Hermann Scherchen, English Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera – J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1-4, BWV 1066-1069 (Remastered 2024) (2024)
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The four orchestral suites BWV 1066–1069 (called ouvertures by their composer) are four suites by Johann Sebastian Bach from the years 1724–1731. The name ouverture refers only in part to the opening movement in the style of the French overture, in which a majestic opening section in relatively slow dotted-note rhythm in duple meter is followed by a fast fugal section, then rounded off with a short recapitulation of the opening music. More broadly, the term was used in Baroque Germany for a suite of dance-pieces in French Baroque style preceded by such an ouverture. This genre was extremely popular in Germany during Bach’s day, and he showed far less interest in it than was usual: Robin Stowell writes that “Telemann’s 135 surviving examples [represent] only a fraction of those he is known to have written”; Christoph Graupner left 85; and Johann Friedrich Fasch left almost 100. Bach did write several other ouverture (suites) for solo instruments, notably the Cello Suite no. 5, BWV 1011, which also exists in the autograph Lute Suite in G minor, BWV 995, the Keyboard Partita no. 4 in D, BWV 828, and the Overture in the French style, BWV 831 for keyboard. The two keyboard works are among the few Bach published, and he prepared the lute suite for a “Monsieur Schouster,” presumably for a fee, so all three may attest to the form’s popularity.
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Hermann Scherchen – Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245 by Hermann Scherchen (1962/2023)
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The Passio secundum Joannem or St John Passion (German: Johannes-Passion), BWV 245, is a Passion or oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, the earliest of the surviving Passions by Bach. It was written during his first year as director of church music in Leipzig and was first performed on 7 April 1724, at Good Friday Vespers at the St. Nicholas Church.
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Vienna Symphony Orchestra & Hermann Scherchen – J.S. Bach: Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079 (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Roger Vuataz) (2024)
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The Musical Offering (German: Musikalisches Opfer or Das Musikalische Opfer), BWV 1079, is a collection of keyboard canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great (King Frederick II of Prussia), to whom they are dedicated. They were published in September 1747. The Ricercar a 6, a six-voice fugue which is regarded as the high point of the entire work, was put forward by the musicologist Charles Rosen as the most significant piano composition in history (partly because it is one of the first). This ricercar is also occasionally called the Prussian Fugue, a name used by Bach himself.
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Cento Soli Orchestra & Hermann Scherchen – J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6, BWV 1046-1051 (Remastered 2024) (2024)
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The Brandenburg Concertos (BWV 1046–1051) by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, in 1721 (though probably composed earlier). The original French title is Six Concerts Avec plusieurs instruments, meaning “Six Concertos for several instruments”. Some of the pieces feature several solo instruments in combination. They are widely regarded as some of the greatest orchestral compositions of the Baroque era.
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Hermann Scherchen, Wiener Akademie Kammerchor, Vienna Symphony – J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2024)
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Véritable électron libre inclassable, ce chef d’orchestre et champion de la musique de son temps a bousculé les habitudes et défrayé la chronique par ses prises de position politiques et musicales hors de la routine et des idées communes. Son rôle fut déterminant pour le développement et la propagation de la musique d’avant-garde dodécaphonique et électroacoustique. Né à Berlin en 1891, Hermann Scherchen est un autodidacte dont l’instinct musical est très développé. Très jeune, à 16 ans, il est altiste de l’orchestre Blüthner avant d’entrer au Philharmonique de Berlin jusqu’à sa rencontre avec Arnold Schönberg, auprès duquel il fait ses premières armes de chef d’orchestre lors des répétitions du Pierrot lunaire en 1912.
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Hermann Scherchen – Mozart: Symphonies 36, 40 & 41 (2023)
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Hermann Carl Julius Scherchen (* June 21, 1891 in Berlin; † June 12, 1966 in Florence) was a German conductor and composer.
After early violin lessons in childhood, Scherchen studied at the Berlin Musikhochschule. In 1907 he began his musical career as a violist in the “Blüthner Orchestra”, the predecessor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra (today: Konzerthausorchester Berlin), and as a temporary assistant with the Berliner Philharmoniker and in the Krolloper. He learned the craft for his later profession of conductor mainly as an autodidact.
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Hermann Scherchen – Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232 by Hermann Scherchen (2023)
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Scherchen was born in Berlin. Originally a violist, he played among the violas of the Bluthner Orchestra of Berlin while still in his teens. He conducted in Riga from 1914 to 1916 and in Königsberg from 1928 to 1933, after which he left Germany in protest of the new Nazi regime and worked in Switzerland. Along with the philanthropist Werner Reinhart, Scherchen played a leading role in shaping the musical life of Winterthur for many years, with numerous premiere performances, the emphasis being placed on contemporary music. From 1922 to 1950, he was the principal conductor of the city orchestra of Winterthur (today known as Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur).
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hermann Scherchen – Mahler: Works (2021)
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Hermann Scherchen was a figure of central importance in twentieth-century musical life, his continuing espousal of new music making him one of its foremost proponents in Europe. As a conductor he held a deep respect for the composer’s written text, for instance seeking to perform Beethoven’s symphonies at the tempi indicated in the manuscripts, an unusual practice for the time. Technically he believed that a conductor should commence work with an orchestra only when every aspect of a score had been completely memorised, and could be rehearsed from memory. Film of Scherchen conducting shows him to have possessed a very simple and clear beat. Yet he could summon up performances of raw power as well as of great character. He saw the conductor’s job very much as animating the music beyond the notes, writing in 1935, ‘A music devoid of any emotion, of any aesthetic pleasure or spiritual clarification may be of interest to the professional, but has no meaning whatsoever to the normal listener.’
On this classic record, he conducts Mahler’s mounmental 1st and 10th Symphonies at the head of the London Philharmonic Orchestra!
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Hermann Scherchen – Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K. 626 by Hermann Scherchen (2023)
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Hermann Scherchen (21 June 1891 – 12 June 1966) was a German conductor.
Scherchen was born in Berlin. Originally a violist, he played among the violas of the Bluthner Orchestra of Berlin while still in his teens. He conducted in Riga from 1914 to 1916 and in Königsberg from 1928 to 1933, after which he left Germany in protest of the new Nazi regime and worked in Switzerland. Along with the philanthropist Werner Reinhart, Scherchen played a leading role in shaping the musical life of Winterthur for many years, with numerous premiere performances, the emphasis being placed on contemporary music. From 1922 to 1950, he was the principal conductor of the city orchestra of Winterthur (today known as Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur).
Making his debut with Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, he was a champion of 20th-century composers such as Richard Strauss, Anton Webern, Alban Berg and Edgard Varèse, and actively promoted the work of younger contemporary composers including Iannis Xenakis, Luigi Nono and Leon Schidlowsky.
He was the teacher of Karel Ančerl, Egisto Macchi, Marc Bélanger, Françoys Bernier, Anna Renfer, Frieda Belinfante and Karl Amadeus Hartmann, and contributed to the libretto of Hartmann’s opera Simplicius Simplicissimus. He also premiered Hartmann’s early work Miserae. Conductor Francis Travis was a pupil, then conducting assistant, for five years.
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Hermann Scherchen – Scherchen: 78 RPM Recordings, Vol. 2 – Zurich (2021)
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Hermann Scherchen (German: Hermann Scherchen, June 21, 1891, Berlin – June 12, 1966, Florence) was a German conductor and music teacher, violist.
I learned to play the viola myself. In 1907-1910 he played in the Berlin Blütner Orchestra, then in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1911 he met Schoenberg, participated in the premiere of his “Moon Pierrot”. In 1914-1916 he conducted in Riga. He spent 1916-1918 in a Russian prison camp. In 1918 he returned to Berlin, founded a New Musical Society, and in 1919 created the magazine “Melos” dedicated to contemporary music. Among his students are Pierre Boulez, Karl Amadeus Hartmann (Scherchen is one of the authors of the libretto of his opera Simplicissimus, based on the novel by Grimmelshausen).
In 1933 he left Germany, led orchestras in Brussels, Vienna, etc. In 1958 he toured in Russia (the recording of Bach’s “Matthew Passion” from the BZK of the Moscow Conservatory has not been published).
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Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Hermann Scherchen – Handel: Water Music Suites Nos. 1-3 (Remastered 2022) (2022)
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Wiener Staatsoper is one of the leading opera houses in the world. Its past is steeped in tradition. Its present is alive with richly varied performances and events. Each season, the schedule features 350 performances of more than 60 different operas and ballets. Every night, you can witness world-class artists alongside the permanent ensemble members on the stage and at the conductor’s desk, accompanied by a unique orchestra: the orchestra of Wiener Staatsoper, whose members at the same time make up the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Vienna Boys Choir, Vienna Symphony, Hildegard Rössel-Majdan & Hermann Scherchen – Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor (Remastered) (2021)
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The now legendary, 60 year old Charles Adler studio recording with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra of the Symphony No. 3 by Gustav Mahler, has once again been re-issued with broad distribution to the general market, with sound restorations done by A. Z. Snyder in 2010. This pioneering interpretation has always been highly respected and recognized as one of the best and most idiosyncratic versions ever recorded. It set the bar for all other conductors to follow. Only seven days prior to this recording, Adler had conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, alto Hildegard Rössl-Majdan, the Vienna Women’s Choir and the Vienna Boys Choir in a broadcast performance for Austrian Radio. Therefore with these forces completely rehearsed, he led this recording for SPA (a record label he co-founded), which was completed in one single day on April 27, 1952.
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