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# **Karl Bohm - The Operas - Complete Vocal Recordings on DG - Box Set 70CDs ** **Karl Böhm – The Operas / The Complete Vocal Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon** **Fidelio, Op. 72 –…

# **Canadian Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct the upcoming New Year's concert ** This year's concert at Vienna's Musikverein will be conducted by Canadian Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York…

## **Yannick Nézet-Séguin — Anecdotes and Curiosities from a Musical Life** **A Conductor Who Began as a Pianist-Partner** Before he ever stood regularly on the podium, Nézet-Séguin spent countless hours **accompanying singers and instrumentalists…

# **Igor Stravinsky: A Supreme Composer, a Limited Conductor** Few figures in twentieth-century music command admiration as universal as **Igor Stravinsky**. As a composer, he reshaped the language of modern music several times over—first…

# **Igor Stravinsky and Pierre Monteux: A Creative Alliance That Changed Modern Music ** The relationship between **Igor Stravinsky** and **Pierre Monteux** stands as one of the most decisive collaborations between a composer and…

# **Bach - Oboe Concertos - Alexei Ogrintchouk, Oboe and Conductor - Swedish Chamber Orchestra - Alina Ibragimova, Violin - BIS ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-oboe-alexei-146565670?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-oboe-alexei-146565670?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 in E flat ("Romantic"), WAB 104 - **Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by **Bernard Haitink ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MiYzU8HQZQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MiYzU8HQZQ)** **

# **Otto Klemperer in 1905: a summary of his life and situation at that time** In **1905**, Otto Klemperer was **20 years old** and still in a **decisive formative phase**, far from public recognition…

# **Why Mahler’s Seventh Symphony conducted by Klemperer is so special—and so controversial** **Mahler "Symphony No 7" Otto Klemperer ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wMdEGIdZPU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wMdEGIdZPU) **Gustav Mahler’s** **Seventh Symphony** has always occupied a problematic, ambiguous, and deeply unsettling…

Kirsten Flagstad as Brünnhilde in Richard Wagner's opera "Götterdämmerung." The performance took place at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco on November 7, 1936. In the image, Fritz Reiner is seen as…

# **Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Ludwig Suthaus - Kirsten Flagstad - Century's record.: Wilhelm Furtwängler ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGAKgoclJ6A&t=381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGAKgoclJ6A&t=381s) ## **Why This *****Tristan und Isolde***** Is the Recording of the Century** To call a single…

# **Bruno Walter: The Private Life Behind the Podium** **Bruno Walter** is often remembered as one of the great humanist conductors of the 20th century—warm, lyrical, and morally grounded. That humanism was not an…

**Columbia Records** introduces long playing micro-groove records. Pictured from left is **CBS chief engineer Dr. Peter Carl Goldmark**, **Columbia Records engineer William Bachman** and **Conductor, composer Bruno Walter **looking at how the records are…

# **Bruno Walter’s Relationships with Other Musicians and Orchestras** **Gustav Mahler: Master, Mentor, and Moral Reference** The most decisive relationship in **Bruno Walter’s** artistic life was undoubtedly with **Gustav Mahler**, whom he met in…

# **Bruno Walter** The **world premiere of Gustav Mahler’s Ninth Symphony** took place **after the composer’s death**. The work was premiered by **Bruno Walter**, conducting the **Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra**, on **26 June 1912**, in…

# **Pinchas Zukerman and His Relationships with Other Musicians** Pinchas Zukerman’s career cannot be understood in isolation. From the beginning, his artistic identity was shaped—and continually refined—through **intense personal and musical relationships** with performers,…

# **Karl Böhm - Conductor, Austria with Maria Cebotari, Christl Golz and Elisabeth Hoengen. **- **1944**

Conductor **Karl Böhm** performed the German Opera **Christa Ludwig **after the** rehearsal of the Beethoven-Oper Fidelio at the Salzburger Festspiele in August 1968**. (Photo by Gerhard Rauchwetter/picture alliance via Getty Images)

# **Karl Böhm: Anecdotes and Curiosities from a Life of Musical Authority** Karl Böhm was never a conductor who relied on charm, theatrical gestures, or emotional display. His authority was quiet, intellectual, and often…

# Cosi Fan Tutte Recording **Musicians during a recording session for Mozart's 'Cosi fan tutte',** London, 12th September 1962. Standing, left to right: record producer **Walter Legge** (1906 - 1979), conductor **Karl Bohm** (1894…

# **Urania Remastered - Famous Conductors ** **01.** **André Cluytens** conducts Wagner, Mussorgsky, Ravel **02.** **Artur Rodziński** conducts Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker **03.** **Arturo Toscanini** conducts Berlioz *Roméo & Juliette*, *Harold en Italie* **04.** **Bernard…

# **Urania Remastered - Famous Conductors Part. 2 ** **101.** **Antal Dorati** conducts Tchaikovsky **102.** **Antal Doráti** Great Recordings 1 - Brahms The Four Symphonies **103.** **Antal Doráti** Great Recordings 2 - Schumann Symphony…

Conductor Herbert von Karajan rehearsing with Nathan Milstein in Lucerne, Switzerland. Lucerne,1957

# **Handel - Alcina - Opera - 1735 - Les Musiciens du Louvre - Marc Minkowski ** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-alcina-du-145741714?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-alcina-du-145741714?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-alcina-du-145741714?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Magdalena Kožená**, mezzo-soprano **Erin Morley**, soprano **Alois Mühlbacher**, countertenor **Anna Bonitatibus**, mezzo-soprano **Elizabeth DeShong**, mezzo-soprano **Valerio…