Legendary Conductors

Over the past forty years the Orfeo has established a first-class reputation both with critics and record collectors as a benchmark for excellent historic live recordings from Bayreuth, Munich, Salzburg and Vienna, as a label with the best credentials in the field of Romantic and late-Romantic Lieder and – last but not least – as an innovative fount of talent producing up-and-coming world stars. This playlist celebrates the label’s anniversary with outstanding recordings by legendary conductors such as Sir John Barbirolli, Karl Böhm, Sergiu Celibidache, Ferenc Fricsay, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Herbert von Karajan, Carlos Kleiber, Otto Klemperer, Hans Knappertsbusch, Dimitri Mitropoulos and Wolfgang Sawallisch.