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Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Wagner: Faust Overture / Bruno Walter

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2012-07-10

Works: Richard Wagner: Faust Overture; Siegfried Idyll; Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 1 in D major "Titan"; Recorded Sound: Applause
Conductors: Walter, Bruno
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

This recording is the complete concert of April 8, 1939 with Bruno Walter conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Digitally restored in 2010, this is the...continue...
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Knappertsbusch Conducts Bruckner Symphonies nos 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9; Wagner

6 CD / Music & Arts / 2011-11-08

Works: Anton Bruckner: Symphony no 3 in D minor, WAB 103; Symphony no 4 in E flat major, WAB 104 "Romantic"; Symphony no 5 in B flat major, WAB 105; Symphony no 7 in E major, WAB 107; Symphony no 8 in C min...
Performers: Aldenhoff, Bernd; Cunitz, Maud; Rohr, Otto van
Conductors: Knappertsbusch, Hans
Ensemble: ; Bavarian State Orchestra; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Munich Philharmonic Orchestra; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

A newly restored collection of previously released (and no longer available) Knappertbusch best sellers from the Music and Arts catalog. Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 was...continue...
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Sir Thomas Beecham In Toronto / previously Unissued Concerts

4 CD / Music & Arts / 2011-10-11

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 102 in B flat major, H 1 no 102; Symphony no 94 in G major, H 1 no 94 "Surprise"; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no 38 in D major, K 504 "Prague"; Symphony no 35 in...
Conductors: Beecham, Thomas, Sir

Three of these discs are previously unissued concerts of Sir Thomas Beecham conducting Canadian orchestras from 1960. The fourth bonus disc contains live BBC broadcasts...continue...

Toscanini conducts Wagner - Complete Carnegie Hall Farewell

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2010-12-14

Works: Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Tannhäuser; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

This is Toscanini's only concert recorded in stereo that survives complete! Deleted six years ago from the Music & Arts catalog, this long-time best seller...continue...

The Art of Oscar Fried, Vol. 4 / Oscar Fried, Berlin State Opera Orchestra & Choir

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2009-11-10

Works: Anton Bruckner: Symphony no 7 in E major, WAB 107; Richard Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer, WWV 63; Lohengrin, WWV 75; Tannhäuser, WWV 70; Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz, Jä...
Conductors: Fried, Oskar

This is the widely awaited first CD transfer of these recordings (of which the Bruckner 7th was the work's recording premiere). Previous volumes were acclaimed...continue...

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll; Bruckner: Symphony no 9 / Bruno Walter, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2008-08-12

Works: Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll; Anton Bruckner: Symphony no 9 in D minor, WAB 109
Conductors: Walter, Bruno
Ensemble: Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Captured here in excellent sound is Walter's penultimate concert with the Philharmonic before he retired as its guest conductor (Carnegie Hall, 10 February, 1957). The...continue...

Wagner: Die Meistersinger, etc / Knappertsbusch, Edelmann

4 CD / Music & Arts / 2008-02-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Siegfried Idyll
Performers: Adam, Theo; Bohme, Kurt [Bass Vocal]; Borst, Heinz; Casa, Lisa della; Edelmann, Otto; Faulhaber, Werner; Janko, Josef; Kohl, Max; Mikorey, Karl; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Pflanzl, Heinric...
Conductors: Knappertsbusch, Hans
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Chorus; Cologne West German Radio Orchestra

Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Live 1942 Bayreuth / Elmendorff

4 CD / Music & Arts / 2008-02-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Performers: Booth, Margary; Dalberg, Frederick; Fuchs, Marta; Kallab, Camilla; Koch, Egmont; Langhammer, Irmgard; Scheppan, Hilde; Svanholm, Set [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Elmendorff, Karl
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Chorus

"...His [Elmendorff's] leadership in this performance reflects long experience in keeping up the forward momentun while relaxing tempos for dramatic emphasis in the climaxes. He...continue...

In Memory of Arturo Toscanini / Munch, Walter, Monteux

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2007-06-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"; Recorded Sound: Applause; Claude Debussy: La mer; Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, O...
Conductors: Walter, Bruno; Munch, Charles; Monteux, Pierre
Ensemble: Symphony of the Air

Sunday Evenings with Pierre Monteux - California 1941-52

13 CD / Music & Arts / 2007-03-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Consecration of the House, overture Op. 124; Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op. 67; Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43; Egmont, incidental music, Op. 84; Fidelio, overture, Op. 72c; Leo...
Performers: Blinder, Boris; Blinder, Naoum; Cherkassky, Shura; Cutner, Solomon; Kapell, William; Kraus, Lili [Piano]; Warenskjold, Dorothy
Conductors: Monteux, Pierre
Ensemble: Standard Symphony Orchestra

"Is this ever a generous sampling of Pierre Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony! Music and Arts' Sunday Evenings with Pierre Monteux collects broadcast performances...continue...

Pierre Monteux in France 1952-58 Concert Performances

8 CD / Music & Arts / 2006-07-01

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Pétrouchka; Le sacre du printemps; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cockerel; Zolotoy petushok), concert suite for orchestra; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no...
Performers: Casadesus, Robert; Greindl, Josef; Jodry, Annie; Luca, Libero de; Moysan, G.; Stader, Maria
Conductors: Monteux, Pierre
Ensemble: French National Orchestra

Wagner: Parsifal (Act 3)

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2005-09-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Parsifal
Performers: Reinmar, Hans; Weber, Ludwig [Bass Vocal]; Wocke, Hans
Conductors: Knappertsbusch, Hans

A Forgotten Conductor Vol 1 - R. Strauss, etc / Oskar Fried

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2005-09-01

Works: Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon, J 306; Oskar Fried: Fantasie über Motive aus "Hänsel und Gretel" (after Humperdinck), for orchestra; Richard Wagner: Faust Overture; Richard Strauss: Eine Alpe...
Conductors: Fried, Oskar

Merit - Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen / Knappertsbusch

13 CD / Music & Arts / 2002-05-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung
Performers: Brouwenstijn, Gre; Greindl, Josef; Herwig, Alfons; Hollweg, Ilse; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Kamps, Luise Charlotte; Kuen, Paul; Lammers, Gerda; Lenchner, Paula; Madeira, Jean; Milinkovic, Geo...
Conductors: Knappertsbusch, Hans
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Chorus; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Writes critic William H. Youngren in his liner notes: When I reflect on what was unique about Knappertsbusch's work, Wagner's tempo direction `Lebhaft, doch gewichtig'...continue...

Carl Schuricht - Unissued Recordings from the Archives

4 CD / Music & Arts / 2001-10-23

Works: Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde; Götterdämmerung; Felix Mendelssohn: Athalie, incidental music, Op. 74; Max Reger: Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart, Op. 132; Franz Joseph Haydn:...
Conductors: Schuricht, Carl
Ensemble: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Acts 2 & 3 / Rother

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2000-10-24

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Performers: Hann, Georg; Nissen, Hans-Heinz; Prohaska, Jaro; Schirp, Wilhelm; Suthaus, Ludwig
Conductors: Rother, Artur; Heger, Robert
Ensemble: ; Berlin State Opera Chorus

Abendroth Conducts Masterworks of the Romantic Era

2 CD / Music & Arts / 1999-01-19

Works: Richard Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder; Robert Schumann: Symphony no 4 in D minor, Op. 120; Symphony no 1 in B flat major ("Spring"), Op. 38; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Variations for Cello and Orchestra ...
Performers: Lemnitz, Tiana; Sadlo, Milos
Conductors: Abendroth, Hermann
Ensemble: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra