Brahms: Hungarian Dances; Dvorák: Slavonic Dances; Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel

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Fritz Reiner made very few recordings for London--the most notable being the Verdi Requiem. This disc may seem like a collection of odds and ends, and in some ways it is. But all the performances are wonderful, and the disc really adds up to more than the sum of its parts. Besides, Reiner was probably the great Strauss conductor of his day, and this is the only opportunity we have to hear him in action with one of the greatest European Strauss orchestras. As for the Hungarian and Slavonic Dances, they are top-quality light music, and Reiner invests them with the same care and love that he would give a Beethoven symphony. A classic recording. --David Hurwitz

Brahms: Hungarian Dances; Dvorák: Slavonic Dances; Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel,Johannes Brahms,Antonin Dvorak,Richard Strauss,Fritz Reiner,James Brown,Albert Parlow,Andreas Hallen,Antonin Dvorák,Johannes Brahms,Wiener Philharmoniker,Polygram Records,Cello with Keyboard,Chamber,Classical,Classical Music,Folk Dance for Orchestra,Keyboard,Music for Four Hands at One Keyboard,Orchestral,Orchestral Music,Romantic Tone Poem/Symphonic Poem for Orchestra

Average customer rating: MUSIC-MAKING AT ITS BEST

Brahms: Hungarian Dances; Dvorák: Slavonic Dances; Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Brahms | Brahms, Johannes | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Dvorák, Antonín | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Strauss | Strauss, Richard | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Tone Poems | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | ( V ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000428F Release Date: 1996-09-17

Tracks:

1. Hungarian Dances: No. 5 In G Minor
2. Hungarian Dances: No. 6 In D Major
3. Hungarian Dances: No. 7 In A Major
4. Hungarian Dances: No. 12 In D Minor
5. Hungarian Dances: No. 13 In D Major
6. Hungarian Dances: No. 19 In B Minor
7. Hungarian Dances: No. 21 In E Minor
8. Hungarian Dances: No. 1 In G Minor
9. Slavonic Dances: No. 1 In C Major
10. Slavonic Dances: No. 3 In A Flat Major
11. Slavonic Dances: No. 8 In G Minor
12. Slavonic Dances: No. 10 In E Minor
13. Slavonic Dances: No. 9 In B Major
14. Till Eulenspiegel

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Fritz Reiner made very few recordings for London--the most notable being the Verdi Requiem. This disc may seem like a collection of odds and ends, and in some ways it is. But all the performances are wonderful, and the disc really adds up to more than the sum of its parts. Besides, Reiner was probably the great Strauss conductor of his day, and this is the only opportunity we have to hear him in action with one of the greatest European Strauss orchestras. As for the Hungarian and Slavonic Dances, they are top-quality light music, and Reiner invests them with the same care and love that he would give a Beethoven symphony. A classic recording. --David Hurwitz

Customer Reviews:

MUSIC-MAKING AT ITS BEST.......2002-01-26

I have the previously released CD of this music by this conductor, on the London Weekend Classics label. This kind of music-making is simply magic. Fritz Reiner, who feels just at ease with the Hungarian Dances as he does with a Dvorak symphony, really puts his heart and mind in the music and gives us the best version of these works I have ever heard. Especially effective is the Hungarian Dance no. 6 in D major - if this music does not make you want to dance, then there is either something wrong with me or the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Average customer rating: Sublime & Rapt Account Not up to par reiner's strauss with a viennese accent At last, all of the lesser Vienna works by Reiner on one CD!

Strauss, Brahms and Dvorak Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Brahms | Brahms, Johannes | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Dvorák, Antonín | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Strauss | Strauss, Richard | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Tone Poems | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | ( V ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music ASIN: B00004XQ8J Release Date: 2000-11-14

Tracks:

1. Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche, Op. 28: Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks
2. Tod And Verklarung, Op. 24: Death And Transfiguration
3. Hungarian Dances: No. 5 In G Minor
4. Hungarian Dances: No. 6 In D Major
5. Hungarian Dances: No. 7 In A Major
6. Hungarian Dances: No. 19 In B Minor
7. Hungarian Dances: No. 21 In E Minor
8. Hungarian Dances: No. 1 In G Minor
9. Slavonic Dances: Op. 46 No. 1 In C Major
10. Slavonic Dances: Op. 46 No. 3 In A Flat Major
11. Slavonic Dances: Op. 46 No. 8 In G Minor
12. Slavonic Dances: Op. 72 No. 2 In E Minor
13. Slavonic Dances: Op. 72 No. 1 In B Major

Customer Reviews:

Sublime & Rapt Account.......2007-03-03

It is impossible to decide the definitive recording of Tod und Verklarung, as there are simply too many great recordings of this work; Karajan's glorious degital recording, Abbado, Maazel, Haitink, Ashkenazy, Levine, Horenstein, Ormandy, Klemperer, Reiner's RCA stereo and Furtwangler's very powerful account....

This 1953 Decca Stereo recording by Reiner comes very close to top of the list, and well worth adding to your collection. Rapt and sublime performance by VPO. Reiner surely knows how to let the music speak for itself and to use pauses and climaxes to maximum effect. Surprisingly well recorded for the date.

Not up to par.......2005-12-20

You would think that the combination of the great conductor Fritz Reiner, the Vienna Philharmonic and Decca's famous sound would make for a "Legendary Performance" but this disc does not live up to the billing. Granted, practically anything Reiner recorded is above average, but the Vienna Philharmonic is just not up to the impossibly high standards of Reiner's late fifties Chicago ensemble. Those Chicago/Reiner recordings of Richard Strauss (and Bartok and Mussorgsky and Brahms and others) are true benchmarks. This disc, though charming in the lighter Brahms and Dvorak, has some truly wobbly moments from the Vienna Philharmonic that make you wish for the fiery, impeccable playing of the Chicagoans.

reiner's strauss with a viennese accent.......2002-06-24

Reiner's performances of these two major Strauss tone poems embody his typical virtues of rhythmic drive and brilliantly clear textures, but filtered through the added warmth of sound and flexibility of expression of the Vienna Philharmonic's style, as compared to both his Chicago Symphony and Szell's Cleveland Orchestra. Till Eulenspiegel is vivid and energetic, as one would expect from Reiner, but in the case of his performance of Death and Transfiguration, its dramatic power and intensity is achieved less from linear drive (as with Szell's excellent Cleveland recording) and more from a rhetorical elasticity of phrasing, particularly with regard to Reiner's shaping of the big climaxes. The Vienna brass playing is particularly distinctive in that, while sounding less rhythmically precise than Szell's, actually brings out more of the considerable polyphony in the brass writing, plus one hears more warmth of tone both in the brass and lower strings.
In addition, the selections from Brahms's Hungarian dances are performed with particular relish and affection, again as one might expect from the Viennese.
Get this recording, in excellent remastered sound, along with Szell's Don Quixote and Don Juan coupling on Sony, which I have also reviewed on this site, as well as Reiner's classic 1954 accounts of Also Sprach Zarathustra and Ein Heldenleden (coupled on an excellent sounding RCA Living Stereo CD), and you will have a first class collection of all the major Strauss tone poems.

At last, all of the lesser Vienna works by Reiner on one CD!.......2002-01-30

While Fritz Reiner was on vacation in Europe from his duties as conductor of the Chicago Symphony, he concertized in Vienna and made a few recordings with the Philharmonic. While these pieces should have been recorded by him in Chicago to give them the spontaneity I think they deserved by his own orchestra, they are not to be ignored. Anything Reiner recorded and wherever he recorded it, it certainly was not to be ignored. Reiner's recordings of these pieces have been given heaps of praise in past forums; there is no need for me to provide additional.

While in Vienna, in addition to the Verdi Requiem, Reiner recorded Richard Strauss' "Death and Transfiguration," "Till Eulenspiegel," Dvorak's "Slavonic Dances" and Brahms' "Hungarian Dances." Past CD issues of this repertory (excluding the Verdi) were apparently hard-pressed to squeeze the other material onto one CD, and this issue succeeds in getting all of it onto one disk.

Track Listings:

1. Brahms: Intermezzi Op117; Schubert: Piano Sonata in Bf No21, D960
2. Canto Olympico
3. Chansons De Trouvères
4. Classical Christmas Favorites
5. Concertos Alla Jazz
6. Debussy: Children's Corner/La Boîte A Joujoux/Printemps/La Plus Que Lente
7. Deutsche Sinfonie, Op. 50 (German Symphony)
8. Dupré: Les Vêpres de la Vierge, Op.18
9. Evensong For St. Ethelfreda
10. Frei Manuel Cardoso: Requiem

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