Otto Klemperer

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani ranks Otto Klemperer among the ten greatest conductors of the twentieth century, and calls him one of its charismatic conductors12. He speaks of him mainly in a "Musicosophie" session where he sets him beside Victor Klemperer and Bruno Walter in connection with Wagner. He does not describe the link to Victor the same way from one session to the next: he first calls him a cousin, then a brother. He also talks about the man: his distrust of morality, the illness that forces him to conduct seated, an exile he takes badly, and then a return in which he is not given the best orchestras3. He names several recordings as references: Wagner's Siegfried Idyll and the adagio of Mahler's Ninth Symphony4. He also considers his St Matthew Passion, with Fischer-Dieskau, the most beautiful version of the work5.

1. 1Musicosophie 10. Les deux Klemperer et Bruno Walter dans Wagner18 Jan 2021 · 2:55
2. 2Heidegger ou la Panzer Philosophie • Q&A Philosophique • Dominique Pagani21 May 2021 · 9:11
3. 3Musicosophie 10. Les deux Klemperer et Bruno Walter dans Wagner18 Jan 2021 · 43:02
4. 4Musicosophie 10. Les deux Klemperer et Bruno Walter dans Wagner18 Jan 2021 · 47:49
5. 5Musicosophie 10. Les deux Klemperer et Bruno Walter dans Wagner18 Jan 2021 · 48:30

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.