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Brahms: Symphonies, Overtures, Ein Deutsches Requiem / Klemperer [4-CD Set]


Release Date: 01/22/2013 
Label:  Warner Classics   Catalog #: 043382   Spars Code: DDD 
Composer:  Johannes Brahms,  Unspecified
Performer:  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,  Ralph Downes,  Elisabeth Schwarzkopf,  Christa Ludwig
Conductor:  Otto Klemperer
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Philharmonia Chorus,  Philharmonia Orchestra
Number of Discs: 4 
Recorded in: Stereo 
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Notes and Editorial Reviews

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Otto Klemperer s death, EMI Classics pays tribute to the incomparable conductor with the release of an extensive edition of luxurious yet affordably-priced box sets.

Besides being a great conductor Otto Klemperer was also a composer and when listening to his compositions you are left in no doubt that he was much influenced by the music of Brahms. Klemperer Edition: Brahms is a comprehensive 4-CD collection of Brahms recordings. The set features all four symphonies as well as the Academic Festival Overture and Tragic Overtures and the "Haydn" Variations. In 1961 Klemperer returned to recording Brahms by committing his classic performance of Ein deutsches Requiem to disc. Read more With the soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as soloists and the magnificent Philharmonia Chorus this recording has remained a firm fixture in the EMI Classics catalog since its first release. Read less

Works on This Recording

1.
German Requiem, Op. 45 by Johannes Brahms
Performer:  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (), Ralph Downes (Organ), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf ()
Conductor:  Otto Klemperer
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Philharmonia Chorus,  Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1854-1868; Austria 
 Date of Recording: 1961 
Venue:  Kingsway Hall, London 
2.
Untitled CD-ROM Track by Unspecified
Period: Modern 
3.
Symphony no 1 in C minor, Op. 68 by Johannes Brahms
Conductor:  Otto Klemperer
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1855-1876; Austria 
4.
Symphony no 2 in D major, Op. 73 by Johannes Brahms
Conductor:  Otto Klemperer
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1877; Austria 
5.
Symphony no 3 in F major, Op. 90 by Johannes Brahms
Conductor:  Otto Klemperer
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1883; Austria 
6.
Symphony no 4 in E minor, Op. 98 by Johannes Brahms
Conductor:  Otto Klemperer
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1884-1885; Austria 
7.
Variations in B flat major on a theme by Haydn, Op. 56a "St. Anthony" by Johannes Brahms
Conductor:  Otto Klemperer
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1873; Austria 
8.
Academic Festival Overture in C minor, Op. 80 by Johannes Brahms
Conductor:  Otto Klemperer
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1880; Austria 
9.
Tragic Overture, Op. 81 by Johannes Brahms
Conductor:  Otto Klemperer
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1880; Austria 
10.
Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 by Johannes Brahms
Performer:  Christa Ludwig (Mezzo soprano)
Conductor:  Otto Klemperer
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Philharmonia Chorus,  Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1869; Austria 

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review:  ( 2 Customer Reviews )
 A classically distiller rendition June 24, 2015 By R. Nodell (Guilford, CT) See All My Reviews "Klemperer's Brahms have often been named among the very best performances. Raised on the rich romantic lushness of Bruno Walter and Leonard Bernstein- both being well loved- I was surprised at how Klemperer's sense of structure made the symphonies more powerfully moving without being as explicitly emotional. I couldn't state a preference among them but this set is not one I would want to miss." Report Abuse
 Brahms by Otto Klemperer May 2, 2013 By Majid Abbasi (Toronto, ON) See All My Reviews "One of the greatest Brahms' cycle I have ever heard!" Report Abuse
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