CLASSICAL. MAHLER: Symphonies Nos. 2, 4, 7 & 9; Das Lied von der Erde . Philharmonia and New Philharmonia Orchestras/Otto Klemperer ...

The young Otto Klemperer’s conducting career was encouraged by no less than Gustav Mahler, Klemperer’s meteoric rise leading him to become director of Berlin’s Kroll Opera from 1927 to 1931.The first ...

Though everything Klemperer touched seemed to turn to gold during those two Australian tours, the four performances of Mahler’s second symphony with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the singers ...

Philharmonia Orchestra/Klemperer. (Warner Classics) There simply could not have been a more appropriate time for a re-release of this great and historic recording of Mahler’s Second Symphony ...

Mahler, Das Lied Von Der Erde Christa Ludwig, Fritz Wunderlich, Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra (Angel) Mahler, Symphony NO. 4 Margaret Price, Jascha Horenstein, London Philharmonic Orchestr… ...

Among the giants of 20th-Century music, Otto Klemperer stands tall – in more ways than one. His name now conjures images of a stern-looking elderly gent, all horn-rimmed spectacles and hook nose ...

EMI has just reissued a broad spectrum of German conductor Otto Klemperer's recordings, including a box set of one of the composers he's most associated with: Gustav Mahler.