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Kleiber conducts Beethoven / Schubert / Berg | Medici Masters MM0272

Kleiber conducts Beethoven / Schubert / Berg

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Label: Medici Masters

Cat No: MM0272

Barcode: 0827565039524

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 28th July 2008

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Contents

Works

Beethoven
Fidelio Overture

Schubert
Symphony No.9 in C major “The Great”

Berg
3 Scenes from Wozzeck

Artists

Annelies Kupper (soprano)
Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester

Conductor

Erich Kleiber

Works

Beethoven
Fidelio Overture

Schubert
Symphony No.9 in C major “The Great”

Berg
3 Scenes from Wozzeck

Artists

Annelies Kupper (soprano)
Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester

Conductor

Erich Kleiber

About

This is the fourth Erich Kleiber (1890-1965) release on the Medici label and includes two rarities - Beethoven's Fidelio Overture and  Berg's Three Scenes from Wozzeck with Annelies Kupper (soprano), taken from the extensive Erich Kleiber archive in the WDR in Cologne where he was particularly active after the War having returned from exile in 1948.

The Fidelio Overture from 1956 has been 'lifted' from Kleiber's complete recording of his WDR broadcast of the opera and is powerfully projected in excellent sound. There is no other performance of the Fidelio Overture available with Kleiber.

Berg's Three Scenes from the opera Wozzeck date from 1953 and have only been available before on a pirate LP. Kleiber was a friend of the composer and was a major pioneer of Berg's music in the 1930s, despite the Nazi hostility to atonal music. His son, Carlos Kleiber, continued the tradition of programming these 'fragments' as well as Lulu and Wozzeck.

The famous, live performance of Schubert's Symphony No.9 from 1953 (the same concert as the Berg) has been available before but from poorer, second generation sounding tapes. As with other Kleiber releases, the WDR sound from the original master tapes is superb.

Contents:
Beethoven: Fidelio Overture
Funkhaus, Saal 1, WDR Cologne, 7 January 1956

Schubert: Symphony No.9 in C major “The Great”
Berg: 3 Scenes from Wozzeck
Annelies Kupper, Soprano
Funkhaus, Saal 1, WDR Cologne, 23 November 1953

Mono recording.

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