Christiane Behn - Tristan und Isolde - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

When I listen to this recording, it not only brings back wonderful memories of Fred and Kun Woo, but I thoroughly enjoy this charming music. I am so grateful to my dear friend Carol Rosenberger for allowing it to be heard again. Album Tracks 1. Intrada 2. Impromptu 3. Introduction 4. Romance 5. Ballet 6. Légende 7. Air de Bravoure 8. Caprice 9. Allegro Deciso; Lent 10. Final 11. Capriccio

The choice of sonatas for this album is by no means random, because both are landmarks in Reger's oeuvre. Sonata No. 4, written in 1903, brought Reger his breakthrough thanks to performances by the Belgian violinist Henri Marteau (always with Reger at the piano). From then on, alongside Richard Strauss, he was considered the ultimate exponent of modern music, either celebrated or feared, but always with recognition of his undoubted craftsmanship. The word Inchwild rainInch is a fine characterization for the works of these years. Quite different is Reger's last contribution to this genre. Sonata No. 9, written a good year before his death, was particularly close to his heart. He himself spoke of a Inchcompletely new styleInch, and in fact the work stands out against some earlier compositions in it's tendency towards motivic economy, combined with intensive work on details. The harmonic, motivic, tonally excessive expression, which had earned him the reputation of the Inchwild RegerInch, is canceled here. - Johannes Prelle, trained with Max Rostal, was active in various German orchestras from 1964 on. From 1980 to 1996 he was the primarius of the Leonardo Quartet, which was particularly devoted to 20th century music. From 1986 to 2002 he headed a college class for violin and chamber music at the Wuppertal department of the Cologne University of Music. Album Tracks 1. Sonate C-Dur = C Major NR. 4 Op. 72 (1904) 2. Sonate C-Moll = C minor NR. 9 Op. 139 (1915)

Leonard Bernstein conducted regularly in Munich from the 1980s onwards. It was then that he learned to appreciate and love the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in particular. In October 1976, Bernstein had appeared with an all-Beethoven programme, and in 1983 he began a series of annual concerts with the orchestra. This CD from BR-KLASSIK presents the live recording of the Beethoven concert on October 17, 1976, in which Bernstein conducted Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and the Leonore Overture No. 3.The programme of the Munich concert in October 1976 included Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which can be seen as stroke of liberation in the sense of Inchper aspera ad astraInch (Inchthrough hardships to the starsInch or Inchthrough darkness to lightInch) and also a symphonic piece that he had written for his only opera InchFidelioInch the Third Leonore Overture, with it's lone trumpet signal announcing the arrival of the minister Don Fernando - and thus the rescue of Florestan from arbitrary violence and imprisonment. Joachim Kaiser, Munich's leading music critic at the time, said InchBernstein demonstrated to a spellbound Munich audience how much he is filled with Beethoven, the man is full of a freedom and fire that can be produced and reproduced. Even if Bernstein's leaps, crouches and crescendos may seem violent to anxious listeners, the inner rightness of the music - which sounds natural, powerful, wonderful and relaxed - is overwhelming.InchThe live recording was made on October 17, 1976 at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Album Tracks 1. Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 2. InchLeonore OvertureInch No. 3 in C Major, Op. 72