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Herman Krebbers - Herman Krebbers Edition (CD SET 15CD Box Set CD BOX SET)
The most comprehensive collection ever issued of the recorded art of Herman Krebbers (1923–2018) featuring the great Dutch violinist as concerto soloist, chamber musician and concert master and issued to mark the centenary of his birth. An original jackets collection of a much-loved musician, with an introduction by Bernard Haitink, written shortly before his death.
For many years, the concerto recordings made by Herman Krebbers were staples of the Philips LP catalogue. The critical praise and popularity awarded to them was all the more remarkable in view of the fact that Krebbers never pursued the path of an international soloist. Instead, he put his family first and chose the vocation of as an orchestral concertmaster, firstly with the Hague Philharmonic under Willem van Otterloo. With them he made his first recordings in the early 1950s, of Bach and Beethoven and Vieuxtemps.
Around this time, Philips also recorded Krebbers in duo-violin repertoire with his fellow student and lifelong friend Theo Olof. The albums of Bartók Duos and the Double Concertos by Bach and Henk Badings are among several recordings in the collection receiving their first international appearance on CD in this collection, which also includes recordings of the Bruch and Dvořák concertos made in 1973, on the occasion of Krebbers’s 40th anniversary as a soloist.
In 1962 Krebbers became leader of the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Bernard Haitink, and went on to make celebrated second recordings of the Beethoven and Brahms concertos, as well as the taxing peaks of the ‘concertmaster’ repertoire, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade and Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben. The box also include the Benedictus from Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, with its long and sublime solo-violin part, in two Concertgebouw recordings made in the 70s with Eugen Jochum and Leonard Bernstein, as well as ‘Erbarme dich’ from Bach’s Matthäus-Passion also with Jochum. Krebbers brought to these parts a soloistic finesse and temperament which was central to the success of the interpretations as a whole.
Krebbers’s parallel career as a chamber musician is represented by a Philips collection of Mozart, including the Oboe Quartet with Heinz Holliger. Further rarities in the set include a second, Swiss-made Bach ‘Double’ Concerto with Arthur Grumiaux, and a Dutch radio recording of Brahms’s Double Concerto with the Concertgebouw’s longstanding principal cellist, Tibor de Machula.
More than 40 years on from Krebbers’s premature retirement after a boating accident, the aristocratic poise and golden warmth of tone to his playing retains its appeal. This comprehensive tribute features a survey of the violinist’s career, and valuable behind-the-scenes insights into many of these recordings, by the Dutch writer Niek Nelissen.
TRACKLISTINGS
CD 1
PAGANINI Violin Concerto No. 1
VIEUXTEMPS Violin Concerto No. 4
Willem van Otterloo
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASE ON DECCA
CD 2
J.S. BACH Concerto for Two Violins
BEETHOVEN Violin Romances Nos. 1 & 2
Theo Olof
Willem van Otterloo
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASE ON DECCA
CD 3
BADINGS Concerto for Two Violins
Theo Olof
Symphony No. 3
Willem van Otterloo
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASE ON DECCA
CD 4
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto-
Willem van Otterloo
Sanctus (Missa solemnis)
Eugen Jochum
-FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 5
VIOTTI Violin Concerto No. 22-
SVENDSEN Romance Op. 26-
SAINT-SAËNS Danse macabre; Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso-; Havanaise-
Willem van Otterloo
Bernard Haitink
-FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASE ON DECCA
CD 6
J.S. BACH Concerto for Two Violins
Arthur Grumiaux; Arpad Gérecz
Erbarme dich (Matthäus-Passion)
Marga Höffgen; Eugen Jochum
BRAHMS Double Concerto-
Tibor De Machula; Henk Spruit
-FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASE ON DECCAC
CD 7
BRAHMS Violin Concerto°
BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1-
Hein Jordans
°FIRST RELEASE ON CD
-FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASE ON DECCA
CD 8
MOZART Violin Concertos Nos. 4 & 2
David Zinman
CD 9
BRAHMS Violin Concerto
Bernard Haitink
CD 10
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto
Bernard Haitink
Sanctus (Missa solemnis)
Leonard Bernstein
CD 11
BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1
Libor Pešek
DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir d’un lieu cher
Anton Kersjes
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASE ON DECCA
CD 12
BARTÓK 44 Duos for Two Violins
Theo Olof
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
CD 13
MOZART Oboe Quartet; Adagio and Rondo; Oboe Quintet, K. 406 (after String Quintet)
Heinz Holliger; Karl Schouten; Judith De Munk-Gerö · Jean Decroos
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASE ON DECCA
CD 14
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
RAVEL Tzigane
Kirill Kondrashin
STRAUSS Don Juan
Bernard Haitink
CD 15
STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra
Ein Heldenleben
Bernard Haitink
