℗ 1970 Decca Music Group Limited
| Released | February 16, 2024 |
| Originated | 1970 |
| Duration | 47m 53s |
| Record Label | Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. |
| Genre | Classical |
In Honour of St. Hubert – A Hunt through the Vienna Woods (New Vienna Octet; Vienna Wind Soloists — Complete Decca Recordings Vol. 16)
Wiener Waldhorn Verein
Available in MQA and 48 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC audio formats
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6 Lieder von Gellert, Op. 48
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1.1
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No. 4, Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur
Ludwig van Beethoven; Christian Fürchtegott Gellert; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
2:09 | |||
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St. Hubertus Messe
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1.2
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I. Kyrie
Karl Stiegler; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
2:20 | |||
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1.3
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II. Gloria
Karl Stiegler; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
2:25 | |||
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1.4
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III. Credo
Karl Stiegler; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
3:14 | |||
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1.5
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IV. Offertorium
Karl Stiegler; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
1:47 | |||
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1.6
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V. Nach der Wandlung
Karl Stiegler; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
5:01 | |||
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1.7
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VI. Agnus dei
Karl Stiegler; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
2:39 | |||
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1.8
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VII. Finale. Fanfare for St. Hubertus
Karl Stiegler; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
1:03 | |||
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1.9
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Starting Call
Josef Schantl; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
1:42 | |||
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1.10
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Forest Echo
Karl Stiegler; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
0:58 | |||
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1.11
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Auhof Hunting March
Josef Schantl; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
1:04 | |||
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1.12
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Short Call, Fox Dead, Bear Dead, Stag Dead
Traditional; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
1:45 | |||
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1.13
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Assembly Call
Vincenz Goller; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
0:31 | |||
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1.14
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Festive Prelude
Gottfried von Freiberg; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
1:56 | |||
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1.15
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Old Fashioned Dance
Karl Anton Pockh; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
2:17 | |||
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Der Freischütz, Op. 77
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1.16
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Hunting Chorus
Carl Maria von Weber; Johann Friedrich Kind; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
1:52 | |||
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1.17
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Little Polka
Erhach Seyfried; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
1:14 | |||
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1.18
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Foresters' Salute
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
1:15 | |||
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1.19
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Lützow's Wild Bear Hunt
Karl Stiegler; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
3:00 | |||
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Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act I
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1.20
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Hunting Calls
Richard Wagner; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
1:24 | |||
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1.21
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To The Game Area
Josef Schantl; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
1:04 | |||
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1.22
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Austrian Hunting Song
Anton Wunderer; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
1:38 | |||
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1.23
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Woodland Joy
F.J. Lifte; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
0:52 | |||
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1.24
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Finishing Call
Josef Schantl; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
1:18 | |||
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Hänsel und Gretel, Act II
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1.25
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Evening Benediction
Engelbert Humperdinck; Adelheid Wette; Wiener Waldhorn Verein |
3:25 | |||
The sweet, silvery tone of the Wiener Oktett and the easy give-and-go of its phrasing helped establish it as one of the most distinguished of Viennese chamber ensembles. Its sound was that of the sublime Vienna Philharmonic in microcosm and the group enjoyed the advantage of Decca’s top-of-the-range engineering. The most comprehensive collection of the Vienna Octet’s albums ever issued, this set chronicles 25 years of recording, from shellac (July 1948) to stereo (November 1972).
Decca signed an exclusive contract with the Wiener Oktett (Vienna Octet) in the summer of 1948 as a commercially motivated move: a sweetener to the deal that also poached the Philharmonic Orchestra from EMI. The ensemble had been formed only a year or so previously around the Boskovsky brothers, violinist Willi and clarinetist Alfred. Soon enough, audiences at home as well as in concert were enjoying the sound of a quintessentially Viennese ensemble, its members drawn from the ranks of the Philharmonic, in Classical-era music that could have been written for them, starting with the Septet by Beethoven and the Octet by Schubert.
The sweet, silvery tone of the Octet and the easy give-and-go of its phrasing established the Octet as the latest in a line of distinguished Viennese chamber ensembles, from the Rosé Quartet of Mahler’s era to the Barylli Quartet documented by the Westminster label. The Vienna Octet enjoyed the advantage of Decca’s top-of-the-range engineering, and they continued to set down classic interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert through the course of the 1950s, for the new LP format and then for stereo.
In 1956 their Decca albums began to reflect the diversity of their concert programmes, with the Octet written for them by the Belgian composer Marcel Poot. While they continued to enjoy free-spirited partnerships on record with the likes of Clifford Curzon and the Viennese pianist Walter Panhofer in Schubert’s ‘Trout’ Quintet, they also recorded lesser-known Romantics such as Spohr, Kreutzer and Berwald, and modern repertoire by Britten, Hindemith and Egon Wellesz.
By the time of the Vienna Octet’s final recording in November 1972, only two members of its original lineup were left, including clarinettist Alfred Boskovsky, but critics and record buyers had continued to recognise that, especially in the central repertoire, an unselfconscious authenticity set the ensemble apart from its rivals.
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.90 -5.77 to -0.20 | -20.79 -26.49 to -15.78 | -17.35 -23.80 to -12.10 | 11 8 to 13 | |
| 1 | No. 4, Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur | -0.58 | -19.09 | -15.9 | 11 |
| 2 | I. Kyrie | -0.20 | -18.49 | -15.6 | 11 |
| 3 | II. Gloria | -0.28 | -17.03 | -14.2 | 11 |
| 4 | III. Credo | -0.29 | -17.15 | -14.3 | 9 |
| 5 | IV. Offertorium | -3.25 | -20.34 | -17.6 | 10 |
| 6 | V. Nach der Wandlung | -0.50 | -20.95 | -18.1 | 11 |
| 7 | VI. Agnus dei | -1.64 | -19.67 | -17.0 | 11 |
| 8 | VII. Finale. Fanfare for St. Hubertus | -2.80 | -20.75 | -17.6 | 11 |
| 9 | Starting Call | -1.80 | -22.32 | -18.3 | 12 |
| 10 | Forest Echo | -3.97 | -23.05 | -17.6 | 11 |
| 11 | Auhof Hunting March | -3.43 | -26.36 | -20.7 | 12 |
| 12 | Short Call, Fox Dead, Bear Dead, Stag Dead | -5.47 | -26.13 | -21.5 | 12 |
| 13 | Assembly Call | -0.27 | -15.78 | -12.1 | 8 |
| 14 | Festive Prelude | -1.16 | -19.26 | -16.2 | 10 |
| 15 | Old Fashioned Dance | -1.36 | -20.49 | -17.8 | 11 |
| 16 | Hunting Chorus | -2.21 | -20.84 | -17.7 | 12 |
| 17 | Little Polka | -5.77 | -26.49 | -23.8 | 11 |
| 18 | Foresters' Salute | -1.10 | -20.55 | -17.4 | 11 |
| 19 | Lützow's Wild Bear Hunt | -0.20 | -19.58 | -15.8 | 13 |
| 20 | Hunting Calls | -0.22 | -19.18 | -15.1 | 11 |
| 21 | To The Game Area | -0.69 | -17.30 | -13.9 | 10 |
| 22 | Austrian Hunting Song | -2.10 | -22.28 | -18.7 | 11 |
| 23 | Woodland Joy | -2.42 | -21.19 | -18.2 | 11 |
| 24 | Finishing Call | -4.27 | -22.30 | -18.7 | 11 |
| 25 | Evening Benediction | -1.60 | -23.11 | -20.0 | 12 |