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Böhm; Karl

  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 8/Böhm

    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…

    David Hurwitz

  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 7/Böhm

    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…

    Victor Carr Jr

  • Böhm–Strauss, Mozart, Stravinsky

    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…

    David Hurwitz

  • Schubert: Symphony No. 9/Böhm/Dresden

    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…

    David Hurwitz

  • Strauss: Elektra/Böhm DVD

    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…

    Victor Carr Jr

  • Brahms Panorama

    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…

    Victor Carr Jr

  • Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4/Böhm

    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,…

    Victor Carr Jr

  • Mozart: Symphonies/Böhm

    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…

    Victor Carr Jr

  • Wagner: Tristan, Bayreuth ’62/Böhm

    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…

    Robert Levine

  • THE SINGERS: BIRGIT NILSSON

    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…

    Dan Davis

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