morpain aufnahm, den sie immer als einen ihrer größten Einflussnehmer benannte. Im selben Jahr wurde sie am Pariser Konservatorium aufgenommen, offiziell um bei Alfred Cortot zu studieren, obwohl die meiste Anleitung von Lazare Lévy und Mme Giraud-Letarse kam. Haskil schloss ihr Studium im Alter von 15 Jahren mit Auszeichnung im Fach Klavier sowie auch Violine ab. Nach ihrem Abschluss begann sie auf Europa-Tour zu gehen, obwohl ihre Karriere durch zahlreiche körperliche Beschwerden, unter denen sie ihr ganzes Leben lang litt, rasch unterbrochen wurde. Im Jahr 1913 wurde sie in Gipsverband gelegt, um das Fortschreiten ihrer Skoliose zu stoppen. Häufige Erkrankungen kombiniert mit extremen Lampenfieber, das sie im Jahre 1920 heimsuchte, hielten sie von größeren musikalischen und finanziellen Erfolgen ab. Die meiste Zeit ihres Lebens verbrachte Haskil in bitterer Armut. Erst nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, während einer Reihe von Konzerten in den Niederlanden im Jahr 1949, begann Sie, wieder größeren Zuspruch zu gewinnen.

Als Pianistin zeichnete sich ihr Spiel durch eine Reinheit von Ton und Phrasierung aus, das von ihrem Können als Geigerin herrührte. Ebenso waren Transparenz und Einfühlungsvermögen Markenzeichen ihres Stils.

Als Kammermusikerin betrachtet, arbeitete Haskil mit so berühmten Musikern wie George Enescu, Eugène Ysaÿe, Pablo Casals, Joseph Szigeti, Géza Anda, Isaac Stern und Arthur Grumiaux, mit dem sie ihr letztes Konzert spielte. Während er primär als renommierter Geiger galt, war Grumiaux auch ein guter Pianist, und er und Haskil tauschten manchmal ihre Instrumente.

Haskil spielte als Solistin unter der Leitung von Dirigenten wie Ansermet, Barbirolli, Beecham, Boult, Celibidache, Cluytens, Fricsay, Giulini, Inghelbrecht, Jochum, Karajan, Kempe, Klemperer, Kubelik, Markevitch, Monteux, Münch, Paray, Rosbaud, Sawallisch, Solti, Stokowski, Szell und vielen anderen.

Sie starb schließlich an Verletzungen, die sie sich durch einen Sturz beim Brüsseler Bahnhof zugezogen hatte. Am nächsten Tag hätte sie ein Konzert mit Arthur Grumiaux gespielt.

Ein geschätzter Freund von Haskil, Charles Chaplin, beschrieb ihr Talent mit den Worten "In meinem Leben habe ich drei Genies kennen gelernt;. Professor Einstein, Winston Churchill und Clara Haskil. Ich bin kein ausgebildeter Musiker, aber ich kann nur sagen, dass ihre Berührung exquisite war, ihr Ausdruck wunderbar und ihre Technik außergewöhnlich." (Schweizerische Radio-Interview, 19. April 1961.)

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