Ferenc Fricsay Portrait - Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.2, Variations on a Theme of Haydn (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 237 Mb | Total time: 76:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 445 407-2 | Recorded: 1957, 1961
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 237 Mb | Total time: 76:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 445 407-2 | Recorded: 1957, 1961
Roughly half of this set is strongly recommendable—and even the half that isn't is still well worth hearing. Ferenc Fricsay was a pivotal figure in the rebuilding of German musical life after the war, primarily as conductor of the Berlin RIAS (Radio In the American Sector) Symphony Orchestra, which was founded in 1946, re-named the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1956 and which is now known as the Deutsches Symphony Orchestra, Berlin. Fricsay's first international triumph was in 1947 when he took over from an indisposed Otto Klemperer for the world premiere of Gottfried von Einem's opera Dantons Tod.