Hans Knappertsbusch The Orchestral Edition (18CD)

This is the mighty orchestral legacy of Hans Knappertsbusch, an inimitable genius of the podium. His recordings were described as “readings of great power and eloquence – almost of a hypnotic nature” by Stereo Review. This Original Jackets collection encompasses the Decca orchestral recordings (1947–60) made with the great orchestras of London, Paris, Zurich, Geneva and Vienna, and those of the music of Wagner in 1928 for Polydor in Berlin and in 1962 for Westminster in Munich.

TRACK LIST

CD 1
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concertos No. 4*; Piano Concerto No. 5°
Sir Clifford Curzon

CD 2
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2

CD 3
BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 2
Sir Clifford Curzon

CD 4
BRAHMS
Academic Festival Overture; Tragic Overture; Haydn Variations; Alto Rhapsody
Lucretia West

CD 5
BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 3

CD 6
BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 4
WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll

CD 7
BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 5
WAGNER
Götterdämmerung (excerpts)

CDs 8–9
BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 8

CD 10
RICHARD STRAUSS
Don Juan; Tod und Verklärung

CD 11
WAGNER – The Polydor Recordings

CD 12
WAGNER – The Decca 78s

CD 13
WAGNER
Rienzi · Siegfried · Parsifal (excerpts)

CD 14
WAGNER
Der fliegende Holländer; Die Walküre · Tannhäuser (orchestral music)

CD 15
WAGNER
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Tannhäuser; Tristan und Isolde; Parsifal (orchestral music)

CD 16
WAGNER
Rienzi; Der fliegende Holländer; Lohengrin (orchestral music); Siegfried Idyll

CD 17
VIENNA HOLIDAY
Johann Strauss I; Johann Strauss II; Karel Komzák II; Ziehrer

CD 18
ALL-TIME POPULAR FAVOURITES
Tchaikovsky; Schubert; Weber; Nicolai

MONO (CD1*, 2, 3, 5, 6, 11–14)
STEREO (CD1°, 4, 7–10, 15–18)