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Otto Klemperer conducts the second movement from Beethoven's Eighth Symphony with the Philharmonia Orchestra (EMI 66796) 5:00. Accessibility links. ... (EMI 66796) 5:00. Performance Today ...
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.
This collection assembles all the Mahler Klemperer recorded for EMI, his main recording label: four of the nine completed symphonies, the great song cycle “Das Lied von der Erde,” and a ...
Nothing annoys Conductor Otto Klemperer quite so much as applause. He takes his bows almost grudgingly, his craggy face expressionless, his eyes apparently unseeing. To Klemperer, musicmaking is ...
Conductor Otto Klemperer’s career as a recording artist did not begin in earnest until he was in his sixties. ... EMI Classics 599 0349 . The Book Shavings from a Musician’s Workshop: Klemperer on ...
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 ...