The Original Masters "KARL BÖHM - Mozart and Strauss" 8'CDs

KARL BÖHM - Mozart and Strauss 

At the heart of this release is Karl Böhm's own dis
arming account of his life up to 1960, "A Life Retold", a narrated autobiography in German (with detailed English and French summary in the booklet) containing fascinating stories about his friendship with Richard Strauss and his connection with the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the two composers with whom he was most closely associated and early recordings of whom are included in this box.

• Here is the chance to get to know Böhm's 1950s Mozart symphony recordings with the Wiener Philharmoniker and his famous LP of Weber Overtures with the same orchestra (all receiving their first international release on CD), or his distinguished early version of Mozart's Requiem featuring the ethereal Teresa Stich-Randall and his atmospheric mono recording of Strauss's Tod und Verklärung with the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam.
  
  
• Famous DG recordings of Ein Heldenleben and Eine Alpensinfonie with the stunning Staatskapelle Dresden, an orchestra that Böhm had conducted since the 1930s, are also included in the set, as well as two collectors' items: Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik and Serenata Notturna with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
  
  
• Böhm's 1958 account of Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra with the Berliner Philharmoniker was the first stereo recording of the work.

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MOZART: Symphonien Nos. 26, 32, 34, 36, 38 - 41 · Requiem · Eine kleine Nachtmusik · Serenata notturna WEBER: 4 Ouvertüren · Overtures R. STRAUSS: Tod und Verklärung Ein Heldenleben · Don Juan · Till Eulenspiegel · Alpensinfonie · Also sprach Zarathustra · 4 letzte Lieder incl. "Erzähltes Leben" (A Life Retold)

Lisa Della Casa · Wiener Philharmoniker Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra a.o.

|A|A|D| / |A|D|D| 000289 477 5296 7 |G|OM 8| partly MONO / Original Masters

Int. Release: Jul.2005

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