Klarinet Archive - Posting 000360.txt from 2000/01

From: "James O'Briant" <jobriant@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:30:31 -0500

Avrahm Galper wrote, in part:

> Berlin Philharmonic ...
> Hans Von Bulow was their first music
> director, followed by Arthur Nikisch who
> set up the orchestra as a champion of the
> latest symphonic music.

Nikisch was also forward-thinking in other ways. He and the orchestra were
the first to record an entire symphony -- the Beethoven Fifth, committed to
disc in 1912. This recording was reissued on LP in the 1970's, and I have a
copy of it buried away in storage with 3000 other classical LP's.

Jim O'Briant
Bayside Music Press
Gilroy, CA

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