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
Academic Festival Overture, op.80Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman)
Artists
Boston Symphony OrchestraConductor
Serge KoussevitzkyWorks
Academic Festival Overture, op.80Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman)
Artists
Boston Symphony OrchestraConductor
Serge KoussevitzkyAbout
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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