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Karl Böhm’s view of Bruckner’s monumental Eighth Symphony is both personal and very persuasive, taking in a swift and exciting handling of the first two
Seven months prior to this April, 1977 live performance Karl Böhm recorded the Bruckner Seventh Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon. The differences
Karl Böhm was 82 when he made this recording of Don Juan, but you’d never know it. While not quite as fast as those by
This isn’t Karl Böhm’s well-known Schubert Ninth with the Berlin Philharmonic, but a live version broadcast by (then) East German radio in 1979. It’s similar
Götz Friedrich’s 1981 Elektra film sets Richard Strauss’ opera in a dark and dingy abandoned 20th-century factory populated by grungy denizens in psuedo-Greek garb. Elektra
This very generous Brahms collection has more complete works and less excerpts than some of the other titles in Deutsche Grammophon’s Panorama series. The program
The first thing you hear are the Third Symphony’s opening chords beautifully balanced, dramatically swelling. Then a glorious wall of sound fills your listening space,
This release brings us Karl Böhm’s acclaimed 1960s Mozart symphony recordings, newly packaged for this year’s celebrations of the composer’s 250th birthday. In terms of
Listeners familiar with the 1966 recording of this opera, also from Bayreuth and featuring three of the same main players–Nilsson, Windgassen, and Waechter–will have an
Birgit Nilsson’s timbre, as the late John Ardoin writes in the booklet notes, “was sunlight reflected off a copper surface.” That bright, gleaming tone could
