Klaus Tennstedt – The Great EMI Recordings

remembering Klaus Tennstedt on the anniversary of his death

(June 6, 1926 – January 11, 1998)

CD 1:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):
Symphony No.3 in E flat major, op.55 "Eroica"
The Creatures of Prometheus - overture, op.43
Coriolan - overture, op.62
Egmont - overture, op.84

CD 2:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):
Symphony No.6 in F major, op.68 "Pastoral"
Symphony No.8 in F major, op.93
Fidelio - overture, op.72b

CD 3 / CD4:
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897):
Symphony No.1 in C minor, op.68
Ein deutsches Requiem, op.45
Schicksalslied, op.53

CD 5:
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896):
Symphony No.4 in E flat major "Romantic"

CD 6:
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896):
Symphony No.8 in C minor

CD 7:
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911):
Symphony No.1 in D major

CD 8:
Robert Schumann (1810-1856):
Symphony No.3 in E flat major, op.97 "Rhenish"
Symphony No.4 in D minor, op.120

CD 9:
Richard Strauss (1864-1949):
Also sprach Zarathustra, op.30
Don Juan, op.20
Tod und Verklärung, op.24

CD 10:
Richard Wagner (1813-1883):
Die Walküre - Ride of the Valkyries
Götterdämmerung - Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey
Götterdämmerung - Siegfried's Death and Funeral March
Das Rheingold - Entry of the Gods in Valhala
Siegfried - Forest Murmers
Die Walküre - Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music

CD 11:
Richard Wagner (1813-1883):
Tanhäuser - overture
Rienzi - overture
Lohengrin - act I Prelude
Lohengrin - act III Prelude
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - overture

CD 12:
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847):
Symphony No.4 in A major, op.90 "Italian"
Franz Schubert (1797-1828):
Symphony No.9 in C major, D.944 "Great"

CD 13:
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881):
A Night on Bare Mountain
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967):
Háry János - suite
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953):
Lieutenant Kijé- suite

CD 14:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):
Leonore No.3 - overture, op.72a
Robert Schumann (1810-1856):
Kozerstück for four Horns in F major, op.86
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904):
Symphony No.9 in E minor, op.95 "From the New World"

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Berliner Philharmoniker
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Klaus Tennstedt - conductor

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