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Sym.4 / 5: R.kempe / Bbc.so ('76, '74)

Brahms / Schubert

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Genre
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Classical
Catalogue Number
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BBCL4003
Number of Discs
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1
Label
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Bbc *classics*
Release Country
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UK
Format
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CD

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Rudolf Kempe was one of the leading German conductors to emerge after the Second World War. It was difficult for anyone to have a major career in the vicinity of Berlin during Von Karajan's tenure, but Kempe managed to make records there as well as in Munich, and with the Staatskapelle Orchestra of his native Dresden he conducted a legendary series of recordings of the music of Richard Strauss. Appointed music director of the BBC Symphony in 1975, he seemed on the brink of the kind of valedictory period that often sets the seal on a conductor's reputation when he died suddenly at the age of 66.
This disc of live recordings hints at what Kempe's London regime might have been like, and that, alas, is a lot. This is the kind of Brahms Fourth that is neither old-school nor new, just very right, big and spacious enough yet never sagging, warm yet always keen to the continuation of musical and dramatic lines. There is also much charm in the Schubert Fifth, though there is a noticeable "big band" approach at work here, perhaps demanded by the more than ample acoustics of the Royal Albert Hall.

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唯一無二のブラームス。圧倒的な感動。ケン...

投稿日：2007/04/28 (土)

唯一無二のブラームス。圧倒的な感動。ケンペの演奏はどれも素晴らしいが、この演奏は格別。BPO盤、ミュンヘンPO盤もそれぞれに魅力的だが、私はこのBBCとの演奏が一番好きです。同曲は沢山の現役盤がありますが、本演奏はその雑踏から一際高く聳え立つ名演奏と言えましょう。

風呂敷 さん | 東北 | 不明

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感動の名演。何度聴いても心動かされる。胸...

投稿日：2007/03/17 (土)

感動の名演。何度聴いても心動かされる。胸をわしづかみにされる。生で聴きたかった…

NEW さん | 横浜 | 不明

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ケンペの残した貴重な遺産の一つ。とにかく...

投稿日：2004/02/15 (日)

ケンペの残した貴重な遺産の一つ。とにかく熱気溢れるその演奏に心を動かされない人はいないと思う。ＢＢＣの音色もまた素晴らしい。

KURO さん | 福岡 | 不明

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