Otto Klemperer – The Warner Classics Remastered Edition – Vol. 2: Operas & Sacred Works (CD)

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.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. 1-13 Bach St Matthew Passion
2. 4 Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
3. 5 Bach Mass in B minor – Choruses
4. 6-7 Beethoven Fidelio
5. 8-9 Handel Messiah
6. 10-11 Mozart Die Zauberflöte
7. 12 Beethoven Missa Solemnis
8. 13-15 Mozart Don Giovanni
9. 16 Bonus Documentary “Klemperer’s Don Giovanni: Behind the Scenes” By Jon Tolansky
10. 17-18 Bach Mass in B minor
11. 19-20 Wagner Der Fliegende Holländer
12. 21-22 Wagner Die Walküre: Act 1 ; Wotan’s Farewell
13. 23-25 Mozart Le Nozze Di Figaro
14. 26-28 Mozart Cosi Fan Tutte
15. 29 Bonus Documentary “An Opera Souvenir” By Jon Tolansky