Étiquette : Bruno Walter

• Bruno Walter, a Conductor of Life: a conversation with Rémy Louis

  

  To mark the 150th anniversary of Bruno Walter’s birth on September 15, 1876, Warner Classics is reissuing all of the conductor’s recordings for HMV and Graphophone between 1924 and 1939, beautifully restored by Christophe Hénault from Studio Art et Son. To look back at this major period—undoubtedly the most striking and foundational of Walter’s career—I…

  Guilhem Chameyrat

  17 octobre 2026

  Legendary recordings, New records, Opera, Orchestra, Portraits

  Arturo Toscanini, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruno Walter, Concerto, Conducting, Die Walkure, discography, Golden Age, haydn, Historical Recordings, History, interpretation, Interview, Live recording, London Symphony Orchestra, Mahler, Mozart, New release, New York Philharmonic, Piano Concerto, Podcast, Rémy Louis, Ring, Schubert, Schumann, Selected discography, Symphony, Wagner, Walter Gieseking, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwangler

• Wagnerian musical drama in the orchestra, the virtues of lightness

  

  It is true, Wagner past his conductor life a to make the adversary of Mendelssohn, apostle of an approach all in vivacity and light tempi. No, Wagner was not an advocate of fast tempi, any more than he was an advocate of lightness. But what Wagner wanted above all was to place singing at the…

  Guilhem Chameyrat

  19 avril 2025

  Discographies & Comparisons, Opera, Orchestra

  Bruno Walter, Die Walkure, Erich Kleiber, Gotterdamerung, Herbert von Karajan, Historical Recordings, Ring, Selected discography, Siegfried, Wagner, Wilhelm Furtwangler