"Otto Klemperer Symphonies -Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, etc (10CD)"

OTTO KLEMPERER
Beethoven - Brahms - Bruckner

No-one less than Gustav Mahler recommended Otto Klemperer to the Hamburg Opera, Hans Pfitzner fetched the conductor to Strasbourg, Klemperer conducted the premiere performance of Korngold‘s The Dead City as Cologne‘s general director of music . and as director of the Kroll Opera in Berlin he was responsible for the house‘s revolutionary programme. During the emigration years he studied composition in the United States with Arnold Schonberg.
Otto Klemperer (1885-1973) was both passionate and reflective and his strict readings of scores turned concerts and recordings into almost monumental documents of his art . first and foremost those recorded in the last two decades of the conductor‘s life and in particular while interpreting the works of the great symphonists Beethoven, Brahms and Bruckner.
The fact that the majority of the recordings featured in this 10CD boxed set were captured live combines the everlasting with the immediate. ( membran )

Otto Klemperer (1885-1973) Conductor

CD1
BRAHMS Symphonies Nos. 1+3
Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Philharmonia Orchestra (1955, WDR (Live) / 1959)

CD2-4
BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos. 4, 7, 8
Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Wiener Symphoniker
(1954, NWDR Koln (Live), 1957, WDR (Live), 1958 (Live))

CD5-9
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Egmont“, incidental music (excerpts)
Birgit Nilsson, Maria Stader, Grace Hoffman, Waldemar Kmentt, Hans Hotter
Kolner Rundfunkchor & Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks
Philharmonia Orchestra, Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester
(1954, NWDR Koln (Live), 1955, 1957, 1958 (WDR, Live), 1960 (Wien / Vienna, Live))

CD10
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2
Geza Anda, Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester 1954 (NWDR Koln, Live)
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No.4
Leon Fleisher, piano
Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester 1956 (WDR, Live)