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.
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Mahler: Sinfonie No. 1
Dresdner Philharmonie, Herbert Kegel
Symphonic Music - Lançado por Eterna em 10/10/1980
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ORFF, C.: Kluge (Die) / Der Mond [Operas] (Kegel)
Classical - Lançado por Berlin Classics em 28/06/1994
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Herbert Kegel, Dresdner Philharmonie
Symphonic Music - Lançado por Eterna em 22/01/1986
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Brecht/Weill: Die sieben Todsünden der Kleinbürger
Gisela May, Peter Schreier, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Ballets - Lançado por Eterna em 01/01/1967
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60 "Leningrad" (Live)
Herbert Kegel, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por Urania Records em 01/07/2022
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Sibelius: Symphony No. 4
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Classical - Lançado por Eterna em 01/01/1970
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VIVALDI, A.: Oboe Concerto, RV 454 / Sinfonia, RV 112 / Bassoon Concerto, RV 497 / Flute Concerto, RV 428 (Schneider, Kretzschmar, Fugner) (Antonio Vivaldi)
Concertos - Lançado por Berlin Classics em 01/01/1971
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (Live)
Herbert Kegel, NHK Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por Urania Records em 01/07/2022
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Vivaldi: Concerti / Sinfonia "Al Santo Sepolcro"
Rundfunk-Kammerorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Chamber Music - Lançado por Eterna em 01/01/1971
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ORFF, C.: Mond (Der) [Opera] (Kegel)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Full Operas - Lançado por Eterna em 01/01/1973
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Orff: Carmina Burana
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Rundfunk-Kinderchor Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Cantatas (sacred) - Lançado por Eterna em 01/01/1960
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Bizet: L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1&2 / Carmen Preludes Nos. 1-4 / Jeux D'enfants (Georges Bizet - Ernest Guiraud)
Dresdner Philharmonie, Herbert Kegel
Symphonic Music - Lançado por Eterna em 01/01/1988
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HINDEMITH, P.: Symphony, "Mathis der Maler" / Concerto for Trumpet, Bassoon and Strings / Nobilissima visione Suite (Kegel)
Concertos - Lançado por Berlin Classics em 01/01/1995
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MAHLER, G.: Symphony No. 4 (Casapietra, Leipzig Radio Symphony, Kegel)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Symphonic Music - Lançado por Eterna em 01/01/1978
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Mendelssohn: Klavierkonzert No. 1
Valentin Gheorghiu, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Classical - Lançado por Eterna em 01/01/1972
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Berg: Wozzeck
Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Dresdner Kapellknaben, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
Opera - Lançado por Eterna em 30/05/1976
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WAGNER, R.: Parsifal [Opera] (Kegel) (Richard Wagner)
Opera - Lançado por Berlin Classics em 21/02/2005
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Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major
Herbert Kegel, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Celestina Casapietra
Classical - Lançado por Urania Records em 01/07/2022
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BERG, A.: Wozzeck [Opera] (Kegel) (Georg Buchner - Alban Berg)
Full Operas - Lançado por Berlin Classics em 01/01/1976
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Strawinsky: Capriccio / Circus-Polka / Petruschka
Peter Rösel, Dresdner Philharmonie, Herbert Kegel
Classical - Lançado por Eterna em 02/03/1979
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, WAB 105 "Phantastische" (Live)
Herbert Kegel, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por Urania Records em 01/07/2022
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