Hans Swarowsky
Known as widely for his teaching as for his orchestral direction, Hans Swarowsky had much to share with a younger generation of musicians. He studied composition and conducting with several of the twentieth century's greatest icons, absorbing and exercising what he had learned in a respected career as a conductor. Despite an uneven cast, his recording of Wagner's Ring cycle, taped in Prague, has considerable power and poetry.
Born in Hungary, Swarowsky studied in Vienna with composers Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern and trained in conducting with Felix Weingartner, Richard Strauss, and Clemens Krauss. His engagements subsequently took him to many parts of Europe, first to Stuttgart and Hamburg, later to Berlin (1934), Zürich (1937-1940), and Krakow (1944-1946).
Following several harrowing experiences in flight from the Nazis, Swarowsky found his career stabilized once more in the postwar period with an engagement at Graz from 1947-1950. During this time and in subsequent assignments at the Wiener Staatsoper, Swarowsky was recognized as a conductor with a long measure of technical expertise. Thus, his classes at Vienna's Academy of Music and the Performing Arts, where he had been professor of conducting since 1946, drew a remarkable pool of aspiring young musicians. Among them were Claudio Abbado, Jesús López-Cobos, Mariss Jansons, Zubin Mehta, Giuseppe Sinopoli, and Bruno Weil, later to be among the most prominent of their generation. Vienna's Hans Swarowsky International Conductors' Competition has attracted musicians from all parts of the globe, becoming in the process one of the world's most important clearing houses for rising talent.
From 1957 to 1959, Swarowsky served as chief conductor of the Scottish National Orchestra. In 1959, he was appointed chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra; together with his service to that ensemble, he continued to appear with the Wiener Staatsoper.
In addition to performing compositions from the Classical and Romantic periods, Swarowsky served his own age with diligence. Aside from Strauss and Webern, composers such as Britten, Einem, Hindemith, Pfitzner, and Stravinsky figured prominently in the conductor's programming. Among his recordings for Concert Hall, Erato, Nonesuch, Vanguard, Vox, and Weltbild, he committed to disc an especially delightful set of orchestral suites from Humperdinck operas.
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Brahms: Symphonie No. 1 (Mono Version)
Orchestre de l'opéra d'état de Vienne, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1963
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Chopin: Nocturnes, Impromptus & Concerto pour piano No. 1 (Mono Version)
Guiomar Novaes, Pro Musica Orchester Wien, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.2013
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The Classical Novaes
Guiomar Novaes, Bamberger Symphoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Jonel Perlea, Hans Swarowsky
Klassik - Erschienen bei Vox Legends am 01.01.1993
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
Grosses Symphonieorchster, Dadezda Kniplova, Gerald McKey, Rolf Polke, Hans Swarowsky, Fritz Uhl
Klassik - Erschienen bei Denon am 01.01.2009
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Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A major, K. 201
Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Swarowsky
Klassik - Erschienen bei Red Note OMP am 17.05.2010
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Wagner: Die Walkure Highlights
Grosses Symphonieorchester, Hans Swarowsky
Klassik - Erschienen bei Denon am 01.01.2009
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Wagner: Gotterdammerung Highlights
Grosses Symphonieorchestra, Hans Swarowsky
Klassik - Erschienen bei Denon am 01.01.2009
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Wagner: Die Walkure
Grosses Symphonieorchester, Hans Swarowsky
Klassik - Erschienen bei Denon am 01.01.2009
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Wagner: Siegfried Highlights
Grosses Symphonieorchster, Hans Swarowsky
Klassik - Erschienen bei Denon am 01.07.2009
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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1, Impromptus Nos. 1-3 & Fantasy-Impromptu
Mieczysław Horszowski, Wiener Symphoniker, Hans Swarowsky
Klassik - Erschienen bei Vox am 01.01.1972
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Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto In E Flat Major / Italian Overture No. 4 In D Major
Vienna Philharmusica Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Haydn, Adolph Holler, Hans Swarowsky
Klassik - Erschienen bei Music Manager am 16.11.2012
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Festival d'ouvertures célèbres No. 1 (Mono Version)
Wiener Symphoniker, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1954
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Festival d'ouvertures célèbres No. 2 (Mono Version)
Wiener Symphoniker, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1954
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Mozart: Don Giovanni (Mono Version)
Wiener Symphoniker, Hans Swarowsky, Mariano Stabile, Hilde Konetzni
Klassik - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1953
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Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 2 and Solo Piano Works
Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra, Hans Swarowsky, Rena Kyriakou
Klassik - Erschienen bei HORTUS am 11.01.1991
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R. Strauss: Medley of Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier - J. Strauss II: Straussiana (Mono Version)
Orchestre de l'opéra d'état de Vienne, Vaclav Smetacek, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1959
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Weber: Concertos pour piano Nos. 1 & 2 (Mono Version)
Friedrich Wuhrer, Pro Musica Orchester Wien, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1954
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Liszt: Rhapsodie hongroise No. 2 (Orchestral Version, Mono Version)
Wiener Festspielorchester, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1961
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Wagner: Extraits orchestraux célèbres (Mono Version)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester , Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1962
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Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Mono Version)
Orazio Frugoni, Hans Swarowsky, Pro Musica Orchester Wien
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1960
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Haydn: Symphonie, Hob. I:100 "Militaire", Ouverture, Hob. Ia:4 & Concerto pour trompette et orchestre, Hob. VIIe:1 (Mono Version)
Adolf Holler, Wiener Volksopernorchester, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1956
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