The Klemperer Years
"The musician of the Ten
Commandments carved in granite" was how Walter Legge described the conductor Otto Klemperer , who, once Karajan had gone to Berlin, increasingly took over the unofficial post of chief conductor of the Philharmonia in the late fifties and sixties. The partnership yielded some of the orchestra's most memorable records and concerts. In the fourth of six programmes, Humphrey Burton looks back at the Klemperer years, including the voice of Walter Legge and talks to Lotte Klemperer ,
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , John Amis ,
Gareth Morris , Hugh Bean and Daniel Barenboim. With excerpts from
Mozart Symphony No 41 in G minor, K550
Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)
Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068
Brahms Symphony No 1 in C minor Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique) Beethoven Fidelio