Featured artists:
Helga Dernesch, Mirella Freni, Agnes Giebel, Gundula Janowitz, Christa Ludwig, Lucia Popp, Margaret Price, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anja Silja, Elisabeth Söderström, Janet Baker, Teresa Berganza, Yvonne Minton, Marga Höffgen, Grace Hoffman, Luigi Alva, William Cochran, Nicolai Gedda, Jon Vickers, Gerhard Unger, Peter Pears, Gabriel Bacquier, Hermann Prey, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Geraint Evans, Walter Berry, Theo Adam, Franz Crass, Gottlob Frick, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Jerome Hines, Martti Talvela, Philharmonia Chorus, BBC Symphony Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Reri Grist, Ingeborg Hallstein, Ruth-Margret Pütz, Claire Watson, Annelies Burmeister, Waldemar Kmentt, Ernst Kozub, Norman Bailey, John Alldis Choir
This box set comprises all the operas and sacred works Otto Klemperer conducted for EMI Columbia and HMV. Oratorios by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Handel are accompanied by operas of Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner. There are also rehearsals and listening playback sessions for the recording of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and a Bonus CD with recollections from artists who sang in Klemperer’s opera performances. Otto Klemperer deeply loved both the theatricality of opera and the spirituality of oratorios, and these performances from his great Indian Summer represent the fruits of his lifetime of thought and experience in this repertoire.
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