{"product_id":"1391478","title":"Hans Knappertsbusch - Hans Knappertsbusch - The Orchestral Edition [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGathered together for the first time on Universal Music labels, including several first CD releases on Decca, is the orchestral legacy of an inimitable genius of the podium: Hans Knappertsbusch.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eEven in his own lifetime, Hans Knappertsbusch divided opinion, between listeners affronted by technical slips caused by his notorious aversion to rehearsal and those who saw in him the last representative of a performing tradition dating back to Richard Wagner. Working mostly in the opera houses of Munich and Vienna, he never became music director of a symphony orchestra, but his postwar Decca recordings of central repertoire from Beethoven to Strauss, including three distinguished concerto collaborations with Clifford Curzon, preserve interpretations of a flexibility, sweep and grandeur scarcely imaginable today.\u003cp\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eFor Decca, Knappertsbusch recorded with the great orchestras of London, Paris, Zurich, Geneva and Vienna. The orchestral discography began with Brahms\\u2019s Second Symphony with the Suisse Romande, Wagnerian \\u2018bleeding chunks\\u2019 in the Kingsway Hall in December 1947 and ended in February 1960 in the Sofiensaal of Vienna, conducting Tchaikovsky\\u2019s Nutcracker Suite with a delicacy and grace that will surprise listeners who think of him only as the high priest of Parsifal at Bayreuth. The box is full of such surprises: an album of Strauss waltzes and polkas that turns on a sixpence; nimble Bruckner scherzos; one of the swiftest versions of Tod und Verklarung on record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eOnce introduced to Clifford Curzon, Knappertsbusch was immediately enthusiastic about performing and recording with \\u2018this great English gentleman\\u2019; their versions of Beethoven\\u2019s Fourth and Fifth and Brahms\\u2019s Second have long been mainstays of the Decca catalogue. Much else here is newly remastered and now widely available on Decca for the first time in many years, such as Wagnerian overtures and preludes with the Zurich Tonhalle (1947) and the London Philharmonic (1948) orchestras.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eBruckner\\u2019s Symphonies Nos. 3-5 preserve Knappertsbusch\\u2019s profound working relationship with the VPO at its most harmonious. A magnificently trenchant Brahms album with the VPO in 1957 also features Lucretia West in the Alto Rhapsody. For devotees and sceptics alike, this box offers revelations and the opportunity to reassess the art of a conductor held in the deepest affection by many of the musicians and singers who worked with him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\u2018This \\u2026 will please everyone who loves opulent brazen sound. As a Wagnerian, Prof. Knappertsbusch is plainly a great conductor \\u2026 The Wagner of burlesque \\u2013 lady wrestlers as Valkyries, heaving on Clydesdales and percherons; winds of two-miles-per-hour in the Dutchman\\u2019s hurricane \\u2026 Still, the sound is splendid.\\u2019 High Fidelity, January 1954 (Wagner Preludes, VPO)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\u2018There is less heaviness, more flexibility and true Viennese spirit in his reading than in any of the others.\\u2019 High Fidelity, February 1956 (Bruckner, Symphony No. 4)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\u2018There apparently exists a wonderful rapport between the English virtuoso and the German conductor, for this performance is pervaded by a nearly tangible quality of artistic give-and-take.\\u2019 Stereo Review, April 1958 (Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 4 In G Major, Op. 58\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRAHMS: Symphony No. 2 In D Major, Op. 73\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2 In B Flat Major Op. 83\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRUCKNER: Symphony No. 3 In D Minor, WAB 10\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4 In E Flat Major \\u2018Romantic\\u2019, WAB 104\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRUCKNER: Symphony No. 5 In B Flat Major, WAB 105\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8 In C Minor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8 In C Minor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSTRAUSS: Don Juan, Op. 20\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWAGNER: Die Meistersinger - Preludes To Acts I \u0026amp; III; Dance Of The Apprentices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWAGNER: Rienzi: Overture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWAGNER: Rienzi: Overture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWAGNER: Der Fliegende Hollander: Overture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWAGNER: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg: Prelude To Act I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWAGNER: Rienzi: Overture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSTRAUSS: Radetzky-Marsch, Op. 228\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTCHAIKOVSKY: Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTragic Overture, Op. 81\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWAGNER: Siegfried Idyll\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTod Und Verklarung, Op. 24\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDie Walkure: The Ride Of The Valkyries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLohengrin: Preludes To Acts I \u0026amp; III\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSiegfried: Forest Murmurs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDie Walkure: Ride Of The Valkyries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTannhauser: Overture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDer Fliegende Hollander: Overture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKAREL KOMZAK II: Bad\\u2019ner Mad\\u2019ln \\u2013 Walzer, Op. 257\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSCHUBERT: Marche Militaire In D Major, Op. 51 No. 1 (orch. Weninger)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVariations On A Theme By Haydn, Op. 56a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParsifal: Transformation Scene (Act I)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParsifal: Prelude To Act I; Flower Maidens\\u2019 Scene; Transformation Music (Act I)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTannhauser: Overture And Venusberg Music\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTristan Und Isolde: Prelude \u0026amp; Liebestod\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSiegfried Idyll\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSTRAUSS: Annen-Polka, Op. 117\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWEBER: Invitation To The Dance, Op. 65 (orch. Berlioz)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePiano Concerto No. 5 In E Flat Major, Op. 73 \\u2018Emperor\\u2019\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlto Rhapsody, Op. 53\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTannhauser: Venusberg Music (Bacchanale); Entry Of The Guests\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDie Meistersinger: Prelude To Act I; Suite From Act III\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParsifal: Prelude To Act I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLohengrin: Prelude To Act I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccelerationen \\u2013 Walzer, Op. 234\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNICOLAI: Die Lustigen Weiber Von Windsor \\u2013 Overture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWAGNER: Gotterd\\xe4mmerung - Morgendammerung Und Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDer Fliegende Hollander: Overture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTritsch-Tratsch-Polka, Op. 214\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSiegfrieds Trauermarsch (Act III)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCARL MICHAEL ZIEHRER: Wiener B\\xfcrger \\u2013 Walzer, Op. 419\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSTRAUSS: Leichtes Blut \\u2013 Polka, Op. 319\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTannhauser: Overture; Venusberg Music (Bacchanale)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeschichten Aus Dem Wienerwald \\u2013 Walzer, Op. 325\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55143005749633,"sku":"1391478","price":73.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/41CSgTfNJwL._SL1500.jpg?v=1767647252","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/1391478","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}