Ferenc Fricsay - The Unreleased Mozart Radio Broadcasts [4CD]

Klasyczna Muzyka Symfoniczna
premiera polska: 2018-01-19
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
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Editor's info:
Discovered in the archives of Deutschlandfunk Kultur and now newly remastered, these remarkable recordings, unheard since the 1950s, tell two powerful stories: that of a war-ravaged Berlin where, amidst the rubble and hunger, audiences nonetheless queued to listen to orchestral music, and that of a conductor whose fastidious musicianship and personal warmth – both cut short by his early death – played such a pivotal role in rebuilding musical life in Berlin and paved the way for Mozart conducting for years to come. Both stories are powerfully relayed in this beautifully presented 4-CD hardback edition with a compelling essay on Fricsay and post-war Berlin. Mozart and Fricsay had an exceptional relationship: indeed he used these radio broadcasts to ‘lay the foundations for a better understanding of the greatest musical thinker ever to have lived.’

Radio broadcasts (1951-1954) uncovered in the archives of Deutschlandfunk Kultur – newly remastered and made available for the first time since the 50s – of the RIAS Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the first orchestra to be founded in post-war Berlin.
Fricsay’s career as a recording artist lasted barely 12 years, yet connoisseurs consider him a legend whose conducting style paved the way for many facets of what we consider informed conducting today.
4-CD hardback presentation including: A short text by Fricsay himself, providing insight into his connection to Mozart and his music. A new note from Wolfgang Stähr “Difficult But Wonderful Years: Fricsay In Berlin” about the founding of the RIAS Symphony Orchestra and Fricsay’s special relationship with them
Fricsay considered Mozart to be ”the greatest musical thinker ever to have lived”, and used his radio broadcasts to lay the foundations for a better understanding of his music.
Includes two bonus arias with Suzanne Danco and Rita Streich

“[Mozart] could express and describe every psychological state, every character and every situation in a way unmatched by anyone before or since. In his works Mozart is the first and, so far, the only composer to conjure up life in its entirety, in all its antitheses and its perpetual duality” FERENC FRICSAY

About the Artist
FERENC FRICSAY Ferenc Fricsay was a pivotal figure in the rebuilding of German musical life after the war, primarily as conductor of the Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra. Founded during Berlin’s disastrous winter of 1946/47, the RIAS Symphony Orchestra was to give its first public concert in December 1948 for an audience still traumatized by war but who were as equally enthusiastic for music. On the podium was the young Hungarian conductor Ferenc Fricsay who immediately set about transforming the orchestra to a new level of artist excellence, that this most fastidious of musicians was able to do this was due above all to his inspired yet uncompromising rehearsals. Even though his career as a recording artist lasted barely 12 years, almost every connoisseur of classical music would consider Fricsay a legend. His conducting style paved the way for many facets of what we consider informed conducting today, especially in Mozart, and he used his radio broadcasts to “lay the foundations for a better understanding of the greatest musical thinker ever to have lived.“

muzycy:
Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Ferenc Fricsay: Conductor

wydano: 2017-03-10
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