” Sym. No. 8 Archive
MENDELSSOHN: Ov. & Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream; SCHUBERT: Sym. No. 8 – Soloists/Vienna Sym./ Clemens Krauss – Opus Kura
Viennese conductor Clemens Krauss finds seamless restorations in these rare moments in his impressive repertory. MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Overture, Op. 21; Incidental Music, Op. 61; SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 8 in b minor, D. 759 “Unfinished” – Dagmar Herman, mezzo-sop,/ Ilona Steingruber, sop./ Vienna Sym. Orch./ Chorus of the Vienna State Orch./ Bamberg Sym. Orch. (Schubert)/ Clemens Krauss – Opus Kura OPK 7076, 66:09 [Distr. by Albany] ****: Opus Kura restores music the Viennese conductor Clemens Krauss (1893-1954) led for two relatively minor labels, Vox and Amadeo, including his only recorded documentation (from Vox, 1950) in Mendelssohn. Noted for his natural and elastic style in the music of Strauss – and that includes the waltz-king family and Richard Strauss – Krauss had an impressively large Austro-Hungarian repertory that embraced Haydn, Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Weinberger, Stravinsky, and Wagner, including a 1953 Ring cycle at Bayreuth. The Mendelssohn Overture and Incidental Music to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream enjoys the requisite lightness of hand. Both annotator Tully Potter and I appreciate hearing the natural F horn from Vienna in the famous glowing Nocturne. In this linear, stylistic performance, as in the Schubert symphony, Krauss allows much of the music to “play […]
SCHUBERT: Sym. No. 9 – Budapest Festival Orchestra/ Ivan Fischer – Channel Classics Sym. No. 7; Sym. No. 8 “The Great” – Musikkollegium Winterthur/Douglas Boyd – MD&GSym. 9 in C “The Great” – Royal Flemish Philharmonic/Philippe Herreweghe – PentaTone
FRANZ SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9 in C, “The Great” – Three SACD Versions
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