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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

Erich Kleiber conducts Beethoven

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2006-10-01

Works: Spoken Word: Announcement; Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis in D major, Op. 123; Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Performers: Backlein, Gosta; Bjorling, Sigurd; Nilsson, Birgit [Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Kleiber, Erich
Ensemble: Cologne West German Radio Orchestra; Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

The familiar Kleiber Beethoven style of whiplash accents, propulsive tempi, and subtle rubato heard in, for example, his classic Concertgebouw recordings of the 'Fifth Symphony'...continue...

Igor Stravinsky Conducts His Own Works - Apollo, etc

3 CD / Music & Arts / 2006-05-01

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Apollon musagète, ballet in 2 scenes for string orchestra; Oedipus rex; Chorale for Piano; Capriccio, for piano & orchestra; Jeu de cartes; Symphony in Three Movements
Performers: Bergmann, Maria; Hessenland, Werner; Krebs, Helmut; Modl, Martha; Pears, Peter, Sir; Rehfuss, Heinz; Rohr, Otto van
Conductors: Stravinsky, Igor
Ensemble: Cologne West German Radio Orchestra; Northwest German Radio Chorus; Southwest German Radio Wind Quintet, Baden-Baden

Arrau plays Chopin - The Two Concertos

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2005-05-01

Works: Frédéric Chopin: Concerto for Piano no 1 in E minor, B 53/Op. 11; Concerto for Piano no 2 in F minor, B 43/Op. 21
Performers: Arrau, Claudio
Conductors: Klemperer, Otto; Busch, Fritz
Ensemble: Cologne West German Radio Orchestra; Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra