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Klaus Tennstedt: The Great EMI Recordings | EMI 0944332

Klaus Tennstedt: The Great EMI Recordings

Label: EMI

Cat No: 0944332

Barcode: 5099909443327

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 14

Release Date: 3rd May 2011

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Contents

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Coriolan Overture, op.62
Egmont Overture, op.84
Fidelio, op.72
» Overture
Leonore Overture no.3 in C major, op.72b
Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.55 'Eroica'
Symphony no.6 in F major, op.68 'Pastoral'
Symphony no.8 in F major, op.93
The Creatures of Prometheus, op.43
» Overture

Brahms, Johannes

Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), op.45
Schicksalslied, op.54
Symphony no.1 in C minor, op.68

Bruckner, Anton

Symphony no.4 in in E flat major 'Romantic'

Dvorak, Antonin

Symphony no.9 in E minor, op.95 B178 'From the New World'

Kodaly, Zoltan

Hary Janos, op.15

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony no.1 in D major 'Titan'

Mendelssohn, Felix

Symphony no.4 in A major, op.90 'Italian'

Mussorgsky, Modest

A Night on the Bare Mountain (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)

Prokofiev, Sergei

Lieutenant Kije: Suite, op.60

Schubert, Franz

Symphony no.9 in C major, D944 'Great'

Schumann, Robert

Konzertstuck for 4 horns and orchestra in F major, op.86
Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.97 'Rhenish'
Symphony no.4 in D minor, op.120

Strauss, Richard

Also sprach Zarathustra, op.30
Don Juan, op.20
Tod und Verklarung (Death and Transfiguration), op.24

Wagner, Richard

Das Rheingold
» Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
» Overture
Die Walkure
» Leb wohl, du kuhnes, herrliches Kind!
» Ride of the Valkyries
Gotterdammerung
» Siegfried's Funeral March (Act 3)
» Siegfried's Rhine Journey
Lohengrin
» Prelude to Act 1
» Prelude to Act 3
Rienzi
» Overture
Siegfried
» Forest Murmurs
Tannhauser
» Overture

Artists

Jessye Norman
Jorma Hynninen
Berliner Philharmoniker
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Klaus Tennstedt

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Coriolan Overture, op.62
Egmont Overture, op.84
Fidelio, op.72
» Overture
Leonore Overture no.3 in C major, op.72b
Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.55 'Eroica'
Symphony no.6 in F major, op.68 'Pastoral'
Symphony no.8 in F major, op.93
The Creatures of Prometheus, op.43
» Overture

Brahms, Johannes

Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), op.45
Schicksalslied, op.54
Symphony no.1 in C minor, op.68

Bruckner, Anton

Symphony no.4 in in E flat major 'Romantic'

Dvorak, Antonin

Symphony no.9 in E minor, op.95 B178 'From the New World'

Kodaly, Zoltan

Hary Janos, op.15

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony no.1 in D major 'Titan'

Mendelssohn, Felix

Symphony no.4 in A major, op.90 'Italian'

Mussorgsky, Modest

A Night on the Bare Mountain (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)

Prokofiev, Sergei

Lieutenant Kije: Suite, op.60

Schubert, Franz

Symphony no.9 in C major, D944 'Great'

Schumann, Robert

Konzertstuck for 4 horns and orchestra in F major, op.86
Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.97 'Rhenish'
Symphony no.4 in D minor, op.120

Strauss, Richard

Also sprach Zarathustra, op.30
Don Juan, op.20
Tod und Verklarung (Death and Transfiguration), op.24

Wagner, Richard

Das Rheingold
» Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
» Overture
Die Walkure
» Leb wohl, du kuhnes, herrliches Kind!
» Ride of the Valkyries
Gotterdammerung
» Siegfried's Funeral March (Act 3)
» Siegfried's Rhine Journey
Lohengrin
» Prelude to Act 1
» Prelude to Act 3
Rienzi
» Overture
Siegfried
» Forest Murmurs
Tannhauser
» Overture

Artists

Jessye Norman
Jorma Hynninen
Berliner Philharmoniker
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Klaus Tennstedt

About

Klaus Tennstedt was born on 6th June 1926 in Merseburg, a small Saxon town between Leipzig and Halle. He was a highly talented violinist and followed his father into the Halle Opera orchestra of which he was made leader whilst still in his teens. He also studied in Dresden and, as a member of the fire brigade, was detailed to dig bodies out of the rubble after the city was blitzed in 1944. A solo career awaited him, but a growth on his left hand brutally cut this short at the age of 19. After months of depression, he emerged as the opera’s repetiteur. He naturally watched conductors, but was not given an opportunity to try until, at an hour’s notice, he took over a performance.

The experience galvanised him to seek this path as a career but his refusal to join the Communist Party ensured that he was limited to poorer opera houses. In his mid-30s he went to Berlin seeking a chance to defect, but it was not until March 1971, aged 44, when he was allowed to conduct in Gothenburg. The freedom in the West did not give him many major opportunities either; however, the offer of the musical directorship of the Kiel Opera was accepted and, subsequently, a manager from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra heard him and duly invited him to Canada.

A chance stand-in engagement in Boston conducting Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony was met with such ecstatic reviews and audience enthusiasm that he was offered dates with the finest orchestras. He was 48 and, after his years spent in provincial theatres, this sudden fame and fortune must have been overwhelming for such a sensitive man. Luckily for the musical world he then discovered the composer whose music would make his career, a composer who like himself, suffered from self-doubt: Gustav Mahler. He had had no chance to hear any of his music during his student years as it had been banned by the Nazis.

He was uniquely able to identify with Mahler’s life-and-death struggles and the shear intensity that he brought to the performances made them unforgettable. It could be argued that his concerts provided the stimulus for the major record companies to change their policy of recording exclusively in the studio to one of taping live and relying on careful editing to remove any blemishes.

His repertoire was far from limited to Mahler – the romantics from Beethoven to Richard Strauss all received thoroughly detailed and considered readings.

He was popular too with soloists – his experience as a repetiteur and soloist gave him a unique understanding of what they needed in an accompanist.

Everything seemed to be going well, but the angst that he would die prematurely, like Mahler, proved correct for, in his 60th year, throat cancer struck. Initially he was able to continue conducting, if at a reduced pace, but gradually the disease took its awful toll. His final engagement was in Oxford where he rehearsed the University orchestra before receiving an honorary doctorate in June 1994.

It is highly appropriate that Klaus Tennstedt’s career should be reassessed in 2011 as it is the year that not only marks the centenary of Mahler’s death but also what would have been the year of Tennstedt’s 85th birthday.

Contents:
CD 1
- Symphony No.3 in E flat, 'Eroica' Op.55
1. I. Allegro con brio
2. II. Marcia funebre (Adagio assai)
3. III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace)
4. IV. Allegro molto - Poco andante - Presto

- Der Geschöpfe des Prometheus Op.43
5. Overture

6. Coriolan - Overture Op.62

- Egmont Op.84
7. Overture
 
CD 2
- Symphony No.6 in F Op.68, 'Pastoral'
1. I. Allegro ma non troppo (Awakening of cheerful feelings on arriving in the country)
2. II. Andante molto moto (Scene by the brook)
3. III. Allegro (Merry gathering of the country folk) -
4. IV. Allegro (Storm and tempest) -
5. V. Allegretto (Shepherds' Song. Happy and thankful feelings after the storm)

- Symphony No.8 in F Op.93
6. I. Allegro vivace e con brio
7. II. Allegretto scherzando
8. III. Tempo di menuetto
9. IV. Allegro vivace

10. Fidelio - Overture
 
CD 3
- Symphony No.1 in C minor Op.68
1. I. Un poco sostenuto - Allegro
2. II. Andante sostenuto
3. III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso
4. IV. Adagio - Allegro non troppo ma con brio

- Ein deutsches Requiem Op.45
5. I. Selig sind, die da Leid tragen (Zemlich langsam)
6. II. Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras (Langsam, marschmässig)
 
CD 4
- Ein deutsches Requiem Op.45
1. III. Herr, lehre doch mich (Andante moderato)
2. IV. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (Mässig bewegt)
3. V. Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit (Langsam)
4. VI. Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt (Andante)
5. VII. Selig sind die Toten (Feierlich)
6. Schicksalslied Op.54
 
CD 5
- Symphony No.4 in E flat 'Romantic'
1. I. Bewegt, nicht zu schnell
2. II. Andante quasi allegretto
3. III. Scherzo (Bewegt) & Trio (Nicht zu schnell)
4. IV. Finale (Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell)
 
CD 6
- Symphony No.8 in C minor (ed. Nowak)
1.  I. Allegro moderato
2. I. Scherzo (Allegro moderato) & Trio (Langsam)
3. III. Adagio (Feierlich langsam, doch nicht schleppend)
4. IV. Finale (Feierlich, nicht schnell)
 
CD 7
- Symphony No.1 in D
1. I. Langsam. Schleppend - Immer sehr gemächlich
2. II. (Scherzo) Kräftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell - Trio: Recht gemächlich
3. III. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen - Sehr einfach und schlicht wie eine Volksweise - Wieder etwas bewegter, wie im
4. IV. Stürmisch bewegt - Langsam - Wieder wie zu Anfang. Stürmisch bewegt - Sehr landgam - Tempo I
 
CD 8
- Symphonie No.3 in E flat Major, Op.97 - "Rheinische"
1. I. Lebhaft
2. II. Scherzo (Sehr mäßig)
3. III. Nicht schnell
4. IV. Feierlich
5. V. Lebhaft

- Symphony No.4 in D minor, Op.120
6. I. Ziemlich langsam - Lebhaft
7. II. Romanze (Ziemlich langsam)
8. III. Scherzo (Lebhaft) & Trio
9. IV. Lebhaft - Schneller - Presto
 
CD 9
- Also sprach Zarathustra, Op.30
1. Opening
2. Von den Hinterweltern
3. Von den grossen Sehnsucht
4. Von den Freuden und Leidenschaften
5. Das Grablied
6. Von der Wissenschaft
7. Der Genesende
8. Das Tanzlied

9. Don Juan Op.20
10.  Tod und Verklärung Op.24
 
CD 10
- Die Walküre
1. Walkürenritt (The Ride of the Valkyries) (Act III)
- Götterdämmerung
2. Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt (Siegfried's Rhine Journey), Vorspiel
- Götterdämmerung
3. Siegfried's Death and Funeral March
- Das Rheingold
4. Entry of the Gods into Valhalla
- Siegfried
5. Forest Murmurs
- Die Walküre
6. Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music
 
CD 11
- Tannhauser
1. Overture
- Rienzi
2. Overture
- Lohengrin
3. Prelude Act I
- Lohengrin
4. Prelude Act III
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
5. Prelude to Act I
 
CD 12
- Symphony No.4 in A, Op.90 'Italian'
1. I. Allegro vivace - Più animato
2. II. Andante con moto
3. III. Con moto moderato
4. IV. Saltarello (Presto)

- Symphony No.9 'Great C major' D 944
5. I. Andante - Allegro ma non troppo
6. II. Andante con moto
7. III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) & Trio
8. IV. Finale (Allegro vivace)
 
CD 13  
1. A Night on the Bare Mountain
- Háry János Op.15
2. Prelude
3. Viennese Musical Clock
4. Song
5. Battle and Defeat of Napoleon
6. Intermezzo
7. Entrance of the Emperor and his court

- Lieutenant Kijé Op.60
8. 1. Birth of Kijé
9. 2. Romance
10. 3. Kijé's Wedding
11. 4. Troika
12. 5. Burial of Kijé
 
CD 14  
1. Leonore Op.72
- Konzertstück in F major Op.86
2. I. Lebhaft
3. II. Romanze (ziemlich langsam, doch nicht schleppend)
4. III. Sehr lebhaft

- Symphony No.9 in E minor B178 (Op. 95), 'From the New World'
5. I. Adagio - Allegro molto
6. II. Largo
7. III. Scherzo (Molto vivace)
8. IV. Allegro con fuoco

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