Jascha Horenstein (May 6, 1898, in Kiev - April 2, 1973, in London) Jascha Horenstein was born in Kiev, Ukraine; his mother was Austrian. His family moved to Vienna in 1911 and he studied at the Vienna Academy of Music starting in 1916, with Joseph Marx (music theory) and Franz Schreker (composition). In 1920, he moved to Berlin and worked as an assistant to Wilhelm Furtwängler. During the 1920s he conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He became principal conductor of the Düsseldorf Opera in 1928, and then the company's Generalmusikdirektor in 1929. He had to resign his post in March 1933 after the rise of the Nazi Party. His Düsseldorf tenure was the only permanent musical directorship in his career. Forced as a Jew to flee the Nazis, he moved to the United States of America in 1940, and eventually became an American citizen. He taught at the New School for Social Research while in New York City. Horenstein is particularly remembered as a champion of modern music and as a Mahler conductor, although his repertory as shown by discographies was quite wide. In 1929 he conducted the premiere of three movements of Alban Berg's Lyric Suite in an arrangement for string orchestra. In 1950, he conducted the first Paris performance of Berg's Wozzeck. Horenstein conducted the works of Anton Bruckner and Gustav Mahler throughout his career, and he also displayed ongoing interest in Carl Nielsen, whom he knew personally, at a time when these composers were unfashionable. For example, his 1952 Vox recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 9 was the first studio recording, and the second commercial record, of that work. Several years later, he recorded the original version of Bruckner's Symphony No. 9. He made studio recordings of several of Mahler's symphonies at various points in his career, including Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 with the London Symphony Orchestra. A number of radio archives hold broadcast airchecks of many of the other Mahler symphonies, as well as Das Lied von der Erde. In recent years, several of Horenstein's concert performances have been reissued on the BBC Legends label, including his celebrated 1959 Royal Albert Hall performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 and his 1972 Manchester performance of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. Horenstein also recorded Robert Simpson's Third Symphony and music by Paul Hindemith and Richard Strauss during the last few years of his life. His opera recordings included Carl Nielsen's Saul og David. His final operatic, and British, engagement was his March 1973 performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden of Richard Wagner's Parsifal. Soloists who participated in the recordings:
 
Helen Watts Norma Procter
  
Margaret Price Joyce Barker Lucretia West  
Agnes Giebel Alfred Orda (?)
  
Kerstin Meyer Kenneth Neate Arnold van Mill
JASCHA HORENSTEIN conducts GUSTAV MAHLER 
Symphony no 1 in D major Vienna Symphony Orchestra 1953 Symphony Orchestra of Caracas
23.05.1955
Orquesta Sinfónica del Sodre (OSSODRE), Montevideo 06.06.1964 London Symphony Orchestra 29-30.09.1969 ****** Symphony no 3 in D minor Helen Watts, contralto Highgate School Choir Orpington Junior Singers Chorus of London Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra 16.11.1960 Norma Procter, contralto Ambrosian Singers Wandsworth School Boys' Choir London Symphony Orchestra 27-29.07.1970 Lucretia West Choirs of the Immaculata Bergamo and of the RAI Turin RAI Turin Orchestra 16 December 1970 ****** Symphony no 4 in G major Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra 25.01.1968 Margaret Price, soprano London Philharmonic Orchestra 1971 ****** Symphony no 5 in C sharp minor Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 31.08.1961 Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra 16.10.1969 ****** Symphony no 6 in A minor Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra 15, 17.04.1966 Finnish Radio Orchestra 21.09.1968
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra 10.01.1969 ****** Symphony no 7 in E minor New Philharmonia Orchestra 29.08.1969 ****** Symphony no 8 in E flat major Joyce Barker, soprano Agnes Giebel, soprano Beryl Hatt, soprano Kerstin Meyer, mezzo-soprano Helen Watts, alto Kenneth Neate, tenor Alfred Orda, baritone Arnold van Mill, bass BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society Goldsmith's Choral Union Hampstead Choral Society Emanuel School Boys' Choir Orpington Junior Singers (Girls' Choir) London Symphony Orchestra 20.03.1959 ****** Symphony no 9 in D major Vienna Pro Musica 06.1952
Vienna Symphony Orchestra 22.06.1960
London Symphony Orchestra 15.09.1966
Orchestre National de France 6.06.1967 American Symphony Orchestra 9.11.1969
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Практически все материалы взяты из собственной коллекции. Третью (1960) и Пятую симфонии мне прислал лично Миша Горенштейн, с которым я уже довольно давно веду переписку (внук того, кому посвящена эта выкладка); за Шестую симфонию (1969) благодарю Л. М. Гогу; за 9-ю (1967) - С.Е. Никитина; за Первую симфонию 1964 года я уже и не помню, кого благодарить... может быть, этим благодетелем был Миша Горенштейн, может быть, кто-то другой, но я благодарен всем, кто так или иначе помог собрать этой прекрасный материал!
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