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Cappella Coloriiensis, Wenzinger (4/60) (4/80) (A) 2547017 Eng Baroque Soloists, Gardiner (10/81) STU71 367

Michael Haydn, Joseph's younger brother, was in his day an esteemed composer: reckoned by many (including E. T. A. Hoffmann) at least his brother's equal in the field of sacred music, a noted teacher (Weber was among his pupils), an accomplished contrapuntist and symphonist. He was an unambitious...

Concerto in the Hungarian Style, G714 (orch. Tchaikovsky) Fantasie Jber ungarische Volksmelodien, G123. Liszt/Schubert: Wandererfantasie, G366.

To have been in Amsterdam on July 12th, 1951 to hear Klemperer conduct the Second Symphony of Mahler and in Bayreuth on July 29th, 1951 to hear Furtwängler re-open the Festival Theatre with a legendary performance of Beethoven's Ninth must have been an outstanding experience. And it's precisely...