Klaus Tennstedt was the London Philharmonic's principal conductor from 1983 until illness brought a premature end to his tenure four years later, when he became the orchestra's conductor laureate. For ...

Does Chicago really need to hear another conductor leading a Mahler symphony with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra? If that conductor happens to be Klaus Tennstedt, the answer must be a resounding yes.

Dirigent Klaus Tennstedt musizierte 1980 mit dem NDR-Orchester Gustav Mahler: musikantisch, ehrlich, direkt. Warum hat der Dirigent Klaus Tennstedt (1926-1998) in Deutschland, vor allem aber in ...

Geboren 1926 in Merseburg an der Saale - gestorben 1998 in Heikendorf bei Kiel. Und dazwischen: Sehr viel Musik. Das sind die Eckdaten eines bewegten Musikerlebens. Klaus Tennstedt begann seine ...

If there was ever any doubt that Klaus Tennstedt was a conductor for whom the recording studio was a rather confining space, and whose inspirational qualities blossomed in the freedom of the concert ...

Mahler hatte in seiner Fünften Sinfonie wieder einmal Neuland betreten. Seine Erste Sinfonie beinhaltete orchestrale Zitate seiner eigenen "Wunderhorn"-Lieder und die drei folgenden Sinfonien stellten ...

Klaus Tennstedt conducts this vintage London Philharmonic performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor, mounted at the Royal Festival Hall on December 13, 1988.

This distinguished coupling has already been available at bargain price so its appearance in The Originals livery comes as something of a surprise. That said, the packaging is first-rate and the notes ...

Klaus Tennstedt’s cycle of Mahler symphonies was one the freshest of the 1980s, marred mainly by a idiosyncratic First Symphony, which EMI made a second try at in a live video version from 1990, with ...

Performance styles have changed and proliferated so much in recent years that it is no longer possible to judge one recording as definitive, as it was from the 1960s to the 1990s. But listening to ...

Down to brass tacks. In the first movement Chung now includes the exposition repeat but not everyone will like his extreme burst of speed at the close. The second assigns rural lilt to the Trio; the ...

Klaus Tennstedt conducts this vintage London Philharmonic performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor, mounted at the Royal Festival Hall on December 13, 1988.