Brahms Symphony 1 4 Schumann Symphony 1 4
Krips
Brahms Symphony 1 4 Schumann Symphony 1 4
Krips
Brahms:
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
Wiener Philharmoniker
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
London Symphony Orchestra
Schumann:
Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38 ‘Spring’
London Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120
1956 version
London Symphony Orchestra
Josef Krips
Born in Vienna in April 1902, the cheery-looking Josef Krips seems to have been pre-destined to achieve eminence in the Viennese classics. He recorded with both, the Wiener Philharmoniker and the key London orchestras for Decca in the 1940s, 50s and 60s and the interpretations have genuine expressive power while remaining devoid of exaggeration or affectation.
Here we have Krips giving us the First and Fourth symphonies, respectively of Brahms and Schumann. With the Wiener Philharmoniker he whips up an almost uncontainable sense of thrill in Brahms’s First. ‘I wrote the Symphony in that first flush of spring which carries a man away even in his old age, and comes over him anew every year’ wrote Schumann of his First Symphony. Krips’s way with the work is unforced and natural, and of his two recordings of Schumann’s Fourth (in 1952 and 1957), the second is included here.
This issue forms part of a series of five reissues devoted to the art of Josef Krips.
Recording producers: John Culshaw (Brahms No. 1); Victor Olof (Brahms No. 4); James Walker (Schumann No. 1); Christopher Whelan (Schumann No. 4);
Balance engineers: James Brown (Brahms No. 1); unidentified (Brahms No. 4); Ken Cress (Schumann No. 4); Gordon Parry (Schumann No. 4)
Recording locations: Sofiensaal, Vienna, Austria, October 1956 (Brahms No. 1); Kingsway Hall, London, United Kingdom, April 1950 (Brahms No. 4), October 1956 (Schumann No. 4), May 1957 (Schumann No. 1)
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