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In Reply to: RE: Josef Krips posted by TGR on November 06, 2015 at 16:15:40
Top of the list might well be his Everest cycle of the Beethoven Symphonies (which you mention in passing) - currently available from some sites as hi-rez downloads. I found the performances to be variable however - some awfully good indeed, others not so much.
One recording I was very surprised by is this EMI/Angel LP:
Again, surprisingly well recorded and with a surprising level of excitement in the performances. You also mention his set of Mozart symphonies with the Concertebouw Orchestra: I have that set too and have always enjoyed it - a real gemutlich approach in very good sound for its time.
During his time in San Francisco, Krips was friends with my piano teacher at Stanford (Adolph Baller). Both Baller and Krips kind of hated the upheavals of the late 60's and both were really entrenched in their old-world, "civilised" attitudes - despite the rise of Nazism in the old world (from which Baller for sure suffered grievously!). I think in Baller's case that he was worried that these kinds of social upheavals might lead to a return of Nazism. (Interestingly, one of my other professors took an opposite view, and was worried that the police response to the 60's demonstrations, especially the one at Kent State, was itself a manifestation of a new kind of Nazism.)
Baller once told me that Krips resented the new procedures for orchestral auditions that were being proposed at that time (musicians auditioning behind a screen, etc.), and Krips claimed that he needed to see the musicians playing as well as to hear them. This attitude was deeply repugnant to many, who saw it as an excuse to restrict the inclusion of women and minorities in the orchestra.
Regarding your comment about Krips's failure to make any recordings with the SF Symphony, I read that this was deeply resented by the musicians in the orchestra at that time. After all, as you say, Monteux thought the orchestra was good enough to make records with.
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I actually gifted a copy of that to my girlfriend at the time. She was never a big classical music fan, though.
Yes, the SFS made a ton of recordings with Monteux, although as Canarina relates in his bio of Monteux - the record companies wanted HIM, not the SFS. Standards apparently dropped substantially under Jorda, of course, and he was clearly not a major figure.
I had a embarrassing moment in the 80s when I worked with Jorda's nephew, who mentioned that his uncle used to conduct the SFS - names were different, so I couldn't make the connection until he told me.
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