Word: keilberth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That purpose was soon neglected, but the festival shows signs of thriving anyway, partially because of Passau's picturesque location at the confluence of the Inn, the Hz and the Danube. This yearns highlights: a performance of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony by the Bamberg Symphony under Joseph Keilberth; Bruckner's C Major Organ Prelude, played on the cathedral organ; two evenings of ballet danced by the Ljubljana Slovene National Opera and Ballet on the banks of the Danube...
...unforgettable version 24 years ago. But brothers Wieland and Wolfgang, who will dare anything, decided the old Venusberg needed some drastic new landscaping. They hired fast-rising, Kiev-born Conductor Igor Markevitch, who had never done Wagnerian opera before, then replaced him with Germany's Joseph Keilberth. "I was not aware that anybody here was interested in tempo," huffed Markevitch at one point. "All they talk about is lighting"-and no wonder, for Director Wieland Wagner's new staging relies mainly on light effects. When the trumpets announced curtain time one afternoon last week, nobody at Bayreuth quite...
Lohengrin was ably conducted by Hamburg's Josef Keilberth, and Vienna's Klemens Krauss led Parsifal the next night...
Other noteworthy new releases: Beethoven: Leonore No. 3, Egmont and Coriolanus Overtures (Joseph Keilberth conducting the Berlin Philharmonic and Bamberg Symphony Orchestras; Capitol-Telefunken); Liszt: Spanish Rhapsody (Miklos Schwalb; Academy); Mozart: Requiem (Hilde Gueden, Rosette Anday, Julius Patzak, Josef Greindl, Salzburg Dome Choir; Mozarteum Orchestra conducted by Josef Messner; Remington); Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati; Mercury) ; Schubert: A Song Recital (Herman Schey, bass-baritone; Poly music); Tchaikovsky: "Pathétique" Symphony (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy...