classical music: Josef Merz

classical music: Josef Merz

classical music:

The Cholera Years:... Michael Jackson - ... Komplete Josef Merz

Hermann Prey, Hans Braun, ...

Philips, 1994

Solid
There are three Eugene Jochum recordings of the Mass in B minor floating around out there: this is the first and oldest. Jochum's reading is generally even-paced and flows easily. He avoids the stateliness of Klemperer's reading (a Deutsche Grammophon reissue) but ...

Schubert: "Trout" Quintet; "Death and the Maiden" Quartet

Josef Merz, Martin Lovett, ...

Polygram Records, 1990

Wonderful performances
The performances on this release are classics from the early stereo age and deserve to be heard and appreciated by anyone interested in music. The two works are rather different in mood and nature, so I guess the overall idea binding them together is the fact that they ...

Otto Klemperer

Josef Merz, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

EMI Classics, 2003

Fresh light on a much-recorded maestro
Otto Klemperer was a taciturn manic-depressive giant (6 ft. 6 in.) who lived from the age of Mahelr to the age when men landed on the moon. He had such self-destructive tendencies that after WW II he could have been totally forgotten; one mishap after another plauged ...