RECORDINGS & TELEVISION
LP / CD / DVD
The first sound carriers documenting Peter Guth's career were LPs published by Teldec (Telefunken-Decca) with the Vienna Trio in the 1960s, the complete works for piano trio by Franz Schubert and trios by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schumann. The Belgian label Duchesne Records has released several LPs with Guth as violin soloist, a. o. Franz Schubert Rondo for violin and orchestra in A.
Released by Philips Records on CD "Alt-Wiener Tänze" ("Old-Viennese Dances") in quartet formation with
Gidon Kremer, 1st violin, Peter Guth, 2nd violin, Kim Kashkashian, viola and Georg Hörtnagel, double bass.
A considerable number of CD and DVD recordings, as well as countless YouTube clips bear witness to the wide repertoire of diverse styles which Guth has presented over the decades as a violinist and conductor.
More than 30 CD and DVD live recordings with his Strauss Festival Orchestra Vienna have been produced on various labels in Austria, Japan and other countries.
Other orchestras have also published recordings of classical dance and operetta music with him as a conductor.
In London the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for its Jubilee Edition 1996 and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of the eminent music producer Charles Gerhardt of RCA for “Reader’s Digest”.
The Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE in Madrid, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra Reykjavik, the Prague Virtuosi with singers Marcela Cerno and Herwig Pecoraro, the Capella Istropolitana in Bratislava (Katharina Dances - Minuetti by Joseph Haydn), the Bruckner Orchester Linz “The Essence of Viennese Music” with Edith Lienbacher and Herbert Lippert.
Two albums of music by the Danish "Strauss of the North" Hans Christian Lumbye, for the first time released on CD with Guth and the Odense Symfoniorkester have won the British Music Retailers Award and Volumes 26 and 27 of the Marco Polo-Strauss Edition with the RSO Vienna under the direction of Guth were rated as the best rated by international critics.
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TELEVISION - GALAS - FILM
Stéphane Grappelli, TV-Concert Wiener Konzerthaus, February 14th 1983
In the early 1980s the ORF - Sinfonietta, a smaller formation from the ranks of the ORF Symphony Orchestra, was used for programmes with special contents. Peter Guth conceived the popular Carnival Concerts in the Radio-Kulturhaus, for which he compiled amusing musical contributions from his orchestra colleagues. The ORF then assigned him to organise similar events on a larger scale with television broadcasts.
The two sensational TV - Carnival Concerts in the great hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus were unforgettable highlights in Guth's artistic life. He succeeded in inviting world-famous stars for their first appearance in Austria and presenting them to an enthusiastic audience. This is how the legendary jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli first came to Vienna in 1983.
With 75 years of age and youthful verve, he played in his inimitable virtuoso style with guitarist Marc Fosset and Jack Sewing on bass. Guth accompanied with the ORF - Sinfonietta in orchestral arrangements by Viennese jazz saxophonist Hans Salomon and played in violin-duet with Grappelli "My Funny Valentine" by Richard Rodgers.
The sensational guest in 1984 was Antônio Carlos Jobim, the ingenious composer and creator of the Brazilian musical style of the "Bossa Nova". He came with seven musicians and singers, including his son Paulo Jobim, played the piano and guitar and sang many of his world famous hits, such as “The Girl From Ipanema” and “Desafinado”. Claus Ogerman's original orchestra arrangements contributed to the fascinating atmosphere of a major international
music event.
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To frenetic applause, Tom Jobim considers with PG, which of his
world-famous songs they should repeat as an encore. March 5th 1984
Guth has also conducted other television concerts for the ORF, such as the openings of the Viennese Festival Weeks
(Wiener Festwochen) in 1985 and 1987 on the open-air stage of Vienna's Town Hall Square, and as a solo violinist he has appeared in TV- quiz games of ZDF and ORF and jazz shows with the ORF Big Band.
For five years he presented salon music and prominent singers in the TV spring series "Let flowers speak" with a small ensemble in which also his father Karl Guth played as an accordionist.
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In 1982, in the TV series "Music from Vienna", written by Franz Endler, hosted by Eberhard Wächter and directed by Wolfgang Glück, Guth created the episode "The Violin" with his two formations, the Johann Strauss Ensemble of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Strauss Festival Orchestra Vienna.
Other television companies in Europe, Asia and overseas have also recorded productions with Peter Guth, such as
RTL-Luxembourg, the Public Broadcasting Service USA, NHK Japan, or TV stations in China.
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In 1986 he appeared as an actor and violinist in the motion picture by Gert Jonke "Blinded Moment - Anton Webern's Death" in the role of the American violinist Louis Krasner, who had commissioned Alban Berg's Violin Concerto.
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