Brahms / Wagner - Orchestral Works | Naxos - Historical 8111274

Brahms / Wagner - Orchestral Works

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Label: Naxos - Historical

Cat No: 8111274

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 28th January 2008

Contents

Artists

Berlin State Opera Orchestra

Conductor

Otto Klemperer

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Academic Festival Overture, op.80
Symphony no.1 in C minor, op.68

Wagner, Richard

Siegfried Idyll, WWV103
Tristan und Isolde
» Prelude to Act 1

Artists

Berlin State Opera Orchestra

Conductor

Otto Klemperer

About

If 'slow tempos' were a significant characteristic of Klemperer's final years as a conductor, in his earlier days, as demonstrated on these 1927-1928 recordings, he could set fizzing tempos, galvanising his performers with electric gestures. Above all, however, Klemperer was a master structuralist, always focussed on the music, its construction and direction.
His recording of the Brahms Symphony No.1, made over seven months, is notable not only for athletic vitality but for ecstatic singing lines and subtle integration of light and shade.
The account of the Prelude to Act 1 of Tristan und Isolde is remarkably rapt while that of Siegfried Idyll is intimate and gentle.
Contents:
Brahms - Symphony No.1
Recorded 15th and 20th December 1927 and 3rd February and 26th-27th June 1928 in Berlin
Brahms - Academic Festival Overture
Recorded 23rd June, 1927 in the Singakademie, Berlin
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
Recorded 23rd June 1927 in the Singakademie, Berlin
Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
Recorded 1927 in Berlin

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