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KARL BÖHM

THE UNRELEASED BERLIN RECORDINGS 1962

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Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

Allegro non troppo

Andante moderato

Allegro giocoso

Allegro energico e passionato

Strauss: Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24

Dr. Karl Böhm

Böhm was 68 years old when, on 29 October 1962, he took up the baton in the legendary Saal 1 (studio number one) of the broadcasting corporation on Kaiserdamm Strasse in Berlin to conduct the Radio-Symphonie-Orchester. The programme comprised Symphony No. 4 by Johannes Brahms and Tod und Verklärung (“Death and Transfiguration”), a tone poem by Richard Strauss. For decades, Böhm had finely worked each melodic line, each harmony, each tempo.

In order to give the most faithful rendition of the warmth of this outstanding performance that has come to light after more than sixty years, we have been able to reap the benefits of the talent of the original Berlin sound engineers together with several weeks of restoration work by our own teams. We have opted to cut the first and second movements on two different sides to optimise the rendering of the sound.

As critic Marcel Prawy wrote, “ The words used to describe major conductors are well-known. Their conducting is fascinating, extraordinary, pure genius. Karl Böhm simply conducts with authenticity”. There could be no more glowing compliment. Musician and broadcaster Clément Rochefort, talking of this “adventure into sound and metaphysics”, says of Tod und Verklärung, recorded that day in October 1962, that the Radio-Symphonie-Orchester had a supremely masterful guide at its helm: Karl Böhm.

Karl Böhm, conductor

Radio Symphonie Orchester Berlin

Recorded at Saal 1, RBB, Berlin, 29.IX.1962-01.X.1962
STEREO ℗ 1962 RBB

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from the original analog tapes

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THE UNRELEASED BERLIN RECORDINGS 1962

The story of this discovery

"After more than a year of collaboration with the Berlin radio, we finally find a solution to access their database and we prepare our third trip which will last nearly 10 days. The radio allocates us a studio where we'll leave all our material. We identify 78 analog tapes: Maria Callas, Erroll Garner, Dexter Gordon, Donald Byrd and Karl Böhm. These recordings from 1962 are among the first in history made in stereo... Böhm's versions of Brahms and Strauss transport us. In order to preserve all the colors and dynamics of these exceptional interpretations, we choose to cut the first and second movements on two distinct 33rpm sides."

Frédéric D'ORIA-NICOLAS
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Le Journal du Dimanche

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Karl Böhm and Richard Strauss were friends for almost twenty years until the composer's death. Strauss dedicated his opera Daphne to him and made Böhm his artistic heir in 1945.

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