Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 28 (TrV 171)
Like many other German composers active circa the 1940s, Joseph Keilberth led a vast number of different orchestras as much for his innate musical talents as from being shuffled around the continent as war and politics dictated. Much of his experience led to a legacy most closely tied to his opera performances, although he was active as a frequent guest conductor to many of Germany's and Austria's finest orchestras. The present album features one of the few surviving recordings of his leadership of the Vienna Symphony ...
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Like many other German composers active circa the 1940s, Joseph Keilberth led a vast number of different orchestras as much for his innate musical talents as from being shuffled around the continent as war and politics dictated. Much of his experience led to a legacy most closely tied to his opera performances, although he was active as a frequent guest conductor to many of Germany's and Austria's finest orchestras. The present album features one of the few surviving recordings of his leadership of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, originally recorded for radio broadcast. In this particular performance, the orchestra does not deliver the same level of precision to which modern audiences may be accustomed. From the opening chords of Brahms' Third Symphony, the brass chords are surprisingly out of tune, and there's a fair amount of imprecision on the strings as well. The Schumann Piano Concerto finds conductor and soloist Friedrich Gulda at odds with one another for the reigns of the orchestra; while when...
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