Klemperer Rarities: Edinburgh Otto Klemperer & Philharmonia Orchestra

• 1 Radio Announcement 00:30
• 2 Overture in C Major to Die Weihe des Hauses 11:16
• 3 Radio Announcement 01:32
• 4 I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings Upon Arrival in the Country Allegro ma non troppo 11:56
• 5 Audience's noise 00:15
• 6 II. Scene by the Brook Andante molto mossoflac 12:19
• 7 Audience's noise 00:15
• 8 III. Merry Gathering of Country Folk Allegro 06:23
• 9 IV. Thunderstorm Allegro 03:18
• 10 V. Shepherd's Song Happy and Thankful Feelings after the Storm Allegretto 08:18
• 11 Applause 00:56
• 12 Radio Announcement 00:49
• 13 I. Allegro con brio 07:42
• 14 Audience's noise 00:12
• 15 II. Andante con moto 09:44
• 16 Audience's noise 00:05
• 17 III. Allegro 04:51
• 18 III. Allegro [C] 00:41
• 19 IV. Allegro 10:27
• 20 Applause 00:48
• 21 Radio Announcement 00:40
• 22 I. Adagio - Presto 07:38
• 23 Audience's noise 00:12
• 24 II. Andante 08:39
• 25 Audience's noise 00:06
• 26 III. Menuet Allegretto 07:03
• 27 Audience's noise 00:04
• 28 IV. Finale Vivace 03:52
• 29 Applause 00:58
• Total Runtime 02:01:29

Info for Klemperer Rarities: Edinburgh

Otto Klemperer
The German conductor Otto Klemperer (1885-1973) was born in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland). He studied at the Frankfurt Conservatory, then at Berlin's Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory, where he took lessons in composition and conducting from Pfitzner, making his debut in Berlin in 1906 with Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers. On Mahler's recommendation he became chorus master then conductor at Prague's German Theatre (1907-10); between 1910 and 1917 he worked at the opera houses of Hamburg, Bremen and Strasbourg; he was musical director at Cologne (1917-24), Wiesbaden (1924-27) and Berlin's Kroll Opera (1927–31), but left Nazi Germany in 1933, eventually settling in the USA, where he became conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1933-39).

After a brain tumour operation in 1939 his career faltered until he became director of the Hungarian State Opera (1947-50). In the 1950s and 60s he achieved great success, largely through his association with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and his recordings for EMI. In 1959 he was appointed the Philharmonia's 'conductor for life'. His last concert was in September 1971. Many of Klemperer's fine EMI recordings are available in the Great Recordings of the Century series.

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