Word: philharmonia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HANDEL: MESSIAH (3 LPs; Angel). Octogenarian Otto Klemperer has produced a Messiah that is spacious and well-ordered, yet moving and mysterious. He probes the emotional depths of Christ's story with perhaps more power than he uses to scale the jubilant heights. The Philharmonia...
BRUCKNER: FOURTH SYMPHONY (Angel). Otto Klemperer's approach to Bruckner's "Romantic" symphony is majestic but brisk, brassy and free of the tedious, otherworldly vapors that sometimes surround the innocent mystic's lengthy work. This is one of six recordings with London's Philharmonia Orchestra (including symphonies by Stravinsky, Dvorak and Mozart) that celebrate Klemperer's 80th birthday...
...orchestra's peak came during the late '50s, when it played as many as 340 recording sessions a year, earned international acclaim for its matchless recordings of Beethoven's symphonies under Conductor Herbert von Karajan. Ironically, the Philharmonia's subsequent financial troubles resulted in large measure from a musical heritage of which Londoners are justifiably proud. In all, the city boasts five first-rank orchestras, of which only one-the BBC Symphony-is financially secure. The once great Royal Philharmonic, which has skidded deeply into debt since Sir Thomas Beecham's death...
Unexploited Fame. The orchestras are clamoring for increased subsidies from city and national governments, which this season will give the London Symphony, the London Philharmonic and the New Philharmonia each a meager $72,000 v. the Berlin Philharmonic's annual subsidy of $1,400,000. Meanwhile, the three recipients have agreed to coordinate their schedules, thus avoiding the program overlapping and duplications that have hurt all of them...
Moreover, as the London Symphony discovered from a triumphal world tour last year, none of Britain's top orchestras have fully exploited their international fame. Last week, the New Philharmonia announced plans for a tour of Mexico and South America this summer, to be followed by a swing through Europe. Next year the orchestra that wouldn't die will make its first U.S. tour in a decade...