Schöneberg Boys Choir

Eugen Jochum, Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Schöneberg Boys Choir – Carl Orff – Carmina Burana (1966/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 55:43 minutes | 1,93 GB | Genre: Classical
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Eugen Jochum (1902-1987), was one of the last representatives of the traditional German school of conducting and the founder of the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Jochum was widely respected for his many recordings and the warmth and idiomatic assurance of his conducting of repertory from Bach to Hindemith. He was perhaps best known as a Bruckner specialist, recording the cycle of the symphonies and serving as president of the West German Bruckner Society. An ardent Catholic, Jochum resisted the political and moral extremism by the National Socialist regime in Germany. His humanist sympathies informed all of his music-making, and his daughter Veronica, a pianist, inherited herfather’s values. ‘Today, everyone thinks of me as a specialist in Bruckner’s symphonies,” Jochum said in a 1983 interview. “But I began with the music of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. And it is to their music that I still feel closest.” This recording has an enviable pedigree as it was endorsed by Carl Or himself and was also the first coice of the BBC Radio 3 CD Review ‘Building a Library’ review in 1995.

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