Otto Klemperer

by KenI love this theme.

MENDELSSOHN: Notturno from A Midsummer Night's Dream (incidental music), Op. 61Concertgebouw Orchestra (Amsterdam), George Szell, cond. Decca, recorded Dec. 2-4, 1957Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, cond. Broadcast performance, May 23, 1969by KenA much-loved little piece latched onto my brain this weeko. It was the "Nocturne" from Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream incidental music, and it really still hasn't let go.

Otto KlempererBEETHOVEN: The Creatures of Prometheus (ballet), Op. 43: OverturePhilharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, cond. EMI, recorded Nov. 25, 1957New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, cond.

"Good night, thou false world!"