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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Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto No. 2 - Scherzo A Capriccio
Rena Kyriakou, Felix Mendelssohn, Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra, Hans Swarowsky
Classical - Denon 発売日 2007/01/01
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Wagner: Siegfried
Grosses Symphonieorchester, Hans Swarowsky
Classical - Denon 発売日 2009/01/01
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Wagner: Gotterdammerung
Grosses Symphonieorchester, Hans Swarowsky
Classical - Denon 発売日 2009/01/01
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Wagner: Overtures
Bamberger Symphoniker, Hans Swarowsky
Classical - Allegretto 発売日 1988/01/01
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Porter: Concerto for Viola & Orchestra - Dello Joio: Serenade
Paul Angerer, Vienna Orchestra, Hans Swarowsky, Max Schönherr
Classical - Naxos Classical Archives 発売日 2012/10/01
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Operní předehry I.
Hans Swarowsky, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphonic Music - Supraphon a.s. 発売日 2020/09/25
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How to Overture
Vienna Philharmusica Symphony Orchestra, Hans Swarowsky, The Ussr State Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Music Manager 発売日 2015/11/17
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Classical Selection - Bach: "Italian Concerto"
Hans Swarowsky, Musici Di San Marco, Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - perpetuo CLASSICS 発売日 2015/12/16
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Tchaikovsky: Symphonie No. 2, Op. 17 (Mono Version)
Orchestre de l'opéra d'état de Vienne, Hans Swarowsky
Miscellaneous - BNF Collection 発売日 1956/01/01
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Wagner: Gotterdammerung Highlights (Hans Swarowsky, Grosses Symphonieorchster)
Classical - Denon 発売日 2009/01/01
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Brahms: Symphony No. 4, Hungarian Dance 1 & 2
Hans Swarowsky, Süddeutsche Philharmonie
Classical - SendClassic 発売日 2000/08/24
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto No. 14 For Piano And Orchestra In C-Minor, K. 491 / Piano Sonata In B-Flat, K. 333
Denis Matthews, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hans Swarowsky, Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Pop - Music Manager 発売日 2013/03/26
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Tchaikovsky, P.I.: Symphony No. 1, "Winter Daydreams" (Vienna Philharmusica Symphony, Swarowsky) (1956)
Vienna Philharmusica Symphony, Hans Swarowsky
Classical - Naxos Classical Archives 発売日 2000/01/01
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Blue Edition - Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue & Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
Christiane Jaccottet, Hans Swarowsky, Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - BLUE COLLECTION by a.m. publishing house 発売日 2016/04/11
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