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.
© TiVo
-
MUSSORGSKY, M.P.: Boris Godunov [Opera] (Highlights) (Sung in German) (Kegel)
Herbert Kegel, Dresden Staatskapelle
Ópera - Editado por Berlin Classics el 01-01-1992
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mahler: Sinfonie No. 1
Dresdner Philharmonie, Herbert Kegel
Música sinfónica - Editado por Eterna el 10-10-1980
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
ORFF, C.: Kluge (Die) / Der Mond [Operas] (Kegel)
Clásica - Editado por Berlin Classics el 28-06-1994
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Herbert Kegel, Dresdner Philharmonie
Música sinfónica - Editado por Eterna el 22-01-1986
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Brecht/Weill: Die sieben Todsünden der Kleinbürger
Gisela May, Peter Schreier, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Ballets - Editado por Eterna el 01-01-1967
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60 "Leningrad" (Live)
Herbert Kegel, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
Clásica - Editado por Urania Records el 01-07-2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Sibelius: Symphony No. 4
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Clásica - Editado por Eterna el 01-01-1970
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
VIVALDI, A.: Oboe Concerto, RV 454 / Sinfonia, RV 112 / Bassoon Concerto, RV 497 / Flute Concerto, RV 428 (Schneider, Kretzschmar, Fugner) (Antonio Vivaldi)
Música concertante - Editado por Berlin Classics el 01-01-1971
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (Live)
Herbert Kegel, NHK Symphony Orchestra
Clásica - Editado por Urania Records el 01-07-2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Vivaldi: Concerti / Sinfonia "Al Santo Sepolcro"
Rundfunk-Kammerorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Música de cámara - Editado por Eterna el 01-01-1971
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
ORFF, C.: Mond (Der) [Opera] (Kegel)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Integrales de ópera - Editado por Eterna el 01-01-1973
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Orff: Carmina Burana
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Rundfunk-Kinderchor Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Cantatas sacras - Editado por Eterna el 01-01-1960
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bizet: L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1&2 / Carmen Preludes Nos. 1-4 / Jeux D'enfants (Georges Bizet - Ernest Guiraud)
Dresdner Philharmonie, Herbert Kegel
Música sinfónica - Editado por Eterna el 01-01-1988
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
HINDEMITH, P.: Symphony, "Mathis der Maler" / Concerto for Trumpet, Bassoon and Strings / Nobilissima visione Suite (Kegel)
Música concertante - Editado por Berlin Classics el 01-01-1995
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mendelssohn: Klavierkonzert No. 1
Valentin Gheorghiu, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Clásica - Editado por Eterna el 01-01-1972
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Berg: Wozzeck
Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Dresdner Kapellknaben, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Ópera - Editado por Eterna el 30-05-1976
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
WAGNER, R.: Parsifal [Opera] (Kegel) (Richard Wagner)
Ópera - Editado por Berlin Classics el 21-02-2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major
Herbert Kegel, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Celestina Casapietra
Clásica - Editado por Urania Records el 01-07-2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
BERG, A.: Wozzeck [Opera] (Kegel) (Georg Buchner - Alban Berg)
Integrales de ópera - Editado por Berlin Classics el 01-01-1976
Discoteca Ideal Qobuz16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Strawinsky: Capriccio / Circus-Polka / Petruschka
Peter Rösel, Dresdner Philharmonie, Herbert Kegel
Clásica - Editado por Eterna el 02-03-1979
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, WAB 105 "Phantastische" (Live)
Herbert Kegel, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
Clásica - Editado por Urania Records el 01-07-2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo