Kegel

Here’s a collection unrivalled in its scope within the current catalogue, of orchestral works by one of the most prolific of 20th-century, Paul Hindemith, whose reputation as a purveyor of ‘useful’ music has perhaps overshadowed his colourful orchestrations and often powerfully dramatic transformations of a wide range of extra-musical inspirations. His masterpiece may be the opera he based on the life and work of the painter of the Isenheim alterpiece, Matthias Grünewald, but the Mathis der Maler symphony he derived from its music is hardly less emotive.

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphonies 3 & 1
Herbert Kegel / Dresdner Philharmonie
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 4,35 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,20 GB | Full Artwork
Label/Cat#: Capriccio # SACD 71 008 | Country/Year: Germany 2003 | 5% Recovery Info
Genre: Classical | Style: Viennese School

Known in the United States primarily as the conductor of a surefire recording of Orff's Carmina Burana, Herbert Kegel was respected in Europe as a pivotal figure in establishing the works of such individual Modernists as Blacher, Dallapiccola, Dessau, Penderecki, and Nono in the concert hall and on discs. He was one of the first to champion Britten's War Requiem, while his recording of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron was instrumental in keeping this difficult and challenging work before the public…