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Ralg Bachchor Mainz/Otto
Herzogenberg: Mass E Minor [ Cpo / CD ] |
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GAVIN BRYARS
Piano Concerto (The Solway Canal) / After Handel’s Vesper / Ramble on Cortona Ralph van Raat (piano) / Cappella Amsterdam / Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic / Otto Tausk [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Apr/2011 ] "It's in the nature of Bryars's solo piano music that it flows along in gently timeless way...it also severally challenges a performer's ability to keep the listener's attention suitably gripped. In After Handel's Vesper's and Ramble on Cortona,... |
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Katzameier, Otto / Radziejewska, Anna / Klangforum Wien ao.
Sciarrino, Salvatore - Macbeth [ Col Legno / 2 CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] |
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TCHAIKOVSKY / WAGNER / STRAUSS / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / SCHOENBERG / etc
450 Years Staatskapelle Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin, Richard Strauss, Leo Blech, Otto Klemperer, Erich Kleiber, Herbert von Karajan, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Joseph Keilberth, etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 15 CD Box Set - released 3/Apr/2020 ] As the Staatskapelle Berlin celebrates its 450th anniversary, Deutsche Grammophon presents 15 discs of sound recordings of outstanding artistic merit from the venerable, world-class orchestra under its great conductors. |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Rec 1954) Streich Rita (Soprano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (Conductor), Otto Ackermann (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] In 1942 Richard Strauss, then approaching his eightieth birthday, recalled that the original intention behind Ariadne auf Naxos was as a grateful offering to the theatre director Max Reinhardt (1873-1943). It was to form an epilogue to a comedy by... |
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Bach, Joha
Orchestersuite No. 3/ Symphonie No. 4 Symphonieorchester d. BR, Otto Klemperer [ ORFEO / CD - released 8/Nov/1987 ] |
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BACH / BRUCKNER / PERGOLESI / STRADELLA / DVORAK / etc
Ave Maria: Sacred Songs Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano) Mirella Freni (soprano), Lisa Otto (soprano), Maria Stader (soprano), Rita Streich (soprano), Hertha Topper (contralt [ Deutsche Grammophon ABC Eloquence / CD - released 7/Jul/1995 ] Eloquence - great classical recordings reissued at a budget price |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman recorded in 1968 at the Royal Festival Hall, London) Theo Adam / Anja Silja / Martti Talvela / James King / BBC Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Klemperer [ Testament / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2008 ] Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine October 2008 |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Fliegende Hollander [The Flying Dutchman] Theo Adam, Anja Silja, Martti Talvela / BBC Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer [ EMI Classics / 3 CD - released 8/Mar/2010 ] "The most remarkable aspect of the performance… remains the empathy between Klemperer, Silja and Adam. Adam's Act 1 monologue seizes the dramatic high ground, but Silja raises the stakes still further with an electrifying account of Senta's Ballad,... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (Ta Ta Ta Taaa - 13 Times the Same and 13 Times Different) (Various Artists) Various Orchestras, Various Conductors including Herbert Kegel, Otto Klemperer, Helmut Müller-Brühl, Roger Norrington, StanisÅ‚aw Skrowaczewski, etc [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 28/May/2021 ] The notes G-G-G-E flat, better known as simply 'ta-ta-ta-taaa', are perhaps the four most famous in all of classical music. They form the opening motif of Symphony No. 5 in C minor by Ludwig van Beethoven. |
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Beethoven,
Coriolan-Ouvertüre, Symphonie No. 3 Wiener Symphoniker, Otto Klemperer [ ORFEO / CD - released 27/Sep/1990 ] |
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Brahms, Jo
Symphonie No. 3 F-Dur op. 90, Symphonie No. 7 A-Dur op. 92 Wiener Symphoniker, Otto Klemperer [ ORFEO / CD - released 4/Oct/2007 ] |
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JOHANN STRAUSS 11
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (J.): Die Fledermaus (Complete Operetta) (Rec 1960) Wilma Lipp, Gerda Scheyrer, Christa Ludwig / Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Otto Ackermann [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 1/May/2000 ] "The performance bubbles with affection and good spirits from start to finish. It has top-flight singers, out to enjoy themselves, aided and abetted by perhaps the best recording orchestra and chorus of its time." MusicWeb |