BaL 22.01.11 - Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie

[Flay]

I've just been reading about the forthcoming Hallé/BBC Phil performance on Thursday 23rd.

I wish I could be there!!!

Week rearranged and ticket purchased!

[Flay]

Mind you I'll be Billy no-mates again...

[Barbirollians]

That sensational Kempe Ein Heldenleben must date from 28/8/1974 as it is clearly a Prom ( ah I see it is from an ICA Classics DVD ). I cannot wait to hear the Kleiber .

This is a work that Kempe Dresden recording opened my ears to and I have not felt the need to get others apart from Barbirolli's - his tender and delightful BBC Legend performance which I think is better than his studio account ( good as that is ) .

This is looking like an essential buy though .

[Barbirollians]

Saints above that You Tube led me to this - also on that DVD . The recorded sound is hissy and the audience a bit bronchial but what a performance of the New World Symphony absolutely edge of the seat thrilling - no wonder Kempe's death after an operation in Zurich in 1976 was such a body blow for the BBC SO .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqN8tMF2_jA

[Flay]

Agreed, a brilliant performance.

A 1975 prom apparently. Note the absolutely adequate and totally non-intrusive camera work...

[Petrushka]

Agreed, a brilliant performance.

A 1975 prom apparently. Note the absolutely adequate and totally non-intrusive camera work...

I remember watching that live on a boiling hot Friday evening. Wonderful Prom.

[Barbirollians]

Also available on BBC Legends apparently the Dvorak 9 .

I remember the 1975 cricket World Cup Final just and that I recall being a very hot day in a hot summer .

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Over time, I have been hunting down the last three recordings of the far from complete Wikipedia list of this work. I knew the Baltimore/Alsop recording had existed as there was a picture of the CD cover on the conductor's website along with sample tracks, which made it all the more frustrating. However I have found this

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15937551

and the whole performance is there. Quite a good one too, the sound being good in the first half, but with some excessive compression in the second half. But what the heck? It's free!

Just the Singapore/Choo Hoey and 1930s Bohm to find... If anyone can help, I would greatly appreciate it.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Now a new version:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/BR%2BKlassik/900124

Franz Welser-Möst's earlier recording of the work is among the most rushed. It does a fine conductor no credit. I hope he has slowed down a bit, though not to the extent of Maazel.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The new FW-M version arrived a few days ago. iMO it's a better performance than his earlier one, but the summit music is still taken at a hectic pace, which isn't to my taste.

Today I discover the possible existence of no fewer than three version pf the work I knew nothing about:

1. A 1995 performance by Svetlanov and the Het Residentue Orkest
2. A 1952 performance by Knappertsbusch and the VPO
3. A 2012 performance by Tanaka and the Waseda SO Tokyo

No 2 is one I would love to hear.

[BBMmk2]

Just bought the LSOLIVE/Haitink recording!

[HighlandDougie]

EA

Have you listened to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv_mNyuX_A0

That 1952 VPO/Kna performance is also available as Altus 074:

http://www.altusmusic.com/conductor/knappertsbusch-hans/knappertsbusch-vpo-r-strauss-eine-alpensinfonie-etc-mono/

Obscurely Japanese but available, I would think, from HMV Japan??

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

HD, you are a wonder.

[HighlandDougie]

EA

Very happy to be of use. If radio recordings of concert performances are allowed to feature in your Alpensinfonie immersion, I much enjoyed this performance:

http://concerthuis.radio4.nl/concert/4226/NTR_ZaterdagMatinee_sopraan_Barbara_Hannigan_en_Rotterdams_Philharmonisch_Orkest_o.l.v._Yannick_NezetSeguin?work=17614

[Barbirollians]

The Sao Paulo Shipway is indeed very fine.