Symphony No. 9 in D Minor: Op. 125 ("Choral")

Schwarzkopf, Hongen, Hopf & EdelmannWilhelm FurtwanglerRecorded live at Bayreuth, 29th July 1951

Anton Dermota, Sieglinde Wagner, Ludwig Weber & Hilde GuedenVienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Erich Kleiber

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Elsa Cavelti (mezzo), Ernst Haeliger (tenor), Otto Edelmann (bass)Philharmonia Orchestra & Lucerne Festival Chorus...

Janine Micheau, Solange Michel, George Jouatte, Charles Cambon /Orchestre et Choeurs de L'O.R.T.F, Serge Kussevitski

Hjordis Schymberg (soprano), Lisa Tunell (contralto), Gosta Backelin (tenor), Sigurd Bjorling (bass)Stockholm Philharmonic, Wilhelm Furtwangler

Rizzoli, Hoeffgen, Munteanu & NeaguSergiu Celibidache conducts the RAI orchestra in a performance recorded live 18th March 1958

Teresa Stich Randall, Gertrude Pitzinger, Karl Friedrich, Gottlob Frick /Chor und Sinfonieorchester des Hessischen Rundfunks, Karl Bohm /Recorded 1...

Schiller’s Ode to Joy although pre dating the French Revolution, was the nearest a German artist had come to espousing the same lofty ideas of equa...