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Josef Krips

Posted by TGR (A) on November 6, 2015 at 16:15:40

John Marks recently pointed out to me a recording of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, Krips conducting the Vienna Symphony in the Musikvereinsaal with Wunderlich and Fischer-Dieskau as sol0ists - circa 1964. Apparently the concert was recorded and broadcast on Austrian radio, but the tapes were thought lost until a copy turned up in the Krips archives - he had been given a copy, and DG issued a recording a few years ago. Somehow, I missed that and was unaware of this until John pointed it out to me.

I am still absorbing the performance, but I surprised by a couple of comments in the brochure. First, Krips had a long history of conducting Mahler, something that I didn't know. I had him pegged as more of a conductor of traditional Viennese works, Mozart to Brahms. Certainly it appears that this recording is the sole recorded example of his Mahler.

Secondly, it appears that F-D wrote Krips a letter to state that this performance was the greatest DLVDE he had ever participated in. Quite a statement, seeing how he recorded it with both Kletzki and Bernstein.

I wonder if maybe Krips was a better conductor that we give him credit for. I saw him once conduct the SF Symphony, the year after he was unceremoniously given the boot for Ozawa, in a program that included Haydn's Surprise Symphony and the Firebird Suite - there probably was a 3rd work, but that was in February, 1971.....

Anyway, I enjoy very much his Mozart symphony recordings, and I have his famous Schubert Great C-Major, but not much else. Never heard his Beethoven set, for example.

I wonder if his modern day fame would have been greater had he found a way to record some Mahler in the 50s and 60s - that was not very well trod ground in those days. And, it is a shame that he is the only music director of the SF Symphony who, between the appointment of Monteux and the modern day who did not record with the orchestra.

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