Liszt: Orchestral Works / Karajan
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1998-07-14
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- No.5 in E minor
- No.2 in C sharp minor
- No.4 in E flat major
Music reviews of Liszt: Orchestral Works / Karajan
Music Review: Nice Liszt Collection With One True Gem
Rating: 4 Stars
This "2CD" DG collection of the Orchestral Works of Franz Liszt is quite enjoyable, if not essential. I personally prefer larger, more comprehensive sets of Liszt's Tone Poems, and other pieces for Orchestra, by conductors Haitink and Masur (see my review of the new EMI boxed-set of the latter). However, Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic offer the best selection of the pianist/composer's works aside from his Concertos on this set. Three of these exact same performances ("Les Preludes," "Mazeppa" and "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 4") also appear on a mid-line DG "Originals" title, but this is the set to get if you want Karajan performing Liszt. On this two-fer you get eight selections to only three on the aforementioned mid-priced single disc. And if you were thinking about his later digital remakes instead, these glorious stereo accounts from the 1960s and 70s exceed them by far (earlier is generally better with Karajan in my opinion). But for me the star of this set is not Herbie but pianist Shura Cherkassky, one of the last great "romantic" pianists. An enormously popular figure at the dawn of the LP era, Cherkassky has slipped into obscurity half a century later. To the best of my knowledge, his only other vintage title currently available is a DG "Originals" disc coupling his late mono performances of the 1st & 2nd Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos (see my review). His 1961 stereo performance of "Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Melodies" captured here is worth the price of this set alone.
General CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( L ) > Liszt, Franz
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( B ) > Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Forms & Genres > Concertos > General
- Symphonies > Romantic
- Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music > Tone Poems
- Historical Periods > Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > General Modern
- Romantic (c.1820-1910) > General
- Instruments > Keyboard > Piano
- Symphonies > General
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