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BACH / HANDEL / CHERUBINI / GLUCK / RAMEAU
4 Orchestral Suites BWV1066-9 / etc New Philharmonia Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Klemperer [ Testament / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] "To anyone lucky enough to have heard Klemperer in the concert hall or opera house in these years, the set will bring memories flooding back. To younger collectors, those whose ears are still open to the power of great music-making, it might just... |
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STRAVINSKY
Petrushka (complete ballet) Pulcinella (suite) [recorded 1967 & 1963] New Philharmonia Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Klemperer [ Testament / CD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] "This previously unpublished recording of Petrushka is a remarkable discovery: a notable resurrection with a strange tale attendant upon it." (Gramophone) |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
4 letzte Lieder (4 Last Songs) / Arabella (highlights) (Rec 1953/54) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano) Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Ackermann (Conductor) Lovro von Matacic (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Recordings / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] (Schwarzkopf) had all the requisite vocal qualities for a first-rate singer of the music of Richard Strauss: radiance, tenderness, vocal colour, always alive to the nuances of the text, and very observant of what the composer demanded. |
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WAGNER / WOLF / BRAHMS / VERDI / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
Otto Gerdes - Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon Otto Gerdes (conductor) with Brigitte Nilsson, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Theo Adam, Pierre Thibaud, Evelyn Lear, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / 11 CD Box Set - released 25/Jul/2025 ] 'Karajan's producer' on the podium - the complete recordings of Otto Gerdes for Deutsche Grammophon, including previously unpublished material and displaying some of the most thrilling versions of orchestral masterpieces to be recorded. Reviews for... |
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Otto Klemperer
Bach,J.S.: Orchestral Suite [ Testament / 2 CD - released 30/Sep/2005 ] |
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Otto Klemperer
Beethoven: Symphonies [ Testament / CD - released 12/Dec/2005 ] |
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Otto Klemperer
Beethoven: Symphony No 3 [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / RICHARD WAGNER
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 / Wagner: Siegfried Idyll Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Otto Klemperer [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 28/Jan/2008 ] "From the very opening of the Brahms symphony, we are in for a surprise, for the timpanist's strokes - far from driving all before them in the usual relentless and dominating fashion - are, while remaining the music's key propulsive driver, far more |
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Otto Klemperer
Bruckner: Symphony 6/Te Deum [ Testament / CD ] |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No 2 'Resurrection' (with Mozart - Symphony No. 29 in A major, K201) [recorded 1964] Heather Harper (soprano), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) / Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Otto Klemperer [ Testament / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] Recorded 1964, mono |
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Otto Klemperer
Various: Last Concert [ Testament / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Rendez-Vous Royal: Music for Trumpet & Organ Otto Sauter (piccolo trumpet) & Christian Schmitt (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2018 ] On this album of concertos and transcriptions ranging from the Baroque era to the present day, the Instrument of the Kings meets the Queen of Instruments. |
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TELEMANN / MOLTER / TORELLI / HAYDN / VIVALDI / L. MOZART / etc
Trumpet Concertos [special priced box set] Otto Sauter, Thomas Hammes, Franz Wagnermeyer, Reinhold Friedrich, Joachim Pliquett, etc (trumpets) [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 25/May/2018 ] "Many good things: music by composers generally badly served by other labels, the standard of musicianship high and sound quality generally excellent." (Bargain of the Month MusicWeb April 2011 on the original release) |
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JOUNI KAIPAINEN
Symphony No. 3 / Bassoon Concerto Otto Virtanen (bassoon) / Tampere PO / Hannu Lintu [ Ondine / CD - released 9/Mar/2007 ] "Top-flight performances of bracing new scores from Finland." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine March 2007 |
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Otto/Brunner
Mendelssohn:songs [ Profil / CD - released 7/Sep/2009 ] |
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Otto/Gramss/Oswald/Schopper
Bach, C.P.E.: Die Israeliten I [ Cpo / CD - released 27/Feb/2012 ] |
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VARIOUS
Encores and Transcriptions, Vol. 2 (Rec 1927-1930) Pablo Casals (cello) with Nicolai Mednikoff, piano, Blas Net, piano, Otto Schulhoff, piano. London Symphony Orchestra / Pablo Casals, conductor [ Naxos Great Cellists / CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] "As before his novel and revolutionary vibrato usage comes under close scrutiny and that vocalized legato which he occasionally spun out with such daring elasticity demonstrate why he was the premier cellist of his generation...Collectors need not... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Fidelio (complete opera recorded in 1962) Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer [ Alto / 2 CD - released 19/Nov/2012 ] |
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BEETHOVEN
Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7 (rec 1955) Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Klemperer [ Naxos Great Conductors / CD - released 19/Apr/2007 ] "With a superbly judged transfer from Mark Obert-Thorn that ensures clarity, fulsome tone and no degradation of sonic information, Otto Klemperer's weighty and significant accounts of these two different but mighty symphonies take on a new lease of... |
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BEETHOVEN
Symphonies Nos.2 & 7 (Rec 1957) Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Klemperer [ Testament / CD - released 25/Jan/2007 ] "The orchestra is on magnificent form; this is a superb Beethoven disc, capturing Klemperer's earliest years with the Philharmonia with stunning immediacy." (International Record Review July/Aug 2007) |