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Wonderful though Rudolf Kempe’s 1970s Dresden Staaskapelle recordings of Strauss’ Don Quixote and Till Eulenspiegel may be, his earlier 1958 Berlin Philharmonic versions are better.
This Eroica performance finds Kempe sounding noticeably more Beethovenian than he did in a companion Testament release of the composer’s overtures. His is a big,
Rudolf Kempe leads rather pedestrian accounts of these Beethoven overtures, which is surprising considering his conductorial wizardry in the music of Richard Strauss. The flair
This French Sony release contains one of Rudolf Kempe’s few unalloyed successes in the German classical repertoire. The reason isn’t hard to fathom: great performances
Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique ought to suit Rudolf Kempe to a tee, and he does some things that are marvelous: the way he floats the second-movement
Rudolf Kempe was an amazing orchestral colorist, and to do his best work he needed a large and varied palette: in other words, Romantic music.
Rudolf Kempe’s Ein Heldenleben stands with the best, though it doesn’t offer Reiner’s sheer virtuosity, Haitink’s supreme polish, or Barbirolli’s Falstaffian joviality. What it has
This is a gorgeous Scheherazade. Not surprisingly, given the fact that this is Beecham’s orchestra a half-dozen years after the great Englishman’s death, the performance
There are three Kempe Tchaikovsky Fifths: a Berlin Philharmonic studio recording from the late 50s (now on Testament), a Bavarian Radio live broadcast from 1974
Mendelssohn’s “Scotch” Symphony highlights an uneven compilation with Rudolf Kempe leading the Dresden Staatskapelle. Note the genial, flexible opening movement, plus the gorgeous strings and
