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Music in the Weimar Republic Berlin 1929
Title
Music in the Weimar Republic [sound recording] : Berlin 1929.
Published
Hertfordshire, England : Symposium, p2003.
Physical Description
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
The collection represents the five conductors present in the cover photgraph on the occasion of Toscanini's touring appearance in Berlin in 1929.
Compact disc.
Originally issued on 78 rpm discs; matrix numbers given on container.
Program notes (unsigned) inserted in container.
Recorded in 1923-1924 (Walter, Klemperer), 1930 (Kleiber), Aug. 30, 1947 (Furtwängler), and Aug. 8, 1951 (Toscanini). The Walter & Klemperer recordings are acoustical, the remainder electrical.
Variant and related titles
Berlin 1929
Format
Audio
Added to Catalog
February 18, 2013
Performers
Philharmonisches Orchester, Berlin, Bruno Walter, conductor (Mendelssohn) ; Mitgl. der Kapelle der Staatsoper, Berlin, Otto Klemperer, conductor (Bruckner) ; Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester, Erich Kleiber, conductor (Bach-Schönberg) ; Lucern Festival Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor (Wagner) ; Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, Arturo Toscanini, conductor (Verdi).
Contents
Die Hebriden Overtüre / Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Symphony no. 8 in C minor. 3rd mvmt : Adagio / Bruckner
Präludium und Fuge in Es-dur BWV 552 / J.S. Bach ; arr. for orchestra by Arnold Schönberg
Lohengrin. Vorspiel zum I. Akt / Wagner
La traviata. Preludes Act I and Act II [i.e., Act III] / Verdi.
Issue number
1340 Symposium
Subjects
Also listed under
Berliner Philharmoniker.
Staatskapelle Berlin.
Lucern Festival Orchestra.
Teatro alla Scala. Orchestra.
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