Tahra Recordings are an historical series of once-unavailable recordings edited by the late conductor Hermann Scherchen's daughter, Dr. Myriam Scherchen. Also included are previously unreleased or long unavailable recordings by other conductors. Manufactured in France, they are distributed to the retail trade in the U.S.A. by Music & Arts Programs of America, and are available to individual mail order customers worldwide.

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HERMANN ABENDROTH - BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 4 (rehearsal), London S.O. (27 March 1927); MOZART: Serenade No. 6 & VIVALDI: Concerto Grosso No. 6 & HANDEL: Concerti Grosso No. 5 & 10, Cologne Chamber Orch. (14 Jan. 1933); BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5, Berlin Philhamonic (Feb. 1940) & Symphony No. 4 (adagio), Leipzig Radio Orch. (1949); BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1, Berlin Philharmonic (3,4,29 July 1941)

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HERMANN SCHERCHEN - MUSIC INSPIRED BY LITERATURE. SCHUMANN: Manfred, Op. 115, narrators Otto Mellies & Ingeborg Ottman (28 Sept. 1960); BEETHOVEN: Prometheus, narr. Inge Keller (rec. 29 Sept. 1960); MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer's Night's Dream, Op. 21 & 61, narr. Sigrid Hausmann (26 Nov. 1960); GRIEG: Peer Gynt, Op. 23, narr. Karl Paryla (1 Dec. 1960); BEETHOVEN: Egmont, Op. 84, narr. Karl Payla, soloist Rosemarie Roenisch (25 Nov. 1960) & BIZET: L'Arlesienne, Op. 23, narr. Helmut Mueller-Lankow (30 Nov. 1960). All with Leipzig Radio S.O.

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HERMANN SCHERCHEN - TCHAIKOVSKY & WAGNER. TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, Philharmony of Herford (1960) & WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll, orchestra unknown.

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HERMANN SCHERCHEN - MOZART. Les Petit Riens, Concerto for Flute & Harp, K299 & Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Municipal Orchestra Winterthur, "Studio-Orchestra" of Radio Beromünster and Vienna Staatsoper Orchestra. Soloists: Emmy Hürlimann & Willy Urfer.

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SCHERCHEN CONDUCTS MAHLER: Symphony No. 8 Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Elsa Maria Matheis, Daniza Hitsch, Rosette Anolay, Georgine Milinkovic, Erich Majkut, Otto Wiener, George Oeggl (13 June 1951).

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KAREL ANCERL MOZART: Serenade No. 13; MENDELSSOHN: Symphony 5; SCHUMANN: Symphony 4; BEETHOVEN: Symphonies 6 and 8; and SMETANA: Moldau (rehearsal and performance); Toronto Symphony Orchestra, 1968-72.

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KAREL ANCERL HAYDN: Symphony 92; FRANCK: Symphony in d; DVORAK: Symphony 8; PROKOFIEV: Classical Symphony; and 1968 interview with Ancerl; Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam.

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HERMANN SCHERCHEN CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN Symphonies 1 and 2, Ruins of Athens, Consecration of the House and rehearsals of Symphonies 4 & 8 (1965); The Great Fugue (1962, Swiss Italian Radio Television Orchestra); Egmont Overture (RSO Leipzig, November 25, 1960); Wellington's Victory (rehearsal and performance; Wellington w/Süddeutschen Rundfunks Stuttgart, September 7, 1962) and "An die Hoffnung" (Mary Simmons, soprano w/Toronto Symphony Orchestra, December 8-11, 1965).

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THE ART OF KNAPPERTSBUSCH. Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Piano Concertos 3 & 5; BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 3; WAGNER excerpts; Hamburg Symphony.

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KAREL ANCERL - DVORAK Piano Concerto (w/F. Maxian) and Symphony 7 -- Hessischen Rundfunks Orchester; Violin Concerto (w/M. Rostropovich) -- with the Toronto Symphony; and Slavonic Dances, op.72, with the Czech Philharmonic.

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HERMANN ABENDROTH - R.STRAUSS Don Juan (February 11, 1952); Death and Transfiguration (October 24, 1949); and Till Eulenspiegel lustige Streiche (November 14, 1950); the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig.

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PORTRAIT INEDIT OF HERMANN ABENDROTH, V. 1 - GLUCK: Iphigénie en Aulide; HAYDN: Symphony 103; MOZART: Symphony 39; WEBER: Oberon; MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides and Midsummer Night's Dream; and SCHUBERT: Symphony 9; with the Berlin Philharmonic, Radio Symphonies of Leipzig, and Berlin and Bavarian State Orchestra.

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PORTRAIT INEDIT OF HERMANN ABENDROTH, V. 2 - SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 1; BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1; KALLINIKOV: Symphony No. 1; and four waltzes by JOHANN STRAUSS; Radio Symphonies of Leipzig and Berlin and the Bavarian State Orchestra.

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HERMANN SCHERCHEN - BERLIOZ: Les Troyens à Carthage. Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Paris (1952).

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HERMANN SCHERCHEN - MOZART Symphonies 40 and 41, and Concerto for flute and harp, with Lily Laskine and Roger Bourdin; Orchestra of the Théâtre des Champs Elysées (Paris, 1953).

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PIERRE MONTEUX IN AMSTERDAM. From the archives of VARA and NCRV, previously unissued recordings of Pierre Monteux conducting The Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam.
CD No. 1: SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto with Jan Damen, violin (1 Nov. 1950); STRAVINSKY: Petrouchka (30 Oct. 1960).
CD No. 2: BRAHMS: Violin Concerto, Nathan Milstein, violin (12 Oct. 1950); Symphony No. 3, Op. 90 (30 Oct. 1960).
CD No. 3: BRAHMS: Tragic Overture (14 May 1962); Symphony No.1, Op. 68 (20 Nov. 1963).
CD No. 4: BERLIOZ: Symphonie Fantastique (20 May 1948); Interview with Doris & Pierre Monteux by the CBS in London (May 1963).

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THE ART OF WALTER GIESEKING - VOL. 1. GRIEG: Piano Concerto Op. 16; SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto OP. 54. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert Heger conductor. July 1944.

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PETER ANDERS: BEETHOVEN: An die ferne Geliebt, Op. 98; SCHUBERT: Die Winterreise, D911; SCHUBERT: Erwartunh, D159. Michael Raucheisen - piano. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler - conductor.


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KNAPPERTSBUSCH CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN AND BRAHMS.
Hans Knappertsbusch conducts Beethoven 2nd Symphony and Brahms 4th Symphony with the Bremen Philharmonic (rec. 12 Dec. 1952).

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EUGEN JOCHUM CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN: WWII BROADCASTS.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 with the Berlin Pharmonic (12 Jan. 1945) & Symphony No. 6 with the Hamburg State Orchestra (9/10 June 1943).

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HOMAGE TO EUGEN JOCHUM.
MOZART: Piano Concerto in d, K466 w/ Rudolf Buchbinder; MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto w/ Salvatore Accardo; WEBER: Oberon Overt.; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3; REGER: Serenade Op. 95 & HINDEMITH: Mathis der Maler. All w/ Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (1976-1980), plus Jochum's spoken reminiscences.

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KNAPPERTSBUSCH IN DRESDEN. HAYDN: Symphony No. 88 (28 November 1959); BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2 (27 November 1959); BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3 (4 November 1956); STRAUSS: Death and Transfuguration (28 November 1959). Dresden Staatskapelle.

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KNAPPERTSBUSCH: RRG RECORDINGS 1940-1941. NIKOLAI: Merry Wives of Windsor; LISZT: Les Preludes. Both works recorded live on 4 January 1941. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; WAGNER: Siegfried's Rhine Journey. Vienna Philharmonic recorded live on 12 May 1940; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7. Berlin State Opera Orchestra, 1933.

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WILHELM FURTWÄNGLER BEETHOVEN: Symphony 1, Leonora 3 and Cavatina from String Quartet 13, op.130; BRAHMS: Symphony 1 and HAYDN: Variations on a Theme; Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic and Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam.

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NEW FURTWÄNGLER DISCOVERIES. HANDEL: Concerto Op. 65 No. 5 & BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5 (both w/BPO. Sept. 1939); SCHUBERT: Rosamunde: Entracte No. 3 & MOZART: Symphony No. 40, K550 (both w/VPO, June 1944); RAVEL: Valses nobles (rehearsal w/BPO, April 1953), plus 2 interviews w/Furtwängler, 1953.   All previously unissued!

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FURTWÄNGLER IN TURIN. WEBER: Euryanthe Overture; BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3; R. STRAUSS: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks; WAGNER: Prelude and Isolde's Death. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 14 May 1954.

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TRIBUTE TO KAREL ANCERL AND THE CZECH PHILHARMONIC - Recordings from 1956-1967 [* denotes a work not recorded commercially by Ancerl]: MOZART: Symphony No. 38*; BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1; SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 1* and Pohjola's Daughter*; MARTINU: Symphony No. 6; DVORAK: New World Symphony and Symphonic Variations*; SMETANA: Ma Vlast (complete); RAVEL: Bolero*; MAHLER: Kindertotenlieder*, with Vera Soukupova; JANACEK: Taras Bulba; PROKOFIEV: Suite from Romeo and Juliet. The set contains a single compact disc of Ancerl reminiscing (in English) about his life and includes excerpts of unpublished recordings that will be released in the future (e.g., Beethoven's Missa Solemnis).     Special Price:  7 CDs for the price of 4

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