Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonie No. 9 (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 336 Mb | Total time: 71:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Studio | 7 63359 2 | Recorded: 1957
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 336 Mb | Total time: 71:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Studio | 7 63359 2 | Recorded: 1957
The Philharmonia Orchestra was in superb form in the autumn of 1957 when the opportunity came for it to perform all nine Beethoven symphonies, plus the five piano concertos, in a series of 10 concerts at London's Royal Festival Hall under the baton of Otto Klemperer. Credit for that certainly should go to Herbert von Karajan, who had been the orchestra's principal conductor since its founding a decade earlier, and had recently been tapped by the Berlin Philharmonic as its conductor for life.