Erich Kleiber - The Complete Polydor 78sCollected for the first time Erich Kleiber's rare recordings with the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Berliner Philharmoniker made for Polydor Grammophon and newly remastered for this release. Erich Kleiber's appointment to the musical directorship of the Staatsoper Berlin in 1923 proved to be the making of his career. Hired on the strength of a single Fidelio, he thrilled audiences and critics with performances of unparalleled vigour and intensity. He

is understood around the world as a plea for peace and international understanding

Watch as a mutiny backfires

01 Swimmer02 The Dream03 The Corner04 The Want05 I've Felt Better (Than I Do Now)06 Plastic Future07 New Days08 The Spiral09 Arima10 Chrome11 Joni's Room

As these tapes traded their way across continents

Dominique Fils-Aimé frames her latest album with a loose

ascetic but deeply felt language that touches the heart

' Daniel Rowland writes: "The first piece by Peteris Vasks that I heard

Most of the poems deal with the theme of death

The cast is uniformly superb

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I look for equivalents that are communicated by movements alone

Irina Lungu