Otto Klemperer
Born: 14th May 1885, Breslau, Province of Silesia, Prussia, Germany
Died: 6th July 1973, Zurich
Nationality: German
Otto Klemperer (May 14, 1885 – July 6, 1973) was a German-born conductor and composer. (He took United States citizenship in 1937 and Israeli citizenship in 1970.) He is widely regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century.
Above all, his fame rests on his interpretations of Germanic repertoire, of which he generally gave austere and grand performances (whether live or on record), in later years often with notoriously slow tempi.
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) & Fritz Wunderlich (tenor) New Philharmonia & Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
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Building A Library, June 2021, Also Recommended
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Klemperer conducts Brahms | Symphonies - Overtures - Requiem
Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), David Oistrakh (violin), Ralph Downes, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass-baritone), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Philharmonia Chorus, Otto Klemperer
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Historical
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
Nicolai Gedda (Tamino), Gundula Janowitz (Pamina), Walter Berry (Papageno), Lucia Popp (Königin der Nacht), Gottlob Frick (Sarastro), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, Marga Höffgen (Drei Damen), Ruth-Margret Pütz (Papagena), Gerhard Unger (Monostatos), Karl Liebl, Franz Crass (Zwei Geharnischten), Agnes Giebel, Anna Reynolds & Josephine Veasey (Drei Knaben), Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Otto Klemperer
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New. In the Heat of Classics
Thomas Adès (piano), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Terry Wey (countertenor), Paul O'Dette (lute), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Viktoria Postnikova (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Marcel Reyans (tenor), Nicolas Courjal (bass), Samuel Ramey (baritone), Dong Hyek Lim (piano), Véronique Gens (soprano), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Alexandre Duhamel (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano), Hans Hotter (baritone), Vilde Frang (violin), Hélène Grimaud (piano), Lucia Popp (soprano), Siegfried Jerusalem (tenor), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano), Antoine Palloc (piano), Sharon Kam (clarinet), Aldo Ciccolini (piano), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Catherine King (mezzo-soprano), Jacob Heringman (lute), Stéphane Grappelli (violin), Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Jack Sewing (double bass), Marc Fosset (guitar), Martin Taylor (guitar), Christian Ivaldi (piano), Michel Debost (flute), Monique Rollin (zither), Stephen Kovacevich (piano), Thibaut Garcia (guitar), Nathan Berg (baritone), James Morris (bass-baritone), Dan Dressen (tenor), Peter Barkworth (narrator), Lesley Garrett (vocals), Michael Ball (vocals), Dalal (piano), Angela Maria Blasi (soprano), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Giuseppe Taddei (baritone), Gottlob Frick (bass), Jean-François Heisser (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Sarah Chang (violin), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Martha Argerich (piano), Beatrice Rana (piano), Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Peter Sadlo (percussion), Biao Li (percussion), Claudio Estay (percussion), Philipp Jungk (percussion), Dmitri Alexeev (piano), Anne Fournet (narrator), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Philharmonia Orchestra, Les Arts Florissants, Kammersensemble de Paris, Coro Gulbenkian, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Orchestre de Paris, Il Pomo d'Oro, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, Il Giardino d'Amore Choir, Il Giardino d'Amore, Opéra National de Lyon, London Classical Players, Orchestre National de France, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, London Sinfonietta, Staatskapelle Dresden, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sextuor Jeanne Loriod, Concentus musicus Wien, English Chamber Orchestra, Brentano Quartet, BBC Concert Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Wiener Symphoniker, Teatro alla Scala, Wiener Philharmoniker, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Estonian State Academic Choir, Helsinki University Choir, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, The Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Orchestra, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Tiffin Boys Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Michel Plasson, Robert Irving, William Christie, Armin Jordan, John Nelson, Evgeny Svetlanov, Stephen Stubbs, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Alexandre Desplat, Maxim Emelyanychev, Thomas Dausgaard, André Previn, Ton Koopman, Kent Nagano, Stefan Plewniak, Louis Langrée, Sir Roger Norrington, Didier Benetti, Philip Ledger, Sir Charles Groves, Vernon Handley, Robin Ticciati, Bernard Haitink, Gregor Bühl, Jonathan Tunick, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Marius Constant, Sir Neville Marriner, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Jeanne Loriod, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Carlo Maria Giulini, Philip Brunelle, Michel Legrand, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Andrew Davis, Herbert von Karajan, Libor Pešek, Otto Klemperer, Jean Martinon, Paavo Berglund, André Cluytens, Daniel Barenboim
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New. Brahms: Oeuvres avec orchestre - La discothèque idéale de Diapason, Vol. 36
Aafje Heynis (contralto), Heinz Bongartz, Tibor Paul, Wiener Staatsopernorchester, Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin), Janos Starker (cello), David Oistrakh (violin), Jascha Heifetz (violin), Clifford Curzon (piano), Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Rudolf Serkin (piano), Emil Gilels (piano), Chor der St. Hedwigs-Kathedrale, Berlin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Elisabeth Grümmer (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Wiener Singverein, Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, NDR Sinfonieorchester, Dresdner Philharmoniker, Staatskapelle Dresden, NBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Symphony of the Air, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Otto Klemperer, Carlo Maria Giulini, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Joseph Keilberth, Eduard van Beinum, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Rudolf Kempe, Karl Böhm, Arturo Toscanini, Lorin Maazel, Clemens Krauss, Antal Dorati, Jonel Perlea, Rafael Kubelik, Mario Rossi, Eugene Ormandy, Fritz Reiner, Ferenc Fricsay, Leopold Stokowski, Franz Konwitschny, George Szell, Pierre Monteux
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New. Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer
Theo Adam, Martti Talvela, Kenneth Macdonald, James King, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
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