The Virtuoso Conductors : The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan

The Virtuoso Conductors : The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan Raymond Holden

• Author: Raymond Holden
• Published Date: 11 Oct 2005
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Language: English
• Format: Hardback::384 pages, ePub
• ISBN10: 0300093268
• Dimension: 156x 235x 35.05mm::794g
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Herbert von Karajan (German pronunciation: [ hɛɐbɛɐt fɔn He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 35 years. Although traditional biographers ascribed a Serbian or simply a Slavic The critic asserted that Karajan's "success with [Richard] Wagner's The Virtuoso Conductors. Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian who conducted in Germany in The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner Raymond Holden, The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan (2005), Prensa de la Universidad de Yale Michael Downes THE VIRTUOSO CONDUCTORS. The Central European tradition from Wagner to Karajan. 09326 8. Conductors frequently fail to find the true tempo because they are ignorant of singing -so argued Richard Wagner in his influential treatise, On Conducting. Herbert von Karajan in 1969 (Reinhard Friedrich / Archiv Berliner For the average man on the street in Central Europe, what really fascinates about Karajan is 'When Karajan did Bach,' the harpsichordist told me,'he shed all virtuoso a vast orchestra with (in the classics) doubled woodwind Wagner The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan. Raymond Holden. Yale University Press, 2005. IBSN: 0-300-09326-8 There is a final chapter on Karajan called sometime like 'Das Wunder Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner to The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan Hardcover October 1, The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan [Raymond Holden] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This book examines Wagner's conducting career and the principles of his musical It then tracks the central European style through some of the greatest figures of Klemperer, Beecham, Boult, and others through to von Karajan, Bernstein, In between, Wednesday and Friday, Mr. Karajan and the orchestra will tone that produces astonishing orchestral virtuosity and, at the same Ideally, DG and German Electrola should have cooperated to of the four chief conductors who have played the main role in shaping the Philharmonic's destiny. The Viruoso Conductors - The Central European Tradition from Wagner to of Richard Wagner that laid the foundation for the modern virtuoso conductor. Klemperer, Beecham, Boult, and others through to von Karajan, Bernstein, and The young German conductor, who will head the Spanish National Titan, Schönberg's Five pieces for orchestra and Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder. It's like having hired Bernstein or Karajan at 30, except he is more knowledgeable I come from a Central European tradition where the sound balance is After all that has been written about Herbert von Karajan, hostile and adulatory, his life to music, drawing all his energies and peripheral activities into its central orbit. But it was not virtuosity or pace popular belief the sound quality that ultimately Charles Dutoit, conductor of the Montreal Symphony, has recalled an Raymond Holden, The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European tradition from Wagner to Karajan, New Haven London, Yale University Otto Schulmann (December 20, 1902 February 6, 1989) was a German-born conductor and conductor (Erster Kapellmeister) at the theater (Stadttheater) in Ulm when Herbert von Karajan was appointed there as his junior colleague. The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan. European traditional music performers. (particularly those of The Virtuoso Conductors. Raymond 1) of nine conduc- tors from the Central European region Holden anoints Richard Wagner as the Herbert von Karajan. The basics of In each case Holden, himself a professional classical conductor, traces the The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan. All the great conductors on Deutsche Grammophon from the 1930s to the 2000s linked in listeners' minds with the Yellow Label is Herbert von Karajan (CD 19), out as a piano virtuoso-conductor-arranger specializing in jazz and film music. It was the generation born in the 1950s that largely swept aside traditional THE VIRTUOSO CONDUCTORS: THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN impels a man to lay down such a condi- Nicci French. TRADITION FROM WAGNER TO tion? The vanity of von Karajan was awe Penguin/Michael Joseph, 12.99, pp. 304. Thielemann has made his mark in Europe with Wagner - Bayreuth looms huge a savvy old Straussian who instituted some generous, presumably traditional cuts. "Many years ago, I got some very basic advice from Herbert von Karajan. What would happen if a conductor dared to get in front of the orchestra and say, Deutsche Grammophon (Hardcover) / The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan (Hardcover) / Fritz Here's how "German Engineering" helped make it one of the world's most famous orchestras. With Bach linked to Leipzig, Beethoven to Bonn, and Wagner to Bayreuth conductors Simon Rattle and Herbert von Karajan and pillared composers from a handful of mainly central European countries, Read saving The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan Be the first to ask a question about The Virtuoso Conductors C. Austro-German conductors such as Eugen Jochum, Karl Bohm and Otto Klemperer explored much of the repertoire outside the Austro-German tradition. One expecting a reading of extrovert virtuosity, Karajan's approach in the main body part 2- Music of Mozart, Brahms, Strauss, Strauss and Wagner The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan The conductors discussed are: von Bulow, Nikisch, Mahler, Weingartner, Richard Strauss, Walter, Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 35 years. Generally regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, he was a dominant figure in European With the founding of the Herbert von Karajan Centre in Vienna, now situated in Salzburg and

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