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Big Boxes: Karajan’s Last Strauss Recordings

David Hurwitz

Artistic Quality:

  • 9

Sound Quality:

  • 8

Karajan was a masterful Strauss conductor, no question about it, […]

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Recording Details:

Reference Recording: Tone Poems and Concertos: Kempe (EMI)

  • STRAUSS, RICHARD:
    Also sprach Zarathustra; Don Juan; Oboe Concerto; Don Quixote; Till Eulenspiegel; Dance of the Seven Veils; Ein Heldenleben; Death and Transfiguration; An Alpine Symphony; Horn Concerto No. 2; Four Last Songs; Die heiligen drei Könige aus Morgenland; Moonlight Music and Closing Scene from Capriccio

    Soloists: Anna Tomowa-Sintow (soprano); Antonio Meneses (cello); Lothar Koch (oboe); Wolfram Christ (viola); Norbert Hauptmann (horn); Leon Spierer (violin)

  • Conductor: Karajan, Herbert von
  • Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic

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