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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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 "Eroica" (Transferred from the Original Everest Records Master Tapes)
London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips
Klassik - Erschienen bei Everest am 30.11.2019
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral" (Transferred from the Original Everest Records Master Tapes)
London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips
Klassik - Erschienen bei Everest am 06.10.2017
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Beethoven: The Complete Symphony Collection
Josef Krips, London Symphony Orchestra
Klassik - Erschienen bei Countdown Media GmbH - X5 Music Group am 23.09.2008
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Beethoven: Symphony No.4; Schubert: Symphony No.9 - "Great"
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Josef Krips
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 08.03.2011
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Schumann: Papillons; Arabeske; Piano Concerto (Wilhelm Kempff: Complete Decca Recordings, Vol. 5)
Wilhelm Kempff, London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. am 13.05.2022
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Glenn Gould Plays Beethoven (Live)
Glenn Gould, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips, Paul Paray
Klassik - Erschienen bei IDIS am 17.02.2015
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Schubert by Josef Krips: Symphony No. 9 in C Major D 944 "The great" (Remastered 2021)
Josef Krips, London Symphony Orchestra
Klassik - Erschienen bei Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording am 13.11.2021
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Beethoven: Symphonies No. 2 & 4
London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips
Klassik - Erschienen bei Everest am 26.01.2019
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Mozart : Requiem
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. am 01.01.1951
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Richard Strauss: Arabella; Capriccio; Ariadne auf Naxos – Excerpts (Opera Gala – Volume 11)
Lisa Della Casa, Ilse Hollweg, Rudolf Moralt, Heinrich Hollreiser, Josef Krips
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. am 13.11.2020
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Beethoven : Complete Symphonies
London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips
Symphonien - Erschienen bei Prominence Records am 23.11.2010
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Mozart : Don Giovanni, K. 527
Wiener Philharmoniker, Anton Krips, Cesare Siepi, Fernando Corena
Gesamtaufnahmen von Opern - Erschienen bei The Art Of Singing am 24.04.2015
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Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major (Live)
Josef Krips, London Symphony Orchestra, Suzanne Danco
Klassik - Erschienen bei Cameo Classics am 02.08.2019
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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39 & 41; Overture, Le nozze di Figaro (Remastered by Andrew Hallifax 2024)
London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. am 26.04.2024
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Johann Strauss jr: Overtures, Waltzes and Polkas
Josef Krips, Wiener Symphoniker
Klassik - Erschienen bei >ReNovo< am 06.07.2017
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Josef Krips: Historic Decca Recordings 1950-1958
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 01.01.2003
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Still: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 - Searle: Symphony No. 2
London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Eugene Aynsley Goossens, Myer Fredman, Josef Krips
Klassik - Erschienen bei Lyrita am 08.04.2009
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral" (Transferred from the Original Everest Records Master Tapes)
London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips
Klassik - Erschienen bei Everest am 06.10.2017
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Campoli : The Bel Canto Violin II (Bruch, Beethoven...)
Alfredo Campoli, Eduard van Beinum, Royalton Kisch, Josef Krips, Sir Adrian Boult
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. am 01.01.1950
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Mono Version)
Symphony Of The Air Orchestra, Josef Krips, Arthur Rubinstein
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1958
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Hilde Güden sings Mozart
Hilde Güden, Josef Krips, London Symphony Orchestra, Alberto Erede, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Clemens Krauss
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. am 12.02.2016
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