Karajan: Legendary Decca Recordings

Karajan: Legendary Decca Recordings

Karajan: Legendary Decca Recordings
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Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2008-03-11
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Un poco sostenuto -- Allegro
  2. Andante sostenuto
  3. Un poco allegretto e grazioso
  4. Adagio -- Allegro non troppo, ma con brio
  5. Adagio -- Allegro con spirito
  6. Andante più tosto allegretto
  7. Menuetto
  8. Finale: Allegro con spirito
Music CD 2
  1. Adagio -- Allegro
  2. Andante
  3. Menuetto: Allegretto
  4. Finale: Spiritoso
  5. Tragic Overture, op.81
  6. Allegro con brio
  7. Andante
  8. Poco allegretto
  9. Allegro
Music CD 3
  1. Molto allegro
  2. Andante
  3. Menuetto: Allegretto
  4. Allegro assai
  5. Allegro vivace
  6. Andante cantabile
  7. Menuetto
  8. Finale: Molto allegro
  9. Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture
Music CD 4
  1. Poco sostenuto -- Vivace
  2. Allegretto
  3. Presto -- Assai meno presto
  4. Allegro con brio
  5. Allegro con brio
  6. Adagio
  7. Scherzo: Allegretto grazioso
  8. Allegro ma non troppo
Music CD 5
  1. Scene
  2. Waltz
  3. Dance of the little Swans
  4. Scene and Second Dance of the Queen of the Swans
  5. Czárdás
  6. Finale
  7. Miniature Overture
  8. March
  9. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
  10. Trepak
  11. Arab Dance
  12. Chinese Dance
  13. Dance of the Reed Pipes
  14. Waltz of the Flowers
  15. Introduction and Lilac Fairy
  16. Pas d'action (Adagio)
  17. Pas de caractère
  18. Panorama
  19. Waltz
Music CD 6
  1. Introduction
  2. Les Vendangeurs
  3. Entrée du Prince
  4. Loys seul et entrée de Giselle -- Scène d'amour
  5. Retour des Vendangeurs -- Valse
  6. Pas de deux
  7. La Chasse
  8. Marche des Vignerons
  9. Variation de Giselle
  10. Galop général
  11. Final
  12. Apparition et scène de Myrthe
  13. Apparition de Giselle
  14. Entrée de Loys -- Pas de deux
  15. Scène de Wilis
  16. Grand pas de deux -- Scène d'amour
  17. Variation de Loys
  18. Variation de Giselle
  19. Final
Music CD 7
  1. Morning
  2. The Death of Ase
  3. Anitra's Dance
  4. In the Hall of the Mountain King
  5. Ingrid's Lament
  6. Solveig's Song
  7. Mars, the Bringer of War
  8. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
  9. Mercury, the Winged Messenger
  10. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
  11. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age
  12. Uranus, the Magician
  13. Neptune, the Mystic
Music CD 8
  1. Die Fledermaus -- Ouvertüre
  2. Die Fledermaus -- Ballettmusik
  3. Annen-Polka
  4. Delirien-Walzer
  5. Der Zigeunerbaron -- Ouvertüre
  6. Auf der Jagd -- Polka
  7. Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald -- Walzer
  8. Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op.28
  9. Tanz der sieben Schleier (Salome)
Music CD 9
  1. Don Juan, op.20
  2. Tod und Verklärung, op.24
  3. Einleitung
  4. Von den Hinterweltlern
  5. Von der groÃ?en Sehnsucht
  6. Von den Freuden- und Leidenschaften
  7. Das Grablied
  8. Von der Wissenschaft
  9. Der Genesende
  10. Das Tanzlied
  11. Nachtwandlerlied

Music reviews of Karajan: Legendary Decca Recordings

Music Review: A treasury of Karajan and the Vienna Phil. 1959-65
Rating: 5 Stars

Decca has kept Karajan's opera recordings in print but been very sketchy wth his orchestral work for their label. Compared with his hundreds of releases for EMI and DG, Karajan made about a dozen hours of symphonic recordings for Decca in a brief span between 1959 and 1965, but they are special because all feature the Vienna Phil. This was Karajan's second orchestra, as it was for Furtwangler before him. But that's not to imply that there was lack of affinity between conductor and musicians: Karajan was an Austrian, after all, and to my mind the stylistic match is perfect. The delicious string tone in the Dvorak 8th, for example, could only be Viennese, and Karajan is isnpired to give a warm, flexible reading -- his best on disc. There are drawbacks, however, as in a Brahms First that seems mushy and mannered, a surprise from this master Brahmsian.

These 9 CDs are offered at super-budget price (cheaper than Naxos!), and each deserves five stars, with the possible exception of the Haydn "Drumroll" and "London" symphonies, which sound overblown and outdated, however elegant Karajan's touch may be. For many the high point will be the Strauss recordings, both Johann and Richard. This famous Zarathustra still sounds magnificent, but so do Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel, and the Johann Strauss items. Almost without exception these readings are warmer than those from Berlin, and Karajan's tendency toward glossy surfaces at the expense of meaning is not in evidence. As one would expect from Decca, the sonics are excellent, and I'm glad that the producers didn't scrub out so much tape hiss that the treble was compromised. Strangely, there's no indication of any remastering, even though at least half these performances have previously appeared -- or currently appear -- in updated versions.

The complete listing of works is as follows:

Brahms:
Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.68
Symphony No.3 in F major, Op.90
Tragic Overture, Op.81

Haydn:
Symphony No.103 in E flat major, "Drumroll"
Symphony No.104 in D major, "London"

Mozart:
Symphony No.40 in G minor, K550
Symphony No.41 in C major, K551 "Jupiter"

Tchaikovsky:
Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture
Suite from "Swan Lake"
Suite from "The Nutcracker"
Suite from "Sleeping Beauty"

Beethoven:
Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92

Dvorak:
Symphony No.8 in G major, Op.88

Adam:
"Giselle"

Grieg: Excerpts from "Peer Gynt" Op.23

Holst:
The Planets, Op.32

J. Strauss II:
Excerpts from Die Fledermaus
Annen-Polka
Overture (Der Zigeunerbaron)
Auf der Jagd - Polka
Tales from the Vienna Woods

Jospeh Strauss:
Delirien-Walzer

R. Strauss:
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op.28
Salome - Dance of the Seven Veils
Don Juan, Op.20
Tod und Verklärung, Op.24
Also sprach Zarathustra, Op.30

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Description of Karajan: Legendary Decca Recordings

April 5, 2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Herbert von Karajan, the legendary Austrian-born conductor who achieved a position of musical supremacy as director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra that made him one of the most famous and celebrated conductors of the second half of the twentieth century. While the majority of his symphonic recordings were made for Deutsche Grammophon, von Karajan also recorded for Decca during the 1950s and 1960s. This set is reissued to mark this momentous anniversary and contains all of his orchestral recordings made with the Vienna Philharmonic for Decca during the late 1950s/early 1960s. One of the most celebrated of these is Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra--a recording heard by countless people around the globe as the opening was used on the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Karajan's other Decca recordings include some of the finest studio recordings of a number of operas, recordings which have remained an integral part of the Decca catalogue since they were first released during the 1960s/ 1970s. These include: Tosca (Leontyne Price); Die Fledermaus (Gueden/Wächter)--which has the celebrated "gala sequence" in Act 2; Aida (Tebaldi/Simionato/Bergonzi); Otello (Del Monaco/Tebaldi); La Bohème (Pavarotti/Freni); and Madama Butterfly (Pavarotti/Freni).

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