Josef Willem Mengelberg - 4Cd Set High-End Mastering

Josef Willem Mengelberg - 4Cd Set High-End Mastering

Artist: Josef Willem Mengelberg - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Album: Box Set 4CD
Label: Documents
Release: 2005
Catalog No.: 22239
File format: eac-cue-log-wv-scans. ~900MB

Willem Mengelberg (Conductor)

Born: March 28, 1871 - Utrecht, Holland
Died: March 21, 1951 - Chur, Switzerland

The celebrated Dutch conductor, (Jos ef) Willem

Mengelberg, studied in Utrecht under Richard Hol, Henri Wilhelm Petri and Anton Averkamp and then went to the Music School in Cologne to study under Franz Wüllner and Adolf Jensen; he took first prize in piano, composition and orchestral conducting.

Willem Mengelberg made his debut as a pianist at a very young age and took over leadership of the Lucerne City Conservatory in 1891. Only four years later, in 1895, he was nominated musical director of the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, and did not leave this post until 1945...Read more

Disc 1
- Symphony no 8 in B minor, D 759 "Unfinished" by Franz Schubert
Written: 1822; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 11/1942
- Symphony no 4 in E minor, Op. 98 by Johannes Brahms
Written: 1884-1885; Austria

Disc 2
- Symphony no 6 in B minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Written: 1893; Russia
Date of Recording: 4/22/1941
- Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48 by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Written: 1880; Russia

Disc 3
- Symphony no 4 in G major by Gustav Mahler
Jo Vincent (Soprano)
Written: 1892-1900; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 11/9/1939
Venue: Live
- Elegiac Melodies (2) for Strings, Op. 34 by Edvard Grieg
Written: 1881; Norway

Disc 4
- Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 by Richard Strauss
Ferdinand Helman (Violin)
Written: 1897-1898; Germany
Date of Recording: 4/21/1941
- Concerto for Violin no 2, Sz 112 by Béla Bartók
Zoltán Székely (Violin)
Written: 1937-1938; Budapest, Hungary

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