The Music, The Legend. A Centennial Celebration
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Composer: Johann Sebastian BachComposer: Johannes Brahms
Composer: Franz Liszt
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
Performer: Christian Ferras
Performer: Michel Schwalbe
Edition: Music CD
Format: Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition, Special Edition
CD Release Date: 2008-01-08
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Hungarian Rhapsody No.5 in E minor, S.244 Hero?de-El?giaque
- Vivace
- Largo ma non tanto
- Allegro
- Allegro non troppo
- Andante moderato
- Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto - Tempo I
- Allegro energico e passionato - Pi? allegro
- Introduction [Stereo]
- "Recitar!" - "Vesti la giubba" [Stereo]
- Overture [Stereo]
- Halt, du Gieriger! ... Rheingold! Rheingold!
- Chor: "Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, Herr Zebaoth!" [Stereo]
- Scherzo. Pizzicato ostinato - Allegro [Stereo]
- Allegro scherzando [Stereo]
- Opening Credits / Beethoven: Symphony No.5 / Karajan
- Allegro con brio [PCM Stereo]
- Andante con moto [PCM Stereo]
- Allegro [PCM Stereo]
- Allegro [PCM Stereo]
- Introduction [Surround Sound]
- "Recitar!" - "Vesti la giubba" [Surround Sound]
- Overture [Surround Sound]
- Halt, du Gieriger! ... Rheingold! Rheingold! [Surround Sound]
- Chor: "Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, Herr Zebaoth!" [Surround Sound]
- Scherzo. Pizzicato ostinato - Allegro [Surround Sound]
- Allegro scherzando [Surround Sound]
- Opening Credits / Beethoven: Symphony No.5 / Karajan
- Allegro con brio [Surround Sound]
- Andante con moto [Surround Sound]
- Allegro [Surround Sound]
- Allegro [Surround Sound]
Free Music Notes for The Music, The Legend. A Centennial Celebration
Free Music Review: You don't have to accept the devotion -- here is a great Brahms 4th
Hit: 5 Stars
This elaborate memorial package for the Karajan centenary is stuffed with devotional material, including a fat hard-cover book that promotes the famous conductor and his extensive DG catalog. For many, the unsavory aspects of Karajan's pre-war past still overshadow any attempt to lionize him. But if you bypass all that, we are given some fine and often unusual material, all of it remastered in best sound.
Liszt Hugarian Rhapsody #5 - 1960
Bach Double Concerto - 1968
Brahms Sym. #4 - 1963
(DVD) Beethoven Sym. #5 - 1972
The bonus DVD features mostly rehearsals, conducted in German, with the complete Beethoven Fifth at the end. It's a triumphal Fifth, a reminder of Karajan's lifelong dedication to the composer. These early Unitel producitons are generally considered the best of his video output.
When all is said and done, for me the Bach concerto is overblown and out-dated, the Liszt is elegant and subdued, and the Brahms Fourth winds up being the main attraction. DG owns so much Brahms from Karajan -- three complete symphony cycles -- that the company has been chary about releasing this early analog recording, offering it only sporadically on CD in sketchy sound. Now we have it in wonderful sound, and with some searching you can add the three other symphonies from the Sixties cycle, also remastered.
To the end of his career, accusations of over-refinement and glossiness never applied to Karajan's Brahms. He was the greatest Brahmsian of his generation and second only to Furtwangler overall. All his artistry comes out in this forceful, uplifiting Fourth, which may not be as tragic or rough-hewn as some would want but is nevertheless splendid.
P.S. -- I noticed after writing this review that the remzstered Brahms Fourth can be had on its own in a mid-price release, at this point only available in the UK and Europe but readily purchased online.
The Music, The Legend. A Centennial Celebration Poster
As part of the centennial celebration of Karajan Deutsche Grammophon presents a special limited 2-Disc set (CD+DVD) in a 100-page deluxe hard CD-format booklet. Featuring first-time-on-CD tracks--Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 5 and the Bach Double Violin Concerto well as the 1964 recording of Brahms's Fourth. The DVD will contain highlights from Maestro Karajan's career including opera scenes and excerpts from works as well as a complete performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Hard cover book includes a selected discography many rare photographs. Herbert von Karajan was born April 5, 1908. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 5 in E minor First time on CD Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings and Continuo in D minor, BWV 1043 with Christian Ferras & Michel Schwalb?, violins First time on CD Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, op. 98 First time on CDClassical Music CDs
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