What a triple bill: Debussy's achingly sensual Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Mozart's elegantly graceful Symphony No. 33 in B flat major, and Pfitzner's one-of-a-kind Violin Concerto all included on the same program, in this case, on a concert in the Konzertsaal of the Berlin Hochschule für Musik performed by the RIAS-Sinfonieorchester under the direction of Rudolf Kempe in March 1955. When this Archipel disc of the concert was released in 2007, few contemporary conductors would have coupled Debussy with Mozart and ...
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What a triple bill: Debussy's achingly sensual Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Mozart's elegantly graceful Symphony No. 33 in B flat major, and Pfitzner's one-of-a-kind Violin Concerto all included on the same program, in this case, on a concert in the Konzertsaal of the Berlin Hochschule für Musik performed by the RIAS-Sinfonieorchester under the direction of Rudolf Kempe in March 1955. When this Archipel disc of the concert was released in 2007, few contemporary conductors would have coupled Debussy with Mozart and fewer still would have programmed anything by nearly forgotten Hans Pfitzner. Yet as Kempe and the RIAS musicians showed 50 years earlier, not only do the French and the Austrian composer's music go well together, but the almost forgotten German composer's music is more memorable than its reputation would allow.With Debussy and Mozart, the program plays a game of compare and contrast. Kempe's Debussy is sweeping in conception and highly charged in atmosphere, and the German orchestra...
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