℗ 1955 Universal International Music B.V.
| Released | August 25, 2023 |
| Originated | 1955 |
| Duration | 47m 42s |
| Record Label | Universal Music Australia Pty. |
| Genre | Classical |
Bartok: 44 Duos for Two Violins (Herman Krebbers Edition, Vol. 12)
Herman Krebbers, Theo Olof
Available in 48 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC audio formats
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44 Duos for 2 Violins, Sz. 98
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1.1
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No. 1, Teasing Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:54 | |||
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1.2
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No. 2, Dance
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:55 | |||
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1.3
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No. 3, Menuetto
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
1:02 | |||
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1.4
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No. 4, Midsummer Night Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:49 | |||
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1.5
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No. 5, Slovak Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:51 | |||
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1.6
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No. 6, Hungarian Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:55 | |||
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1.7
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No. 7, Romanian Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:42 | |||
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1.8
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No. 8, Tot Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:59 | |||
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1.9
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No. 9, Play
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:43 | |||
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1.10
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No. 10, Ruthenian Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
1:01 | |||
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1.11
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No. 11, Lullaby
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
1:20 | |||
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1.12
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No. 12, Hay-harvesting Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:49 | |||
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1.13
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No. 13, Wedding Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
1:39 | |||
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1.14
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No. 14, Cushion Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:52 | |||
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1.15
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No. 15, Soldier's Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
1:03 | |||
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1.16
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No. 16, Burlesque
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:59 | |||
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1.17
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No. 17, Marching Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:42 | |||
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1.18
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No. 18, Menetelo Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:37 | |||
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1.19
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No. 19, Fairy Tale
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
1:04 | |||
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1.20
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No. 20, Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
1:29 | |||
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1.21
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No. 21, New Year's Greeting
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
1:57 | |||
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1.22
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No. 22, Mosquito Dance
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:39 | |||
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1.23
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No. 23, Wedding Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
1:18 | |||
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1.24
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No. 24, Gay Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:39 | |||
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1.25
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No. 25, Magyar Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
1:01 | |||
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1.26
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No. 26, Teasing Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:29 | |||
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1.27
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No. 27, Limping Dance
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:28 | |||
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1.28
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No. 28, Sorrow
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
2:34 | |||
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1.29
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No. 29, Ujécköszöntö I
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:41 | |||
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1.30
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No. 30, Ujécköszöntö II
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:48 | |||
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1.31
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No. 31, Ujécköszöntö III
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:45 | |||
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1.32
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No. 32, Dance from Maramaros
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:41 | |||
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1.33
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No. 33, Harvest Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
1:35 | |||
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1.34
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No. 34, Counting Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:54 | |||
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1.35
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No. 35, Ruthenian kolomejka
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
1:04 | |||
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1.36
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No. 36, Bagpipes
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
2:02 | |||
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1.37
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No. 37, Prelude and Canon
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
2:42 | |||
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1.38
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No. 38, Romanian Whirling Dance
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:41 | |||
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1.39
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No. 39, Serbian Dance
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:48 | |||
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1.40
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No. 40, Wallachian Dance
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:46 | |||
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1.41
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No. 41, Scherzo
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
0:51 | |||
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1.42
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No. 42, Arabian Song
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
1:36 | |||
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1.43
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No. 43, Pizzicato
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
1:06 | |||
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1.44
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No. 44, Transylvian Dance
Béla Bartók; Herman Krebbers; Theo Olof |
2:12 | |||
The Herman Krebbers Edition offers the most comprehensive collection ever issued of the recorded art of Herman Krebbers (1923–2018) featuring the great Dutch violinist as concerto soloist, chamber musician and concert master and issued to mark the centenary of his birth.
For many years, the concerto recordings made by Herman Krebbers were staples of the Philips LP catalogue. The critical praise and popularity awarded to them was all the more remarkable in view of the fact that Krebbers never pursued the path of an international soloist. Instead, he put his family first and chose the vocation of as an orchestral concertmaster, firstly with the Hague Philharmonic under Willem van Otterloo. With them he made his first recordings in the early 1950s, of Bach and Beethoven and Vieuxtemps.
Around this time, Philips also recorded Krebbers in duo-violin repertoire with his fellow student and lifelong friend Theo Olof. The albums of Bartók Duos and the Double Concertos by Bach and Henk Badings are among several recordings in the collection receiving their first international appearance on digital in this collection, which also includes recordings of the Bruch and Dvořák concertos made in 1973, on the occasion of Krebbers’s 40th anniversary as a soloist.
In 1962 Krebbers became leader of the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Bernard Haitink, and went on to make celebrated second recordings of the Beethoven and Brahms concertos, as well as the taxing peaks of the ‘concertmaster’ repertoire, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade and Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben. The box also include the Benedictus from Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, with its long and sublime solo-violin part, in two Concertgebouw recordings made in the 70s with Eugen Jochum and Leonard Bernstein, as well as ‘Erbarme dich’ from Bach’s Matthäus-Passion also with Jochum. Krebbers brought to these parts a soloistic finesse and temperament which was central to the success of the interpretations as a whole.
Krebbers’s parallel career as a chamber musician is represented by a Philips collection of Mozart, including the Oboe Quartet with Heinz Holliger. Further rarities in the set include a second, Swiss-made Bach ‘Double’ Concerto with Arthur Grumiaux, and a Dutch radio recording of Brahms’s Double Concerto with the Concertgebouw’s longstanding principal cellist, Tibor de Machula.
More than 40 years on from Krebbers’s premature retirement after a boating accident, the aristocratic poise and golden warmth of tone to his playing retains its appeal. This comprehensive tribute features a survey of the violinist’s career, and valuable behind-the-scenes insights into many of these recordings, by the Dutch writer Niek Nelissen.
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Universal Music Australia Pty. Studio Masters
Tracks 1-44 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Tracks 1-44 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -7.51 -13.38 to -3.67 | -25.67 -35.12 to -19.99 | -21.95 -32.20 to -16.00 | 11 8 to 16 | |
| 1 | No. 1, Teasing Song | -6.15 | -22.41 | -18.6 | 10 |
| 2 | No. 2, Dance | -7.88 | -25.42 | -22.0 | 11 |
| 3 | No. 3, Menuetto | -5.22 | -22.36 | -18.9 | 10 |
| 4 | No. 4, Midsummer Night Song | -5.77 | -22.90 | -18.9 | 9 |
| 5 | No. 5, Slovak Song | -13.38 | -30.53 | -26.6 | 12 |
| 6 | No. 6, Hungarian Song | -6.29 | -23.75 | -19.8 | 10 |
| 7 | No. 7, Romanian Song | -6.51 | -21.97 | -18.2 | 9 |
| 8 | No. 8, Tot Song | -5.61 | -24.82 | -20.6 | 11 |
| 9 | No. 9, Play | -5.21 | -22.52 | -19.2 | 11 |
| 10 | No. 10, Ruthenian Song | -8.90 | -26.67 | -23.1 | 11 |
| 11 | No. 11, Lullaby | -8.31 | -30.26 | -26.5 | 13 |
| 12 | No. 12, Hay-harvesting Song | -10.29 | -28.71 | -24.9 | 12 |
| 13 | No. 13, Wedding Song | -6.63 | -25.57 | -21.4 | 11 |
| 14 | No. 14, Cushion Song | -5.06 | -19.99 | -16.5 | 10 |
| 15 | No. 15, Soldier's Song | -5.19 | -21.25 | -17.4 | 11 |
| 16 | No. 16, Burlesque | -3.67 | -21.41 | -17.8 | 10 |
| 17 | No. 17, Marching Song | -4.69 | -20.05 | -16.0 | 9 |
| 18 | No. 18, Menetelo Song | -5.21 | -20.73 | -17.1 | 9 |
| 19 | No. 19, Fairy Tale | -12.39 | -32.38 | -29.0 | 13 |
| 20 | No. 20, Song | -5.11 | -26.77 | -22.9 | 12 |
| 21 | No. 21, New Year's Greeting | -9.84 | -30.49 | -27.0 | 11 |
| 22 | No. 22, Mosquito Dance | -10.80 | -30.98 | -28.1 | 13 |
| 23 | No. 23, Wedding Song | -8.13 | -29.52 | -25.5 | 13 |
| 24 | No. 24, Gay Song | -5.04 | -21.02 | -17.4 | 8 |
| 25 | No. 25, Magyar Song | -6.12 | -24.68 | -20.7 | 10 |
| 26 | No. 26, Teasing Song | -8.51 | -24.39 | -19.7 | 9 |
| 27 | No. 27, Limping Dance | -8.00 | -22.83 | -19.4 | 9 |
| 28 | No. 28, Sorrow | -7.22 | -26.92 | -22.0 | 11 |
| 29 | No. 29, Ujécköszöntö I | -10.05 | -25.75 | -22.1 | 10 |
| 30 | No. 30, Ujécköszöntö II | -5.09 | -23.72 | -20.2 | 12 |
| 31 | No. 31, Ujécköszöntö III | -7.02 | -24.75 | -21.6 | 10 |
| 32 | No. 32, Dance from Maramaros | -6.33 | -25.54 | -22.1 | 11 |
| 33 | No. 33, Harvest Song | -7.72 | -26.04 | -21.4 | 10 |
| 34 | No. 34, Counting Song | -6.81 | -25.21 | -21.9 | 10 |
| 35 | No. 35, Ruthenian kolomejka | -6.93 | -26.43 | -21.9 | 13 |
| 36 | No. 36, Bagpipes | -9.35 | -28.50 | -24.8 | 12 |
| 37 | No. 37, Prelude and Canon | -7.93 | -29.11 | -25.4 | 13 |
| 38 | No. 38, Romanian Whirling Dance | -7.65 | -26.61 | -23.1 | 11 |
| 39 | No. 39, Serbian Dance | -8.15 | -25.62 | -22.0 | 11 |
| 40 | No. 40, Wallachian Dance | -9.57 | -26.47 | -23.3 | 11 |
| 41 | No. 41, Scherzo | -7.81 | -25.30 | -21.9 | 11 |
| 42 | No. 42, Arabian Song | -9.15 | -28.57 | -24.8 | 12 |
| 43 | No. 43, Pizzicato | -12.13 | -35.12 | -32.2 | 16 |
| 44 | No. 44, Transylvian Dance | -7.61 | -25.62 | -22.1 | 12 |