The Karajan Legacy (recordings)

[sonic1]

Thanks for the input. Would you be so kind to recommend some conductors that you prefer over Karajan for Beethoven symphonies?

gladly!

Klemperer, Fricsay, Vanska, Bernstein and of course (maybe to be considered in his own category) Furtwangler. I prefer all these to Karajan for different reasons.

[PerfectWagnerite]

I won't push Boulez on you if you don't push Karajan on me...something like that.

Please, not Boulez, nobody deserves Boulez.

[sonic1]

Oh, and to second the enthusiasm of hornteacher, I really dig the Gardiner cycle too.

[Don]

Please, not Boulez, nobody deserves Boulez.

I deserve Boulez, and I have him.  Please send all sympathy letters to my mailing address.

[Drasko]

Does anyone know if this is live, concert recording (as that RTL sticker hints) or is à Paris just a title for a french selection?

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=166968

http://www.amazon.fr/Karajan-à-Paris-Maurice-Ravel/dp/B00005UOY8


    

[PSmith08]

Please, not Boulez, nobody deserves Boulez.

Boulez is the theory that the members of the musical intelligentsia know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. Pace Mencken, of course.

I'm just funning you, old spice, I like Boulez as a composer and (with some exceptions) conductor enormously.

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Karajan is known for...

a) having the same birth day (apr. 5.) like me.
b) having done a very good recording of Mahler#9 on Karajan Gold. And The Bruckner#7, his last recording from 1990.

[Anne]

Haydn's Creation anyone?

His recording of The Creation plus Rene Jacobs' recording of The Seasons converted me to Haydn.

[Todd]

And The Bruckner#7, his last recording from 1990.

That's amazing considering he died in 1989.

[mahlertitan]

That's amazing considering he died in 1989.

geez, Apr-89 i think

[M forever]

Does anyone know if this is live, concert recording (as that RTL sticker hints) or is à Paris just a title for a french selection?

Dunno. I would really doubt that, since he rarely ever had live recordings released, but I have no hard information about that. The karajan.org database does not list any of these, but it doesn't list any studio recordings of works by Chabrier with the BP either, so it could just be a live recording. OTOH, it doesn't list any live performances of Chabrier in Paris either, and it appears to me that the concert listing is more complete and reliable than the discography. So I would still guess it's not a live album, but the only way to find out for sure would be to get the CD.

[Drasko]

Interesting, we seem to have a small mystery on our hands then. I'll try to pick up that copy from amazon.fr and will let you know of the findings.

[Papageno]

I didn't like his Orfeo ed Euridice, I favoured Haenchen's production, with Kowalski.

(Edit) I somehow confused Karajan with Kuijken...

[uffeviking]

Papageno do you know that Haenchen is the conductor of the best Ring des Nibelungen DVD production available right now? The one from Amsterdam I am talking about - and yes, I know it has nothing to do with Herbert von Karajan and is off topic. 

[Papageno]

Papageno do you know that Haenchen is the conductor of the best Ring des Nibelungen DVD production available right now? The one from Amsterdam I am talking about - and yes, I know it has nothing to do with Herbert von Karajan and is off topic. 

Really?  I've been looking for a good production of Ring des Nibelungen for quite some time; I've got several productions including Solti, Karajan and Barenboim, the Haitink seems to be closest to perfection according to my taste.  I'll try and find the Haenchen production, thanks for your recommendation.

[rappy]

Karajan is the very important extreme in interpretation to me, nowadays, when every live performance ends up in a thin, short-phrased interpration. It's good to have the possibility to listen to the other extreme at least on CD: thick, powerful, intense, smooth legato-phrasing, coloured orchestral playing.

[Rabin_Fan]

Dunno. I would really doubt that, since he rarely ever had live recordings released, but I have no hard information about that. The karajan.org database does not list any of these, but it doesn't list any studio recordings of works by Chabrier with the BP either, so it could just be a live recording. OTOH, it doesn't list any live performances of Chabrier in Paris either, and it appears to me that the concert listing is more complete and reliable than the discography. So I would still guess it's not a live album, but the only way to find out for sure would be to get the CD.

It is not a live recorded CD but a 1970-80s studio performance. I have the CD. Any questions on it?

[Drasko]

It is not a live recorded CD but a 1970-80s studio performance. I have the CD. Any questions on it?

Not from me, my main question was is it live or not and you've resolved that. Thanks!

[Rabin_Fan]

Welcome Drasko. Are you buying the CD?

[Drasko]

Welcome Drasko. Are you buying the CD?

Probably not. If it was live then yes, I would go through some trouble (like ordering used from france) in order to hear it but since it's studio I will pick it up if I see it in store, nothing more. Think that recording of the Bolero is available on few more EMI releases ('great artists of the century' is one).