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This may be the best of Karajan’s recorded German Requiems, though that’s not saying much given that the others are nowhere near the competition. Choral
What a magnificent tribute to a great orchestra (and consistently underrated conductor) this two-disc set represents! A program consisting of two large orchestral works, one
Hearing Karajan’s work before the early-to-mid-’80s, when his navel-gazing self-indulgence, odd casting, and control-freakery decimated and distorted every opera he directed/conducted/engineered, is invariably a treat,
This delightful collection celebrates the Vienna Philharmonic and demonstrates how the persistence of tradition can triumph even over some very strong podium personalities. The tradition
Hey, it’s the New Year’s Concert, so what could be bad? The answer, of course, is “nothing”. Sure we could quibble about the various merits
This is a wonderful surprise. As one who found Karajan’s 1986 recording (DG) of this opera bloated and over-examined (though well sung and played), the
Summing up this performance in a nutshell (for the whole shebang, type Q7072 in Search Reviews), it gets better as it goes and closes with
Though it must have looked good on paper, this pairing of Rafael Kubelík and the Vienna Philharmonic in the music of Tchaikovsky yielded disappointing results.
Ferenc Fricsay’s star shone briefly–for a decade-and-a-half–after World War II, when he scored successes in Berlin and Salzburg and recorded for DG. However, this entry
Having seen Pierre Boulez’s very uncompelling live performance of this symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic, this broadly similar but in most respects vastly superior version
