크나퍼츠부슈 - 관현악곡 녹음 에디션
한스 크나퍼츠부슈(지휘), 빈 필하모닉 오케스트라, 베를린 필하모닉 오케스트라, 런던 심포니 오케스트라 외

한스 크나퍼츠부슈가 남긴 관현악곡 녹음은 음반사의 명반인 동시에 오랫동안 찬사와 비판을 아울러 받은 시대의 기록이기도 하다. 이 에디션에는 전후 1947년부터 1960년까지 크나퍼츠부슈가 데카에서 녹음한 관현악곡 음반이 담겼으며, 이에 더해서 1928년과 1962년에 폴리돌에서 만든 바그너 앨범도 추가되었다. 브루크너 교향곡도 훌륭하지만 클리포드 커즌과 함께 한 베토벤, 브람스 협주곡도 여전히 감동적인 연주이며, 선입견과는 달리 슈트라우스 왈츠와 폴카, 차이콥스키 발레곡에서 들려주는 더없이 섬세하고 세련된 해석에 새삼 놀라게 된다.




《 CD 1 》
Beethoven: 1-3) Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major Op.58, 4-6) Piano Concerto No. 5 in E major Op.73 "Emperor"
[Performance] Sir Clifford Carson, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
[Recording] April 1954 (1-3), June 1957 (4-6), Vienna
《 CD 2 》
1-4) Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major Op.73
[Performance] Swiss Romando Orchestra
[Recording] July 1947, Geneva
《 CD 3 》
Brahms: 1-4) Piano Concerto No. 2 in B major Op. 83.
[Performance] Sir Clifford Carson, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
[Recording] October 1957, Vienna
《 CD 4 》
Brahms: 1) University Festival Overture Op.80, 2) Tragic Overture Op.81, 3) Variations Op.56a, 4) Alto Rhapsody Op.53
[Performance] Lucretia West (4), Vienna Academy Choir (4), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
[Recording] May 1957, Vienna
《 CD 5 》
1-4) Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D minor (1888/89, Shark version)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
[Recording] April 1954, Vienna
《 CD 6 》
1-4) Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 Romantic in E major (1888/89, Reve revised), 5) Wagner: Siegfried Pasture
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
[Recording] March 1955 (1-4), April 1955 (5), Vienna
《 CD 7 》
1-4) Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B major (Shark version), Wagner: From the musical drama "Twilight of the Gods" 5) The Journey to the Line of Dawn and Siegfried, 6) Siegfried Funeral March
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
[Recording] June 1956, Vienna
《 CD 8 - 9 》
Brookner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor (1892, Shark version)
[Performance] Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
[Recording] January 1963, Munich
《 CD 10 》
R. Strauss: 1) Symphonic Poem Don Fan Op.20, 2) Symphonic Poem Death and Transformation Op.24
[Performance] Paris Conservatory Orchestra
[Recording] May 1956, Paris
《 CD 11 》
Wagner: From the musical drama Meisterzinger of Nuremberg 1) Prelude to Act 1 2) Prelude to Act 3 3) Dance of disciples 4) Riding of Walcule from the musical drama Walcule, 5) From the Holy Festival play Parzibel, From the opera Tanhoi*
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
[Recording] January 1928 (1-6), September 1927 (7, 8), Berlin
《 CD 12 》
Wagner: 1) Prelude to the opera Lienzi, 2) Prelude to the first act, 3) Prelude to the third act, 4) Prelude to the first act, 5) Prelude to the third act, 6) Prelude to the third act, 6) Dance of the disciples, 7) March of the Corporation
[Performance] London Philharmonic Orchestra (1,3,5-9), Zurich Tonehalle Orchestra (2), Swiss Romand Orchestra (4)
[Recording] January 1948, London (1,3,5-9), June 1947, Zurich (2), July 1947, Geneva (4)
《 CD 13 》
Wagner: 1) Prelude to the opera Lienzi, 2) Whispers of the Forest from the musical drama Siegfried, 3) Prelude to Act 1 of the Holy Festival drama Parziphal, 4) Place of Flower Girls, 5) Music for scene change
Franz Lechliner (2), Gunter Trepto (4) (tenor), Vienna National Opera Female Choir (4), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
[Recording] June 1950 (1-3, 5), September 1950 (4), Vienna
《 CD 14 》
Wagner: 1) Overture of the opera The Wanderer Dutchman, 2) Riding of the Walderer from the musical drama Walcure, 3) Overture from the opera Tannhoiser & Venusberg's music
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
[Recording] May 1953, Vienna
《 CD 15 》
Wagner: 1) Prelude to Act 1 from the musical play Meisterzinger of Nuremberg, 2) Prelude to the opera Tanhoiser, 3) Prelude to the musical play Tristan and Isolde, 4) Prelude to Act 1 from the stage sacred celebration play Parzifal
[Performance] Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
[Recording] November 1962, Munich
《 CD 16 》
Wagner: 1) Overture of the opera Lienzi, 2) Overture of the opera Wandering Dutchman, 3) Siegfried Pasture, 4) Prelude from the opera Loenglin to Act 1.
[Performance] Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
[Recording] November 1962, Munich
《 CD 17 》
[Vienna Holiday]1) J. Strauss I: Radetsky March Op. 228, 2) Comzark II: Waltz "Barden Musume" Op. 257, J. Strauss II: 3) Annen Polka Op. 117, 4) Acceleration Round Dance Op. 234, 5) Tritch Trach Polka Op. 214, 6) Waltz II: Waltz II.
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
[Recording] October 1957, Vienna
《 CD 18 》
[All-Time Popular Favorites]1-8) Tchaikovsky: Ballet Nutcracker Suite Op.71a, 9) Schubert: Military March Op.51 No.1 (Venninger Edition), 10) Weber: Invitation to Dance Op.65 (Belliose Edition), 11) Nikolai: Opera Windsor's Joyful Wives Overture
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
[Recording] February 1960, Vienna

Gathered together for the first time on Universal Music labels, including several first CD releases on Decca, is the orchestral legacy of an inimitable genius of the podium: Hans Knappertsbusch. Even in his own lifetime, Hans Knappertsbusch divided opinion, between listeners affronted by technical slips caused by his notorious aversion to rehearsal and those who saw in him the last representative of a performing tradition dating back to Richard Wagner. Working mostly in the opera houses of Munich and Vienna, he never became music director of a symphony orchestra, but his postwar Decca recordings of central repertoire from Beethoven to Strauss, including three distinguished concerto collaborations with Clifford Curzon, preserve interpretations of a flexibility, sweep and grandeur scarcely imaginable today. For Decca, Knappertsbusch recorded with the great orchestras of London, Paris, Zurich, Geneva and Vienna. The orchestral discography began with Brahms's Second Symphony with the Suisse Romande, Wagnerian 'bleeding chunks' in the Kingsway Hall in December 1947 and ended in February 1960 in the Sofiensaal of Vienna, conducting Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite with a delicacy and grace that will surprise listeners who think of him only as the high priest of Parsifal at Bayreuth. The box is full of such surprises: an album of Strauss waltzes and polkas that turns on a sixpence; nimble Bruckner scherzos; one of the swiftest versions of Tod und Verklärung on record. Once introduced to Clifford Curzon, Knappertsbusch was immediately enthusiastic about performing and recording with 'this great English gentleman'; their versions of Beethoven's Fourth and Fifth and Brahms's Second have long been mainstays of the Decca catalogue. Much else here is newly remastered and now widely available on Decca for the first time in many years, such as Wagnerian overtures and preludes with the Zurich Tonhalle (1947) and the London Philharmonic (1948) orchestras. Bruckner's Symphonies Nos. 3-5 (1954-6) preserve Knappertsbusch's profound working relationship with the VPO at it's most harmonious. A magnificently trenchant Brahms album with the VPO in 1957 also features Lucretia West in the Alto Rhapsody. For devotees and sceptics alike, this box offers revelations and the opportunity to reassess the art of a conductor held in the deepest affection by many of the musicians and singers who worked with him.