The Peter Maag Edition

Newly compiled for the first time, the Decca career of a pre eminent Mozart conductor, complemented by his recordings for Deutsc he Grammophon and Westminster. Peter Maag began his career as a pianist, but turned to conducting with the encouragement of Wilhelm Furtwangler. He made his first Decc a recording having lately turned 30, with the Suisse Romande Orchestra whose founder director, Ernest Ansermet , also gave his fellow Swiss conductor much early encouragement. Critics recognised Maag as a natural Mozartian, and his first seven Decca recordings were exclusively dedicated to the composer’s serenades, symphonies and arias (accompanying Jennifer Vyvyan a nd Fernando Corena In the late 1950s, Maag embarked on a fruitful relationship with the LSO, which yielded more Mozart and then classic accounts of Mendelssohn the Scottish Symphony and music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream for which the conductor’s lightness of touch and firm rhythmic hand were ideally suited. These qualities also found him at ho me in ballet there are beautifully sprung accounts here of Les Sylphides and La Source and the Italian operatic repertoire. As well as a long prized disc of Rossini overtures, this box gathers up Maag’s pioneering recording of a forerunner to Fidelio , Paer’s Leonora , and Verdi’s Schiller rarity, Luisa Miller , with a cast led by Luciano Pavarotti (who had already worked on the piece with the conductor for Italian Maag brought the best out of both vocal and instrumental soloists,

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Format: CD
Artist: Peter Maag
Release Date: 05 February 2021
Genre: Classical Music
Label: ELOQUENCE / DECCA
Distributor: Universal Music