Kempe Conducts: Scheherazade / Schwanda Bagpiper
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Canadian Music Store CD DetailsEdition: Music CDFormat: Import, Original recording reissued CD Release Date: 2003-02-11 Music Label: Testament UK Music reviews of Kempe Conducts: Scheherazade / Schwanda BagpiperMusic Review: Another Testament to Great Reissues
Testament is rapidly becoming one of my favorite classical labels, despite the fact that its CDs sell at full-price. This company prides itself on licensing classic recordings from the vaults of labels like EMI and Decca, performances that the big boys won't reissue not because of their musical quality, but because of their lack of profitability. They have also made it their mission to rescue the reputations of once great conductors no longer in the spotlight, including D.E. Inghelbrecht, Gunter Wand (see my reviews of both) and now Rudolf Kempe. Kempe would never have been totally forgotten as his Strauss recordings are a cornerstone of EMI's current series of CD box sets and budget-line titles. But he was more than a Strauss specialist as he was a first-rate conductor of everything from Beethoven to Wagner, and unfortunately too many of his outstanding recordings are no longer available. Three such first-rate performances are reissued here -- Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade" (with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from 1967), the Polka and Fugue from Weinberger's "Schwanda the Bagpiper" (RPO, 1961), and Dvorak's "Scherzo Capriccioso" (Berlin Philharmonic, 1957). All of these recordings are captured in brilliant golden-age stereo, and this CD marks the first stereo release of the Dvorak. In all, this title is yet another "Testament" to a great reissue program.
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