Karajan & The Berliner Philharmoniker
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BEETHOVEN / HONEGGER / MAHLER / PROKOFIEV / SIBELIUS / etc
Karajan & The Berliner Philharmoniker
Gundula Janowitz, Walter Berry, etc / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Herbert von Karajan
[ Deutsche Grammophon Conductors & Orchestras / 8 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Tuesday 25 July 2017
"The performance is both grand and fiery, powerful and committed." - Records and Recording (on the Beethoven)
"An altogether marvellous CD. The playing of the Berlin strings in the wartime Second Symphony is superb, sumptuous in tone and refined in texture." Penguin Guide Rosette on the Honegger
"It is masterly, wonderfully paced and finely detailed. The Berlin Philharmonic has never sounded like this since the 1980s." Penguin Guide on the Mahler
"Karajan's 1968 Prokofiev Fifth is a great performance. Whenever one compares it with later versions inevitably the DG account holds its place at the top of the list." Gramophone on the Prokofiev
"The Berlin Philharmonic are on their finest form." Penguin Guide: Rosette Winner (on the Sibelius)
"The Berlin Philharmonic plays with great fervour (the timpani strokes at the very opening are quite riveting) and creates characteristic body of tone in the strings." (Penguin Guide on the Strauss)
Tracks:
Beethoven:
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Hilde Rössel-Majdan (mezzo), Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Walter Berry (bass), Wiener Singverein (chorus)
Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
Honegger:
Symphony No. 2 in D for strings and trumpet
Symphony No. 3, H186 'Liturgique'
Mahler:
Symphony No. 9
Prokofiev:
Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 'Classical'
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100
Sibelius:
Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82
Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104
Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22: The Swan of Tuonela (No. 2)
Strauss, R:
Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28
Don Juan, Op. 20
Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils
Stravinsky:
Concerto in D for string orchestra 'Basler'
plus:
OPERA INTERMEZZI Cilea; Giordano; Leoncavallo; Mascagni; Massenet
