Recording Highlights
His other recordings for EMI include highly regarded issues of Richard Strauss's Capriccio and the four symphonies of Robert Schumann with the Dresden Staatskapelle. He made a quadrophonic stereo album (probably the only one ever made) of Mozart's The Magic Flute in 1973 for EMI, starring Peter Schreier as Tamino, Walter Berry as Papageno, Edda Moser as the Queen of the Night, Anneliese Rothenberger as Pamina, and Kurt Moll as Sarastro. Other recordings (EMI, Orfeo, Phillips, and Sony) include:
- Ludwig van Beethoven's nine symphonies with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
- Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
- Johannes Brahms's four symphonies with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Johannes Brahms's four symphonies with the Wiener Symphoniker
- Anton Bruckner's Symphonies 1, 4, 5, 6 & 9
- Antonín Dvořák's Requiem, and Stabat Mater, both with the Czech Philharmonic; Symphonies Nos. 7–9 and Cello Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra
- Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 2 with the Berlin Philharmonic and Düsseldorf Chorus
- Franz Schubert's 9 Symphonies with Staatskapelle Dresden; Sacred Choral Works with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
- Richard Strauss's Intermezzo, Elektra, Friedenstag and Die Frau ohne Schatten, Arabella with the Bavarian State Opera
- Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben, Symphonia domestica, and Also sprach Zarathustra with The Philadelphia Orchestra
- Richard Strauss's Horn Concertos, with Dennis Brain and the Philharmonia Orchestra
- Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth (live recording, Salzburg Festival)
- Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Die Feen with the Bavarian State Opera; The Flying Dutchman (Bayreuth Festival and Bavarian State Orchestra, the latter filmed) and Lohengrin (Bayreuth Festival)
- Richard Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder with Marjana Lipovsek and The Philadelphia Orchestra
One of his final concert and recording projects in Philadelphia focused on the music of Robert Schumann.
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