WESTMINSTER 2-LPs WST-235: Bruckner Symphony No 8 - Knappertsbusch - 1965 CANADA
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Background -
Super rare, "HOLY GRAIL" title for classical music collectors. This 2-LP STEREO set is highly sought after and was issued in very small numbers in the early 1960s. What makes this item even rarer was that it was made for a much smaller audience, in CANADA. The condition is superb for such a vintage record. The gate-fold jacket is solid, clean and glossy with no splits or weakening - virtually with NO faults at all. The vinyl was made by Westminster though a Canadian company called "Sparton Records". This company was not famous for audiophile quality vinyl, however, the condition of this 2-LP set is about as nice as we have ever seen. The vinyl is nice and glossy with a few manufacturing imperfections/marks that may sound on some audio systems, but played superbly when we tested the vinyl on one of our high end systems. A finer copy would be very hard to find.Hans Knappertsbusch was one of the most renowned and beloved conductors of the German Romantic repertoire in the middle twentieth century. Although he grew up playing and loving music, his parents objected to the notion of a musical career. Thus Knappertsbusch studied philosophy at Bonn University. In 1908, however, he entered the Cologne Conservatory and took conducting courses with Fritz Steinbach.
Knappertsbusch began his career as a staff conductor at the Mülheim-Ruhr Theater (1910-1912) and then as opera director in his home town of Elberfeld. Equally important to his development were his forays into the temple of Wagnerism. He spent several summers as an assistant to director Siegfried Wagner and conductor Hans Richter at the Bayreuth Festival and took part in the Netherlands Wagner Festivals in 1913 and 1914. After the end of World War I Knappertsbusch worked in Dessau and Leipzig, and in 1922 he was asked to succeed Bruno Walter as music director of the Munich Opera.
Knappertsbusch's personality was easy going; he was notably free of the restlessness and undue ambition that often attended a rising career such as his. He was content mainly to stay in Munich, with the result that he never became as well-known as many of his colleagues. In any case, Munich fully appreciated Knappertsbusch's talents, and he was named conductor for life. However, he refused several demands made by the Nazis and was fired from his lifetime post in 1936. He conducted a memorable Salome in Covent Garden in 1936 and 1937, and made some guest appearances elsewhere in Germany, but was content to maintain a low profile during the Nazi regime. He left Germany after the Munich debacle, settling in Vienna where he frequently conducted the Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera. Knappertsbusch's career was again affected by the Nazis when Germany took over Austria over in 1938, but he was mostly able to steer clear of trouble.
Knappertsbusch gained a reputation for broad, magisteral performances of Bruckner and, more and more, seemed emerge as the representative of the traditional style of unhurried Wagner performances. He was famous for disliking rehearsals, often cutting them short; his orchestral players maintained that this was not the result of laziness, but of complete security in his interpretation and trust of the players. His performances were therefore not rigidly preconceived, but instead had a remarkable freshness and spontaneity.
When the Bayreuth Festival reopened in 1951, Knappertsbusch worked closely with Wieland Wagner on orchestral matters (though the conductor was known to dislike the director's spare, revolutionary stage productions). Perhaps Knappertsbusch's most notable recording is his stereo account of Wagner's Parsifal from the Bayreuth stage. - Joseph Stevenson
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WESTMINSTER Records 2-LP set - BLACK record labels with primarily SILVER lettering
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Records Made in CANADA
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Pressing are in STEREO - recordings are from 1963
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Very Limited Edition 2-LP set
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Record Speed: 33 1/3 rpm
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Records Made / Issued in: 1965
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Record Catalog Number: WST 235
Featured on this item:
Anton Bruckner // Hans Knappertsbusch
Title of this 2-LP set -
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
Track Listings -
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8A First Movement: Allegro Moderato - 15:42 B Second Movement: Scherzo - Allegro Moderato - 15:52
C Third Movement: Adagio - 27:22
D Fourth Movement: Finale - 25:54
Other Information / Performers / Credits on this LP include -
• Conductor – Hans Knappertsbusch
• Cover – Harry Farmlett
• Engineer – Peter Curiel
• Liner Notes – Irving Kolodin
• Mastered By – Claude Rie
• Orchestra – Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
• Recorded in Bavaria Studios, Munich, January 1963
CONDITION Details:
LP Jacket:-
The Gate-Fold jacket is in Near MINT minus condition - no seam splits, no cut out marks, no writing, no stains!
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The jacket has NO splits of any kind - it is completely solid and intact, and shows only some very minor shelf wear.
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It has NO drill holes or saw marks of any kind.
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There is NO writing on the front or back of the jacket.
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The cover has clean and sharp colors.
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The LPs are in excellent plus condition!
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The LPs have a couple of very light manufacturing marks, nothing serious. These may sound on some audio systems, but this is really dependent on your gear. The marks are NOT serious in any way - like spider marks, which are caused by sliding the LP in and out of the inner sleeve.
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As for any record, even brand new, sealed ones, we always recommend a proper record cleaning before playing!
A Short Note About LP GRADING -
- Mint = Only used for sealed items.
- Near Mint = Virtually flawless in every way.
- Near Mint Minus = Item has some minor imperfections, some audible.
- Excellent = Item obviously played and enjoyed with some noise.
- Very Good Plus = Many more imperfections which are noticeable and obtrusive.
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