Despite what one might initially think, the best performances here are not the Brahms Alto Rhapsody or even the Mahler lieder. No, as great as those performances are -- and they are assuredly among the greatest recordings of those works ever made -- the best performances here are the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and "Abscheulicher!" ...
Is Otto Klemperer's 1957 recording of the "Pastoral" the greatest ever recorded? Despite the stiff competition, it could be. Furtwängler's with the Vienna is a richly imagined fantasy of the "Pastoral" and very, very great. Walter's with the Philadelphia is a superbly played, deeply poetic, and profoundly beautiful "Pastoral" and very, very great. ...
This historic release on Testament presents an all-Beethoven program performed by Otto Klemperer and the Philharmonia Orchestra, but the illusion it creates of a single concert may be a bit too convincing: the recordings actually date from three separate occasions, though the year, the participants, and the venue were all the same. Recorded at ...
The late '60s were a golden age for the recorded sound of classical music. Despite all of the technological advances in the recording industry and the fact that orchestras are now stocked with players of a much higher technical level than those of the 1960s, modern recordings have never been able to reproduce the presence, warmth, and clarity of ...
Testament's reissues of notable live performances are primarily aimed at collectors of rarities and fans of the featured artists, but experienced listeners who are curious about these historical artifacts may find them quite interesting and worthwhile, despite their various audio defects and less than ideal reproduction. Otto Klemperer's concert ...
While this 1957 recording with Otto Klemperer leading the Philharmonia in a program of Beethoven, Mozart, and Handel is clearly not for everybody -- in these days of lean and clean Mozart, how many listeners will want to hear a performance of Eine kleine Nachtmusik with the caloric content of a sacher torte? -- but those listeners who can adjust ...
These live recordings by Otto Klemperer and the Philharmonia Orchestra were made in the fall of 1957 at London's Royal Festival Hall as part of a Beethoven concert series that yielded performances of the full cycle of symphonies and concertos. Testament's reissue of the Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36, and the Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, ...
Let's say you have already heard at least a dozen different recordings of Beethoven's Piano Concertos -- the Schnabel, the Pollini, the Kempff, the Brendel, the Gilels, and so on -- and let's say you've already heard at least one of Claudio Arrau's recordings of Beethoven's Piano Concertos -- either the set with Gallaire from the '50s or the set ...
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