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Although fifty years have now passed since Fritz Wunderlich’s tragic death on September 17, 1966, the singer and his incomparable tenor voice have remained unforgotten. One reason for this was the meteoric success of his...

Format: CD

Release Date: November 11, 2016

$37.99

Ludwig van Beethoven: Freedom Above All Else an Audio Biography by Jorg Handstein is racked by revolution, wars, fears and hopes and music, too. "In instrumental music, art is independent and free" that is the...

Format: CD

Release Date: January 08, 2016

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A notable addition to the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Beethoven symphony cycles, chief conductor Mariss Jansons transforms the cycle concept in several regards with these live performances recorded in Tokyo's Suntory Hall renown for it's...

Format: CD

Release Date: November 13, 2015

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Classical Music

Format: CD

Release Date: September 29, 2009

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Baritone Michael Volle, (b. 1960) has long numbered among the top singers in German operatic life, yet until recently listeners had no opportunity to enjoy the artist’s full range on CD. BR-KLASSIK presents Mr. Volle’s...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 14, 2014

$86.99 Regular price $171.99

The lavishly produced audio biographies in the BR-KLASSIK WISSEN series tell the life stories of famous composers in an entertaining and amusing way. Who were Mozart, Mahler, and Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn? In what period...

Format: CD

Release Date: July 02, 2021

$16.99

Mozart was certainly among the ''domestic dieties'' of Viennese pianist Friedrich Gulda. He repeatedly played Mozart's piano music in his concerts and had it recorded. In so doing, this classically-trained musician, who had already played...

Format: CD

Release Date: June 02, 2017

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Arvo Pärt (b. 1935, Estonia) has succeeded in bringing sacred music back to a broader audience, and away from the confines of the church service, more than almost any other contemporary composer. The meditative character...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 19, 2017

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Following Mahler's Ninth and Bruckner's Fifth, this live recording of Joseph Haydn's "The Creation" is already the third CD recording to feature master conductor Bernard Haitink at the helm of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks,...

Format: CD

Release Date: September 09, 2014

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Ivan Repusic, who made his debut as Principal Conductor of the Munchner Rundfunkorchester in the autumn of 2017 with Giuseppe Verdi's "Luisa Miller", now presents a further and lesser-known masterpiece by the famous Italian opera...

Format: CD

Release Date: July 05, 2019

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It seems that the Ninth is a limit. He who wants to go beyond it must pass away. [...] Those who have written a Ninth stood too close to the hereafter. Arnold Schoenberg wrote those...

Format: CD

Release Date: February 01, 2019

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Fuoco di gioia -at the beginning of Verdi's "Otello", the compatriots of the victorious protagonist cheer his triumphant return to his home port with a vocal "fire of joy". The opera quote is also the...

Format: CD

Release Date: November 15, 2019

$23.99

Looking back on the Verdi year of 2013, BR-Klassik has now supplemented its discography with the live recording of a concert highlight of October 2013. + With the Messa da Requiem, the conductor Mariss Jansons...

Format: CD

Release Date: November 11, 2014

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On this new choral CD, the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks under the direction of Peter Dijkstra performs works by Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler and Richard Wagner. This disc features unusual transcriptions such as “Isoldes Liebestod”...

Format: CD

Release Date: March 27, 2012

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What was Mozart really like? Was he "a flawless and infinitely good man," as his admirer Tchaikovsky believed? Or was he, as Goethe secretly feared, a man "in the grip of the demonic spirit of...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 09, 2015