Eugen Jochum & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels, Don Juan, Der Rosenkavalier by Eugen Jochum (1960/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:49 minutes | 954 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28, is a tone poem written in 1894–95 by Richard Strauss. It chronicles the misadventures and pranks of the German peasant folk hero Till Eulenspiegel, who is represented by two themes. The first, played by the horn, is a lilting melody that reaches a peak, falls downward, and ends in three long, loud notes, each progressively lower. The second, for D clarinet, is crafty and wheedling, suggesting a trickster doing what he does best. (Till Eulenspiegel is a well-known Schnickelfritz.)
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Eugen Jochum – Franck: Symphony in D minor by Eugen Jochum (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:40 minutes | 694 MB | Genre: Classical
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Eugen Jochum, son of a teacher, organist, choir director and director of the orchestra and theater association, grew up in a Catholic home together with his brothers Otto and Georg Ludwig. He received his first piano lessons at the age of four and his first organ lessons at the age of six; at nine, he helped out in the churches of his home town. This led to his original career aspirations of becoming a church musician. He initially studied at the Leopold Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg (organ, piano) and from 1922 to 1925 at the Munich Academy of Music under Siegmund von Hausegger and Hermann von Waltershausen, studying orchestral conducting and composition and organ under Emanuel Gatscher (1890-1946). He also worked as a répétiteur at the Munich Opera.
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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Eugen Jochum – Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 5, Te Deum (First Part) (2017/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:19:56 minutes | 853 MB | Genre: Classical
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Eugen Jochum conducts the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in Bruckner’s Symphony No.5, a gigantic musical cathedral and a masterpiece of counterpoint. Everything is prayer, everything is contemplation, everything is a state of grace. With this concert performance on May 30, 1964, Jochum set the bar for this ”Katholische Sinfonie.” The recoding also includes his reading of the composer’s Te Deum, leading the Berlin Philharmonic.
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Eugen Jochum, London Symphony Orchestra – Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies (1979) [Japan 2017]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 409:07 minutes | Front/Rear covers | 16,5 GB
or FLAC Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front/Rear covers | 8,24 GB
The German conductor Eugen Jochum recorded the complete Beethoven symphonies in stereo three times: First on DG in the Fifties with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Bavarian RSO; then in the Sixties on Philips in the set we have here with the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam; and finally in the Seventies on EMI with the London Symphony Orchestra. This LSO cycle may not have as much fire as Jochum’s earlier Beethoven, but it has a fullness and richness of spirit unmatched in his younger efforts, better played and recorded than the previous ones.
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Eugen Jochum, London Philharmonic Orchestra – Brahms: The Four Symphonies & 2 Overtures (1977/2017)
DSD64 (tracks.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 189:20 minutes | 7,46 GB
FLAC (2ch tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 189:20 minutes | 3,76 GB
Source: SACD-R, Tower Records Japan # TDSA-49 | Artwork: Front cover
Eugen Jochum made two complete recordings of the symphonies of Johannes Brahms, one with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the mid-1950s, the other with the London Philharmonic in 1976. On the strengths of these sets, the conductor Kenneth Woods called him “the greatest Brahms conductor who ever lived”. These Jochum performances of Brahms’ 4 symphonies, together with the Academic Festival & Tragic overtures, are vintage 1970s Kingsway Hall recordings. Eugen Jochum, steeped in the Germanic tradition, knows exactly how he wants these symphonies to sound & the London Philharmonic Orchestra rise to the occasion with playing they have probably never bettered, with producer Christopher Bishop giving them a sound to match.
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Eugen Jochum, German Opera Orchestra & Chorus – Carl Orff: Carmina Burana (1968) [Japan 2019]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 56:13 min | Basic Scans incl. | 2,3 GB
or FLAC (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Basic Scans included | 1,21 GB
Japanese SACD Reissue 2019 | Deutsche Grammmophon / Esoteric Company, Japan # ESSG-90206
Jochum’s version of Carmina Burata leaves the rest behind. Jochum’s baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in particular is the best baritone soloist for this work. The soprano, Gundula Janowitz, finds a quiet dignity for her contribution and this is finely done. The chorus are best when the music blazes, and the closing scene is moulded by Jochum with a wonderful control, almost Klemperian in its restrained power. The sound might be mid 1960’s DG analogue but the performance leaves the rest way behind. Jochum’s version was recorded in the presence of Carl Orff and is authorised by Carl Orff.
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Eugen Jochum, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks – Bruckner: Masses Nos 1-3 (1996/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:28:18 minutes | 2,73 GB | Genre: Classical
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”What seraphic music. It must be Bruckner”, remarked a friend who entered the room as I was playing this recording. I cannot recommend this . . . too highly, both as performances and recordings. Seraphic is the word. Bruckner’s three settings of the Mass are enough in themselves to convert the heathen. I cannot possibly decide which of them I like most, though my head tells me that No. 2 in E minor, with its wind-only accompaniment, is the greatest. What is obvious is that they are the work of a master of choral music, who knew infallibly what effects he wished to create and how to create them, who had the acoustics of a cathedral inbuilt into his notes as he put them on paper and who can rightly be compared with Palestrina in the purity and emotional fervour of his art.
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Eugen Jochum, Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Schöneberg Boys Choir – Carl Orff – Carmina Burana (1966/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 55:43 minutes | 1,93 GB | Genre: Classical
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Eugen Jochum (1902-1987), was one of the last representatives of the traditional German school of conducting and the founder of the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Jochum was widely respected for his many recordings and the warmth and idiomatic assurance of his conducting of repertory from Bach to Hindemith. He was perhaps best known as a Bruckner specialist, recording the cycle of the symphonies and serving as president of the West German Bruckner Society. An ardent Catholic, Jochum resisted the political and moral extremism by the National Socialist regime in Germany. His humanist sympathies informed all of his music-making, and his daughter Veronica, a pianist, inherited herfather’s values. ‘Today, everyone thinks of me as a specialist in Bruckner’s symphonies,” Jochum said in a 1983 interview. “But I began with the music of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. And it is to their music that I still feel closest.” This recording has an enviable pedigree as it was endorsed by Carl Or himself and was also the first coice of the BBC Radio 3 CD Review ‘Building a Library’ review in 1995.
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Eugen Jochum – Bruckner: Symphony No.9; Te Deum (1966/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:22:50 minutes | 2,66 GB | Genre: Classical
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German conductor Eugen Jochum is considered by many to have been the foremost Bruckner conductor of the mid- to late twentieth century; he producing many outstanding recordings of Bruckner’s symphonies (as well as worthy interpretations of a great many other composers). He also left to posterity a number of written articles on the interpretation of that composer.
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Eugen Jochum – Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor (1964/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:14:06 minutes | 2,50 GB | Genre: Classical
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Like Bruckner, Eugen Jochum was a devout Catholic, and in his recordings of this master’s music there is a tenderness, spirituality, and quality of love that is unique in the discography. Though he refused to rank Bruckner the symphonist as highly as Brahms, Jochum clearly saw a world of meaning in these works, and his two integral recordings of the nine symphonies deserve a place in any serious collection. – Ted Libbey
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Emil Gilels, Berliner Philharmoniker, Eugen Jochum – Brahms: The Piano Concertos; Fantasien Op. 116 (1972/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:05:03 minutes | 2,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
The concerto sessions took place at a time when we were experimenting with quadraphonic recording, although no Deutsche Grammophon discs were ever issued in that format. Emil Gilels had already made a highly successful recording of the Second Concerto for another company and knew the work backwards, so the sessions were easy, the slow movement in particular requiring very little subsequent editing.
Gilels took the business of recording very seriously and was determined that we should too. For him the sound had to be worked on during the sessions, just like his interpretation. Once we let him try out the piano in eight different positions before he was convinced that the one we had advocated from the beginning was correct!
When Eugen Jochum was asked in an interview a year before his death about the finest recordings of his long and distinguished career, he singled out the Brahms concertos with Gilels for special mention. Considering that Jochum was “only” accompanying a soloist, it is hard to imagine a more eloquent tribute to the discs’ success.
– Klaus Scheibe
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