classical music: Otto Edelmann

classical music: Otto Edelmann

classical music:

Otto Edelmann

Ludwig van Beethoven, Otto Edelmann, ...

EMI Classics, 2001

Furtwangler's Beethoven: A Towering Achievement
Beethoven was a central part of Furtwangler's art, and he returned again and again to the symphonies, leaving a recorded legacy that appears not only in this EMI set, but in live performances on numerous smaller labels as well. With the exception of the 2nd, the 8th, ...

The Complete EMI Recordings 1946-1984, Vol. 1: Orchestral [Box Set]

Hans Hotter, Otto Edelmann, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

More Praise
I can only echo the extravagant praise of my fellow Amazon.com reviewers. This box, which contains literally everything Karajan recorded for EMI in Vienna, London and Berlin from the 1940's through the early '80's, and its companion volume, which features all of ...

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Hybrid SACD)
Beethoven, Wilhelm Furtwaengler (COND), ...

Tahra France, 2008

Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier / Schwarzkopf · Ludwig · Karajan

Richard Strauss, Herbert von Karajan, ...

EMI Classics, 2001

Waltz me around again
OK, Der Rosenkavalier opera is a smidgeon kinky. But the music is ethereal. One of the most hauntingly beautiful waltzes ever written. This music was sung (with words by Hollywood lyricist Earl Brent) by the fetching Jeanette Mac Donald in the movie "Three Daring ...

Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wilhelm Furtwängler, ...

Gala, 2000

Very good
I have bought this cd opera and I listened it yesterday evening. I live in Ceneda of Vittorio Veneto (Italy) where Da Ponte was born. I have other two version (Solti director and Muti director) but this is the best. Very good the director and very good the ...

Mozart - Don Giovanni / Furtwangler

Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grümmer

Deutsche Grammophon, 2001

A stunning Don
It is many years since I first saw this as a film in a theatre and my memories of it were such that I was almost scared to play it again on DVD lest it not live up to the memory. I needn't have worried - the intervening years and seeing several wonderful live ...

Beethoven Symphony 9, Furtwangler Conducts The Lucerne Festival

Otto Edelmann, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Music & Arts Program, 1995

Truly, he had one foot in the next world
In my opinion Furtwangler is the greatest conductor on record, possibly the greatest recording artist. At his best, he touches a plane of spiritual exaltation that is simply unmatched. Here is perhaps the finest demonstration of that fact. After this concert he told ...

Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies

Otto Edelmann, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

Karajan is the best !
I have all Karajan's Beethoven recordings. This is a very good complete one from early Karajan (50's). The sound is mono but it is very clear in these CD's.

Beethoven - Symphony no. 9 'Choral' / Furtwängler, Schwarzkopf, Höngen, Hopf, Edelmann (Great Recordings of ...

Ludwig van Beethoven, Wilhelm Furtwangler, ...

EMI Classics, 1999

Wow!
Yes the critics are right. This is the greatest recording of this towering musical masterpiece.

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Otto Edelmann, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Orfeo D'or, 2008

The REAL Bayreuth Ninth!
In 1960, I purchased my first Beethoven Ninth, the 1951 Furtwaengler/Bayreuth recording on German Electrola. It was also my first exposure to the supreme Beethoven conductor. Since then, I have acquired many other Ninths, including the 1942 Furtwaengler Berlin Ninth, ...

Richard Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer
Richard Wagner, Rudolf Moralt, ...

Melodram, 2008

Mozart: Don Giovanni

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wilhelm Furtwängler, ...

EMI Classics, 2006

IT'S A GREAT ONE!
"Don Giovanni" is a very great, but difficult opera. It requires a charasmatic bass-baritone (or bass) for the title role, another equally great bass-baritone with a comic flair (for Leporello), two great leading sopranos for two very difficult roles (Donnas Anna and ...

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Otto Edelmann, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Archipel, 2008

A great archive discovery, ruined by stinging highs
I think it will mostly appeal to Furtwangler collectors that a new tape was recently discovered of the re-opening of Bayreuth in July, 1951, an occasion that produced one of the most famous Beethoven Ninths on record. Since its first release in 1955, an EMI commercial ...

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Otto Edelmann, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Orfeo d'or, 2008

Weber: Der Freischutz

Carl Maria von Weber, Wilhelm Furtwängler, ...

Opera D'oro, 2001

A "Freischutz" for the ages
Weber's "Der Freischutz" is an opera that has never really done well with American audiences. Apparently there is just something very "Gremanic" about it that seems offputting, but in all honesty (as this recording proves) what it really needs is a firebrand conductor ...