Clemens Krauss - Complete Decca Recordings (2021) [16CD Box Set]
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BAND/ARTIST: Clemens Krauss
- Title: Complete Decca Recordings
- Year Of Release: 2021
- Label: Decca / Eloquence
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: FLAC (Tracks)
- Total Time: 16:53:12
- Total Size: 3,6 GB (+3%rec.)
- WebSite: Album Preview
The most comprehensive collection ever issued of Clemens Krauss’s commercial legacy of recordings, newly remastered and presented as an original jackets limited edition.
In Mark Obert-Thorn’s new remasterings for this Eloquence box set, we can appreciate anew the genius for colour, pacing and timing which made Clemens Krauss the unrivalled conductor of his day in the music of Johann and Richard Strauss. He began recording for Decca in 1947 – three sessions of Brahms in London including a famous account of the Alto Rhapsody which found Kathleen Ferrier in glorious voice – allowing for less than eight years of activity in the studio before the conductor’s untimely death from a heart attack in May 1954, hours after conducting a concert in Mexico City.
In that time, however, Decca secured Krauss in much of the repertoire for which he was renowned as a peerless interpreter. A Richard Strauss series captured all the major symphonic poems except the Alpine Symphony, plus a complete Salome with Christel Goltz, and, for Polydor (Deutsche Grammophon) the rapturous final Trio from Der Rosenkavalier recorded in pre-war Berlin with his wife, the soprano Viorica Ursuleac, as the Marschallin. Unlike many later recordings, these are not performances which pull out the modernist strands in Strauss’s form and harmony. Rather they place the composer in a lineage of lyricists and musical dramatists stretching back to Mozart. Strauss himself apparently regarded Krauss as the supreme conductor of his generation, supporting the younger man’s rise to a succession of top jobs of 1930s and 40s Austria and Germany.
During the war, Krauss founded the tradition of New Year’s Day concerts in Vienna, and Decca capitalised on their popularity with three albums which have become touchstones of interpretation in the music of the Strauss family – ‘by turns committed and distanced, never pasteurized or bent on proving anything’, as Carlos Kleiber remarked of the Decca recording of Die Fledermaus, which became a library choice for the work as soon as it was released in January 1951.
The trio of Beethoven concertos with Backhaus has also been a perennial favourite among collectors; much less familiar is the album of Leonore/Fidelio overtures which marked the premature end to Krauss’s Decca career, charged with visceral intensity and elevated by needle-point rhythmic detail. Sleeves feature the original Decca covers and the booklet includes a survey of Krauss’s remarkable life and times by Peter Quantrill.
Tracks:
CD 1
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)
Overture – Leonore No. 1, Op. 138
Overture – Leonore No. 2, Op. 72a
Overture – Leonore No. 3, Op. 72b
Overture – Fidelio, Op. 72
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano; Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 2
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 ‘Emperor’
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano; Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 3
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1883–1897)
Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53
Kathleen Ferrier, contralto;
London Philharmonic Choir (Frederic Jackson, chorus master)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Variations on a theme by Haydn, Op. 56a
Hungarian Dances Nos. 1 & 3 (orch. Brahms)
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841–1904)
Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (B.83) Nos. 3, 5 & 8
London Symphony Orchestra
CD 4
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Don Juan, Op. 20
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28
Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 5
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
Don Quixote, Op. 35
Wiener Philharmoniker; Pierre Fournier, cello; Ernst Moraweg, viola
CD 6
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Symphonia domestica, Op. 53
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme – Suite, Op. 60
Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 7
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Aus Italien, Op. 16
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28
Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24*
Wiener Philharmoniker (Aus Italien)
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala (Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche)
London Philharmonic Orchestra (Tod und Verklärung)
CDs 8–9
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Salome, Op. 54
Herod: Julius Patzak
Herodias: Margareta Kenney
Salome: Christel Goltz
Jochanaan: Hans Braun
Narraboth: Anton Dermota
Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 10
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)
Overture – Fidelio, Op. 72
London Philharmonic Orchestra
RICHARD WAGNER (1813–1883)
Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod (concert version)
Parsifal: Karfreitagszauber (concert version)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Der Rosenkavalier: Hab mir’s gelobt
Tiana Lemnitz, soprano
Erna Berger, soprano
Viorica Ursuleac, soprano
Orchester der Staatsoper Berlin
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
Don Giovanni: Deh vieni
Le nozze di Figaro: Se vuol ballare
Paul Schöffler, bass-baritone
National Symphony Orchestra
Le nozze di Figaro: Voi che sapete; Giunse alfin il momento … Deh vieni
Idomeneo: Se il padre; Non più, tutto ascoltai … Non temer, amato bene, KV 490
GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813–1901)
Rigoletto: Caro nome; Tutte le feste … Ah, solo per me
Hilde Gueden, soprano
Wiener Philharmoniker
CDs 11–12
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
Die Fledermaus
Gabriel von Eisenstein: Julius Patzak
Rosalinde: Hilde Gueden
Dr. Falke: Alfred Poell
Adele: Wilma Lipp
Prinz Orlofsky: Sieglinde Wagner
Frank: Kurt Preger
Alfred: Anton Dermota
Dr. Blind: August Jaresch
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Wiener Philharmoniker
CDs 13–14
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
Der Zigeunerbaron
Graf Peter Homonay: Alfred Poell
Conte Carnero: Karl Dönch
Sándor Barinkay: Julius Patzak
Kálman Zsupán: Kurt Preger
Arsena: Emmy Loose
Mirabella: Steffi Leverenz
Ottokar: August Jaresch
Czipra: Rosette Anday
Saffi: Hilde Zadek
Pali: Franz Bierback
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 15
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
1 G’schichten aus dem Wienerwald – Walzer, Op. 325
JOSEF STRAUSS (1827–1870)
2 Die Libelle – Polka mazurka, Op. 204
3 Mein Lebenslauf ist Lieb und Lust! – Walzer, Op. 263
4 Jokey – Polka schnell, Op. 278
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
5 Éljen a Magyar! – Polka, Op. 332
6 Ägyptischer Marsch, Op. 335
7 Im Krapfenwald’l – Polka, Op. 336
8 Vergnügungszug – Polka, Op. 281
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899) & JOSEF STRAUSS (1827–1870)
9 Pizzicato Polka
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
10 Künstlerleben – Walzer, Op. 316
11 Frühlingsstimmen – Walzer, Op. 410
CD 16
JOSEF STRAUSS (1827–1870)
1 Dorfschwalben aus Österreich – Walzer, Op. 164
2 Moulinet – Polka française, Op. 57
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
3 Morgenblätter – Walzer, Op. 279
4 Ritter Pásmán – Csárdás, Op. 441
5 Auf der Jagd – Polka schnell, Op. 373
JOSEF STRAUSS (1827–1870)
6 Ohne Sorgen! – Polka schnell, Op. 271
7 Feuerfest! – Polka française, Op. 269
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
8 Stadt und Land – Polka, Op. 322
9 Perpetuum Mobile – Musikalischer scherz, Op. 257
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
10 Bei uns z’ Haus – Walzer, Op. 361
JOSEF STRAUSS (1827–1870)
11 Sphärenklänge – Walzer, Op. 235
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
12 An der schönen blauen Donau – Walzer, Op. 314
JOSEF STRAUSS (1827–1870)
13 Plappermäulchen – Polka schnell, Op. 245
14 Auf Ferienreisen! – Polka schnell, Op. 133
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
15 Annen-Polka, Op. 117
JOHANN STRAUSS I (1804–1849)
16 Radetzky-Marsch, Op. 228
Wiener Philharmoniker
In Mark Obert-Thorn’s new remasterings for this Eloquence box set, we can appreciate anew the genius for colour, pacing and timing which made Clemens Krauss the unrivalled conductor of his day in the music of Johann and Richard Strauss. He began recording for Decca in 1947 – three sessions of Brahms in London including a famous account of the Alto Rhapsody which found Kathleen Ferrier in glorious voice – allowing for less than eight years of activity in the studio before the conductor’s untimely death from a heart attack in May 1954, hours after conducting a concert in Mexico City.
In that time, however, Decca secured Krauss in much of the repertoire for which he was renowned as a peerless interpreter. A Richard Strauss series captured all the major symphonic poems except the Alpine Symphony, plus a complete Salome with Christel Goltz, and, for Polydor (Deutsche Grammophon) the rapturous final Trio from Der Rosenkavalier recorded in pre-war Berlin with his wife, the soprano Viorica Ursuleac, as the Marschallin. Unlike many later recordings, these are not performances which pull out the modernist strands in Strauss’s form and harmony. Rather they place the composer in a lineage of lyricists and musical dramatists stretching back to Mozart. Strauss himself apparently regarded Krauss as the supreme conductor of his generation, supporting the younger man’s rise to a succession of top jobs of 1930s and 40s Austria and Germany.
During the war, Krauss founded the tradition of New Year’s Day concerts in Vienna, and Decca capitalised on their popularity with three albums which have become touchstones of interpretation in the music of the Strauss family – ‘by turns committed and distanced, never pasteurized or bent on proving anything’, as Carlos Kleiber remarked of the Decca recording of Die Fledermaus, which became a library choice for the work as soon as it was released in January 1951.
The trio of Beethoven concertos with Backhaus has also been a perennial favourite among collectors; much less familiar is the album of Leonore/Fidelio overtures which marked the premature end to Krauss’s Decca career, charged with visceral intensity and elevated by needle-point rhythmic detail. Sleeves feature the original Decca covers and the booklet includes a survey of Krauss’s remarkable life and times by Peter Quantrill.
Tracks:
CD 1
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)
Overture – Leonore No. 1, Op. 138
Overture – Leonore No. 2, Op. 72a
Overture – Leonore No. 3, Op. 72b
Overture – Fidelio, Op. 72
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano; Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 2
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 ‘Emperor’
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano; Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 3
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1883–1897)
Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53
Kathleen Ferrier, contralto;
London Philharmonic Choir (Frederic Jackson, chorus master)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Variations on a theme by Haydn, Op. 56a
Hungarian Dances Nos. 1 & 3 (orch. Brahms)
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841–1904)
Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (B.83) Nos. 3, 5 & 8
London Symphony Orchestra
CD 4
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Don Juan, Op. 20
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28
Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 5
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
Don Quixote, Op. 35
Wiener Philharmoniker; Pierre Fournier, cello; Ernst Moraweg, viola
CD 6
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Symphonia domestica, Op. 53
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme – Suite, Op. 60
Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 7
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Aus Italien, Op. 16
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28
Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24*
Wiener Philharmoniker (Aus Italien)
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala (Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche)
London Philharmonic Orchestra (Tod und Verklärung)
CDs 8–9
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Salome, Op. 54
Herod: Julius Patzak
Herodias: Margareta Kenney
Salome: Christel Goltz
Jochanaan: Hans Braun
Narraboth: Anton Dermota
Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 10
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)
Overture – Fidelio, Op. 72
London Philharmonic Orchestra
RICHARD WAGNER (1813–1883)
Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod (concert version)
Parsifal: Karfreitagszauber (concert version)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Der Rosenkavalier: Hab mir’s gelobt
Tiana Lemnitz, soprano
Erna Berger, soprano
Viorica Ursuleac, soprano
Orchester der Staatsoper Berlin
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
Don Giovanni: Deh vieni
Le nozze di Figaro: Se vuol ballare
Paul Schöffler, bass-baritone
National Symphony Orchestra
Le nozze di Figaro: Voi che sapete; Giunse alfin il momento … Deh vieni
Idomeneo: Se il padre; Non più, tutto ascoltai … Non temer, amato bene, KV 490
GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813–1901)
Rigoletto: Caro nome; Tutte le feste … Ah, solo per me
Hilde Gueden, soprano
Wiener Philharmoniker
CDs 11–12
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
Die Fledermaus
Gabriel von Eisenstein: Julius Patzak
Rosalinde: Hilde Gueden
Dr. Falke: Alfred Poell
Adele: Wilma Lipp
Prinz Orlofsky: Sieglinde Wagner
Frank: Kurt Preger
Alfred: Anton Dermota
Dr. Blind: August Jaresch
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Wiener Philharmoniker
CDs 13–14
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
Der Zigeunerbaron
Graf Peter Homonay: Alfred Poell
Conte Carnero: Karl Dönch
Sándor Barinkay: Julius Patzak
Kálman Zsupán: Kurt Preger
Arsena: Emmy Loose
Mirabella: Steffi Leverenz
Ottokar: August Jaresch
Czipra: Rosette Anday
Saffi: Hilde Zadek
Pali: Franz Bierback
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 15
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
1 G’schichten aus dem Wienerwald – Walzer, Op. 325
JOSEF STRAUSS (1827–1870)
2 Die Libelle – Polka mazurka, Op. 204
3 Mein Lebenslauf ist Lieb und Lust! – Walzer, Op. 263
4 Jokey – Polka schnell, Op. 278
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
5 Éljen a Magyar! – Polka, Op. 332
6 Ägyptischer Marsch, Op. 335
7 Im Krapfenwald’l – Polka, Op. 336
8 Vergnügungszug – Polka, Op. 281
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899) & JOSEF STRAUSS (1827–1870)
9 Pizzicato Polka
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
10 Künstlerleben – Walzer, Op. 316
11 Frühlingsstimmen – Walzer, Op. 410
CD 16
JOSEF STRAUSS (1827–1870)
1 Dorfschwalben aus Österreich – Walzer, Op. 164
2 Moulinet – Polka française, Op. 57
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
3 Morgenblätter – Walzer, Op. 279
4 Ritter Pásmán – Csárdás, Op. 441
5 Auf der Jagd – Polka schnell, Op. 373
JOSEF STRAUSS (1827–1870)
6 Ohne Sorgen! – Polka schnell, Op. 271
7 Feuerfest! – Polka française, Op. 269
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
8 Stadt und Land – Polka, Op. 322
9 Perpetuum Mobile – Musikalischer scherz, Op. 257
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
10 Bei uns z’ Haus – Walzer, Op. 361
JOSEF STRAUSS (1827–1870)
11 Sphärenklänge – Walzer, Op. 235
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
12 An der schönen blauen Donau – Walzer, Op. 314
JOSEF STRAUSS (1827–1870)
13 Plappermäulchen – Polka schnell, Op. 245
14 Auf Ferienreisen! – Polka schnell, Op. 133
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
15 Annen-Polka, Op. 117
JOHANN STRAUSS I (1804–1849)
16 Radetzky-Marsch, Op. 228
Wiener Philharmoniker
Year 2021 | Classical | Discography | FLAC / APE
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