No, our performance of the sublime final Adagio of the Mahler Ninth Symphony isn't by Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic (pictured here). It's by Otto Klemperer and the New Philharmonia Orchestra, recorded by EMI in February 1967. You'll note, th

Two conductors share the honours: Otto Klemperer conducts the Chopin and Christoph von Dohnanyi takes the Beethoven. The recordings, sourced from original masters of the broadcasts, are quite old, from 1954 and 1959 respectively; and in some senses,...

Klemperer was considered by many to be one of the greatest interpreters of Mahler , an understandable conclusion given that the two of them were quite friendly with one another. Mahler reportedly told him that, "if something doesn’t sound right, change...

Because it brought together a leading pianist, German-trained Chilean Claudio Arrau, and a great conductor, Otto Klemperer, a protégé of Mahler, whose ventures into Chopin were very rare. The appeal of the collaboration is Arrau and Klemperer’s...