Herbert Kegel
Known in the United States primarily as the conductor of a surefire recording of Orff's Carmina Burana, Herbert Kegel was respected in Europe as a pivotal figure in establishing the works of such individual Modernists as Blacher, Dallapiccola, Dessau, Penderecki, and Nono in the concert hall and on discs. He was one of the first to champion Britten's War Requiem, while his recording of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron was instrumental in keeping this difficult and challenging work before the public. His involvement with Orff's music typifies the duality of a distinguished career whose impact is not yet fully appreciated and whose legacy remains to be assimilated, for beside the ever-popular Carmina Burana, Kegel also recorded -- superbly -- the remaining cantatas, Catulli Carmina and Trionfo di Afrodite, speech-inflected works the composer regarded as parts of a single cycle of Trionfi and that look ahead to the uncompromising utterance of his Antigonae and Oedipus der Tyrann. Kegel studied at the Dresden Conservatory, where Karl Böhm was one of his teachers, from 1935 to 1940, beginning his career, after serving as a conscript during the war in 1946, as kapellmeister of the Volkstheater Rostock. From 1949 to 1978 he was associated with the Leipzig Radio Orchestra & Choir, becoming choirmaster, music director, and principal conductor of the Great Radio Orchestra and Radio Choir in 1953. He became principal conductor of the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra & Choir in 1960. In 1977 he was named principal conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic, a post he held until 1985. From 1985 until his death he frequently appeared as guest conductor at the Dresden and Leipzig opera houses, the Staatsoper Berlin, and the NHK Orchestra, Tokyo. Teaching engagements included a professorship with the Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschule für Musik in Leipzig from 1975 until 1978, and a Dresden master class in 1980. Kegel's grasp extended over the standard repertoire, from Bach to Stravinsky, though his center of interest revolved around the German Romantics, Bruckner and Mahler in particular, and the Modernists, great and minor -- Hartmann, Honegger, or Theodorakis no less than Bartók, Berg, and Hindemith -- with a smattering of such audience pleasers as Carmen and Margarethe (that is, Gounod's Faust for German audiences). Several recordings -- including Carmina Burana and Mahler's Symphony No. 4 -- feature distinguished solo work by Kegel's second wife, soprano Celestina Casapietra. His manner was without affectation or grandiosity, rhythmically alert and lyrically poised, always efficient and often inspired. He committed suicide in Dresden on November 20, 1990.
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Wagner: Parsifal
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Herbert Kegel, Thomanerchor Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Berlin
Opéra - Paru chez Eterna le 1 janv. 1978
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Webern: Passacaglia / Fünf Sätze für Streichorchester / Sechs Orchesterstücke / Sinfonie
Herbert Kegel, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Eterna le 11 nov. 1961
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Berg: Wozzeck
Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Dresdner Kapellknaben, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Classique - Paru chez Eterna le 30 mai 1976
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Hindemith: Sinfonie "Mathis der Maler" & Nobilissima Visione
Dresdner Philharmonie, Herbert Kegel
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Eterna le 2 mars 1982
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Wagner : Parsifal
Opéra - Paru chez Brilliant Classics le 12 août 2008
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Hindemith: Die Harmonie der Welt / Pittsburgh Symphony (Paul Hindemith)
Herbert Kegel, Dresdner Philharmonie
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Eterna le 19 févr. 1987
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SCHOENBERG, A.: Gurre-Lieder (Bundschuh, Lang, Jung, Dresden Philharmonic, Kegel)
Rundfunkchor Berlin, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Prager Männerchor, Dresdner Philharmonie, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Classique - Paru chez Eterna le 1 janv. 1989
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Penderecki: Threnos / Als Jakob erwachte / 2 Capriccios (Krzysztof Penderecki)
Herbert Kegel, Dresdner Philharmonie, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig
Musique concertante - Paru chez Eterna le 1 janv. 1984
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BRITTEN, B.: Illuminations (Les) / Serenade (Schreier, Opitz, Leipzig Radio Symphony, Kegel)
Peter Schreier, Gunther Opitz, Rundfunk-Kammerorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Classique - Paru chez Eterna le 28 janv. 1969
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Hindemith: Trauermusik / Meyer: Poem / Bartók: Viola Concerto
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Davia Binder, Herbert Kegel
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Eterna le 1 janv. 1968
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Mussorgski: Eine Nacht auf dem kahlen Berge / Bilder einer Ausstellung
Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Ogan Durjan, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Eterna le 1 janv. 1969
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Schubert: Messe No. 2 / Stabat Mater F-Moll
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Classique - Paru chez Eterna le 1 janv. 1987
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Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Siegfried Lorenz, MariAnne Haggander, Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Classique - Paru chez CapriccioNR le 3 févr. 2017
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Shostakovich - Sinfonie No.7
Herbert Kegel, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Weitblick le 22 juin 2002
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Orff: Catulli Carmina
Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Cantates sacrées - Paru chez Eterna le 2 févr. 1973
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Stravinsky: Jeu de Cartes / Suiten No. 1 & 2 / Concerto in Es-Dur, "Dumbarton Oaks"
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Eterna le 1 janv. 1974
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Dessau: Das Klavierwerk
Siegfried Stockigt, Dresdner Philharmonie, Herbert Kegel
Classique - Paru chez Eterna le 2 mars 1979
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Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz / 3 epitaffi per Federico García Lorca: Nos. 1 & 3
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Herbert Kegel, Horst Neumann
Classique - Paru chez Eterna le 1 janv. 1977
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Jüdische Chronik / Schostakowitsch: Aus jüdischer Volkspoesie
Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel, Peter Schreier, Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, Kurt Sanderling
Classique - Paru chez Eterna le 1 avr. 1967
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ORFF, C.: Kluge (Die) [Opera] (Kegel)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Intégrales d'opéra - Paru chez Eterna le 13 févr. 1973
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MUSSORGSKY, M.P.: Boris Godunov [Opera] (Highlights) (Sung in German) (Kegel)
Herbert Kegel, Dresden Staatskapelle
Opéra - Paru chez Berlin Classics le 1 janv. 1992
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