Otto Klemperer was a German-born conductor, one of the monumental conducting figures of the twentieth century. He was admired for structural power, severity, breadth and extraordinary long-range musical vision.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears extensively in Mahler, Bach, Beethoven, Bruckner, Brahms and other repertory, including major Concertgebouw, New York, Budapest and Philharmonia-related recordings.

Klemperer’s conducting could be granite-like, sardonic and immense, with a sense that music was being rebuilt from its foundations rather than merely performed.

His page is essential. Klemperer gives the conductor shelf a mountain with spectacles and a baton.