Several of the recordings on this disc date from 1960, when Otto Klemperer celebrated his 75th birthday and Wieland Wagner, the composer's grandson, salutated the conductor as "a unique artistic phenomenon". Klempere's mastery of Wagner's music was rooted in the early years of his career: by the age of 30 he had conducted performances of Lohengrin, Der fliegende Hollander, Tannhauser, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Parsifal and Tristan und Isolde.
Disc 1
01 Rienzi - Overture - Otto Klemperer/Philharmonia Orchestra
04 Lohengrin - Prelude Act 1 - Otto Klemperer/Philharmonia Orchestra
05 Lohengrin - Prelude Act III - Otto Klemperer/Philharmonia Orchestra
07 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Dance of the Apprenticess & Entry of the Masters (Act III) - Otto Klemperer/Philharmonia Orchestra
08 Parsifal - Prelude - Otto Klemperer/Philharmonia Orchestra
Disc 2
02 Das Rheingold - Entry of the Gods into Valhalla - Otto Klemperer/Philharmonia Orchestra
04 Siegfried Idyll - Otto Klemperer/Philharmonia Orchestra
05 Siegfried - Forest Murmurs - Otto Klemperer/Philharmonia Orchestra
08 Tristan und Isolde - Prelude and Liebstod - Otto Klemperer/Philharmonia Orchestra
