Richard Strauss/Rudolf Kempe Reissue

[Barbirollians]

I had the CfP Lp of this when I was starting out as a 12 year old and that violin solo is still one of my favourite pieces of fiddle playing!

That is interesting as the Kletzki with Hugh Bean I think was also on CfP.

Kempe an underrated Mahler conductor IMO .

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I gave my Kempe Strauss away to my son some years ago and haven't missed it. Two things bothered me:
(a) the congested sound
(b) wobbly Dresden horns

[richardfinegold]

rf
This is one of my all time Kempe favourites.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wagner-Orchestral-Highlights-Lohengrin-Parsifal/dp/B00000DO2K/ref=sr_1_36?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1387388887&sr=1-36&keywords=kempe

Included in this Icon box which I think is a good buy - though it will duplicate some of the R Strauss. If you like the MunPO Beethoven Syms they are available separately at good prices.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rudolf-Kempe...rds=kempe+icon

Thanks, cloughie

[richardfinegold]

I gave my Kempe Strauss away to my son some years ago and haven't missed it. Two things bothered me:
(a) the congested sound
(b) wobbly Dresden horns

Well, the sound is improved, anyway...

[richardfinegold]

That is interesting as the Kletzki with Hugh Bean I think was also on CfP.

Kempe an underrated Mahler conductor IMO .

Not much of his Mahler seems to be available. A 5th from 1948 (that is interesting, because I believe the first integral recording of the 5th is Walter/New York from 1947), Das Lied on BBC with Janet Baker, and some Kindertotenlieder from the late 1970s.

[Barbirollians]

Not much of his Mahler seems to be available. A 5th from 1948 (that is interesting, because I believe the first integral recording of the 5th is Walter/New York from 1947), Das Lied on BBC with Janet Baker, and some Kindertotenlieder from the late 1970s.

The Das Lied is very good , there is an excellent Mahler 4 just out on ICA Classics .

[Petrushka]

Not much of his Mahler seems to be available. A 5th from 1948 (that is interesting, because I believe the first integral recording of the 5th is Walter/New York from 1947), Das Lied on BBC with Janet Baker, and some Kindertotenlieder from the late 1970s.

There is/was a Mahler 1 with the BBCSO and a Mahler 2 live at the 1972 Proms with the Munich PO on the BBC Legends label. I recall hearing that Mahler 2 live on the radio.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mahler-Symphonies-Nos-1-2/dp/B000026CTV/ref=sr_1_6?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1387587941&sr=1-6&keywords=mahler+kempe

[pastoralguy]

That is interesting as the Kletzki with Hugh Bean I think was also on CfP.

Kempe an underrated Mahler conductor IMO .

Many thanks Bb. I was confusing him with Kempe!

[Acavus]

Many thanks Bb. I was confusing him with Kempe!

Not necessarily Pastoralguy. Both the Kempe and the Kletzki Scheherazades were issued on CfP - riches indeed!

[Barbirollians]

There is/was a Mahler 1 with the BBCSO and a Mahler 2 live at the 1972 Proms with the Munich PO on the BBC Legends label. I recall hearing that Mahler 2 live on the radio.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mahler-Symph...s=mahler+kempe

Very good it is too . A performance which generates a great deal of excitement from allowing the music to speak rather than being imposed upon it .

[cloughie]

Not necessarily Pastoralguy. Both the Kempe and the Kletzki Scheherazades were issued on CfP - riches indeed!

The Kletzki was on HMV Concert Classics originally XLP/SXLP20026 and his Tchaik 6 on XLP20027/SXLP20027 - the Monos were two of my most treasured LPs back then. I later replaced them with the Stereos and later again with the CFP CDs. The CDs curiously coupled Sch with Tchaik Capriccio Italien, the Tchaik with RK's Tsar Saltan Suite.

[Acavus]

Perhaps I should have been more explicit Cloughie - both the Kempe and Kletzki were issued by CfP on vinyl, so Pastoralguy may well have been right in his assumption. I still have my CfP LP (CFP 40341) as well as the CD (CD-CFP 4341), both of which use the same cover art. Like you, I have always valued this performance, and indeed Kletzki as a conductor.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Very slightly OT but Santa brought me a DVD of Kempe and the RPO doing Heldenleben at a 1974 prom that I was at. So I shall have to go through it frame by frame for a glimpse of my 19-yr-old self

It's c/w a New World symph.

[amateur51]

Very slightly OT but Santa brought me a DVD of Kempe and the RPO doing Heldenleben at a 1974 prom that I was at. So I shall have to go through it frame by frame for a glimpse of my 19-yr-old self

It's c/w a New World symph.

A wonderful couple of performances imho and a quite heart-breaking momento of Kempe 'live' because he died so relatively young, months after taking on the BBCPO orchestra. What we might have heard .....

[makropulos]

Very slightly OT but Santa brought me a DVD of Kempe and the RPO doing Heldenleben at a 1974 prom that I was at. So I shall have to go through it frame by frame for a glimpse of my 19-yr-old self

It's c/w a New World symph.

I was there too! (I just about caught a glimpse of self near the front of the arena). What a wonderful concert it was. Kempe playing harpsichord continuo in Handel's Op. 6 No. 1, Nerine Barrett (Jamaican, if I remember rightly - now teaching in Germany) as the soloist in Mozart's Concerto K503, and Heldenleben. I've still got the programme somewhere...