Description

HUGO KOLBERG (WARSAW, POLAND, 29 AUGUST, 1898 – HAMPSTEAD, NEW YORK, 27 FEBRUARY, 1979)

 

 

 

 

He was a Polish-German-American violinist, in his time 1st concertmaster of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra 1920–1925.

He had grown up in Warsaw, but became a German citizen when he came to Berlin to join the Berlin Philharmonic. He had to leave Berlin in 1939 because his wife was Jewish, and then traveled to the United States.

After moving to the United States, he was concertmaster under Fritz Reiner of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, where he taught at Carnegie Mellon University. He ended his career as 1st concertmaster of the Berliner Philharmoniker from 1958 to 1963 when he reached the age limit. His last period in Berlin was to be seen as a reparation for the persecution and xenophobia he experienced immediately before the outbreak of the Second World War.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

Fritz Reiner, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra – Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Label: Columbia Masterworks – ML 4138

Format: Vinyl, LP

Country: US

Genre: Classical

A1 Der Held (The Hero)

A2 Des Helden Widersacher (The Hero’s Antagonists)

A3 Des Helden Gefahrtin (The Hero’s Helpmate)

A4 Des Helden Walsatt (The Hero’s Battlefield) (Beginning)

B1 Des Helden Walsatt (The Hero’s Battlefield) (Conclusion)

B2 Des Helden Friedenswerke (The Hero’s Mission Of Peace)

B3 Des Helden Weltflucht und Vollendung (The Hero’s Escape and Conclusion)

Composed By – Richard Strauss

Conductor – Fritz Reiner

Orchestra – Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Violin – Hugo Kolberg

 

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1939)

Allegro energico

Allegro molto tranquillo

Allegro conspirito

Hugo Kolberg, violin

Berlin Symphony Orchestra / Otto Matzerath

Mace MXX 9089

Odeon 0-80610 OLAX 1027

 

Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F major, BWV 1046

Hugo Kolberg (solo violin); Weldon Wilbur (solo horn); Robert Bloom (solo oboe)

rec. 28 October 1949

New York, Columbia 30th Street Studio

Columbia

 

Brandenburg Concerto No.4 in G major, BWV 1049

Hugo Kolberg (violin); Julius Baker (flute); Ralph Eichar (flute, tracks 10, 12); Frederick Wilkins (flute, track 11).

rec.21 October 1949

New York, Columbia 30th Street Studio

Columbia

 

Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D major, BWV1050

Sylvia Marlowe (harpsichord); Hugo Kolberg (violin); Julius Baker (solo flute)

rec. 3 November 1949

New York, Columbia 30th Street Studio

Columbia