From the Notes by Mike Ashman "....1968, a year of political turmoil in the world, began for Klemperer with a recording of the Dresden version of Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer. After further London concerts (including Mahler's Ninth), he came to Vienna in May for a series of five Sunday morning programmes, ranging from Bach to Stravinsky, including two works (Bruckner's Fifth ad Petrushka) from his first-ever season with the orchestra [1933]. 'There was some wonderful music making, and the tapesof the concerts confirm the quality of our work together'...[from bassist and music historian, Alfred Planyavsky]" Klemperer always declared that the Vienna Philharmonic was his favourite orchestra. On the strength of these performances, most of them recorded on his last visit to the Austrian capital, the feeling seems to have been mutual. The Jupiter is a reading as fully integrated, alert and sensitively contoured as one could ever want with - as in the Bruckner - control of structure of the essence. The two Beethoven symphonies enjoy the same faithful and open recording and benefit from superb playing. Schubert's Unfinished receives...a searing interpretation, as is - in a lighter vein - the fully energised, impassioned Don Juan (amazing from an 83-year-old) in the same programme, again wonderfully recorded. (Gramophone)