1897-1990 CZ, Prague
Conductor of Classical
Henry Swoboda (October 29, 1897 – August 13, 1990) was a Czech conductor and musicologist. He made many recordings for the Westminster label, including the first commercially available record of Bruckner's Sixth Symphony. He worked from 1927 to 1931 for Electrola, Berlin and later as conductor for Radio-Prag. He was a Guestprofessor at University of Southern California between 1931–1939 and emigrated 1939 to the USA.Lit: Horst Weber, Manuela Schwartz (Ed.), Sources relating to the history of émigré musicians, 1933–1950, vol. 2, Munich 2005, p. 272.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Anton Bruckner | Anton Bruckner, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Joseph Keilberth, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden Und Freiburg, Wiener Symphoniker, Henry Swoboda | 2015 | Album |
Sinfonia Concertante In E Flat Major, K.364 / Sinfonia Concertante In E Flat Major, K. Anh. 9 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Walter Barylli, Paul Doktor, Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper, Felix Prohaska / Bläservereinigung Der Wiener Philharmoniker, Chamber Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Henry Swoboda | 2004 | Album |
Elegiac Symphony (Trauersymphonie) / Concerto Grosso No. 8 In F Minor, Op. 1 / Concerto Grosso No. 4 Op. 11 / Trio Sonata With String Orchestra | Wiener Symphoniker, Aldo Locatelli, Henry Swoboda, Giovanni Sammartini, Rudolf Moralt, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | 1999 | Album |
Sinfonias | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Wiener Symphoniker Direction Henry Swoboda | 1995 | Album |
Requiem - Te Deum - Stabat Mater | Giuseppe Verdi, Corry Bijster, Elisabeth Pritchard, David Garen, Leonardo Wolovsky, Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, Walter Goehr, Wiener Kammerchor, Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper, Henry Swoboda | 1993 | Album |
Symphony No. 35 In D Major, K.385 ("Haffner") / Symphony No. 40 In G Minor, K.550 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Classics Club Philharmonic Orchestra, Henry Swoboda | 1993 | Album |
Symphony No. 6 In A Minor (Original Version) / 150th Psalm, 112th Psalm | Anton Bruckner - Wiener Symphoniker Conducted By Henry Swoboda | 1992 | Album |
Serenade No. 1 in D major, Opus II | Johannes Brahms, The Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra | 1992 | Album |
Concerto in A Minor for Harpsichord, Flute, Violin and String Orchestra | Johann Sebastian Bach / Aimée Van De Wiele / Fernand Caratgé / Henry Merckel / The Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra / Henry Swoboda | 1991 | Album |
Symphony in B-flat Major (K.182) - Symphony in A Major (K.114) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, Henry Swoboda | 1991 | Compil. |
Suites Nos. 1 In C Major And 2 In B Minor | Johann Sebastian Bach - Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, Henry Swoboda, Clemens Dahinden | 1991 | Album |
Antonio Vivaldi The Seasons | Louis Kaufman, Baroque String Ensemble, Henry Swoboda | 1957 | Album |
Taras Bulba - Suite Strings - Wallenstein's Camp, Op. 14 | Leoš Janáček / Bedřich Smetana : Wiener Symphoniker, Winterthur Symphony Orchestra -Conductor Henry Swoboda | 1955 | Album |
Aus Italien : Macbeth | Richard Strauss, Wiener Symphoniker Conducted By Henry Swoboda | 1955 | Album |
Winter Holiday (Children's Suite) / Divertimento, Op. 43 / Sinfonietta, Op. 5/48 | Sergei Prokofiev, Большой Хор Всесоюзного Радио, Samuel Samosud, Wiener Symphoniker, Henry Swoboda | 1955 | Album |
Sinfonia In C Major / Sinfonia In D Major / Concerto For Piano And Orch. In A Minor / Sonata For Two Pianos In G Major | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Christian Bach - Wiener Symphoniker Conducted by Henry Swoboda, Franz Holetschek, Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus | 1955 | Album |
Sinfonia Concertante In E Flat Major, K.364 / Sinfonia Concertante In E Flat Major, K. Anh. 9 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Walter Barylli, Paul Doktor, Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper, Felix Prohaska / Bläservereinigung Der Wiener Philharmoniker, Chamber Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Henry Swoboda | 1955 | Album |
Symphony In D Minor, Op. Posth. | Antonín Dvořák - Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper, Henry Swoboda | 1952 | Album |
Rustic Wedding Opus 26 | Karl Goldmark / Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper / Henry Swoboda | 1952 | Album |
Toccata e Canzone / Concerto For Small Orchestra | Bohuslav Martinů / Albert Roussel - The Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra, Henry Swoboda | 1952 | Album |
Nature, Life And Love | Antonín Dvořák - Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper, Henry Swoboda | 1952 | Album |
Symphony No. 29 In A Major, K. 201 / Symphony No. 34 In C Major, K. 388 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper, Henry Swoboda | 1952 | Album |
Symphony No. 3 In D Major ("Polish") | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper, Henry Swoboda | 1952 | Album |
Hindemith: Kammermusik, No. 4, Op. 36, No. 3 (Violin Concerto) - The Four Temperaments (Theme and Four Variations) | Paul Hindemith, Peter Rybar, Franz Holletschek, Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Henry Swoboda | 1951 | Album |
Brahms: Gesang Der Parzen - Nanie Strauss: Wanderer's Sturmlied | Wiener Symphoniker, Vienna Kammerchor Conducted By Henry Swoboda | 1951 | Album |
Concerto For Piano And Orchestra | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov / Alexander Scriabine / Paul Badura-Skoda / Henry Swoboda Conducting Wiener Symphoniker | 1951 | Album |
Suite Elisabethaine - Divertissement - Capriccio | Jacques Ibert / Emmy Loose Soprano, Wiener Akademie Kammerchor, Wiener Symphoniker, Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, Henry Swoboda | 1951 | Album |
Piano Concerto In A Major ; Sinfonia In D Major ; Sinfonia In C Major | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Franz Holetschek, Henry Swoboda, Wiener Symphoniker | 1950 | Album |
Piano Concerto No, 3 C Minor, Op. 37 | Ludwig van Beethoven, Clara Haskil, Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, Henry Swoboda | 1950 | Album |
Symphony In E Flat (1873) / Scherzo Capriccioso Opus 66 | Antonín Dvořák, Wiener Symphoniker, Henry Swoboda | 1950 | Album |
Ricercari For Piano And Orchestra | Norman Dello Joio, Germaine Smadja, The Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra, Henry Swoboda | 1950 | Album |
Symphonietta On Russian Themes • Slavonic Rhapsody No. 2 In G Minor (Op. 45, No. 2) | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Antonín Dvořák ; Wiener Symphoniker Conducted By Henry Swoboda | 1950 | Album |
Piano Concertos No 19, F Major, K.459 - No 20, D Minor, K.466 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, Henry Swoboda, Clara Haskil | 1950 | Album |
Symphonies In C Major And F Major / Concerto Grosso In D Major | Antonio Vivaldi - The Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra, Henry Swoboda, Georges Ales | 1950 | Album |
Serenade For Orchestra (1920-21), Five Studies For Piano And Orchestra (1920), Suite Maximilian, Trois Rag Caprices (1927) | Darius Milhaud, Wiener Symphoniker, Paul Badura-Skoda Conducted By Henry Swoboda | 1950 | Album |
Violin Concerto In A Minor, OP. 28 | Karl Goldmark, Peter Rybar, Henry Swoboda | 1950 | Album |
Suite For Orchestra, Op. 4 | Béla Bartók, The Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra, Henry Swoboda | 1950 | Album |
Concerti Delle Stagioni (The Four Seasons) | Antonio Vivaldi - Louis Kaufman, Concert Hall String Ensemble, Henry Swoboda | 1949 | Album |
Rustic Wedding Symphony, Opus 26 | Karl Goldmark - Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper, Henry Swoboda | Album | |
Moldavian Suite; Fantasy For Violin And Orchestra | Николай Пейко, Josef Suk, Peter Rybar, Nathan Rachlin, Henry Swoboda | Album | |
Winter Holiday (Children's Suite); Divertimento, Op. 43; Sinfonietta, Op. 5/48 | Sergei Prokofiev, Samuel Samosud, Большой Симфонический Оркестр Всесоюзного Радио, Henry Swoboda, Wiener Symphoniker | Album | |
Symphonic Poem Macbeth Op.23, Concerto Grosso | Richard Strauss, Bohuslav Martinů, Henry Swoboda | Album | |
Piano Concerto In C Sharp Minor, Op. 30 / Symphonic Variations / Piano Concerto In F Sharp Minor, Op. 20 | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, César Franck, Alexander Scriabine, The London Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski, Wiener Symphoniker, Henry Swoboda, Paul Badura-Skoda | Compil. | |
Symphonic Variations / Piano Concerto In C Sharp Minor / Piano Concerto, Op. 20 | Paul Badura-Skoda, César Franck, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Scriabine, The London Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski, Wiener Symphoniker, Henry Swoboda | Album | |
Mozart / Symphony N°37, G Major, K 444 - Haydn / Tukish Suite From The Music To Voltaires "Zaire" | Wiener Symphoniker Conducted By Henry Swoboda / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Michael Haydn | Album | |
Symphony No. 6 In A Minor (Original Version) | Anton Bruckner - Wiener Symphoniker Conducted By Henry Swoboda | Album | |
Christus Auf Dem Ölberg | Ludwig van Beethoven - Margit Opawsky ; Ratko Delorko ; Walter Berry ; Wiener Kammerchor ; Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper - Henry Swoboda | Album | |
Symphony No. 35 D Major, K. 385, "Haffner", Symphony Np. 29 A Major, K. 201 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper, Henry Swoboda | Album | |
Symphonie n° 94 En Sol Majeur “Surprise” · Symphonie n° 100 En Sol Majeur, “Militaire” | Joseph Haydn – Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest | Album | |
Concerto En la Majeur Pour Piano Et Orchestre - Symphonie En Ré Majeur - Symphonie En Ut Majeur | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Wiener Symphoniker Direction Henry Swoboda, Franz Holletschek | Album | |
1st Symphony In D Major | Henry Swoboda | Album | |
Serenade No. 2 In A Major, Op. 16 | The Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra, Henry Swoboda, Johannes Brahms | Album | |
Macbeth Poeme Symphonique / Wanderer Sturmlied Pour Choeur A 6 Voix Et Orchestre | Richard Strauss, Wiener Symphoniker, Wiener Akademie Kammerchor, Henry Swoboda | Album | |
Suite No. 1 In C Major • Concerto No. 1 In C Major For Two Cembalos And Orchestra | Johann Sebastian Bach / Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, Henry Swoboda, Hans Andreae, Theodor Sack | Album |