Udo Wachtveitl

Dass in Franz Schubert, der aus seiner Geburtsstadt Wien nie weit hinauskam, gleichwohl die Sehnsucht nach der Ferne schlummerte, zeigen etliche seiner Kompositionen, die das Wandern besingen, die Natur im Lauf der Jahreszeiten ausdeuten. Im Geiste...

HANDEL "THE POWER OF MUSIC" – BR-KLASSIK 3CD 900911Baroque splendour, triumphs and defeats shaped the life of George Frederick Handel. This audio biography tells the story of his astonishing career, from church organist to freelance opera...

VERDI "INVENT THE TRUTH" – BR-KLASSIK 3CD 900904Giuseppe Verdi, the son of an innkeeper from a poor village in the Po Valley, was a "self-made man". At the age of 26 he produced his first opera at La Scala in Milan, at 35 he became a landowner, and at...

MAHLER "WORLD AND DREAM” – BR-KLASSIK 4CD 900901In this audio biography, Gustav Mahler's life story is told against the backdrop of an age full of tension - colourful and polyphonic, faithful to the facts, and close to the sources.RENÉ DUMONT Gustav...

BEETHOVEN "FREEDOM ABOVE ALL ELSE" – BR-KLASSIK 4CD 900907Ludwig van Beethoven's life story is that of a radical individualist in uncertain times. The music – effective and profound, quirky and poetic, sensual and philosophical, and constantly in...

Wie war Mozart wirklich? War er „ein makelloser und unendlich guter Mensch“, wie sein Bewunderer Tschaikowsky glaubte? Oder hatte ihn "der dämonische Geist seines Genies in der Gewalt", wie Goethe raunte? Auch diese Hörbiographie wird das Rätsel...

TCHAIKOVSKY "THE WILL TO HAPPINESS" – BR-KLASSIK 4CD 900915Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, highly sensitive as well as homosexual, had a difficult life. He was willing to make the best of it, however, and left behind a multifaceted oeuvre. This audio...

SCHUMANN "THE INNER VOICE” – BR-KLASSIK 4CD 900916Robert Schumann's music reveals his eccentric, unstable and vulnerable character from childhood onwards, but also his sharp, highly developed mind and deep emotions. Schumann's "inner voice" is indeed...

Erstmals widmet sich die erfolgreiche Reihe der BR-KLASSIK-Hörbiografien einem Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts: Dmitri Schostakowitsch. Seine Symphonien sind nach wie vor Highlights im Konzertsaal, sein Schicksal inspiriert großartige Romane. Doch...

WAGNER "MAGIC FIRE, FIRE WORLD" – BR-KLASSIKThe story of Richard Wagner's life – with its adventures and affairs, splendour and misery, delusions and visions – is almost like a novel. This audio biography conveys it brilliantly from all the material...