Walter Susskind
This famed conductor, born Jan Süsskind, studied composition with Josef Suk and Alois Hába, and piano with Karel Hoffmeister at the Prague State Conservatory. His training in conducting was undertaken with Szell at the German Academy of Music.
In 1931, he premiered a composition and appeared in concert as a pianist at the Prague Mozarteum. His conducting debut was made in 1934 with a production of La traviata at the German Opera, where he had been serving as an assistant to Szell. He composed his Four Songs for Voice and String Quartet in 1935 and continued his piano activity with the Czech Trio from 1933 until the German occupation in 1938. The trio then escaped to London and remained together until 1942.
Süsskind re-activated his conducting as music director of the Carl Rosa Opera Company (1943 - 1945) and made his orchestral debut conducting the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (1945). After becoming a British citizen in 1946, he went to Glasgow to serve as music director for the Scottish Orchestra (later the Scottish National Orchestra).
In 1953, Süsskind moved to Australia to direct the Victoria Symphony Orchestra in Melbourne until 1955. During that period, he made tours of America and the Far East. Then, moving again, he directed the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1956 to 1965, giving the Canadian premieres of Bruckner and Mahler symphonies, and founded the National Youth Orchestra of Canada in 1958. Meanwhile, he was music director for the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado (1962 - 1968) and later, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (1968 - 1975), which Süsskind built into a major institution, and the Mississippi River Festival in Edwardsville, IL (1969 - 1975). From 1968 through 1975, Süsskind taught at the University of Southern Illinois. His conducting students included Leonard Slatkin and Gerhardt Zimmermann. His compositions at this time included Nine Slovak Sketches for Orchestra and a Passacaglia for Timpani and Chamber Orchestra (1977).
As guest conductor, Süsskind led major orchestras in Europe, the U.K., and North America. He was the music advisor and principal guest conductor of the Cincinnati Orchestra from 1978 until his passing in 1980.
Süsskind's discography contains more than 55 albums and performances with some of the most noted performers of the twentieth century: Jascha Heifetz, Arthur Rubenstein, Glenn Gould, Dennis Brain, Pierre Fournier, Joan Hammond, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Kirsten Flagstad, Lili Krauss, Szymon Goldberg, Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Schnabel, Leonard Pennario, Shura Cherkassky, Neveu, Tito Gobbi, Victoria de Los Angeles, and many others.
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Borodin: Prince Igor, extraits orchestraux (Mono Version)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Walter Susskind
Varios - Editado por BNF Collection el 1 ene. 1956
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Bruch: Concerto pour violon No. 1 - Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, extraits (Stereo Version)
Christian Ferras, Philharmonia Orchestra, Walter Susskind
Varios - Editado por BNF Collection el 1 ene. 1960
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Tchaikovsky: Concerto pour violon, Op. 35 (Mono Version)
Jascha Heifetz, Walter Susskind, Philharmonia Orchestra
Varios - Editado por BNF Collection el 1 ene. 1952
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Bach & Haydn: Concertos pour violon (Mono Version)
Szymon Goldberg, Philharmonia Orchestra, Walter Susskind
Varios - Editado por BNF Collection el 1 ene. 1953
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde - Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8, D. 759 "Unfinished"
Richard Cassilly, Lili Chookasian, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Schippers, Walter Susskind
Clásica - Editado por Vox Box el 1 ene. 1995
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Arthur Rubinstein, piano
Arthur Rubinstein, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann, Walter Susskind
Clásica - Editado por Naxos el 24 jun. 2008
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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 21 & Fantaisie, Op. 49 (Mono Version)
Witold Małcużyński, London Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind
Varios - Editado por BNF Collection el 1 ene. 1960
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Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor - Fauré: Elégie (Mono Version)
Walter Susskind, Philharmonia Orchestra, Janos Starker
Varios - Editado por BNF Collection el 1 ene. 1958
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Sinfonia da Requiem Op. 20
Walter Susskind, Orchestre symphonique de Toronto
Música sinfónica - Editado por Heristal Entertainment Srl el 16 ene. 2021
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Concerto for Two Pianos
Victor Bouchard, Renée Morisset, Walter Susskind, Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Clásica - Editado por Heristal Entertainment el 6 feb. 2021
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Wolfgang amadeus mozart, Vol. 36
Szymon Goldberg, Jascha Heifetz, Jacques Thibaud, Walter Susskind, The Philharmonia Orchestra
Clásica - Editado por ArnebAudio el 12 abr. 2024
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Offenbach, Rosenthal: Gaîté Parisienne (Mono Version)
Covent Garden Orchestra, Walter Susskind
Varios - Editado por BNF Collection el 1 ene. 1959
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, vol. 9
Artur Schnabel, Edwin Fischer, Wilhelm Backhaus, Walter Susskind, The Philharmonia Orchestra
Clásica - Editado por ArnebAudio el 5 mar. 2024
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Rachmaninoff: Rhapsodie sur un thème de Paganini, Op. 43 (Mono Version)
Arthur Rubinstein, Philharmonia Orchestra, Walter Susskind
Varios - Editado por BNF Collection el 1 ene. 1952
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Schubert: Symphony No. 6 'The Little', Symphony No. 4 'Tragic' (Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt Edition 2, Vol. 5)
London Symphony Orchestra, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Walter Susskind
Clásica - Editado por Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. el 1 ene. 1959
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Master of Classic Music, Henri Vieuxtemps - Violin Concerto No. 4, Op. 31
Yehudi Menuhin, Walter Susskind, London Symphony Orchestra
Clásica - Editado por Oscardigital el 18 ago. 1988
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Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos
Philharmonia Orchestra, Efrem Kurtz, Yehudi Menuhin, Walter Susskind, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler
Pop - Editado por Acid Spirits Records el 17 feb. 2023
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The Planets
Walter Susskind and The St.Louis Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind, The St.Louis Symphony Orchestra
Clásica - Editado por MD Music Company Limited el 6 jul. 2010
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Mussorgsky: Extraits de Khovantchina - Une nuit sur le mont Chauve & La foire de Sorotchinsky (Arr. by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Mono Version)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Walter Susskind
Varios - Editado por BNF Collection el 1 ene. 1959
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Mussorgsky: Une nuit sur le mont Chauve, Extraits de La foire de Sorotchinski & La Khovanchtchina (Orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Mono Version)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Walter Susskind
Varios - Editado por BNF Collection el 1 ene. 1956
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Borodin: Prince Igor, extraits orchestraux (Mono Version)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Walter Susskind
Varios - Editado por BNF Collection el 1 ene. 1956
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