A reputação de Otto Klemperer vem dos últimos 20 anos da sua vida em que gravou para a EMI, mas ele esteve na vanguarda de muita da música nova do século 20. A tradição Vienense de Beethoven e Brahms teve, claro, grande influência para Klemperer, aqui conduzindo a New Philharmonia Orchestra numa brilhante interpretação da Sinfonia No.7 de Beethoven.

• Hi-Q Records Supercuts
• Vinil Audiófilo 180 Gramas
• Corte a partir das Master Tapes Originais Analógicas da EMI
• Masterizado nos Estúdios Abbey Road
• Arte e grafismo da capa original

"Corte nos Estúdios Abbey Road a partir das Master Tapes Originais Analógicas num lathe Neumann VMS82 alimentado com um sinal prévio através de um deck Studer A80 especialmente modificado com uma cabeça de avanço especial, permitindo realizar um corte num processo completamente analógico. Prensagem realizada com as máquinas originais da EMI pela The Vinyl Factory em Hayes, Inglaterra."

Otto Klemperer (1885-1973) is remembered more as an old man whose last years embraced the refinement of analogue stereo recording and the burgeoning of colour television (his performances of Beethoven Symphonies at the Royal Festival Hall were captured by the BBC). As a young man though, he was at the vanguard of much of the new music of the 20th century, and was friends with Mahler (assisting at the premiere of Mahler's 8th Symphony) and championed works by Janáček, Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Hindemith, as well as being a composer himself. Arguably his greatest legacy is the raft of superb recordings he made for EMI from 1954 until 1971, with his interpretations of Beethoven and Brahms symphonies particularly celebrated.

In the original 1972 review in the GRAMOPHONE, TH wrote: "The main object of this new recording, I imagine, is to give us [Klemperer's] commanding version of this symphony in a really up to date recording and in this HMV's engineers have been highly successful. The remastered version of his older recording still sounds very well but one has only to compare a few bars to be convinced of the greater superiority of this new edition. It has a more immediate presence which increases the impact of this magisterial reading of the score, while the extremely well defined string bass draws attention to important points one might otherwise overlook; as for example, the place in the slow movement where the accompaniment to the main tune changes from quavers into triplets... As most readers will know by now, you must take Klemperer's Beethoven on his own terms: and his own terms are both impressive, and what is more important, often extraordinarily revealing."

Lista de Faixas:

Lado A
Beethoven: Symphony No.7 in A Op.92
I. Poco sostenuto - Vivace
II. Allegretto

Lado B
Beethoven: Symphony No.7 in A Op.92 (cont.)
III. Presto - Assai meno presto
IV. Allegro con brio
Rameau (arr. Klemperer)
Gavotte with Six Variations

New Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Klemperer

Recorded on 12-13 October 1968 at Number 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London. Produced by the legendary Suvi Raj Grub and engineered by Martin Benge