Beecham: The Great Conductors [CD de audio] Wilhelm Furtw舅gler, Herbert Von Karajan, Ernest Ansermet, John Barbirolli, Thomas

A remarkable 30-CD collection brings together 30 world-class conductors representing the best of the best, including Herbert von Karajan, Arturo Toscanini, Otto Klemperer, Pierre Monteux, Eugene Ormandy, Bruno Walter, Sir Thomas Beecham, Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski, Sir Georg Solti and George Szell. In classical music, the 20th century was the era of the conductor. Before that, enthusiastically received soloists dominated the scene, and only after World War II did stage directors begin to attract attention, at least in the opera world. However, charismatic conductors were at the helm of orchestras, which they themselves had molded into internationally renowned ensembles. Furtwängler in Berlin, Ormandy in Philadelphia, Reiner in Chicago, Mitropoulos in New York, Mravinsky in Leningrad, Münch in Boston, Ansermet in Geneva, Barbirolli in Manchester and Toscanini with his NBC Symphony Orchestra are some of the famous associations of this edition special. The Vienna Philharmonic can be heard under Clemens Krauss, Rafael Kubelik, Erich Kleiber, Erich Leinsdorf, Lorin Maazel, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Wilhelm Furtwängler, and the latter is also one of the three conductors, the others being Karl Böhm and Rudolf Kempe, a charge of the Berlin Philharmonic. The diverse repertoire also paints a vivid picture of concert life in Europa and the US during this period, mainly the 1950s and 60s, which has never before been available in a collection like this.