Fritz Reiner
Fritz Reiner (1888-1963) was a Hungarian-born conductor, one of the great orchestral disciplinarians of the twentieth century. He became especially associated with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Bach, Richard Strauss and Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, including Salome and Elektra.
Reiner’s conducting was precise, intense and unsparing, with an ear for detail that could m...
BACH The Six Brandenburg Concertos, BWV.1046-1051
BACH The Four Orchestral Suites, BWV.1066-1069
Studio recordings · 1949-53
Producer and Audio Transfer Engineer: Mark Obert-Thorn
Cover artwork based on a photograph of Fritz Reiner and an engraving of J. S. Bach
Total duration: 3hr 9:54
Soloists and Chamber Group
RCA Victor Orchestra
Fritz Reiner, conductor
R. STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra
R. STRAUSS Burleske
R. STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Studio and live recordings · 1952-57
Total duration: 67:28
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Byron Janis, piano
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
NBC Symphony Orchestra
WAGNER excerpts from Die Meistersinger, Parsifal, Die Walküre, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Siegfried
Recorded 1938-41
Total duration: 79:26
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Fritz Reiner
R. STRAUSS Salome
R. STRAUSS Elektra
Live recordings, 1952
Total duration: 3hr 12:58
Ljuba Welitsch – Salome
Hans Hotter – Jochanaan
Set Svanholm – Herodes
Astrid Varnay – Elektra
Elisabeth Höngen – Clytemnestra
Paul Schöffler – Orest
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
conducted by Fritz Reiner
MOZART A Musical Joke
BRAHMS Alto Rhapsody
DEBUSSY (orch. Henri Busser) Petite Suite
LIEBERMANN Concerto for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra
Recorded 1950-1954
Total duration: 67:20
Marian Anderson contralto
Robert Shaw Chorale of Men's Voices Robert Shaw
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conductor Fritz Reiner
MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Incidental Music
GLUCK Orfeo ed Euridice – Dance of the Blessed Spirits
LISZT Totentanz
TCHAIKOVSKY Waltzes
Recorded 1950-1953
Total duration: 78:37
Robin Hood Dell Orchestra of Philadelphia
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Fritz Reiner