Extra Tracks

Below are tracks from our library that never made it onto one of our compact discs. They can be downloaded here as high quality 320kbs AAC encoded (MP3) files. Those originating on 78rpm discs are raw and no attempt to clean up the surface noise had been made although we have removed some loud cracks and bangs. Please note the previews are compressed files so the sound is not as good as that on the whole track.

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Josef Krips (1802-1974)

Vienese Josef Krips served as Felix Weingartner's assistant at the Volksoper before becoming the resident conductor there in 1933. In 1938, the Nazi annexation of Austria (or Anschluss) forced Krips to leave the country. (Krips was raised a Roman Catholic, but would have been excluded from musical activity because his father was born Jewish). Krips moved to Belgrade, where he worked for a year with the Belgrade Opera and Philharmonic, until Yugoslavia also became involved in World War II. For the remainder of the war he worked in a food factory. Returning to Austria at the end of the war in 1945 Krips was one of the few conductors who were allowed to work, since he had not worked under the Nazi regime. He rebuilt the musical life of Vienna before moving to London in 1950 to reconstruct the LSO with bright young musicians. His reputation as an orchestral builder saw him improving standards in Buffalo and San Fransisco after he left London.

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" An extremely fine performance in many ways with plenty of weight and sense of purpose. The playing of the Vienna Philharmonic is both sensitive and splendidly alive; the slow movement is throughly felt and eloquently phrased. Krips's reading combines strength and tenderness, power and lyrical feeling, " R.L. writing in the Gramophone June 1972

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1st movement

2nd movement

3rd movement

4th movement

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