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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Rezension Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Freitag, 4. Januar 2013 | Christiane Tewinkel | 4. Januar 2013 Nur eine mopsfidele junge Schachtel zu viel

Es nimmt nicht wunder, dass das „Buch der hängenden Gärten“ auch in einem anderen umfangreichen Album eine zentrale Position einnimmt, nämlich der hervorragend dokumentierten Neuauflage von historischen Aufnahmen aus den Jahren 1949 bis 1965, dem „Second Viennese School Project“ mit Werken von Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg und Anton Webern, mit Interpreten aus deren engerem und weiterem Umfeld.
Pizzicato

Rezension Pizzicato N° 229 - 1/2013 | RéF | 1. Januar 2013 Pure Freude am Klangreichtum zeichnet die gleichermaßen fantasievollen wie...

Pure Freude am Klangreichtum zeichnet die gleichermaßen fantasievollen wie ausdrucksstarken Interpretationen des deutschen Duos Bard aus. Das manifestiert sich in einem musikalisch dreidimensionalen Bild: die beiden Pianistinnen zeichnen nicht einzelne Bäume oder Sträucher, sondern entwerfen einen ganzen Klanggarten.
Pizzicato

Rezension Pizzicato N° 229 - 1/2013 | Steff | 1. Januar 2013 Aus der RIAS-Schatzkammer

Audite veröffentlicht eine Vierer-Box mit den Aufnahmen der Zweiten Wiener Schule zwischen 1949 und 1965. Es ist natürlich unmöglich, an dieser Stelle auf alle eingespielten Werke einzugehen, aber man muss doch einige herausheben: Von Schönberg den 'Pierrot lunaire' mit Irmen Burmester von 1949, Fricsays Interpretation der Kammersymphonie und das Klavierkonzert mit Peter Stadlen und dem Dirigenten Winfred Zillig. Dann die Fantasie mit Tibor Varga, Violine und Ernst Krenek, Klavier, sowie Eduard Steuermanns Aufnahmen der Klavierstücke. Von Berg die Lyrische Suite mit dem Vegh-Quartett und die Sieben frühen Lieder mit Magda Laszlo. Und von Webern die Fünf Orchesterstücke mit Bruno Maderna aus dem Jahre 1961. Eine Sammlung von unschätzbarem Wert! Und vieles klingt hier bedeutend moderner, als es heute gespielt wird!

Eine weitere Box ist dem ukrainischen Violinisten Bronislav Gimpel gewidmet. Gimpel war ein Vollblutmusiker, dessen Interpretationen der russischen Tradition verbunden sind. Wenn sie heute auch ein bisschen altmodisch und überzeichnet erscheinen, so kann sich doch niemand ihrer Kraft widersetzen. Ich muss sagen, dass ich das Sibelius-Konzert in keiner anderen Aufnahme so düster und dramatisch erlebt habe, wie mit Gimpel, dem RIAS-Orchester und Fritz Lehmann am Pult. Diese durch und durch romantische Wiedegabe besitzt eine Tiefe und Ausdruckstärke, die einfach atemberaubend sind. Wie dieses Sibelius Konzert muss man auch das 2. Violinkonzert von Karol Szymanowski als eine absolute Referenzeinspielung ansehen. Erstaunlich, zu welcher Homogenität der aus dem Vollen schöpfende Violinist und der nicht minder engagierte Dirigent Arthur Rother finden. Die übrigen Werke besitzen nicht ganz dieselbe Unmittelbarkeit. Zwar glänzt Gimpel auch in Wieniawski-Konzert, doch Alfred Gohlke bleibt als Dirigent bescheiden, ebenso die Leistung des Orchesters. Die Violinsonaten von Schubert, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Schumann, Janacek und Tartini sind sehr speziell, doch zeugen sie von der großen Musikalität Gimpels. Heute würde man diese Kammermusik kaum noch so spielen, aber für den Musikinteressierten sind es unschätzbare Zeitdokumente. Martin Krauses Klavierspiel ist bestenfalls begleitend, dieser Pianist besitzt nicht das künstlerische Rüstzeug, um einem genialen Violinisten wie Bronislav Gimpel ein wirklicher Partner zu sein.
Pizzicato

Rezension Pizzicato N° 229 - 1/2013 | Steff | 1. Januar 2013 Aus der RIAS-Schatzkammer

Audite veröffentlicht eine Vierer-Box mit den Aufnahmen der Zweiten Wiener Schule zwischen 1949 und 1965. Es ist natürlich unmöglich, an dieser Stelle auf alle eingespielten Werke einzugehen, aber man muss doch einige herausheben: Von Schönberg den 'Pierrot lunaire' mit Irmen Burmester von 1949, Fricsays Interpretation der Kammersymphonie und das Klavierkonzert mit Peter Stadlen und dem Dirigenten Winfred Zillig. Dann die Fantasie mit Tibor Varga, Violine und Ernst Krenek, Klavier, sowie Eduard Steuermanns Aufnahmen der Klavierstücke. Von Berg die Lyrische Suite mit dem Vegh-Quartett und die Sieben frühen Lieder mit Magda Laszlo. Und von Webern die Fünf Orchesterstücke mit Bruno Maderna aus dem Jahre 1961. Eine Sammlung von unschätzbarem Wert! Und vieles klingt hier bedeutend moderner, als es heute gespielt wird!

Eine weitere Box ist dem ukrainischen Violinisten Bronislav Gimpel gewidmet. Gimpel war ein Vollblutmusiker, dessen Interpretationen der russischen Tradition verbunden sind. Wenn sie heute auch ein bisschen altmodisch und überzeichnet erscheinen, so kann sich doch niemand ihrer Kraft widersetzen. Ich muss sagen, dass ich das Sibelius-Konzert in keiner anderen Aufnahme so düster und dramatisch erlebt habe, wie mit Gimpel, dem RIAS-Orchester und Fritz Lehmann am Pult. Diese durch und durch romantische Wiedegabe besitzt eine Tiefe und Ausdruckstärke, die einfach atemberaubend sind. Wie dieses Sibelius Konzert muss man auch das 2. Violinkonzert von Karol Szymanowski als eine absolute Referenzeinspielung ansehen. Erstaunlich, zu welcher Homogenität der aus dem Vollen schöpfende Violinist und der nicht minder engagierte Dirigent Arthur Rother finden. Die übrigen Werke besitzen nicht ganz dieselbe Unmittelbarkeit. Zwar glänzt Gimpel auch in Wieniawski-Konzert, doch Alfred Gohlke bleibt als Dirigent bescheiden, ebenso die Leistung des Orchesters. Die Violinsonaten von Schubert, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Schumann, Janacek und Tartini sind sehr speziell, doch zeugen sie von der großen Musikalität Gimpels. Heute würde man diese Kammermusik kaum noch so spielen, aber für den Musikinteressierten sind es unschätzbare Zeitdokumente. Martin Krauses Klavierspiel ist bestenfalls begleitend, dieser Pianist besitzt nicht das künstlerische Rüstzeug, um einem genialen Violinisten wie Bronislav Gimpel ein wirklicher Partner zu sein.
International Record Review

Rezension International Record Review January 2013 | Robert Matthew-Walker | 1. Januar 2013 César Franck’s complete chamber music and organ works

The German set of Franck' s complete organ music is also invaluable, containing, as it does, quite a few world premiere recordings, and although some of these 'firsts' are short and not particularly significant works, the totality, is well worth the attention of the serious collector. One might (on paper) question the choice of instrument – the 1998 Goll organ of St Martin, Memmingen – but it suits the entire range of music admirably, demonstrating that the 'original instrument in an acoustic familiar to the composer' ritual is not invariably necessary for a full appreciation of this important body of music. The purist may wish for a genuine Cavaillé-Coll, but I was entirely satisfied by Ross', choice.

Ross is a fine player and an excellent scholar. Every one of these performances, especially of the great works, has to be taken very seriously indeed: his registration and tempos are admirable, and in the world premiere recordings such relatively important works as the Pièce en mi bémol of 1846 we encounter (for the first time on disc) a fine composition which contains more than a trace of the later genius. The Pièce pour grand orgue (in A major – demanding four manuals – a work that should be in the repertoire of any self-respecting concert organist) dates from 1854 and the very beautiful quiet coda exemplifies an aspect of Franck that must surely have commended him to Liszt (they knew one another, and on one memorable occasion, each played his organ music to the other composer – a meeting of geniuses many music lovers would have given much to have attended). Ross plays all four published versions of the Fantasie (1856, 1863 and two in 1868), a most important juxtaposition of most interest (three of these performances come to within five seconds each – over 12 minutes!), which reveal that all four versions (if properly identified) should each be heard occasionally in recital: the earlier three are not so inferior as conceptions as the more familiar final version.

However, it is the sequence of Six Pièces pour Grand Orgue (Opp. 16-21) on the second CD that display the genius of this composer's organ music fully for the first time in his creative life. The Op. 17 Grand Pièce Symphonique (the title revised from Symphonie) is the first symphony ever written for the organ and this undoubted masterpiece receives a thrilling account from Ross: Liszt and Wagner may metaphorically have glanced over Franck's shoulder during its composition, but it could only have been written by the Belgian. The more lyrical succeeding masterpiece, the Prélude, Fugue et Variation is equally finely played. Throughout these six pieces, from the most 'personal' of Franck's works – the Prière, Op. 20 – to the brilliantly powerful Final, Op. 21, Ross is fully up to the composer's demands, as he is in the concluding masterpieces – the three Chorals from Franck's final months – each one given with commendable artistry, bringing this unique set to a splendid conclusion.

What is additionally significant is the inclusion of all of Franck's music for organ or harmonium, sometimes in important transcriptions by Vierne or others and, whilst individual pieces from these sets may appear little more than chips from the workshop, they make splendid recessional or interludial items for the organist during Mass or other services – and they are all genuine works, short though many of them may be, by this admirable composer. The remaining important set – the Trois Pièces pour Grand Orgue of 1878, which concludes with the famous 'Pièce Héroïque', is equally well performed by the musician who deserves our grateful thanks for bringing to the gramophone every one of the composer's extant works for organ or harmonium.

It must be clear, with such a combination of scholarship and musicianship as has attended the planning and realization of this set, that the result is an issue of which any organist and record company should be justly proud.
American Record Guide

Rezension American Record Guide 16.10.2012 | David Radcliffe | 16. Oktober 2012 The 1950s was the great decade for Bartok performances — would that the...

The 1950s was the great decade for Bartok performances — would that the composer had been still alive! It was a remarkable recovery considering the comparative obscurity of his last years. But the 1950s were also a dicey decade for the interpretation of 20th Century works, because success came at the cost of homogenizing performance practices that deracinated some of the more exciting elements in modern music. Ferenc Fricsay, much admired then and since, was both a champion of Bartok and of the mode of conducting then displacing the more spontaneous mode associated that earlier Hungarian conductor, Artur Nikisch. These museum-friendly performances, made in 1950-53, lack the warmth and rubato one might expect in “authentic” Bartok. Fritz Reiner is much racier in the Concerto for Orchestra.

The RIAS Symphony doesn’t help: they are competent in what must have been unfamiliar repertoire, but they certainly come across as Berliners: their sound is smooth and attractive but lacking in earth tones. That said, Fricsay’s soloists, Hungarian compatriots all, supply the necessary ingredients to make Bartok sing.

The concertos are all wonderful, particularly Tibor Varga in the violin concerto and Geza Anda in the Third Piano Concerto. Conceding that Bartok performances can work even in the mode of high-modernist abstraction, I much prefer the color and inflection that typified central European music-making in the composer’s lifetime. Since Bartok concertos are not heard so often now as in the 1950s, and since this collection has been admirably produced from original sources (studio and broadcast) it is well worth seeking out.
Fanfare

Rezension Fanfare 17.10.2012 | Daniel Morrison | 17. Oktober 2012 I remarked that the appearance of any previously unissued concert performance by...

I remarked that the appearance of any previously unissued concert performance by Otto Klemperer is an event for me. Consequently, the Audite set of performances with the RIAS Symphony (later renamed the Berlin Radio Symphony and still later the Berlin German Symphony) automatically earns a place on my current list. Not all the items in this release are new, but those that are not are in much better sound than in any previous incarnations, having been mastered directly from archival broadcast tapes. The performances, dating from 1950 through 1958, are for the most part vintage Klemperer.
Fanfare

Rezension Fanfare 08.08.2012 | Lynn René Bayley | 8. August 2012 Barry McDaniel was an American baritone who, like many classical singers of his...

Barry McDaniel was an American baritone who, like many classical singers of his generation, found it more congenial (and possibly easier) to make a career in Europe and, in his case, particularly Germany. He gave numerous Lieder recitals and opera performances in Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Hanover, Brunswick, and Berlin, and appeared at least once (in 1964) at Bayreuth as Wolfram in Wieland Wagner’s production of Tannhäuser. Yet he, like so many other baritones both domestic and foreign who sang Lieder, toiled in the shadow of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. This two-CD recital hopes to set things straight by issuing recordings which McDaniel made in German radio studios between 1963 and 1974.

At least in the Schubert and Schumann, his singing is exquisitely rounded and well finished in phrasing, his general interpretations sensitive and beautifully articulated, yet he makes very little vocal contrast in these songs. This places his singing into the “very good but not great” category, similar to Heinrich Schlusnus, Herbert Janssen, and Gerhard Hüsch. It is not on the higher level of such pioneers as Karl Erb or Alexander Kipnis, or the more acted-out form of Lieder singing that came to fruition right after World War II in the styles of Fischer-Dieskau, Souzay, or Hotter.

It is a subtle distinction, and not every listener may feel the same way I do. It’s the difference between telling a story (the old school) vs. acting out the words (new school). Particularly in the older style of French chanson, the singer was neither expected nor permitted to interpret the lyrics; one was simply supposed to sing them, musically but objectively, and allow the listener to add his or her own interpretation. Souzay was the first French-speaking singer to dare to perform chansons in the same manner as Lieder, and it caused quite a sensation in postwar France. I will say this much, however, that McDaniel learned his vocal and musical training from Mack Harrell very well. Harrell was much the same kind of singer, a warm, creamy baritone with a darkish timbre who gave generally fine interpretations of everything he sang. There is one song here that I happen to know very well from an archive recording by George Henschel, Schumann’s Lied eines Schmiedes. Henschel takes it at a walking tempo, not too fast but much quicker than McDaniel and Hertha Klust, and it was not rushed for the 78-rpm disc because the song is only about a minute long.

But then we turn to CD 2, most of which was recorded in 1973–74, and one immediately discerns growth in his interpretations. There is more detail here, more attention to the text in terms of speaking as the character rather than speaking for the character. (In opera, but also to some extent in songs, the catalyst for this whole paradigm shift was Feodor Chaliapin.) Also, possibly because of the clearer sonics, McDaniel’s high range comes across much brighter, which allows him to make a more effective contrast in vocal timbre as well as wordplay. I also think that perhaps his experience around this time singing Pelléas in Debussy’s opera also helped him rethink some of his chanson and Lied interpretations. In any case, he does bring the Lieder singer’s gift for word-painting to his performances of Duparc and Debussy, also recorded around 1973-74 — listen to the way he floats the soft high note in Phidylé, then the open brightness of his tone in the louder passage immediately following it. Sandwiched between these composers’ songs is Ravel’s fascinating Chansons Madécasses in a performance given in 1966, and here, again, there is a duller sound up top. I’m still not certain if it’s his voice placement, the recorded sound, or a combination of both. Yet because of the stronger rhythmic pulse of “Nahandove,” he responds more tellingly at times to the words. Perhaps this was a difference he felt between Lieder and chansons? Yet his 1973 performance of Wolf’s Abschied is also stronger in rhythm, better in […]

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