One of my favourite overtures… and I love this performance which is intense, highlighting the drama, but also very elegant… ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thank you for sharing this superb recording! 🙏🍀
@@vintagesounds3878 Sometimes a performance captivates me in a special way, sometimes it doesn‘t although I realize that it‘s a good one and I appreciate it. This one was of the captivating kind - at least for me! 🌟
This is the 'Freischütz' overture as I have always longed to hear it! For once the slow introduction is allowed room to breathe, and every phrase is given its own shape and its own tempo (rather in the Nikisch manner), and yet there is never any loss of momentum (except perhaps. and very oddly, in the last few bars). I should like to hear more of Brecher, whose name was entirely new to me until today. Thank you, as always!
I am so pleased to discover another lost gem of a record containing wonderful music making! The depth of talent in this era is breath-taking. The orchestra is first rate [as you would hope given their long standing reputation] and the musicianship of Brecher is so good that you hardly notice it as it is just so natural, sensitive and clear. I had never heard of Brecher before, and his last years seem to have been very sad, as reported in the note. I know the overture itself can seem a bit of an old warhorse, but certainly not when played like this! Best wishes from George
@@georgejohnson1498 I suppose this is as close to a live recording as we will get of the Gewandhaus Orchestra 95 years ago, playing in its home. Certainly impressive, and all thanks to Parlophone for allowing Brecher 3 sides!
@@vintagesounds3878 If this is all of Brecher's recorded work, it shines all the brighter for it. Better to make one really fine recording than forty-nine middling efforts plus one good one! I can always hear how an orchestra is for a conductor. Are they tense and brittle sounding, slack, or really together and sonorous warm? Clearly this is an orchestra on top form giving their best, but with a warmth and quality that is unavailable to a bully. Such a performance points up the nastiness of the government of Germany in Brecher's latter days, and yes, I do struggle with those artists who were apparently happy to serve the cause by remaining in Germany. Brecher was an artist of true merit, but happened to fall foul of illogical and inhumane policies of s despicable regime. Thus I find it quite difficult to enjoy the musicianship of say Furtwangler, Karajan or Boehm [and many less famous], considering that such as Brecher were persecuted by the regime they chose to at the least "fellow travel" with. This record gives pause for thought on several levels. Best wishes from George PS: Listening again, several times, I am staggered by two things. The utter sensitivity of Brecher's conducting and the astonishingly beautiful playing of the orchestra in most poised and sonorous phrasing everywhere. Like a Rodin bronze! Considering the fate of the poor man and his family, I am now in tears. I look at the world today and see it all happening again. ... this is a gut wrenching result from a piece of music you would hardly cause such a strong reaction. It's not the music, its the playing ... This is not a bullseye, it is a stab at the heart, to remind us never to be deceived by intolerance and hate ...
@@georgejohnson1498 I think this is all I have of Brecher: but it is certainly worth having. Yes, the record does make us stop and think about the state of the world: and what a bleak picture it reveals.
@@vintagesounds3878 My release from the world is through music, and yet even music has its own struggle with freedom and tolerance. I am very tired just now. Bad cold for ten days, hence replying at times when I would normally be working. I have a knee operation in six weeks and a second a while later. My only comfort just now is my little Patterdale Terrier ... ua-cam.com/video/KAjdRWhkIGA/v-deo.html ... as she is innocent of any evil - just a Terrier. I begin to think dogs are nicer than humans. A few humans are as goods she is. There are terrible dogs, and far more terrible humans. I hardly foresaw how much an old record of Freischutz Ov would hit me. Thanks be that Landon Ronald lived in UK, not Germany. He would also have been crushed. Sorry to go off on a bit of ramble. Best wishes from George
@@georgejohnson1498 I understand George. I love our little 5 month old Cavoodle: just a real delight, full of both affection and intelligence - as well as playfulness - but without even the faintest hint of the nastiness that is so prevalent in humans. It's an odd and depressing world. I hope the surgery goes well!
great great stuff- thank you
Thank you again for another excellent upload!
@@MaxPower-grrl Thanks!
One of my favourite overtures… and I love this performance which is intense, highlighting the drama, but also very elegant… ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you for sharing this superb recording! 🙏🍀
@hrbooksmusic7878 Thank you: yes, a good performance indeed!
@@vintagesounds3878
Sometimes a performance captivates me in a special way, sometimes it doesn‘t although I realize that it‘s a good one and I appreciate it. This one was of the captivating kind - at least for me! 🌟
@@hrbooksmusic7878 Yes: definitely a good one!
@@vintagesounds3878
😊👍⭐️
This is the 'Freischütz' overture as I have always longed to hear it! For once the slow introduction is allowed room to breathe, and every phrase is given its own shape and its own tempo (rather in the Nikisch manner), and yet there is never any loss of momentum (except perhaps. and very oddly, in the last few bars). I should like to hear more of Brecher, whose name was entirely new to me until today. Thank you, as always!
@olivermundy4220 Thanks. I would also like to hear more Brecher. Alas, I think this is all I have.
I am so pleased to discover another lost gem of a record containing wonderful music making!
The depth of talent in this era is breath-taking. The orchestra is first rate [as you would hope given their long standing reputation] and the musicianship of Brecher is so good that you hardly notice it as it is just so natural, sensitive and clear. I had never heard of Brecher before, and his last years seem to have been very sad, as reported in the note.
I know the overture itself can seem a bit of an old warhorse, but certainly not when played like this!
Best wishes from George
@@georgejohnson1498 I suppose this is as close to a live recording as we will get of the Gewandhaus Orchestra 95 years ago, playing in its home. Certainly impressive, and all thanks to Parlophone for allowing Brecher 3 sides!
@@vintagesounds3878 If this is all of Brecher's recorded work, it shines all the brighter for it. Better to make one really fine recording than forty-nine middling efforts plus one good one!
I can always hear how an orchestra is for a conductor. Are they tense and brittle sounding, slack, or really together and sonorous warm? Clearly this is an orchestra on top form giving their best, but with a warmth and quality that is unavailable to a bully.
Such a performance points up the nastiness of the government of Germany in Brecher's latter days, and yes, I do struggle with those artists who were apparently happy to serve the cause by remaining in Germany. Brecher was an artist of true merit, but happened to fall foul of illogical and inhumane policies of s despicable regime.
Thus I find it quite difficult to enjoy the musicianship of say Furtwangler, Karajan or Boehm [and many less famous], considering that such as Brecher were persecuted by the regime they chose to at the least "fellow travel" with.
This record gives pause for thought on several levels. Best wishes from George
PS: Listening again, several times, I am staggered by two things. The utter sensitivity of Brecher's conducting and the astonishingly beautiful playing of the orchestra in most poised and sonorous phrasing everywhere. Like a Rodin bronze! Considering the fate of the poor man and his family, I am now in tears. I look at the world today and see it all happening again. ... this is a gut wrenching result from a piece of music you would hardly cause such a strong reaction. It's not the music, its the playing ...
This is not a bullseye, it is a stab at the heart, to remind us never to be deceived by intolerance and hate ...
@@georgejohnson1498 I think this is all I have of Brecher: but it is certainly worth having. Yes, the record does make us stop and think about the state of the world: and what a bleak picture it reveals.
@@vintagesounds3878 My release from the world is through music, and yet even music has its own struggle with freedom and tolerance. I am very tired just now. Bad cold for ten days, hence replying at times when I would normally be working. I have a knee operation in six weeks and a second a while later. My only comfort just now is my little Patterdale Terrier ...
ua-cam.com/video/KAjdRWhkIGA/v-deo.html
... as she is innocent of any evil - just a Terrier. I begin to think dogs are nicer than humans. A few humans are as goods she is. There are terrible dogs, and far more terrible humans.
I hardly foresaw how much an old record of Freischutz Ov would hit me. Thanks be that Landon Ronald lived in UK, not Germany. He would also have been crushed.
Sorry to go off on a bit of ramble.
Best wishes from George
@@georgejohnson1498 I understand George. I love our little 5 month old Cavoodle: just a real delight, full of both affection and intelligence - as well as playfulness - but without even the faintest hint of the nastiness that is so prevalent in humans. It's an odd and depressing world. I hope the surgery goes well!
How incredibly sad his career and then his life were cut short by the hatred of the Nazi regime.
@@jpknijff Absolutely appalling.