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Back from beyond, a blast of brilliant Tennstedt

Back from beyond, a blast of brilliant Tennstedt

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

Klaus Tennstedt fled East Germany in his mid-40s in 1971 and hung around for half a decade before anyone noticed he was a truly remarkable conductor – ‘last of the old Kapellmeisters,’ as Herbert von Karajan drily put it. After a breakthrough concert in Toronto, he guested around America’s Big Five orchestras while enduring a miserable job at Hamburg’s NDR orchestra. Apotheosis arrived in 1978 at the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom Tennstedt made his indelible legacy recordings. The extraordinary discoveries on these four discs come from his 1970s-in-waiting…

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