Josef Krips
Josef Krips was one of the busiest of Austrian-born conductors after World War II, an unexpected benefit to his having been forced out of his native country following its annexation by Germany in 1938. He had a major performing and recording career on two continents, in orchestral and operatic music.
Josef Krips studied at the Vienna Academy with Felix Weingartner, later permanent conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic, and served as Weingartner's assistant at the Vienna Volksoper from 1921 until 1924. He headed orchestras in various cities, and in 1933 was appointed resident conductor at the Vienna State Opera and to a professorship at the Vienna Academy. Krips held both posts for three years, until the German annexation in March of 1938, when he was forced to leave the country. He emigrated to Yugolavia and spent a year with the Belgrade Opera and the Belgrade Philharmonic, before the onset of the war forced Krips to halt his work in music.
Following the Allied victory in 1945, Krips returned to Vienna, conducting the State Opera upon its reopening as well as the Vienna Philharmonic, and at the reopened Salzburg Festival in 1946 with a production of Mozart's Don Giovanni. Krips was suddenly one of the busiest conductors in Austria, and one of the most welcomed, as his colleagues who had worked under the Nazi regime weren't all cleared for resumed public performances until 1947. He also took the State Opera and the Philharmonic on their first tours after World War II. Krips spent four years (1950-1954) as principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and accepted his first American appointment in 1954 as principal conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in New York. In 1963, the year of his debut at London's Covent Garden conducting Don Giovanni, he became the principal conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, a post he held until 1970. Krips made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1966, and became a conductor at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, in 1970.
Krips' visibility in the postwar music world made him one of the most familiar of all European conductors, both in Europe and America. His recording of the complete Beethoven symphonies with the London Symphony Orchestra for the low-priced Everest Records line was a perennially popular set among music students and casual listeners buying their first Beethoven material -- these performances are now beginning to be appreciated anew on compact disc, as remastered by Omega Records. Additionally, he made several superb opera recordings for major labels, including a Don Giovanni for London, and a version of Mozart's The Abduction From the Seraglio, with Anneleise Rothenberger, Lucia Popp, Gottlob Frick, and Krips' beloved Vienna Philharmonic, for EMI, that remains one of the most charming and beguiling accounts of this opera.
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Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 (Remastered 2024)
Mischa Elman, The New Symphony Orchestra of London, Josef Krips
Classical - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on Jan. 1, 1955
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 (Remastered 2024)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Josef Krips
Classical - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on Jan. 1, 1954
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Haydn, J.: Symphonies Nos. 100, "Military" and 104, "London" (Krips) (1952)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum, Josef Krips
Classical - Released by Naxos Classical Archives on Jan. 1, 2000
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Beethoven 1
Josef Krips, London Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Released by Countdown Media GmbH - X5 Music Group on Nov. 16, 2019
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Schubert: Symphony No. 9, D. 944
London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips
Classical - Released by Acid Spirits Records on Feb. 5, 2023
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Beethoven 7
Josef Krips, London Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Released by Countdown Media GmbH - X5 Music Group on Jan. 4, 2020
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Beethoven 4
Josef Krips, London Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Released by Countdown Media GmbH - X5 Music Group on Dec. 7, 2019
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Mozart: Requiem (Remastered 2024)
Wiener Hofmusikkapelle, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Josef Krips
Classical - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on Jan. 1, 1951
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Beethoven 3
Josef Krips, London Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Released by Countdown Media GmbH - X5 Music Group on Nov. 30, 2019
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Beethoven, L. Van: Piano Concerto No. 5 (Rubinstein, Symphony of the Air, Krips) (1956)
Arthur Rubinstein, Symphony of the Air, Josef Krips
Classical - Released by Naxos Classical Archives on Jan. 1, 2000
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Beethoven, L. Van: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rubinstein, Symphony of the Air, Krips) (1956)
Arthur Rubinstein, Symphony of the Air, Josef Krips
Classical - Released by Naxos Classical Archives on Jan. 1, 2000
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Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major (The Great)
Josef Krips, London Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Released by Ancien Prodige on Mar. 20, 2024
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Josef Krips
Symphonic Music - Released by Sunday Club Records on Jun. 2, 2014
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Dvořák: Symphony No 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 'From the New World'
Josef Krips, The Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra
Symphonic Music - Released by Sunday Club Records on Mar. 12, 2014
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Beethoven: Symphony No.1 in C Major, Op. 21
Josef Krips, London Symphony Orchestra
Symphonic Music - Released by Sunday Club Records on Feb. 11, 2013
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Great Waltzes from Old Vienna
Josef Krips, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released by Sunday Club Records on Oct. 29, 2013
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Milestones of a Legend: Isaac Stern, Vol. 5
Isaac Stern, Orchestre National de France, Josef Krips
Classical - Released by Intense Media GmbH on Dec. 7, 2018
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Milestones of a Legend: The Cello Queen, Vol. 6
Zara Nelsova, London Symphony Orchestra, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Josef Krips, Georg Ludwig Jochum
Classical - Released by Intense Media GmbH on Sep. 7, 2018
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 'Pathetique'
Josef Krips, The Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra
Symphonic Music - Released by Sunday Club Records on Apr. 23, 2014
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Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944 "The Great"
Josef Krips, London Symphony Orchestra
Symphonic Music - Released by Sunday Club Records on Dec. 12, 2013
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