Post by mcginn on Dec 28, 2010 3:03:41 GMT -5
Six days ago a YouTube user uploaded a recording of CK conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker in a live performance of Weber's "Der Freischütz" Overtüre. The performance allegedly dates from 1979. If so, and if the orchestra is actually the VPO, then the performance was on either December 15 or 16, 1979.
Here is the link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AofZ8TF-VbM&translated=1
Shocking though it may be to some, I prefer CK's performance (available on DVD) of the same piece in 1970 at Villa Berg in Stuttgart with the Südfunk-Sinfonieorchester. While the 1970 performance was recorded in mono, it seems to me much more dramatic and spirited and the playing more committed.
Here is the link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AofZ8TF-VbM&translated=1
Shocking though it may be to some, I prefer CK's performance (available on DVD) of the same piece in 1970 at Villa Berg in Stuttgart with the Südfunk-Sinfonieorchester. While the 1970 performance was recorded in mono, it seems to me much more dramatic and spirited and the playing more committed.