Band, GB
Classical
English: Vienna Festival Orchestra A "pickup" orchestra which existed only for the purposes of ad-hoc recording, between the 1950s and 1960s, and associated with smaller, budget labels. Hans Swarowsky conducted for this and many similar, less than top-notch, orchestras whose identity is not always clear - and he also seems to have been credited for many recordings he did not conduct! It was common to practice "moonlighting", which involved collecting, on short notice, professional musicians from existing orchestras like the Wiener Symphoniker (Vienna Symphony Orchestra), or the Wiener Opernorchester (Vienna State Opera Orchestra), plus a few free-lancers - when a recording was to be made for a budget label. Hence, the quality of playing and recordings varies - sometimes very good, sometimes, not so much. For example, the string sections often sound rather thin (perhaps owing to a shortage of players used, or sub-par recording conditions). Established labels and orchestras had reputations to maintain. > for the Chorus, please use Wiener Festspielchor > for the Chamber Orchestra, please use Kammerorchester Der Wiener Festspiele
Lili Kraus p 1905-1986 HU | |
Peter Rybar vn 1913-2002 | |
Maria Eichbaum p |
Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Concerto No. 5 In E Flat For Piano And Orchestra - "The Emperor" | Ludwig van Beethoven, Wiener Festspielorchester, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Hans Swarowsky, Franz Konwitschny, Hans Kann | 2013 | Album |
Six Complete Masterpieces | Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Wiener Festspielorchester, Hans Swarowsky | 2007 | Album |
Neujahrskonzert - New Year's Concert / Concert Du Nouvel An - Die Highlights Aus Wien | Wiener Festspielorchester, Herbert Böhmer | 2002 | Album |
The Four Seasons | Antonio Vivaldi / Wiener Festspielorchester | 1996 | Album |
Le Songe D'une Nuit D'été - Symphonie N°4 En La Majeur Op. 90 | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Wiener Festspielorchester, Hans Swarowsky | 1996 | Album |
Piano Concertos Vol. 1 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Lili Kraus, Wiener Festspielorchester, Stephen Simon | 1995 | Album |
Danses Hongroises | Johannes Brahms / Wiener Festspielorchester, David Josefowitz | 1994 | Album |
Johann Strauss Waltzes | Johann Strauss Jr., Wiener Festspielorchester, Fritz Kleiber | 1994 | Album |
Strauss Favorites | Johann Strauss Jr., Wiener Festspielorchester, Josef Krips | 1994 | Single |
Danses Hongroises | Johannes Brahms - Wiener Festspielorchester, David Josefowitz | 1994 | Album |
Symphony In D Minor | César Franck, Wiener Festspielorchester | 1994 | Album |
Piano Concerto In A Minor, Op. 16 / Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 | Edvard Grieg / Alfred Schneeberger | 1993 | Album |
Een Avond In Wenen Met Johann Strauss | Johann Strauss Jr., Wiener Festspielorchester | 1993 | Album |
Scheherezade | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Wiener Festspielorchester, Max Schönherr | 1993 | Album |
Prelude To Die Meistersinger / Siegfried's Rhine Journey / Piano Concerto In A Minor | Richard Wagner / Robert Schumann, Wiener Festspielorchester, Taylor Edwards | 1993 | Album |
Symphonie Nr. 6 Und 8 | Franz Schubert, Wiener Festspielorchester, Josef Krips | 1993 | Album |
Scheherezade | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Wiener Festspielorchester, Herbert Grossman | 1993 | Album |
The Complete Piano Concerti (Concerto No. 9 In E-Flat Major For Piano And Orchestra K. 271 / Concerto No. 21 In C Major For Piano And Orchestra K. 467) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lili Kraus, Wiener Festspielorchester, Stephen Simon | 1993 | Album |
Symphonie Nr. 7 / König Stephan Ouvertüre | Ludwig van Beethoven, Wiener Festspielorchester, Willem Van Otterloo | 1992 | Album |
Piano Concerto No. 26 In D Major, K. 537, "Coronation" | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wiener Festspielorchester | 1991 | Album |
Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Le Cor Merveilleux De L'Enfant) | Gustav Mahler - Maureen Forrester, Heinz Rehfuss, Wiener Festspielorchester dir. Felix Prohaska | 1991 | Album |
Strauss-Konzert | Johann Strauss Jr. Mit Josef Krips Und Dem Wiener Festspielorchester | 1991 | Single |
Concerto No. 4 For Violin And Orchestra In D Major, K. 218 / Concerto For Violin And Orchestra In A Minor Opus 3 Number. 6 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Vivaldi - Wiener Festspielorchester, Franz Litschauer | 1991 | Album |
Sinfonie Nr 8 "Unvollendete" | Franz Schubert, Josef Krips, Wiener Festspielorchester | 1989 | Album |
Symphonie N°8 "Inachevée" - "Rosamunde" - Ouvertures"Dans Le Style Italien" "Alphonso Et Estrella" En Ut Mineur | Franz Schubert, Josef Krips, Wiener Festspielorchester, Igor Markevitch, Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Carl Bamberger, Orchestre De L'Association Des Concerts Pasdeloup | 1989 | Album |
Mit Leib Und Seele | Roland Baumgartner, Wiener Festspielorchester | 1989 | Album |
The Best Of Bach | Johann Sebastian Bach, Wiener Festspielorchester, Carl Michalski | 1988 | Album |
Piano Concertos Vol. III | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Lili Kraus, Stephen Simon, Wiener Festspielorchester | 1987 | Album |
Piano Concertos Vol. IV | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Lili Kraus, Stephen Simon, Wiener Festspielorchester | 1987 | Album |
Symphony No. 5 In E Minor | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wiener Festspielorchester Conducter: Anton Nanut | 1986 | Album |
Piano Concerto No. 1 In B Flat Minor, Op. 23 | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Vivian Rivkin, Wiener Festspielorchester, Herbert Grossman | 1984 | Album |
Pierre Et Le Loup / La Symphonie Des Jouets | Sergei Prokofiev / Joseph Haydn, Claude Dauphin, Wiener Festspielorchester, Hans Swarowsky | 1980 | Album |
Piano Concerto No. 23 In A Major, K.488 • Piano Concerto No. 24 In C Minor, K.491 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Lili Kraus, Wiener Festspielorchester, Stephen Simon | 1978 | Album |
Piano Concerto No.20 In D Minor, K.466 / Piano Concerto No.21 In C Major, K.467 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Lili Kraus, Stephen Simon / Wiener Festspielorchester | 1978 | Album |
El Lago De Los Cisnes / La Bella Durmiente | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Wiener Festspielorchester Dirigida Por Hans Hagen | 1975 | Compil. |
The Complete Piano Concerti Concerto No. 1 in F Major For Piano and Orchestra K.37, Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat Major For Piano and Orchestra K.595 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lili Kraus, Wiener Festspielorchester, Stephen Simon | 1973 | Album |
Concerto No. 5 In D Major For Piano And Orchestre, K.175 / Concerto No. 24 In C Minor For Piano And Orchestra, K.491 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Lili Kraus, Wiener Festspielorchester, Stephen Simon | 1973 | Album |
Concerto No. 11 In F Major For Piano And Orchestre, K.413 / Concerto No. 20 In D Minor For Piano And Orchestra, K.466 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Lili Kraus, Wiener Festspielorchester, Stephen Simon | 1973 | Album |
Symphony No. 8 And Symphony No. 2 | Gustav Mahler / Wiener Festspielorchester, Dimitri Mitropoulos / Wiener Symphoniker, Otto Klemperer | 1973 | Compil. |
The Complete Piano Concerti | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Lili Kraus, Wiener Festspielorchester, Stephen Simon | 1973 | Compil. |
Symphony No. 1 In D Major (Titan) | Gustav Mahler, Wiener Festspielorchester, Willem Van Otterloo | 1970 | Album |
Symphonie Nr.2 In D-dur, Op. 43 | Jean Sibelius, Wiener Festspielorchester • Leitung: Christian Voechting | 1970 | Album |
Concerto De Piano No. 5 En Mi Bémol Majeur «L'Empereur» I | Ludwig van Beethoven, Vlado Perlemuter, Wiener Festspielorchester, Christian Voechting | 1970 | Album |
Faust Excerpts | Charles Gounod, Leopold Simoneau - Heinz Rehfuss, Pierrette Alarie - Liliane Berton, Wiener Staatsopernchor And Wiener Festspielorchester, Gianfranco Rivoli | 1968 | Album |
Ouvertüren Zu "Leichte Cavallerie", "Ein Morgen, Ein Mittag, Ein Abend In Wien" / "Dichter Und Bauer" Und "Boccaccio" | Franz von Suppé, Wiener Festspielorchester | 1968 | Album |
Lyric Suite, Op. 54 | Edvard Grieg, Wiener Festspielorchester, Gianfranco Rivoli | 1968 | Single |
Concerto Per Pianoforte E Orchestra In la Minore, Op. 16 / Concerto Per Pianoforte E Orchestra In la Minore, Op. 54 | Edvard Grieg / Robert Schumann, Maria Eichbaum, Wiener Festspielorchester Diretta Da Karl Jungeblodt | 1967 | Album |
Peer Gynt | Edvard Grieg, Wiener Festspielorchester, Gianfranco Rivoli | 1966 | Single |
Violin Concerto | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Pierre-Michel Le Conte, Tibor Varga, Aldo Parisot | 1966 | Album |
Emperor Concerto - Moonlight Sonata | Ludwig van Beethoven / Vlado Perlemuter / Philippe Entremont / Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Christian Voechting | 1966 | Album |
Symphony Of A Thousand (Symphony No. 8 In E Flat Major) | Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting Soloists, Choirs and Wiener Festspielorchester / Gustav Mahler | 1966 | Album |
Sinfonie In H-Moll (Unvollndete) / Fünfte Sinfonie In C-Moll Op.67 | Franz Schubert / Ludwig van Beethoven - Wiener Festspielorchester | 1966 | Compil. |
Magnificat / Cantata No 57 "Selig Ist Der Mann" | Johann Sebastian Bach, Wiener Staatsopernchor And Wiener Festspielorchester, Jean-Marie Auberson | 1966 | Album |
Piano Concertos Vol. II | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Lili Kraus, Stephen Simon, Wiener Festspielorchester | 1966 | Album |
Peer Gynt | Edvard Grieg - Wiener Festspielorchester, Gianfranco Rivoli | 1966 | Single |
Wilhelm Tell: Ouvertüre Und Arie "Selva Opaca" | Gioacchino Rossini, Wiener Festspielorchester, Pierre-Michel Le Conte | 1966 | Single |
Beethoven Overtures | Ludwig van Beethoven, Wiener Festspielorchester, Josef Krips | 1966 | Album |
Symphony No. 22 In E Flat, "Der Philosoph" / Symphony No.26 In D Minor, "Lamentatione"/ Overture To "L'isola Disbitata"/ Overture To "Orlando Paladino" | Joseph Haydn, Wiener Festspielorchester, Antonio Janigro | 1965 | Album |
La Boutique Fantaque & Rossiniana | Gioacchino Rossini - Ottorino Respighi / Wiener Festspielorchester, Antonio Janigro | 1965 | Album |
Peer Gynt - Suites No. 1 And 2 / 4 Norwegian Dances | Edvard Grieg / Wiener Festspielorchester . - Gianfranco Rivoli | 1964 | Album |
Symphonie N°1 | Johannes Brahms - Wiener Festspielorchester, Josef Krips | 1964 | Album |
Sheherazade | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Wiener Festspielorchester, Willem Van Otterloo | 1963 | Album |
Peer Gynt - Suite N° 1 | Edvard Grieg, Wiener Festspielorchester, Kurt Schwartz | 1963 | Single |
Hungarian Dances | Johannes Brahms - Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Oscar Steibelt | 1963 | Single |
A Strauss Concert | Josef Krips Conducting Wiener Festspielorchester | 1963 | Album |
Nutcracker Suite & Swan Lake | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wiener Festspielorchester | 1962 | Single |
Violin Concerto In E-Minor, Op. 64 | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Peter Rybar, Wiener Festspielorchester | 1962 | Album |
Nutcracker Suite & Swan Lake (Waltzes) | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wiener Festspielorchester | 1962 | Single |
Festival De Musique Française | Claude Debussy, Paul Dukas, Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel, Wiener Festspielorchester, Max Schönherr, Eric Bauer, Hans Swarowsky | 1962 | Album |
Piano Concerto No.4 In G Major, Opus 58 (Orchestral Accompaniments) | Ludwig van Beethoven, Wiener Festspielorchester, Franz Litschauer | 1961 | Album |
Piano Concerto No. 2 In C Minor, Op. 18 | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff - Vivian Rivkin, Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Herbert Grossman | 1959 | Album |
Symphony No. 9 In C Major (The Great) | Franz Schubert, Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Hans Swarowsky | 1959 | Album |
The Best In Ballet | Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Herbert Grossman | 1959 | Album |
1812 Overture • Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 • Rakózcy March | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Franz Liszt / Hector Berlioz / Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Victor Desarzens | 1959 | Album |
William Tell Overture / Light Cavalry Overture / Fra Diavolo Overture / Fledermaus Overture | Gioacchino Rossini, Franz von Suppé, Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, Johann Strauss Jr., Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Kurt Herbert Adler | 1959 | Compil. |
Concerto For Violin And Orchestra In E Minor, Opus 64 (Orchestral Accompaniment) | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Wiener Festspielorchester, Franz Litschauer | 1959 | Album |
Swan Lake Suite / Nutcracker Suite | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wiener Festspielorchester, Herbert Grossman | 1959 | Album |
Symphony No 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 | Ludwig van Beethoven, Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Kurt Herbert Adler | 1959 | Album |
Concerto No. 5 In E Flat Major For Piano And Orchestra ("The Emperor"), Op. 73 / Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 In C Sharp Minor | Ludwig van Beethoven / Franz Liszt, Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Hans Swarowsky With Hans Kann | 1959 | Album |
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite, Nutcracker Suite | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wiener Festspielorchester, Herbert Grossman | 1959 | Album |
Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Wiener Festspielorchester | 1959 | Album |
Incidental Music To "Rosamunde" - The Moldau - Overture To "The Bartered Bride" | Franz Schubert / Bedřich Smetana / Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Hans Swarowsky | 1958 | Album |
Sinfonia Concertante In E Flat Major (K364) / Symphony No. 3 In E Flat Major, "The Rhenish" | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Walter Schneiderhan (Violin) and Paul Angerer (Viola) with Wiener Festspielorchester conducted by Franz Litschauer / Robert Schumann / Hans Swarowsky | 1958 | Compil. |
Les Sylphides - Ballet Suite / Piano Concerto No. 2 In F Minor | Frédéric Chopin / Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Hans Swarowsky With Carmen Vitos | 1958 | Album |
Symphony In D Minor | César Franck, Wiener Festspielorchester under the direction of Hans Swarowsky | 1958 | Album |
Sheherazade | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Max Schönherr | 1957 | Album |
Klavierkonzert Nr. 5 In Es-dur | Ludwig van Beethoven, Wiener Festspielorchester, Hans Swarowsky, Hans Kann | 1955 | Album |
William Tell: Overture And Aria << Selva Opaca >> | Gioacchino Rossini, Wiener Festspielorchester, Pierre-Michel Le Conte | Single | |
Six Complete Masterpieces | Wiener Festspielorchester / Dirigent: Hans Swarowsky | Album | |
Concerto No.26 In D Major For Piano And Orchestra K.537 "Coronation" / Concerto No.27 In B-Flat Major For Piano And Orchestra K.595 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lili Kraus, Wiener Festspielorchester, Stephen Simon | Album | |
Peer Gynt - Suite No. 1 | Edvard Grieg / Wiener Festspielorchester / Dirigent: Anton Paulik | Single | |
Concert de l'Orchestre du Festival de Vienne | Wiener Festspielorchester | Album | |
Symphonie N°8 En Si Mineur << Inachevée>> / Symphonie N°6 En Ut Majeur | Franz Schubert, Wiener Festspielorchester, Josef Krips | Album | |
Original Johann Strauss Waltzes | Johann Strauss Jr., Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Hans-Jürgen Walther | Album | |
Concerto De Violon No 1 En Sol Mineur / Rondo Pour Violon Et Orchestre En La Majeur | Max Bruch, Franz Schubert, Tibor Varga, Igor Ozim, Wiener Festspielorchester, Jean-Marie Auberson, Moshe Atzmon | Album | |
Carmen Suite No. 1 / Espana / Polovtsian Dances | Georges Bizet / Alexander Borodin / Emmanuel Chabrier / Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Philip Vernal | Album | |
Faust Version de Concert | Charles Gounod, Pierrette Alarie, Leopold Simoneau, Heinz Rehfuss, Liliane Berton, Paul Bicos, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Festspielorchester, Gianfranco Rivoli | Album | |
Peer Gynt - Suiten 1 Und 2 / 4 Norwegische Tänze | Edvard Grieg, Wiener Festspielorchester, Gianfranco Rivoli | Album | |
Violin Concerto In E Minor Op.64, Hebrides Overture Op.26 | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy / Peter Rybar - Violin / Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Victor Desarzens | Album | |
Human Enterprise | Wiener Festspielorchester | Album | |
Danze Ungheresi N. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 | Wiener Festspielorchester Direttore: David Josefowitz / Johannes Brahms | Single | |
An Der Schönen Blaue Donau / Wein, Weib Und Gesang | Wiener Festspielorchester | Single | |
Waltzes And Polkas | Johann Strauss Jr., Wiener Festspielorchester, Gerd Heidger | Album | |
Concerto De Violon | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Jean-Marie Auberson, Tibor Varga | Album | |
Rhenish Symphony / Les Sylphides | Robert Schumann / Frédéric Chopin, Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Hans Swarowsky | Album | |
Piano Concerto In D Major | Joseph Haydn, Wiener Festspielorchester, Franz Litschauer | Album | |
Glorious Adventures | Eltao, Wiener Festspielorchester, Roland Baumgartner | Album | |
Musical Stories Plus Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite | Norman Rose, Algernon Black, Sally Sweetland, David Pfeffer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky And The Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Kurt Graunke | Compil. | |
Der Schwanensee. Ballett Op. 20 | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wiener Festspielorchester, Hans Swarowsky | Album | |
Faust | Charles Gounod - Wiener Festspielorchester, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Gianfranco Rivoli, Pierrette Alarie, Leopold Simoneau | Album | |
Violin Concerto No 1 / Kol Nidrei | Max Bruch, Tibor Varga, Aurora Natola, Wiener Festspielorchester, Jean-Marie Auberson, Heinz Wallberg | Album | |
Symphonische Tänze Op. 64 / Lyrische Suite Op. 54 | Edvard Grieg, Wiener Festspielorchester | Album | |
3 Waltzes / Suite From The Ballet "The Nutcracker" (Op.71A) | Johann Strauss Jr. / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wiener Festspielorchester | Album | |
Natural Cycles | Wiener Festspielorchester | Album | |
Struggle for Existence | Wiener Festspielorchester | Album | |
Unearthly Delights | Wiener Festspielorchester | Album | |
l'Oeuvre de Piano de Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Lili Kraus, Willi Boskovsky, Wiener Festspielorchester | Album | |
Scheherazade | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Wiener Festspielorchester, Willem Van Otterloo | Album | |
A Treasury Of Symphonic Classics | Wiener Festspielorchester | Album | |
Concerto No. 5 In E Flat For Piano And Orchestra - "The Emperor" / Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 | Ludwig van Beethoven, Hans Kann, Franz Liszt, Wiener Festspielorchester | Album | |
Sommernachtstraum / Schwanensee-Ballet | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wiener Festspielorchester, Hans Swarowsky | Album | |
Your Favorite Waltzes | Wiener Festspielorchester Conducted By Otto Alexander Langer | Compil. | |
Strauss Waltzes | Johann Strauss Jr., Wiener Festspielorchester, Josef Leo Gruber | Album | |
Wings of Love | Wiener Festspielorchester | Album | |
Passion And Salvation | Wiener Festspielorchester | Album | |
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wiener Festspielorchester, David Josefowitz | Single | |
Scheherazade | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Wiener Festspielorchester | Album | |
Strauss Favorites In High Fidelity | Johann Strauss Jr., Wiener Festspielorchester | Album | |
Rondo Fantastico (Amadeo 2000) | Wiener Festspielorchester | Album |