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Klemperer Conducts Wagner (3 LP) cover
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RICHARD WAGNER
Klemperer Conducts Wagner (3 LP)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
[ Warner Classics LP / 3 Vinyl Box Set - released 8/Sep/2023 ]
Several of the recordings on this disc date from 1960, when Otto Klemperer celebrated his 75th birthday and Wieland Wagner, the composer's grandson, saluted the conductor as "a unique artistic phenomenon".
Wagner: Orchestral Highlights [Incls 'Ride of the Valkyries'] cover
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Orchestral Highlights [Incls 'Ride of the Valkyries']
Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
[ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / 2 CD - released 21/Aug/2015 ]
Klempere's mastery of Wagner's music was rooted in the early years of his career: by the age of 30 he had conducted performances of Lohengrin, Der fliegende Hollander, Tannhauser, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Parsifal, etc
Mozart: Symphonies, Overtures, Serenades cover
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Symphonies, Overtures, Serenades
Philharmonia Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
[ Warner Classics The Klemperer Legacy / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2017 ]
"this Mozart box seems to contain about the same proportion of great performances, near misses and damp squibs as all the other Klemperer boxes in this series. It certainly shows that his style was not inimical to Mozart. His finest Mozart...
Beethoven: Fidelio (compete opera recorded in 1962) cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Fidelio (compete opera recorded in 1962)
Gottlob Frick, Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry, Ingeborg Hallstein / Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Otto Klemperer
[ Warner Classics the Home of Opera / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2016 ]
"Christa Ludwig, a mezzo rather than true soprano, brings dark colours to the role of Leonore, while tenor Jon Vickers is a superb Florestan." BBC Music Magazine, January 2012
Mozart W.A.-The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote) (Complete Opera) cover
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Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op.125 Choral (Rec 1957) cover
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6+ weeks
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op.125 Choral (Rec 1957)
Aase Nordmo-Lovberg (soprano), Christa Ludwig (contralto), Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Hans Hotter (bass) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Klemperer
[ Testament / CD - released 11/Apr/2006 ]
"Hearty thanks to Testament for issuing this wonderful document of Klemperer's greatness - caught on the wing." (MusicWeb June 2000)
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 "Choral" (studio & Live) / Egmont: incidental music cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 "Choral" (studio & Live) / Egmont: incidental music
Aase Nordmo-Løvberg, Christa Ludwig, Waldemar Kmentt, Hans Hotter, Birgit Nilsson / Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
[ Warner SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 14/Feb/2025 ]
"…Otto Klemperer's energy and momentum come not from his tempos but from the way the rhythms are articulated. In the first movement and Scherzo the heroic, teeth-gritted determination are physically gripping, In this Ninth combined urgency with...
Piano Concertos cover
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SCHUMANN / GRIEG
Piano Concertos
Benno Moiseiwitsch (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Ackermann
[ Testament / CD - released 14/Jul/2000 ]
Grieg and Schumann Concertos were central to Moiseiwitsch's immense repertoire!
Symphonies Nos 4 & 5 cover
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BEETHOVEN
Symphonies Nos 4 & 5
Berliner Philharmoniker / Otto Klemperer
[ Testament / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ]
Klemperer's interpretations of the 'revolutionary' Beethoven and his symphonies ('four-handed affairs, to say the least', he called them) began at an early stage of his career.
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op 45 cover
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op 45
Christina Gansch, Matthias Winckhler, Bachchor Mainz, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Ralf Otto
[ Naxos / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ]
Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem was initially conceived as a 'cantata of grief' - it was the death of his mother and the desire to create a memorial to his friend Robert Schumann that makes this music so intensely personal. With its radiant messages of...
Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4 (with works by Mendelssohn & Rossini) cover
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Piano Concertos 9 & 19 (recorded 1952-56) cover
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W.A. MOZART
Piano Concertos 9 & 19 (recorded 1952-56)
Clara Haskil (piano) / Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra / Otto Ackermann / Ferenc Fricsay
[ Medici Masters / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ]
"Listening to the Bucharest-born Clara Haskil (1895-1960) always brings much joy. Her playing exudes musicality, whether it is Mozart, Falla or Hindemith...A very recommendable release." (Colin Clarke classicalsource.com)
Otto Klemperer's Long Journey Through His Times - Klemperer: The Last Concert [2 DVDs / 2 CDs] cover
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BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS
Otto Klemperer's Long Journey Through His Times - Klemperer: The Last Concert [2 DVDs / 2 CDs]
Daniel Adni (piano) / New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
[ Arthaus DVD plus CDs / 4 DVD/CD - released 10/Dec/2016 ]
"If you have the room for a brick and fancy the idea of the permanent audio record and the more dippable-into DVDs then this splendidly realised set is for you." MusicWeb Jan 2017
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem [German Requiem] (with Dvorak - Biblical Songs) (recorded 1960-62) cover
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Kontinent Varese cover
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EDGARD VARESE
Kontinent Varese
Grubinger, Martin / Katzameier, Otto / Ensemble Modern Orchestra ao.
[ Col Legno / CD - released 25/Apr/2011 ]
Edgar Varèse is regarded as one of the pioneers of New Music, and with good reason. His piece "Ionisation" was the first-ever composition written exclusively for percussion ensemble to be performed in a traditional concert hall setting; and he...
Ein deutsches Requiem (with Mozart: Serenade No. 6 'Serenata Notturna') cover
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BRAHMS
Ein deutsches Requiem (with Mozart: Serenade No. 6 'Serenata Notturna')
Elisabeth Grümmer (soprano) / Hermann Prey (baritone) / Kölner Rundfunkchor / Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester / Otto Klemperer
[ ICA Classics / CD - released 24/Feb/2011 ]
Gramophone Magazine said of his 1961 recording, 'a conductor whose rugged feeling for the music pays colossal dividends' sums up this 1956 account.
The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe) Complete operetta in German on a single CD cover
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FRANZ LEHAR
The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe) Complete operetta in German on a single CD
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf; Erich Kunz; Nicolai Gedda; Emmy Loose; Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus; Otto Ackermann
[ Naxos Historical Great Operetta Recordings / CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ]
"The lovely unimpeachable tone, with its admixture of gravity, and the way she floats it, makes Schwarzkopf's [performance] very special" (MusicWeb)
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Symphony No 2 'Resurrection' cover
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Wiener Blut [Vienna Blood] (complete operetta recorded in 1954) cover
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JOHANN STRAUSS II
Wiener Blut [Vienna Blood] (complete operetta recorded in 1954)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Nicolai Gedda / Emmy Loose / Erich Kunz / Erika Koth / Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra / Otto Ackermann
[ Naxos Great Operetta Recordings / CD - released 13/Jun/2007 ]
One of the legendary series of operetta recordings produced by Walter Legge with the Philharmonia Orchestra in the early 1950s, this classic account of Wiener Blut features the ideal vocal partnership of soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and tenor...
Eine Nacht in Venedig [A Night in Venice] (complete operetta recorded in 1954) cover
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JOHANN STRAUSS
Eine Nacht in Venedig [A Night in Venice] (complete operetta recorded in 1954)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Nicolai Gedda / Erich Kunz / Emmy Loose / Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra / Otto Ackermann
[ Naxos Historical Great Operetta Recordings / CD - released 15/May/2007 ]
"No lover of this delectable score should miss this issue. It is unlikely that you will ever hear it better sung, played or acted" (MusicWeb June 2007)