Herman Krebbers

Herman Krebbers Edition (15CD Boxset)

The most comprehensive collection ever issued of the recorded art of Herman Krebbers (1923–2018) featuring the great Dutch violinist as concerto soloist, chamber musician and concert master and issued to mark the centenary of his birth. An original jackets collection of a much-loved musician, with an introduction by Bernard Haitink, written shortly before his death.

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“Herman Krebbers can hold centre stage very well. He plays Brahms with utterly luminescent tone, an aristocratic confidence in the face of technical hurdles, and a terraced shaping of phrases and dynamics that freshly confronts expressive meanings.” High Fidelity, April 1980 (Brahms – Haitink)

“The most satisfactory, natural, and realistic-sounding of all versions … also the most magisterial, lucid, and illuminating interpretation, with the finest solo-violin playing by Herman Krebbers.” High Fidelity, June 1981 (R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra)

“Certainly no violinist has ever realized the solo passages as graciously and as free from any taint of sentimentality as Herman Krebbers … one of the Himalayan peaks of the all-time worldwide discography.” High Fidelity, December 1974 (R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra)

“An expansive, voluptuous, finely detailed approach … [Krebbers] is absolutely attuned to this concept in his eloquent solos, his colleagues are all on top form, and everything fairly glows.” Stereo Review, December 1980 (Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade)

TRACK LIST

CD 1
PAGANINI Violin Concerto No. 1
VIEUXTEMPS Violin Concerto No. 4
Willem van Otterloo
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASE ON DECCA

CD 2
J.S. BACH Concerto for Two Violins
BEETHOVEN Violin Romances Nos. 1 & 2
Theo Olof
Willem van Otterloo
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASE ON DECCA

CD 3
BADINGS Concerto for Two Violins
Theo Olof
Symphony No. 3
Willem van Otterloo
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASE ON DECCA

CD 4
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto*
Willem van Otterloo
Sanctus (Missa solemnis)
Eugen Jochum
*FIRST RELEASE ON CD

CD 5
VIOTTI Violin Concerto No. 22*
SVENDSEN Romance Op. 26*
SAINT-SAËNS Danse macabre; Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso*; Havanaise*
Willem van Otterloo
Bernard Haitink
*FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASE ON DECCA

CD 6
J.S. BACH Concerto for Two Violins
Arthur Grumiaux; Arpad Gérecz
Erbarme dich (Matthäus-Passion)
Marga Höffgen; Eugen Jochum
BRAHMS Double Concerto*
Tibor De Machula; Henk Spruit
*FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASE ON DECCA

CD 7
BRAHMS Violin Concerto°
BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1*
Hein Jordans
°FIRST RELEASE ON CD
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CD 8
MOZART Violin Concertos Nos. 4 & 2
David Zinman

CD 9
BRAHMS Violin Concerto
Bernard Haitink

CD 10
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto
Bernard Haitink
Sanctus (Missa solemnis)
Leonard Bernstein

CD 11
BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1
Libor Pešek
DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir d’un lieu cher
Anton Kersjes
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CD RELEASE ON DECCA

CD 12
BARTÓK 44 Duos for Two Violins
Theo Olof
FIRST RELEASE ON CD

CD 13
MOZART Oboe Quartet; Adagio and Rondo; Oboe Quintet, K. 406 (after String Quintet)
Heinz Holliger; Karl Schouten; Judith De Munk-Gerö · Jean Decroos
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CD 14
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
RAVEL Tzigane
Kirill Kondrashin
R. STRAUSS Don Juan
Bernard Haitink

CD 15
R. STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra
Ein Heldenleben
Bernard Haitink