Scherzo to the Symphony No. 5
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Recorded on January 10, 1928
Arrangement by E. Bauer
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One of the earliest Bruckner performances put on disc was this unusual arrangement (by E. Bauer) performed by Dol Dauber and his orchestra. Adolf Dauber (1894-1950) was very famous in Czechoslovakia and Austria prior to World War II. He used the stage name Dol or Dolfi as derived from his first name. He was best known for his dance and jazz band arrangements, so here is a Bruckner scherzo you can really dance to! During the war, Dauber and his wife were somehow spared from being deported to a concentration camp. But in 1943, Dauber's son Robert was sent to Theresienstadt, the Nazi concentration camp in Terezin, Czechoslovakia. During a visit to Prague, Hitler requested that Dauber play in his presence. Dauber stated that he would do so if his son were released. His request was refused. Later, Robert was sent to Dachau, where he was killed in 1945 in the mass exterminations performed there. Dauber's rapid professional decline after the war and his relatively early death in 1950 may be linked to his depression over the loss of his son. Unfortunately, EMI left this historic recording out of their two 3CD sets cataloguing their early Bruckner recordings.
