FLAC tracks | Classical | 68:23 | 217 MbA quartet of Liszt tone-poem recordings, new to CD, plus a cherishablerecording of Wagner’s musical birthday card to his wife.

Karl Münchingerfounded the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra in 1946, and Decca began making records with them three years later.

The polish and vigourof his work in Baroque repertoire is comprehensively documented by a recent 8CD Eloquence box (4840160), but Münchinger’srepertoire was broader than might be assumed.

In addition to their sensitive and stylish interpretation of Haydn and Mozart brought together on another Eloquence box (4840170), the conductor and his Stuttgart ensemble took on Romantic repertoire such asthe Siegfried-Idyll of Wagner –a 1951 recording made in Geneva with Munich strings and the winds of the Orchestrede la Suisse Romande.

Tracklist:01. Prometheus, Symphonic Poem No.5, S.9902. Mephisto Waltz No.1, S. 110 No.2 :The Dance in the Village Inn: (after Lenau)03. Mazeppa, Symphonic Poem No.6, S.10004. Hamlet, Symphonic Poem No.10, S.10405. Siegfried Idyll