BRAHMS - MOZART - WOLF - FERRARI : Ferdinand Leitner

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Brahms - Mozart - Wolf - Ferrari

conducted by Ferdinand Leitner

Monique Haas - piano

BRAHMS - MOZART - WOLF - FERRARI : Ferdinand Leitner,Mozart, Wolf, Ferrari Brahms,Profil

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BRAHMS - MOZART - WOLF - FERRARI : Ferdinand Leitner Manufacturer: Profil ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0009AGE10 Release Date: 2005-04-10

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Brahms - Mozart - Wolf - Ferrari

conducted by Ferdinand Leitner

Monique Haas - piano

Average customer rating: Excellent Mozart, Middling Brahms and Wolf-Ferrari; Dated Sound

Brahms: Variations for Orchestra, Op. 56; Mozart: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 23; Wolf-Ferrari: The Jewels o Manufacturer: Profil - G Haenssler ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Brahms | Brahms, Johannes | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolf-Ferrari | Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | ( B ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B0007UMNVC Release Date: 2005-09-20

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Excellent Mozart, Middling Brahms and Wolf-Ferrari; Dated Sound.......2005-09-21

Ferdinand Leitner was primarily known to the record-buying public as an operatic conductor. He was chief conductor for many years at the Stuttgart and later the Zurich Opera Houses. And he was an excellent accompanist. These recordings date from the late 1940s (Wolf-Ferrari) and early 1950s (Brahms, Mozart) and the sound, although cleaned up a bit, is pretty tubby. Further, in the Brahms, the interpretation has a heaviness to it that makes it rather a chore to get through, frankly. Our taste in Brahms performance style has perhaps changed in the past 50+ years. The Mozart, while played with full orchestra, not the stripped down classical orchestra we now take for granted, is rather better. Monique Haas, a French pianist primarily known for her performances of modern music, was a fine interpreter of the classics as well and her A Major Concerto, K. 488, is fleet and airy in the outer movements, and deliciously melancholic and beautifully phrased in that glorious F sharp minor middle movement. She sets such a brisk pace at the outset of the third movement that the orchestra (and particularly the bassoon, which has those rapid accompanimental roulades at the end of the second theme) have a merry time simply keeping up -- and this is the Berlin Philharmonic! Still, I found her pace to be bracing and liked it rather a lot.

The two intermezzi from Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's 'The Jewels of the Madonna' are negligible pieces, albeit beautifully written, and are played unexceptionably.

I cannot recommend this disc primarily because of the dated sound and the phlegmatic Brahms, but if you are interested in hearing Haas's brisk Mozart this release might be for you. But be warned that the sound takes some getting used to.

Scott Morrison

Track Listings:

1. Britten: Choral Music - Gloriana, opera, Op. 53; Five Flower Songs for SATB chorus, Op. 47; A Boy Was Born, choral variations for mixed voices, Op. 3
2. Britten: Occasional Overture/Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge/Prelude and Fugeu, Op.29/The Young Person's Guide
3. Britten: Piano Concerto, Op.13/Violin Concerto, Op.15
4. Bruckner: Mass No2, WAB27; Locus iste WAB23
5. BRUCKNER : Symphony No. 7 In E Major - Carl Schuricht / Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester
6. Brumel: Missa; Josquin Desprez: Berzerette savoyenne
7. Cathedral Brass - Sacred works for Brass by Gabrieli, Bach and Clarke
8. Cello Suites 1,3 & ,5
9. Cello Suites 2,4 & ,6
10. Concert Bandstand [Live]

Track Listings

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Track Listings

Budokan 83 [Live] [Import]

Gilbert & Sullivan Mikado / Trial By Jury / D'Oyly Carte

Good Rocking Tonight [Import]

Music: The Early Years [EP]

Rock Music rock-music-62

Get It While It's Hot [CD-single] [Content/Copy-Protected CD]

Guess How Much I Love You: Sweet Classical Keepsakes

James Jelasic Performs Chopin Waltzes

Home Town

Everyday Everynight [Import]

Goddess On A Hiway / Car Wash Hair / I Dreamt / Caroline Says Pt. 2

Johnny Burnette Sings/The Johnny Burnette Story

Hommage [Import]

Chopin: The 21 Nocturnes; The 26 Préludes

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