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
Opera - Lançado por Eterna em 1 de jan. de 1978
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Webern: Passacaglia / Fünf Sätze für Streichorchester / Sechs Orchesterstücke / Sinfonie
Herbert Kegel, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig
Symphonic Music - Lançado por Eterna em 11 de nov. de 1961
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Berg: Wozzeck
Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Dresdner Kapellknaben, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Classical - Lançado por Eterna em 30 de mai. de 1976
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Hindemith: Sinfonie "Mathis der Maler" & Nobilissima Visione
Dresdner Philharmonie, Herbert Kegel
Symphonic Music - Lançado por Eterna em 2 de mar. de 1982
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Wagner : Parsifal
Opera - Lançado por Brilliant Classics em 12 de ago. de 2008
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Hindemith: Die Harmonie der Welt / Pittsburgh Symphony (Paul Hindemith)
Herbert Kegel, Dresdner Philharmonie
Symphonic Music - Lançado por Eterna em 19 de fev. de 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
Classical - Lançado por Eterna em 1 de jan. de 1989
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Penderecki: Threnos / Als Jakob erwachte / 2 Capriccios (Krzysztof Penderecki)
Herbert Kegel, Dresdner Philharmonie, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig
Concertos - Lançado por Eterna em 1 de jan. de 1984
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, WAB 105 "Phantastische" (Live)
Herbert Kegel, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por Urania Records em 1 de jul. de 2022
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Hindemith: Trauermusik / Meyer: Poem / Bartók: Viola Concerto
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Davia Binder, Herbert Kegel
Symphonic Music - Lançado por Eterna em 1 de jan. de 1968
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Herbert Kegel, Dresdner Philharmonie
Symphonic Music - Lançado por Eterna em 22 de jan. de 1986
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Mussorgski: Eine Nacht auf dem kahlen Berge / Bilder einer Ausstellung
Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Ogan Durjan, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Symphonic Music - Lançado por Eterna em 1 de jan. de 1969
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Schubert: Messe No. 2 / Stabat Mater F-Moll
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Classical - Lançado por Eterna em 1 de jan. de 1987
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Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Siegfried Lorenz, MariAnne Haggander, Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Classical - Lançado por CapriccioNR em 3 de fev. de 2017
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Shostakovich - Sinfonie No.7
Herbert Kegel, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig
Symphonic Music - Lançado por Weitblick em 22 de jun. de 2002
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ORFF, C.: Mond (Der) [Opera] (Kegel)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Full Operas - Lançado por Eterna em 1 de jan. de 1973
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Orff: Catulli Carmina
Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Cantatas (sacred) - Lançado por Eterna em 2 de fev. de 1973
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major, WAB 107 (1885 Version, Gutmann Edition)
Herbert Kegel, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por Urania Records em 1 de jul. de 2022
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Stravinsky: Jeu de Cartes / Suiten No. 1 & 2 / Concerto in Es-Dur, "Dumbarton Oaks"
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Symphonic Music - Lançado por Eterna em 1 de jan. de 1974
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BRITTEN, B.: Illuminations (Les) / Serenade (Schreier, Opitz, Leipzig Radio Symphony, Kegel)
Peter Schreier, Gunther Opitz, Rundfunk-Kammerorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Classical - Lançado por Eterna em 28 de jan. de 1969
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Dessau: Das Klavierwerk
Siegfried Stockigt, Dresdner Philharmonie, Herbert Kegel
Classical - Lançado por Eterna em 2 de mar. de 1979
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