Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 - Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 &

This album is a tribute to the great Romanian conductor Otto Ackermann (1909-1960) and includes live recordings from 1952 to 1956 with the Orchester der Tonhalle Zurich. In the Antonin Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor Op. 104 Otto Ackermann conducts the Orchestra with a special appearance by the famous French cellist Paul Tortelier (1914-1990). Otto Ackermann was born in Bucharest. He studied at the Berlin Hochschule, and went on to conduct the Royal Romanian Opera when he was only fifteen years old. Several of his recordings made with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Netherlands Philharmonic, and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra are still used today as reference recordings.