Conductor Herbert von Karajan. Photograph: Decca/Siegfried Lauterwasser
Herbert von Karajan is considered one of many biggest conductors of all time. He was the principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 35 years, and beneath Karajan, the orchestra developed its very personal efficiency tradition characterised by fantastic thing about sound, virtuosity, and perfection. Karajan turned the Berlin Philharmonic into maybe essentially the most impressive-sounding orchestra ever. He aimed to merge one of the best qualities of his idols, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Arturo Toscanini, significantly their precision and elasticity, into his personal model. Karajan as soon as concurrently held six of the world’s most prestigious musical posts, together with creative director of the Vienna State Opera and conductor for lifetime of the Berlin Philharmonic. He’s the biggest-selling classical artist in recorded music historical past and has bought over 200 million information. Karajan’s legendary discography incorporates among the most valued interpretations of the repertoire out there.
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (4776325)
Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Agnes Baltsa, Peter Schreier, José van Dam, Wiener Singverein
Many take into account Karajan’s 1976 rendition of Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 (Choral) his greatest recording of the symphony. The recording is fastidiously engineered and listeners who like Karajan’s pushed but hyper-meticulous model and ruthless consideration to element will discover all they need on this recording.
“In the finale, the concluding eruption has an animal excitement rarely heard from this highly controlled conductor …” – The Penguin Stereo Document Information.
Richard Strauss: Additionally Sprach Zarathustra (4795084)
Herbert von Karajan and Berliner Philharmoniker
“Like many Austrian and German musicians of his time, Karajan was deeply influenced by Strauss. He was fascinated by his genius as a conductor (so calm, so logical, so rhythmically astute) and inspired by Strauss’s music … No one has played Also Sprach Zarathustra with more lustrous sound – with more range and weight of tone – than Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic,” remarks Richard Osborne in his liner notes.
Puccini: La Bohème (4210492)
Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Freni, Pavarotti
Karajan is a superb Puccini conductor who can linger over the beauties of the orchestration including to the depth of the drama. Orchestration particulars which can be often misplaced are clearly audible right here, usually to revelatory impact. Pavarotti is at his most interesting on this recording of La Bohème and Gramophone journal mentioned, “Pavarotti’s Rodolfo is perhaps the best thing he ever did.” The recording is outstanding and the sound is exemplary.
Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen
Herbert von Karajan and Berliner Philharmoniker
For his monumental Ring cycle Karajan assembled a world-class solid of singers who had been capable of convey his imaginative and prescient – lyrical and with a transparent and vivid declamation of the textual content. Karajan’s Ring cycle is kind of distinct from others: a extra otherworldly method involved with magnificence, lyricism and construction.
“The artistic result is extraordinary (with a wonderful BPO and Karajan on the very top level) – but what strikes me even more is the wonderful sound quality of these recordings,” – Gramophone journal.
Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (4497432)
Herbert von Karajan and Berliner Philharmoniker
“Karajan brings Mendelssohn’s impressed sound image dramatically to life with very good orchestral enjoying, sympathetic characterization, and a complicated management of the right construction, “ observes Ivan March in his liner notes.
“… splendid performances, performances in which the greatness of this music is never in doubt …” – Gramophone journal.
Mozart: Requiem (4390232)
Herbert von Karajan, Wiener Philharmoniker, Anna Tomowa-Sintow & Helga Müller-Molinari & Vinson Cole & Paata Burchuladze & Wiener Singverein
Karajan’s early recordings of Mozart’s Requiem had been made with the Berlin Philhamoniker however this 1986 recording was made with the Wiener Philharmoniker. Their interpretation virtually rivals performances of Verdi‘s Requiem for operatic flair and their romantic and magisterial view of Mozart’s Requiem is an emotional expertise from starting to finish. Some could regard this interpretation as excessively operatic in model whereas others will discover it very shifting.
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (4636132)
Herbert von Karajan and Berliner Philharmoniker
“Karajan’s is undoubtedly the finest currently available version of the Fifth. It is admirably unaffected, beautifully played, with the Berlin Philharmoniker at the height of its form, and the DGG engineers at their best. The recording is a model, allowing all the subtleties of the orchestral colouring to register without any distortion of perspective. It has splendid range and fidelity …” – The Penguin Stereo Document Information
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 (4775909)
Herbert von Karajan and Berliner Philharmoniker
“The composer whose music best summed up for Herbert von Karajan the human dimension of the tragic century into which he was born was Dmitri Shostakovich, the man he would like to have been, Karajan once said, if he had been a composer. Among the works Karajan particularly admired were the Eighth Symphony and the Tenth, of which he was one of the great interpreters,” observes Richard Osborne in his liner notes.
“Karajan pursues the climaxes more relentlessly than his rivals, screws more intensity out of the jagged outlines; for those reasons his account has the greatest impact.” – Monetary Occasions
Mendelssohn/Bruch: Violin Concertos (4636412)
Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmonic, Anne-Sophie Mutter
“Through patient rehearsals and a considerable capacity for understanding, Karajan was instrumental in coaxing from Anne-Sophie Mutter a performance that was not only technically perfect in a way that was demanded by the age of the gramophone but that also sounded entirely natural. It was to Karajan that she owed her early international reputation …” remarks Franzpeter Messmer in his liner notes.
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (4794668)
Herbert von Karajan and Berliner Philharmoniker
“… in the unprecedented virtuosity of their realization of the Fifth Symphony- its refinement and intoxication, as well as its terrors and agonizing portents of a new age – the aesthete Karajan and his orchestra have made a striking contribution to the history of Mahler interpretation. For Karajan it was a protracted quest, for the listener it is a belated discovery,” observes Peter Fuhrmann in his liner notes.
