Robert Casadesus, Géza Anda, Clara Haskil, Nathan Milstein, Herbert von Karajan, Schweizerisches Festspielorchester & Philharmonia Orchestra – Herbert von Karajan – The Early Lucerne Years (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Robert Casadesus, Géza Anda, Clara Haskil, Nathan Milstein, Herbert von Karajan, Schweizerisches Festspielorchester & Philharmonia Orchestra – Herbert von Karajan – The Early Lucerne Years (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:44:53 minutes | 1,87 GB | Genre: Classical
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For the first time, this edition makes available Herbert von Karajan’s previously unreleased early live recordings from the Lucerne Festival, made in a decade during which Karajan was rebuilding his career. Included are legendary soloists such as Clara Haskil and Géza Anda, Robert Casadesus and Nathan Milstein.

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Schweizerisches Festspielorchester, Paul Kletzki – Lucerne Festival Historic Performances Vol. IX – Paul Kletzki conducts Brahms, Schubert & Beethoven (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Schweizerisches Festspielorchester, Paul Kletzki – Lucerne Festival Historic Performances Vol. IX – Paul Kletzki conducts Brahms, Schubert & Beethoven (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:16:36 minutes | 444 MB | Genre: Classical
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A rediscovery of a master: a leading podium star during his lifetime, Paul Kletzki, born Pawel Klecki in the Polish city of Łódź on 21 March 1900, nowadays is considered an insider’s tip among connoisseurs.

Volume 9 in the Lucerne Festival Historic Performances series presents a live recording from the summer of 1946 as a first release. It shows Kletzki at the height of his art: on the podium of the Swiss Festival Orchestra he realises exciting interpretations of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, Schubert’s Unfinished and Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No.3 – expressive and with a stupendous sense of musical architecture.

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Irmgard Seefried, Schweizerisches Festspielorchester, Rafael Kubelík – Lucerne Festival Historic Performances Vol. IV – Rafael Kubelik conducts Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Irmgard Seefried, Schweizerisches Festspielorchester, Rafael Kubelík – Lucerne Festival Historic Performances Vol. IV – Rafael Kubelik conducts Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:39 minutes | 371 MB | Genre: Classical
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Gramophone Review by Gripping Bluebeard :: Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle is in essence about the inscrutability of an older man and the burning curiosity of a younger woman, an opera that’s very difficult to cast and even more tricky to pace, given the risk of sinking into a lugubrious tonal quagmire. And yet, given a conductor of Rafael Kubelik’s calibre, there’s scope for a gripping inner narrative – provided the singers fit their roles, which in this case they most certainly do.

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