Klemperer Conducts Schubert, Beethoven, Mozart, Et

"New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer"

"SCHUBERT, F.: Symphony No.8 "

"This 1968 concert was given as a memorial to the British publisher, liberal humanitarian and music-lover Sir Victor Gollancz (1893-1967). He was a prolific writer on political and humanitarian subjects and, eventually, on music. The repertoire for the concert was chosen by Gollancz's widow Ruth and his daughter Livia and represented all his favorite composers bar Verdi. The Schubert, Beethoven and Mozart were old friends of Otto Klemperer's repertoire; he had first recorded the Unfinished and the Beethoven item with the Berlin Staatskapelle in the 1920s, re-recording them with the Philharmonia in the 1960s. The concert program ended with Gollancz's praise of music from his 1952 autobiographical sketch My Dear Timothy: ""Why has no one ever included, among the various 'proofs' of the existence of God, the musical?"""

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