Hans Rosbaud: The Rarest Recordings | Documents 600487

Hans Rosbaud: The Rarest Recordings

Label: Documents

Cat No: 600487

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 10

Release Date: 30th November 2018

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Today, the large recording room of the national radio in Baden-Baden bears his name: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio. As the Artistic Director of the radio orchestra, Rosbaud (1895-1962) ensured that numerous new works of the 20th century found their way to listeners, having already started his career as first Kapellmeister on Radio Frankfurt (until 1937) with world premieres of compositions by Schoenberg and Bartok.

He moulded the orchestra in Baden-Baden into what was perhaps the world’s best ensemble for contemporary music. Legend is the number of works premiered by Rosbaud and their composers: Boulez, Dallapiccola, Fortner, K.A. Hartmann, Henze, Honegger, Jolivet, Messiaen, Xenakis. Bernd Alois Zimmermann dedicated his opera Die Soldaten (The Soldiers) to him. One singular performance did not take place in Baden-Baden however, but at the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk Hamburg, today’s NDR: the world premiere concert performance of the Schoenberg opera Moses und Aron (1954, staged 1957 in Zurich). It too is part of this extensive documentation of the works of Hans Rosbaud.

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