Étiquette : Rudolf Kempe

• Masaaki Suzuki conducts the greatest German Requiem since the Golden Age

  

  Masaaki Suzuki conducting the German Requiem. Miku Yasukawa, Jochen Kupfer, the Bach Collegium Japan. And a masterpiece. Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan have already produced a Mass in B Minor of sublime lightness, a Johannes Passion of total commitment – recorded live in Köln -, without doubt the most beautiful Christmas Oratorio ever recorded,…

  Guilhem Chameyrat

  31 Mai 2025

  New records, Orchestra, Reviews

  Bach Collegium Japan, Brahms, Herbert von Karajan, Jochen Kupfer, Masaaki Suzuki, Miku Yasukawa, Otto Klemperer, Philippe Herreweghe, Requiem, Rudolf Kempe, Sacred Music, Wilhelm Furtwangler

• A legendary recording: Rudolf Kempe conducts the ideal Brahms Third in 1960

  

  Rudolf Kempe is not the most talked-about conductor, and yet! Of course, Kempe’s name is still associated with Richard Strauss, and he was one of the greatest interpreters of his orchestral works, alongside conducting giants such as Herbert von Karajan and Fritz Reiner. The symphonic poems and symphonies were perhaps never as lively, natural, spontaneous…

  Guilhem Chameyrat

  24 septembre 2023

  Legendary recordings, Orchestra

  Berliner Philharmoniker, Brahms, Rudolf Kempe, Symphony 3