Karajan 100th - Volume 2, Opera and Vocals
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Performer: Erich KunzPerformer: Boris Christoff
Performer: Hans Hotter
Performer: Heinz Rehfuss
Performer: Jos? van Dam
Performer: Nicola Zaccaria [singer]
Performer: Walter Berry
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Composer: Claude Debussy
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Composer: Charles Gounod
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck
Composer: Ruggero Leoncavallo
Composer: Pietro Mascagni
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer: Modest Mussorgsky
Composer: Jacques Offenbach
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2008-04-15
Music Label: EMI Classics
Free Music Notes for Karajan 100th - Volume 2, Opera and Vocals
Free Music Review: A big black box.
Hit: 5 Stars
This really is an extraordinary bargain. When you look at the merits of these recordings it is also an extraordinary achievement. The standard and inspiration maintained across 23 complete opera recordings is phenomenal. Many of these recordings are constantly referred to by experts, collectors and performers as contenders for best recordings, as classics or incredible artistic achievments (Rosenkavalier, Ariadne, Butterfly, Callas Trovatore, the first Meistersinger, Falstaff). Others may be slightly less worshipped but are considered excellent recordings ( the best, or close to by many including the Penguin guide)and are liked for their indiviual approach or interesting choice of singers (Aida, Don Carlo, Tristan, Figaro, Flute, Pelleas, Salome, Fledermaus, Hansel und Gretel etc).
There is only one real stinker ( the second Trovatore), and some of the choral recordings (however there are fascinating early Brahms and Bach recordings) and operas are not his best (only one or two though)but there are always fine moments, interesting approaches and amazing singers.
As for singers........it includes some of the finest; more of the most famous singers from the postwar 40 years that you can poke a stick at. I am looking foward to poking my stick at the recordings I do not know and finding more treasures, especially from the earlier recordings.
Karajan is criticised for being too controlling and for creating a sound that was too homogenous. One never gets a sense of this in his opera recordings where he chose a wide variety of singers and obviouslly revelled in the excitement they could bring to his music.
The presentation as mentioned in other reviews is not the best and the lack of information on the back of the sleeves is cheap...but then so is the box. Just buy it.
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