KARL BÖHM
KARL BÖHM - THE UNRELEASED BERLIN RECORDINGS 1962 - TELECHARGEMENT HD
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KARL BÖHM
THE UNRELEASED BERLIN RECORDINGS 1962
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RECORD 1
- Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
- Allegro non troppo
- Andante moderato
RECORD 2
- Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
- 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
Remastered by ℗ & © 2024 THE LOST RECORDINGS
from the original analog tapes
Ref.: TLR-2403051
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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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