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2023-09-18 14:36:19
Several Conductors, 2023
This Week in Classical Music: September 18, 2023. Several conductors. We missed a lot of anniversaries while exploring the music of the transitional period between the Renaissance and early Baroque. Today we’ll get back to a group of conductors. First, Karl Böhm, one of the most successful of them. Böhm was born on August 28th of 1894 in Graz, Austria. His career took off in the 1920s, with some help from Bruno Walter; in 1927 Böhm was appointed the chief musical director in Darmstadt, and in 1931 he took the same position at the prestigious Hamburg Opera. In 1933 the Nazis came to power in Germany and Böhm took over the Dresden Semper Opera, after Fritz Busch, the previous director, went into exile. Böhm was a friend of Richard Strauss and conducted several premiers of his operas. In 1938 Böhm appeared at the Salzburg Festival, and in 1943 took over […]
2023-09-18 14:34:16
Several Conductors, 2023
This Week in Classical Music: September 18, 2023. Several conductors. We missed a lot of anniversaries while exploring the music of the transitional period between the Renaissance and early Baroque. Today we’ll get back to a group of conductors. First, Karl Böhm, one of the most successful of them. Böhm was born on August 28th of 1894 in Graz, Austria. His career took off in the 1920s, with some help from Bruno Walter; in 1927 Böhm was appointed the chief musical director in Darmstadt, and in 1931 he took the same position at the prestigious Hamburg Opera. In 1933 the Nazis came to power in Germany and Böhm took over the Dresden Semper Opera, after Fritz Busch, the previous director, went into exile. Böhm was a friend of Richard Strauss and conducted several premiers of his operas. In 1938 Böhm appeared at the Salzburg Festival, and in 1943 took over […]
2023-09-18 14:27:58
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor K. 466Bruno Walter (Piano)NBC Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)Bruno Walter (Conductor)
2021-08-22 15:30:19
Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto was commissioned by the late clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman. Goodman also had diverse musical interests, and during his career went from big band to bebop and beyond. But he was always interested in classical music as well, and recorded Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, K. 622 in the 1930’s. Goodman also commissioned Béla Bartók’s “Contrasts” for clarinet, violin and piano; that piece, like the Copland and other works Goodman commissioned, has become part of the standard repertoire. The Copland Concerto was premiered in November 1950, in a radio broadcast by Goodman and the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted
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