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Two Decca LP albums of orchestral miniatures, newly remastered and issued complete for the first time on CD, with a substantial bonus from Karl Münchinger’s varied discography.
Karl Münchinger (1915-1990) was remembered for decades as a solid conductor of Baroque music, but previous reissues on Eloquence have served to broaden our view of a consummate musician. Recent issues of Haydn and Mozart and Liszt and Wagner demonstrate that he also had the Classical and Romantic repertoire at his fingertips. Here is the complement to those issues, an invaluable continuation of the Münchinger story: a genial disc of encore-like gems from Bach to Grieg, recorded by Decca in September 1966 and first issued the following summer. It includes the conductor’s own, straightforward but sensitive orchestrations of two Bach fugues and a movement from Schumann’s Op.66 piano cycle, Bilder aus Osten. Alongside them are Baroque classics for which the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra was famed, such as the ‘Air on a G string’, two movements from Vivaldi’s ‘Alla Rustica’ Concerto and the Musette from Handel’s G minor Concerto grosso Op.6.
On CD2, ‘Contemporary Music for String Orchestra’ ventures beyond the well-trodden path of Barber’s Adagio to include a set of Hindemith’s pedagogical music, a delicately refined Serenade by Lennox Berkeley, and Frank Martin’s arrangement of his own organ Passacaille, made for Münchinger ‘and his wonderful Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra’. Dating from October 1950, the album was recorded in Decca’s crystal-clear mono sound, as were two bonus items on this new compilation: the sombre, graceful Chaconne from Gluck’s Paride ed Elena, in 1960, and from a decade earlier, the Third Suite of Respighi’s Ancient Airs and Dances, with its haunting Siciliano and imposing final Passacaglia. (© Decca Music Group Limited / Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.)
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Fugue in A Minor, BWV 947 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Martin Fouqué, Balance Engineer
℗ 1967 Decca Music Group Limited
Minuet from String Quintet in E Major, Op. 13 No. 5 (Luigi Boccherini)
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Luigi Boccherini, Composer - James Mallinson, Recording Producer - James Lock, Balance Engineer
℗ 1967 Decca Music Group Limited
Les petits riens, K. App. 10 (Ballet) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Martin Fouqué, Balance Engineer
℗ 1967 Decca Music Group Limited
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Martin Fouqué, Balance Engineer
℗ 1967 Decca Music Group Limited
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 3, No. 5 (formerly attrib. J. Haydn) (Roman Hoffstetter)
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Roman Hoffstetter, Composer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Martin Fouqué, Balance Engineer
℗ 1967 Decca Music Group Limited
Concerto for Strings and Continuo in G major, RV 151 "Concerto alla Rustica" (Antonio Vivaldi)
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Martin Fouqué, Balance Engineer
℗ 1967 Decca Music Group Limited
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Martin Fouqué, Balance Engineer
℗ 1967 Decca Music Group Limited
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Martin Fouqué, Balance Engineer
℗ 1967 Decca Music Group Limited
Holberg Suite, Op. 40 (Edvard Grieg)
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Edvard Grieg, Composer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Martin Fouqué, Balance Engineer
℗ 1967 Decca Music Group Limited
Bilder aus Osten, Op. 66 - Arr. for chamber orchestra (Robert Schumann)
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Robert Schumann, Composer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Martin Fouqué, Balance Engineer
℗ 1967 Decca Music Group Limited
Divertimento in D, K.334 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Martin Fouqué, Balance Engineer
℗ 1967 Decca Music Group Limited
12 Concerti grossi, Op. 6, HWV 319-330 / Concerto grosso In G Minor, Op. 6, No. 6, HWV 324 (Georg Friedrich Händel)
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Georg Friedrich Händel, Composer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Martin Fouqué, Balance Engineer
℗ 1967 Decca Music Group Limited
Five Minuets and Trios for String Quartet, D 89 - Arr. for string orchestra and 6 trios (Franz Schubert)
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Franz Schubert, Composer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Martin Fouqué, Balance Engineer
℗ 1967 Decca Music Group Limited
Prelude (Fantasy) and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 "Great" - Arr. Münchinger (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor, Arranger - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - James Mallinson, Recording Producer - James Lock, Balance Engineer
℗ 1967 Decca Music Group Limited
Chaconne (Christoph Willibald von Gluck)
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Christoph Willibald von Gluck, Composer - Michael Bremner, Recording Producer - James Walker, Recording Producer - Roy Wallace, Balance Engineer - Karl Brugger, Balance Engineer
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3 (Ottorino Respighi)
Friedrich Gulda, Piano - Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Ottorino Respighi, Composer - Victor Olof, Recording Producer - Gil Went, Balance Engineer
℗ 1952 Decca Music Group Limited
Friedrich Gulda, Piano - Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Ottorino Respighi, Composer - Victor Olof, Recording Producer - Gil Went, Balance Engineer
℗ 1952 Decca Music Group Limited
Friedrich Gulda, Piano - Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Ottorino Respighi, Composer - Victor Olof, Recording Producer - Gil Went, Balance Engineer
℗ 1952 Decca Music Group Limited
Friedrich Gulda, Piano - Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Ottorino Respighi, Composer - Victor Olof, Recording Producer - Gil Went, Balance Engineer
℗ 1952 Decca Music Group Limited
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Frank Martin, Composer - Victor Olof, Recording Producer - James Walker, Recording Producer - Gil Went, Balance Engineer - Roy Wallace, Balance Engineer
℗ 1957 Decca Music Group Limited
Fünf Stücke (Paul Hindemith)
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Paul Hindemith, Composer - Victor Olof, Recording Producer - James Walker, Recording Producer - Gil Went, Balance Engineer - Roy Wallace, Balance Engineer
℗ 1957 Decca Music Group Limited
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Paul Hindemith, Composer - Victor Olof, Recording Producer - James Walker, Recording Producer - Gil Went, Balance Engineer - Roy Wallace, Balance Engineer
℗ 1957 Decca Music Group Limited
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Paul Hindemith, Composer - Victor Olof, Recording Producer - James Walker, Recording Producer - Gil Went, Balance Engineer - Roy Wallace, Balance Engineer
℗ 1957 Decca Music Group Limited
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Paul Hindemith, Composer - Victor Olof, Recording Producer - James Walker, Recording Producer - Gil Went, Balance Engineer - Roy Wallace, Balance Engineer
℗ 1957 Decca Music Group Limited
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Paul Hindemith, Composer - Victor Olof, Recording Producer - James Walker, Recording Producer - Gil Went, Balance Engineer - Roy Wallace, Balance Engineer
℗ 1957 Decca Music Group Limited
Serenade for Strings (Lennox Berkeley)
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Lennox Berkeley, Composer - Victor Olof, Recording Producer - James Walker, Recording Producer - Gil Went, Balance Engineer - Roy Wallace, Balance Engineer
℗ 1957 Decca Music Group Limited
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Lennox Berkeley, Composer - Victor Olof, Recording Producer - James Walker, Recording Producer - Gil Went, Balance Engineer - Roy Wallace, Balance Engineer
℗ 1957 Decca Music Group Limited
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Lennox Berkeley, Composer - Victor Olof, Recording Producer - James Walker, Recording Producer - Gil Went, Balance Engineer - Roy Wallace, Balance Engineer
℗ 1957 Decca Music Group Limited
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Lennox Berkeley, Composer - Victor Olof, Recording Producer - James Walker, Recording Producer - Gil Went, Balance Engineer - Roy Wallace, Balance Engineer
℗ 1957 Decca Music Group Limited
Adagio for Strings, Op.11 (Samuel Barber)
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Karl Münchinger, Conductor - Samuel Barber, Composer - Victor Olof, Recording Producer - James Walker, Recording Producer - Gil Went, Balance Engineer - Roy Wallace, Balance Engineer
℗ 1957 Decca Music Group Limited
Album review
Two Decca LP albums of orchestral miniatures, newly remastered and issued complete for the first time on CD, with a substantial bonus from Karl Münchinger’s varied discography.
Karl Münchinger (1915-1990) was remembered for decades as a solid conductor of Baroque music, but previous reissues on Eloquence have served to broaden our view of a consummate musician. Recent issues of Haydn and Mozart and Liszt and Wagner demonstrate that he also had the Classical and Romantic repertoire at his fingertips. Here is the complement to those issues, an invaluable continuation of the Münchinger story: a genial disc of encore-like gems from Bach to Grieg, recorded by Decca in September 1966 and first issued the following summer. It includes the conductor’s own, straightforward but sensitive orchestrations of two Bach fugues and a movement from Schumann’s Op.66 piano cycle, Bilder aus Osten. Alongside them are Baroque classics for which the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra was famed, such as the ‘Air on a G string’, two movements from Vivaldi’s ‘Alla Rustica’ Concerto and the Musette from Handel’s G minor Concerto grosso Op.6.
On CD2, ‘Contemporary Music for String Orchestra’ ventures beyond the well-trodden path of Barber’s Adagio to include a set of Hindemith’s pedagogical music, a delicately refined Serenade by Lennox Berkeley, and Frank Martin’s arrangement of his own organ Passacaille, made for Münchinger ‘and his wonderful Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra’. Dating from October 1950, the album was recorded in Decca’s crystal-clear mono sound, as were two bonus items on this new compilation: the sombre, graceful Chaconne from Gluck’s Paride ed Elena, in 1960, and from a decade earlier, the Third Suite of Respighi’s Ancient Airs and Dances, with its haunting Siciliano and imposing final Passacaglia. (© Decca Music Group Limited / Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.)
Details of original recording : Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland, October 1950 (Respighi), October 1955 (Martin, Hindemith, Berkeley, Barber), October–November 1960 (Gluck); Mozart-Saal, Stuttgart, Germany, 15–17 September 1966 (Bach, Boccherini, Mozart, Hoffstetter, Vivaldi, Grieg, Schumann, Handel, Schubert)
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 30 track(s)
- Total length: 01:55:54
- Main artists: Karl Münchinger
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Decca
- Genre: Classical Chamber Music
- Collection: Eloquence
© 2019 Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd. This Compilation ℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
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