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Herbert von Karajan - His Legacy for Home Video: The New Year's Concert 1987 |
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Herbert von Karajan - His Legacy for Home Video: The New Year's Concert 1987
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by Sony
Sales Rank: 27150
Price: $13.49
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What is marvellous about this DVD is not only that one can listen to the most authoritative interpretation of some of the Strauss family's best waltzes and polkas but one can see Karajan, towards the end of his life, conduct one of his favourite orchestras in a concert that by his own admission rejuvenated his musical life (cf. the wonderful performances of Bruckner that he went on to make with the VPO after this concert). It shows him relaxed, and at times very emotional and is a nice corrective for those whose interpretation of Karajan as a hard, unfeeling conductor is based on performances of different music in very different performance environments.
Viewer Reviews
'Nuff said. Get Carlos Kleiber (either one) or, even better, the very recent Georges Pretre.
By comparison with either Kleiber or Pretre, Karajan's approach is rigid, power-thirsty, cold-blooded, altogether unsatisfactory.
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