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Notes and Editorial Reviews
For some people the prospect of four sides of military band marches may seem a bit much. But all of these pieces have their individual characteristics, which emerge as familiarity increases. Military band enthusiasts will recognise the titles of some of the most famous of all Prussian and Austrian marches, and even those attracted to the records by the performers rather than the music can hardly fail to be familiar with such internationally popular pieces as Old Comrades, Under the Double Eagle and Regimentskinder (Children of the Regiment). DG have planned the programme intelligently, alternating marches of an earlier age with more recent ones and the more ceremonial Prussian marches with the more lyrical Austrian ones.
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wind ensemble used sounds to be a large one, and I would assume that the contribution of the arrangers named on the labels for some of the pieces is mainly to fill out the original or traditional scoring. The playing, of course, is altogether smoother and more polished than one tends to find on military band records, with full effect given to such passages as the beautiful extended solo in the trio of the Florentine March. Compared with the usual military bandmaster approach, Karajan adopts a generally slower, more easy-going and jaunty. style. He makes use of rubato effectively and sparingly, avoiding the tendency of some bandmasters to accelerate indiscriminately towards the end of a piece. There is an impressive display of dynamics, too, possibly owing as much to the engineers as to the musicians.
The records come with pages of notes and attractive illustrations. It's a shame that the notes, by Johann Schade, are not 100% reliable, but they contain much interesting information, enabling anyone so inclined to see how the march form developed from the more functional style around the time of Beethoven, through the dance-like pieces written by the likes of Komthic, J. F. Wagner and Teike, to an extended piece such as Fueik's Florentine March, which is really more of a concert work. Yet, if the spotlight is deservedly directed for once at some of the less celebrated names of musical history, the lingering memory may still be of that more famous Wagner and the march arranged by Gottfried Sonntag on themes from the Ring which brings to an appropriately rousing conclusion this splendid collection of marches decked out in their Sunday best.
-- Gramophone [2/1975]
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Works on This Recording
1.
March for Winds in F major, WoO 18 "für die böhmische Landwehr" by Ludwig van Beethoven
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Classical
Written: 1809; Vienna, Austria
Length: 2 Minutes 32 Secs.
2.
Torgauer Marsch by Frederick the Great
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Baroque
Length: 3 Minutes 9 Secs.
3.
O du mein Osterreich by Franz von Suppé
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Length: 2 Minutes 10 Secs.
4.
Unter dem Grillenbanner, march for band by Wilhelm Lindemann
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Post-Romantic
Written: by 1942; Germany
Length: 2 Minutes 43 Secs.
5.
Pariser Einzugsmarsch by Johann Heinrich Walch
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Length: 2 Minutes 7 Secs.
6.
Mir sein die Kaiserjäger Marsch by Karl Mühlberger
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Post-Romantic
Written: 1914; Austria
Length: 2 Minutes 30 Secs.
7.
Königgrätzer Marsch by Johann Gottfried Piefke
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Length: 2 Minutes 26 Secs.
8.
Wien bleibt Wien, march for band by Johann Schrammel
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Romantic
Written: 1884; Austria
Length: 3 Minutes 3 Secs.
9.
Kreuzritter-Fanfare, for military band by Richard Henrion
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Length: 2 Minutes 22 Secs.
10.
Petersburg Marsch (Petersburg March) by Anonymous
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Renaissance
Written: Russia
Length: 2 Minutes 23 Secs.
11.
Fehrbelliner Reitermarsch, for band by Richard Henrion
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Length: 2 Minutes 28 Secs.
12.
Pappenheimer Marsch by Anonymous
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Classical
Written: 18th Century
Length: 1 Minutes 23 Secs.
13.
Hoch und Deutschemeister Marsch by Dominik Ertl
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1912; Austria
Length: 2 Minutes 30 Secs.
14.
Vindolbona Marsch by Vladimir Komkáz
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Length: 2 Minutes 32 Secs.
15.
Hohenfriedberger Marsch by Frederick the Great
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Baroque
Length: 1 Minutes 27 Secs.
16.
Erzherzog Albrecht Marsch by Vladimir Komkáz
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Length: 2 Minutes 45 Secs.
17.
Preussens Gloria by Johann Gottfried Piefke
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Romantic
Written: 1871; Germany
Length: 1 Minutes 42 Secs.
18.
Coburger Marsch by Anonymous
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Classical
Length: 3 Minutes 28 Secs.
19.
Kärntner Liedermarsch, for band by Anton Seifert
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Length: 2 Minutes 34 Secs.
20.
Die Bosniaken Kommen, for band by Eduard Wagnes
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Length: 2 Minutes 24 Secs.
21.
Old Comrades (Alte Kameraden), march for band (or orchestra) by Carl Teike
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Modern
Written: Germany
Length: 4 Minutes 29 Secs.
22.
Der Zigeunerbaron: Einzugs-Marsch by Johann Strauss Jr.
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Romantic
Written: 1885; Vienna, Austria
Length: 2 Minutes 57 Secs.
23.
Nibelungen March by Gottfried Sonntag
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: 20th Century
Length: 3 Minutes 35 Secs.
24.
Radetzky-Marsch, for orchestra, Op. 228 by Sr. Johann Strauss I
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Romantic
Written: 1848; Austria
Length: 2 Minutes 51 Secs.
25.
Under the Double Eagle for band (or orchestra), Op. 159 by Josef F. Wagner
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Post-Romantic
Written: 1893; Austria
Length: 3 Minutes 26 Secs.
26.
Florentiner-Marsch for orchestra, Op 214 by Julius Fucik
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Modern
Written: circa 1913; Czechoslovakia
Length: 5 Minutes 25 Secs.
27.
Die Regimentskinder Marsch (Children of the Regiment), Op. 169 by Julius Fucik
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Modern
Length: 3 Minutes 17 Secs.
28.
Tiroler Holzhacker Buab'n by Josef F. Wagner
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Period: Post-Romantic
Length: 3 Minutes 5 Secs.
29.
Marsch der Finnländischen Reiterei by Anonymous
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Length: 3 Minutes 3 Secs.
30.
Des großen Kurfürsten Reitermarsch (March of the Mounted Calvary) by Cuno Graf Moltke
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Length: 3 Minutes 4 Secs.
31.
Fredericus Rex Grenadiermarsch by Ferdinand Radeck
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
Length: 2 Minutes 43 Secs.
Customer Reviews
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something from the past December 28, 2011
By elidon See All My Reviews
"I`m very happy to find these old marches at ARKIVMUSIC.I was looking to buy these CD-s for a long time,as it says in the booklet that after a careful selection Maestro KARAJANI choose those marches that survived the war."
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