Description
Unlike the last Karl Böhm CD box with gramophone recordings of overtures and concert pieces (Edition Staatskapelle Dresden Vol. 43) the recordings in this new CD box are all radio broadcasts. The exciting thing is that the Schubert Fifth Symphony is one of the earliest radio magnetic tape recordings that we have. The use of magnetic tape opened up a new and more varied world of sound to the broadcasting technicians. Whereas music programmes had previously broadcast longer works from discs playing for three or four minutes, involving constant changes of disc, the broadcasting engineers now had a 'sound scribe' and the associated 'magnetic tape' medium that would record and transmit recordings lasting up to 20 minutes per tape plate. That meant that complete movements of symphonies could be recorded and played without a break. The 1942 recording of Schubert's Symphony No. 5 presented here is a priceless early audio document, surely the first attested Magnetophone recording by the Dresden Staatskapelle.
Trio Wiek
Philharmonie Festiva; Gerd Schaller
Staatskapelle Dresden; Christian Thielemann
Natasa Antoniazzo; Mia Elezovic
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg; NDR Sinfonieorchester; Deutsches Symphonie-Orcheste
Various
Staatskapelle Dresden; Jan Dahmen; Edwin Fischer; Walter Gieseking; Max Strub; Wolfgang Schneiderha
Margarita Hohenrieder; Eduard Brunner; Symphonieorchester des Bayrischen Rundfunks; Jun'ichi Hiroka
Signe Asmussen; Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester
Shira Patchornik; CHAARTS Chamber Artists; David Castro-Balbi
Jack Hancher
Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra; Sir Simon Rattle
Yorck Kronenberg; Christoph Seybold
Wendy Stern; Kathleen Nester; Amanda Harberg; Katie Lueng
Wang Huandong/Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria/Filippo Arlia
Vivum Singers; Francesca Massey; Tom Winpenny
