Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn, Arnold Schoenberg, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Performer: John Ogdon
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Rafael Kubelik
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Audite
Catalogue: Audite95745
Release: 2022
Size: 899 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Haydn: Symphony No. 99 in E-Flat Major, Hob.I:99 (“London Symphony” No. 7)
01. I. Adagio – Vivace assai
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Menuett. Allegretto – Trio
04. IV. Finale. Vivace
Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, Op. 42
05. I. Andante
06. II. Molto Allegro
07. III. Adagio
08. IV. Giocoso (Moderato)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
09. I. Andante sostenuto – Moderato con Anima
10. II. Andantino in modo di Canzona
11. III. Scherzo. Pizzicato ostinato – Allegro
12. IV. Finale. Allegro con Fuoco
In the summer of 1968, a few days after the brutal suppression of the “Prague Spring”, the Czech émigré Rafael Kubelík conducted a gripping concert in his adopted home city of Lucerne: a Haydn Symphony, full of joie de vivre, and a passionately glowing account of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony frame Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto, played by the British piano legend John Ogdon in his only appearance at Lucerne Festival.