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Carl Schuricht | BBC Legends BBCL42132

Carl Schuricht

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Label: BBC Legends

Cat No: BBCL42132

Barcode: 0684911421323

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 29th May 2006

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Contents

Artists

London Symphony Orchestra
New Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductors

Carl Schuricht
Sir Adrian Boult

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Grosse Fuge in B flat major, op.133

Brahms, Johannes

Tragic Overture, op.81

Reger, Max

Variations and Fugue on a theme of JA Hiller, op.100

Artists

London Symphony Orchestra
New Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductors

Carl Schuricht
Sir Adrian Boult

About

Carl Schuricht (1890-1967), a most distinguished conductor of the German school, started conducting at the age of 15 in addition to studying piano and composition in Berlin with Rudorff and Humperdinck and composition in Leipzig with Reger (1873-1916). In 1912, he was appointed music director at Wiesbaden and continued to hold that post until 1944. He made his British debut in 1914, his US debut in St Louis in 1927, his Vienna Philharmonic debut in 1934 and from 1930 to 1939 was a frequent visitor to Holland. Between 1937 and 1944 he was principal guest conductor of the Frankfurt Radio SO and in 1943 he was also appointed in the same position with the Dresden Philharmonic but left Germany in 1944 and settled in Switzerland. From then on, he only worked as a guest conductor and in 1956 took the VPO on a major US tour and made his first post war appearances in the UK in 1963 with the LSO making his last conducting appearance in 1965, this time at the Salzburg Festival. He made a considerable number of recordings for Decca and EMI.
 
Max Reger's Variations & Fugue on a Theme by Hiller were consistently performed by Schuricht in recognition of his former teacher. Written in 1907, the Hiller Variations is one of Reger's greatest works, full of wit, resource and, above all, delicacy. Schuricht never recorded the Reger commercially.
 
The Brahms Tragic Overture with the Bayerischen Rundfunks was recorded by La Guilde Internationale du Disque which was issued briefly by the small independent label Scribendum.
 
The Bonus is a rare recording by Sir Adrian Boult (1889-1976) conducting another fugue, this time Beethoven's powerful Grosse Fugue at a 1968 Proms concert. Boult also studied with Max Reger (1912-1913). This is Boult's only recording of Grosse Fugue.
 
All three works have been recorded in excellent stereo.
 
Recorded: Hornsey Town Hall, London, 31 January 1964 (Brahms/Reger) / Royal Albert Hall, London, 19 August 1968 (Beethoven)

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