Robert Schumann, Ottorino Respighi, Franz Schubert, Richard Strauss, Béla Bartók, Jean Sibelius, Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Johannes Brahms, Maurice Ravel, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Claude Debussy, Hector Berlioz, Sir William Walton, Ludwig van Beethoven, Georges Bizet, Modest Mussorgsky, Giuseppe Verdi, Gioachino Rossini
Featured artists:
Herbert von Karajan, Guido Cantelli, Yehudi Menuhin, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Arturo Toscanini, André Cluytens, Otto Klemperer, Carlo Maria Giulini, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Nicolai Gedda, Christa Ludwig, Otto Ackermann, Sir Charles Mackerras, Philharmonia Chorus
A prestigious name since it came into being in 1945, the Philharmonia was established by legendary producer Walter Legge as a high-calibre house orchestra for EMI. Its history of collaboration with the world’s greatest musicians includes numerous landmark recordings now in the Warner Classics catalogue. The performances here cover the period between 1946 and 1964. Conducted by such figures as Karajan, Furtwängler, Toscanini, Klemperer, Giulini and Cantelli, they have been extensively remastered from the original tapes, gaining a new immediacy. As a further bonus, this collection includes a recording from 2018 and a CD of music and interviews that provides fascinating insights into the Philharmonia’s relationship with four major conductors.
Special thanks to Helen Sprott, former Managing Director of the Philharmonia Orchestra, for jointly overseeing the creation of this project with Warner Classics.
