Otto Klemperer - Otto Klemperer as a Bach-Wagner conductor: Live in Budapest 1948-1950 (2003)

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Otto Klemperer as a Bach-Wagner conductor: Live in Budapest 1948-1950 (2003)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat BWV 243; Brandenburg Concerto No.5 BWV 1050;
Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

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Classical | Label: Hungaroton Classic | # HCD 32175 | Time: 01:17:16

Hardly anybody will dispute that Otto Klemperer (1885-1973) was one of the most remarkable conductors of the last century. During his Budapest guest performances between the two World Wars he had already been given an enthusiastic reception by the audience and the musical profession alike. Not only his interpretation of the Viennese classical and romantic repertoire met with recognition but that of modern Hungarian music as well. For example, when conducting the premiere of Bartok’s Second Piano Concerto at the head of the Budapest Concert Orchestra Bartok, who was usually grudging of praise, declared that he could not imagine a more consummate performance of the orchestral part. Klemperer lived and worked in Hungary between 1947 and 1950 without a break, conducting the orchestra of the Opera in the first place and appearing on stage in concerts with symphonic orchestras. His interpretations of Bach’s and Wagner’s works on the present CD date from this period.

German conductor Otto Klemperer attended the Hoch Conservatorium in Frankfurt-am-Main, studied violin and piano at the Klindworth-Scharwenka and Stern Conservatories in Berlin, and composition with the German composer Pfitzner. He made his début in Berlin in 1905, where he conducted fifty performances of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, not a work that would now be identified with Klemperer's serious and profoundly personal approach to music.

Shortly afterwards, he visited Gustav Mahler in Vienna and impressed the composer by playing a scherzo from a Mahler symphony by memory at the piano. With Mahler's personal recommendation, Klemperer was appointed choirmaster and conductor at the German Opera in Prague. He held this post for three years, during which he returned to Vienna to assist in rehearsals for Mahler's later symphonies. Again with Mahler's help, he became conductor at the Hamburg Opera in 1910. There followed a succession of appointments in Barmen (1913), Strasbourg (1914-1916), Cologne (1916-1924) and Wiesbaden (1924-1927) and visits to Barcelona, Rome, the U.S.S.R., and the U.S. between 1920 and 1936.

In 1927, he was engaged as director of the Kroll Opera House in Berlin, where he remained until 1931 when political pressures and financial difficulties forced its closure. In addition to better-known operas, Klemperer introduced new works which ran counter to the Nazis' idealized view of German culture, such as Schoenberg's Die glückliche Hand and Erwartung; Hindemith's two operas, Cardillac and Neues von Tag; and Janacek's From the House of the Dead. Indeed, Klemperer was then noted more for his interest in contemporary music than for his interpretations of the mainstream Classical and Romantic repertory on which, in later life, he concentrated almost entirely.

After a highly successful series of London concerts in 1929, Klemperer returned to Germany in 1931 to conduct the Berlin State Opera. As a Jew, he was in danger of persecution and, though honored with a gold medal for his "outstanding contribution to German culture," a German newspaper of the time sourly commented "[h]is whole outlook ran counter to German thought and feeling."

Klemperer was dismissed in 1933 and fled with his family first to Austria and later to Switzerland. While there, he was appointed conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and lived in California from 1935 to 1939 during which he also conducted the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. In 1937, he helped to reorganize the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, though refused to become its conductor.

Following a brain tumor that left him partially paralyzed, his career faltered. In 1940, Klemperer became a U.S. citizen, but his sufferings were increased by a manic depressive state characterized by recurring cycles of exhilaration and depression. In 1951, an accident at the Montreal airport forced Klemperer to conduct from a chair. To prove himself competent, he hired an orchestra to perform a concert of works of his own choice at Carnegie Hall. It was a success but, after an argument with American immigration authorities, Klemperer returned to Europe where he continued conducting in Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, and France.

The peak of Klemperer's career came in 1959 with the Philharmonia Orchestra, based in London. When attempts were made to disband the orchestra in 1964, its members appointed him president, and the orchestra was reconstituted. As the New Philharmonia, the group reached new heights in the Beethoven cycles during the early 1960s. In the same period he conducted at Covent Garden Opera House.

Roy Brewer, Allmusic.com




Tracklist:

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Magnificat in D major, BWV243
01. I. Magnificat anima mea (03:08)
02. II. Et exultavit (03:10)
03. III. Quia respexit (02:28)
04. IV. Omnes generationes (01:26)
05. V. Quia fecit mihi magna (02:28)
06. VI. Et misericordia (04:22)
07. VII. Fecit potentiam (02:03)
08. VIII. Deposuit potentes (02:18)
09. IX. Esurientes (03:01)
10. X. Suscepit Israel (02:04)
11. XI. Sicut locutus est (01:20)
12. XII. Gloria (02:00)
Anna Bathy, soprano; Judit Sandor, soprano; Magda Tiszay, contralto
Lajos Somogyvari, tenor; Gyorgy Littasy, bass; Oliver Nagy, piano; Sandor Margittay, organ
Budapest Chorus, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, Rec.13.I.1950

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV1050
13. I. Allegro (09:46)
14. II. Affettuoso (06:00)
15. III. Allegro (05:14)
Tibor Ney, violin; Janos Szebenyi, flute; Annie Fischer, piano
Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Otto Klemperer,Rec.13.I.1950


Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Lohengrin
16. 1 Act Prelude (08:23)
17. 3 Act Prelude (02:56)
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Otto Klemperer,Rec.24.X.1948

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
18. 1 Act Prelude (09:19)
19. 3 Act Prelude (05:41)
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, Rec.11.IV.1949


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