Klarinet Archive - Posting 001054.txt from 2000/12

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wlach the Nazi?
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:51:35 -0500

There is a short essay on Wlach, in Japanese,
in a boxed set* of LPs of Westminster
recordings VIC 5236-40 (1980). Will get help
with the translation. Curiously some of the dates
of the recordings in this set are given as posthumous!!
Presumably dates of first issue. Pamela Weston
says nothing about Wlach's politics.
One of the her published photographs of Wlach
was a Wlach family possession, suggesting that
she has been in touch with them.

A partial discography of Leopold Wlach (1902-56)

1948 Mozart Concerto/Karajan EMI Japan EAC 30108 (off a master tape!)
1956 Strauss Suite Op 4, Serenade Op 7, Janacek Concertino Westminster XWN
18173
1956 Rimsky-Korsakov Quintet Westminster XWN 18071

No precise dates: -
Beethoven Octet, Rondino, Sextet, Westminster XWN 18189
Mozart Serenades (S)WN 18134 and Whitehall WH 20090
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante K 364 (un-named Vienna Phil group) Whitehall WH
20064
Schubert Octet Whitehall WH 20065
Beethoven Septet Whitehall WH 20068
Mozart Concerto/Rodzinski* Whitehall WH 20063, Westminster XWN 13287etc....
Mozart Quintet K 581* Westminster 18269
Brahms Quintet* Westminster 9016 and 5155
Brahms Sonatas 1* and 2* Westminster 5236, 9023 and 18446
Brahms Trio* Westminster 9017
Schumann Fairy Tales* Westminster WL 50-24
Mendelssohn Concertpieces 1* and 2* Westminster 18494
Glinka Trio Pathetique Westminster EL 50-19
Mozart Divertimenti K 439b Westminster WL 5020 and 5022
Franz Schmidt Quintet in A (1938) , Preiser PR 3066
Hans Pfitzner Sextet (1945) Preiser FK 50135

Note that he recorded Mendelssohn.

Pfitzner detested the Nazis, but co-operated.
After his house in Munich was bombed, the Vienna Phil gave him
a temporary home and Reger's widow gave him a piano.
The Sextet (I played a couple of times) is very quirky,
old fashioned, but almost humorous.

MB

Al Hunt wrote on 20 December 2000 04:11 about Wlach the Nazi?

>What evidence do you have that Wlach was a Nazi? Not that I'm doubting
your
>word; I would just like to know your source of information.
>
>Thanks
>
>Al Hunt
>
><< >
> > Why? Wlach was a ver good player by the standards of his day, but he was
>also
> > a Nazi officer and a bastard.
> >
> > -David Hattner >>
>
>
>Albert Hunt
>6804 Dillon Ave
>McLean, VA 22101
>
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