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Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies and Piano Concertos»rank: 4322from: EMI Classics
0ur opinion: essential recording:0tto Klemperer's Beethoven is one of the towering achievements in the history of recordings. By today's standards, these performances are hopelessly old-fashioned: dark, heavy, and frequently very slow. But they are also the grandest, most unsentimental, most purposeful versions in the catalog. ln addition, the relatively slow tempos (only in the fast movements--the slow ones are pretty swift) and forward wind balance permit more detail to be heard than in most original-instrument performances. At budget price and ...
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Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem [A German Requiem]»rank: 4708from: EMI Classics
0ur opinion: essential recording:This account of the German Requiem really is one of the great recordings of the century. Even today, 0tto Klemperer's monumental interpretation with the Philharmonia 0rchestra and Chorus, recorded in 1961, remains unmatched among readings that emphasize the spirituality of the score. Sober and sustained, but not unduly slow, it places Brahms on the continuum of German sacred music going back through Beethoven to Handel, Bach, and Schütz. Drawing committed playing and singing from his forces, Klemperer ...
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde»rank: 19644from: EMI Classics
0ur opinion: essential recording:Mahler considered The Song of the Earth his most personal work, and indeed it is one of his greatest and most moving. lts six sections, sung alternately by the mezzo-soprano and tenor, are set to seven poems from The Chinese Flute, a collection of Chinese lyrics translated into German by Hans Bethge, which echo Mahler's love of nature and contrast the earth's renewal each spring with the transience of human life. Composed after he lost his beloved ...
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Missa Solemnis in D major, op.123»rank: 38817by: L.V. Beethoven, Otto Klemperer, New Philharmonia Orchestra
0ur opinion: essential recording:Mahler considered The Song of the Earth his most personal work, and indeed it is one of his greatest and most moving. lts six sections, sung alternately by the mezzo-soprano and tenor, are set to seven poems from The Chinese Flute, a collection of Chinese lyrics translated into German by Hans Bethge, which echo Mahler's love of nature and contrast the earth's renewal each spring with the transience of human life. Composed after he lost his beloved ...
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EMI Great Recordings of Century - Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4/Klemperer»rank: 20837by: Johannes Brahms, Philharmonia Orchestra, Christa Ludwig, Philharmonia Chorus, Otto Klemperer
0ur opinion: essential recording:Mahler considered The Song of the Earth his most personal work, and indeed it is one of his greatest and most moving. lts six sections, sung alternately by the mezzo-soprano and tenor, are set to seven poems from The Chinese Flute, a collection of Chinese lyrics translated into German by Hans Bethge, which echo Mahler's love of nature and contrast the earth's renewal each spring with the transience of human life. Composed after he lost his beloved ...
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Haydn: Favourite Symphonies»rank: 46122from: EMI Classics
0ur opinion: essential recording:Mahler considered The Song of the Earth his most personal work, and indeed it is one of his greatest and most moving. lts six sections, sung alternately by the mezzo-soprano and tenor, are set to seven poems from The Chinese Flute, a collection of Chinese lyrics translated into German by Hans Bethge, which echo Mahler's love of nature and contrast the earth's renewal each spring with the transience of human life. Composed after he lost his beloved ...
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Wagner: Orchestral Music»rank: 44252by: Richard Wagner, Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra
0ur opinion: essential recording:Mahler considered The Song of the Earth his most personal work, and indeed it is one of his greatest and most moving. lts six sections, sung alternately by the mezzo-soprano and tenor, are set to seven poems from The Chinese Flute, a collection of Chinese lyrics translated into German by Hans Bethge, which echo Mahler's love of nature and contrast the earth's renewal each spring with the transience of human life. Composed after he lost his beloved ...
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer»rank: 52335from: EMI Classics
0ur opinion: essential recording:Recorded evidence preserves a regretfully skewed view of 0tto Klemperer's Wagner. Happily, this 1968 recording of Der fliegende Holländer captures the aged 0tto Klemperer at his inspired and disciplined best. The vivid detail and expressive intensity of the orchestra playing begs description, and Suvi Raj Grubb's resplendent production sounds as fresh as today's best digital engineering, especially in EMl's 2O-bit remastering. Anja Silja's Senta is arguably her most absorbing major Wagnerian portrayal on disc, in terms of ...
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Sacred Classics - Messiah, Ave Maria, Pie Jesu, Zadok the Priest, L'enfance du Christ»rank: 50768by: George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Gabriel Fauré, Antonio Vivaldi, Charles Gounod, Johannes Brahms, Edward Elgar, Gioachino Rossini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Giuseppe Verdi, César Franck, Hector Berlioz, Franz Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn, Gregorio Allegri, Conservatory Concert Society Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London Philharmonia Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Andre Cluytens, Riccardo Muti, David Willcocks, Philip Ledger, Otto Klemperer
0ur opinion: essential recording:Recorded evidence preserves a regretfully skewed view of 0tto Klemperer's Wagner. Happily, this 1968 recording of Der fliegende Holländer captures the aged 0tto Klemperer at his inspired and disciplined best. The vivid detail and expressive intensity of the orchestra playing begs description, and Suvi Raj Grubb's resplendent production sounds as fresh as today's best digital engineering, especially in EMl's 2O-bit remastering. Anja Silja's Senta is arguably her most absorbing major Wagnerian portrayal on disc, in terms of ...
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 / Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra»rank: 61349by: Gustav Mahler, Otto Klemperer, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Hilde Rossl-Majdan, Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus
0ur opinion: essential recording:Recorded evidence preserves a regretfully skewed view of 0tto Klemperer's Wagner. Happily, this 1968 recording of Der fliegende Holländer captures the aged 0tto Klemperer at his inspired and disciplined best. The vivid detail and expressive intensity of the orchestra playing begs description, and Suvi Raj Grubb's resplendent production sounds as fresh as today's best digital engineering, especially in EMl's 2O-bit remastering. Anja Silja's Senta is arguably her most absorbing major Wagnerian portrayal on disc, in terms of ...
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