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: The 5 Piano Concertos by Arthur Rubinstein (2024 Remastered, New York 1956)
Arthur Rubinstein, Josef Krips, Symphony of the Air
Classica - Pubblicato da Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording il 9 nov 2023
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Schubert: Symphonies No.9 "Grande" & No.8 "Inachevée"
London Symphony Orchestra / Josef Krips / Orchestre philharmonique de Leningrad / Evgueni Mravinski
Musica sinfonica - Pubblicato da Les Indispensables de Diapason il 25 feb 2011
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Schubert: Great C Major Symphony
London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 7 giu 1958
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Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Classica - Pubblicato da Warner Classics il 1 gen 1966
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Fritz Wunderlich, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Wiener Symphoniker, Josef Krips
Classica - Pubblicato da Deutsche Grammophon (DG) il 1 gen 2011
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Mozart: La flûte enchantée & Don Giovanni, ouvertures (Mono Version)
Josef Krips, London Symphony Orchestra
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1960
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Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Op. 61 (Mono Version)
Alfredo Campoli, London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1958
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Mozart: Complete Symphonies
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Josef Krips
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 1 gen 1996
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 & Egmont Overture (Transferred from the Original Everest Records Master Tapes)
London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips
Classica - Pubblicato da Everest il 6 ott 2017
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 (Transferred from the Original Everest Records Master Tapes)
London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips
Sinfonie - Pubblicato da Everest il 26 gen 2019
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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 21, 22, 23, 24 & 25
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Josef Krips
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 1 gen 1990
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Mozart: Symphonies Nos.40 & 41
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Josef Krips
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 1 gen 1972
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral" (Transferred from the Original Everest Records Master Tapes)
London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips
Classica - Pubblicato da Everest il 6 ott 2017
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Memories Of Vienna
Josef Krips, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra
Musica sinfonica - Pubblicato da Decca il 13 set 2019
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Schubert : Symphonies No.8 "Unfinished" & No.9 "Great"
Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips
Sinfonie - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 1 gen 1997
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Beethoven: Symphonies No. 1 & 8 (Transferred from the Original Everest Records Master Tapes)
London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips
Classica - Pubblicato da Everest il 6 ott 2017
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Haydn: Symphonies 92,94,99,104; Schubert: Symphony No.6; Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 "Italian"
Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 8 mar 2011
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Mozart : Symphonies Nos. 31 & 35
Ferenc Fricsay, RIAS Symphonie-Orchester, Josef Krips, London Symphony Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Les Indispensables de Diapason il 26 set 2019
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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
Classica - Pubblicato da Everest il 30 nov 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
Classica - Pubblicato da Everest il 6 ott 2017
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Beethoven: The Complete Symphony Collection
Josef Krips, London Symphony Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Countdown Media GmbH - X5 Music Group il 23 set 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo