Joseph Keilberth conducts Schubert, Berg & Bruckner
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Label: Testament
Cat No: SBT21472
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 10th October 2011
Contents
Works
Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel'Symphony no.9 in D minor
Rosamunde, D797
Artists
Christian Ferras (violin)Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Joseph KeilberthWorks
Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel'Symphony no.9 in D minor
Rosamunde, D797
Artists
Christian Ferras (violin)Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Joseph KeilberthAbout
Joseph Keilberth joined the Karlsruhe Staatstheater at the age of seventeen as a répétiteur. Ten years later he became general music director, the youngest at the time in Germany. On Furtwängler’s recommendation he was appointed chief conductor of the German Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague for the war years, moving to the Dresden State Opera (then in the Russian zone) in 1945. He remained in that position until 1950, by which time he had achieved a bizarre reunion with his Prague orchestra, now renamed the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and newly resident in that town in western Germany.
Keilberth was a great Wagnerian conductor and recorded the first-ever stereo Ring – now available as a celebrated Testament release in a 14-CD set – SBT14 1412.
If both the Bruckner and the Schubert Overture which opened this 1960 concert were Keilberth regulars, the Berg Violin Concerto was a newcomer to his repertoire that became a personal favourite. It was also his first-ever Berg score. He prepared it for the first time in December 1955 for a Hamburg State Opera concert with André Gertler. “It’s really coming together now”, he noted, “but much still sounds as if it’s wrong”. A little later he wrote to his son Thomas: “I’m pleased that the Berg Concerto now means more to you. For me, it’s the only 12-tone work that I like”. Then, by the 1965/66 season, Keilberth was replying to a questionnaire about his “Ten 20th century Masterworks of Music” - the Berg Concerto had become his No.2 choice, just ahead of Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks but losing out to Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler Symphony.
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