Wagner / Brahms - Orchestral Works | Naxos - Historical 8111283

Wagner / Brahms - Orchestral Works

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Label: Naxos - Historical

Cat No: 8111283

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 3rd March 2008

Contents

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Academic Festival Overture, op.80

Wagner, Richard

Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman)
» Overture
Lohengrin
» Prelude to Act 1
Parsifal
» Good Friday Spell (Karfreitagszauber)
» Prelude to Act 1
Siegfried Idyll, WWV103

Artists

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Serge Koussevitzky

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Academic Festival Overture, op.80

Wagner, Richard

Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman)
» Overture
Lohengrin
» Prelude to Act 1
Parsifal
» Good Friday Spell (Karfreitagszauber)
» Prelude to Act 1
Siegfried Idyll, WWV103

Artists

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Serge Koussevitzky

About

Serge Koussevitzky’s tenure with the Boston Symphony lasted from 1924 to 1949, a notable time during the orchestra’s history, owing to adventurous programming and wide-ranging commissions.

The recordings on this release, made between 1946 and 1949, are representative of Koussevitzky’s final years with the orchestra and, although the conductor was in his early to mid-seventies, lack nothing for energy.

The opening of the Overture to The Flying Dutchman inspires a typically dramatic and intense performance. Intimacy abounds in Siegfried Idyll, a lyrically shaped account with a gentle degree of forward thrust, beguiling strings and characterful woodwind solos.

Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture is given a lusty outing but not without light and shade, proof yet again that Koussevitzky’s conducting rarely if ever was without a sense of theatre and effective point-making.

Contents:
Wagner:
Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) Overture
Recorded 4th April 1947

Lohengrin Act I: Prelude
Recorded 27th April 1949

Parsifal Act I: Prelude
Recorded 4th April 1947

Parsifal Act III: Good Friday Spell
Recorded 19th April 1946

Siegfried Idyll
Recorded 27th April 1949

Brahms:
Academic Festival Overture, Op.80
Recorded 2nd April 1947

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