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Herbert von Karajan – Beethoven: Symphonies No.3 “Eroica” & No.4 (1963/1988/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:20 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Austrian Herbert von Karajan (Salzbourg 1908 – Anif 1989) still embodies the musical conductor like no other. In charge of the Berlin Philharmonic for 35 years (1955-1989), Karajan helped to elevate the orchestra to a level of global prestige. Throughout his career, he methodically diversified his repertoire: from Beethoven, Brahms and Bruckner to Verdi, Wagner and Strauss…
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Herbert von Karajan – Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Pelléas und Mélisande (1974/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:25 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
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Arnold Schoenberg is best known as an atonal modernist, but before he made the 12-tone Faustian bargain, he was a Viennese late romantic. These two works are from his early romantic period, and they are wonderful. Both are programmatic works. Verklärte Nacht is based on a poem describing a woman’s late night confession to her lover that she bears a child from another man, and his acceptance and forgiveness. Pelleas und Melisande is based on a play describing an illicit love affair, somewhat similar to the story of Francesca da Rimini. But the stories don’t really matter because the music is so lovely. This style is firmly within von Karajan’s wheelhouse, and his performance doesn’t disappoint. If you love Mahler and Strauss and fin de siècle orchestral decadence, you will enjoy this.
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Haydn: Die Schöpfung (1969/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:48:54 minutes | 2,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Herbert von Karajan conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker on this classic 1966 release of Haydn’s oratorio Die Schöpfung (The Creation), considered by many to be the composer’s crowning achievement. The orchestra is joined by a superb cast of soloists, led by soprano Gundula Janowitz and tenor Fritz Wunderlich, who died in an accident while the album was still being recorded.
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Genre: Classical
Year of publication: 2013
Duration: 1:13:44
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Herbert von Karajan conducts the Berlin Philharmonic for this recording of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.
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Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Herbert von Karajan, Wiener Philharmoniker – Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1974/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:25:42 minutes | 2,50 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
A 1974 recording of Puccini’s classic opera Madama Butterfly, one of the most-performed operas in the world. Herbert von Karajan conducts The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with a compelling Mirella Freni in the title role, up-and-coming superstar Luciano Pavarotti as Pinkerton, Christa Ludwig as Suzuki and Robert Kerns as Sharpless.
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Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker – Puccini: La Boheme (1972/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:50:14 minutes | 2,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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The role of Rodolfo from Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème launched Luciano Pavarotti’s career in 1961 when he made his professional debut in a small regional production in Reggio Emilia, Italy. He would revisit the role several times over his career, including this 1972 album considered to be one of the finest versions of La Bohème ever recorded. Equally impressive here is Pavarotti’s childhood friend Mirella Freni as Mimi. Conductor Herbert von Karajan proves himself a masterful, sensitive interpreter of Puccini as he leads the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Dvořák: Symphony No. 9; Smetana: Die Moldau (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:10 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics International
The Karajan Official Remastered Edition comprises 13 box sets containing official remasterings of the finest recordings the Austrian conductor made for EMI between 1946 and 1984, and which are now a jewel of the Warner Classics catalogue.
For many, Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989) – hailed early in his career as ‘Das Wunder Karajan’ (The Karajan Miracle) and known in the early 1960s as ‘the music director of Europe’ – remains the ultimate embodiment of the maestro. The release of the Karajan Official Remastered Edition over the first half of 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the conductor’s death in July 1989 at the age of 81.
He was closely associated with EMI for the majority of his recording career (specifically from 1946 to 1960 and then again from 1969 to 1984). EMI’s legendary producer Walter Legge sought him out in Vienna just after World War II and the long relationship that ensued embraced recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Philharmonia (the orchestra founded by Legge), the Berlin Philharmonic (of which Karajan became ‘conductor for life’ in 1955), the forces of La Scala, Milan, and the Orchestre de Paris.
The Karajan Official Remastered Edition will feature primarily symphonic and choral music. The entire edition will comprise recordings remastered from the original sources in 24-bit/96kHz at Abbey Road Studios, the world’s most renowned recording studio.
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Mstislav Rostropovich, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 / Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 (1968/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:00:23 minutes | 2,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
„Mstislav Rostropovich is the world’s greatest cellist, and he has actually made at least five recordings of this greatest of all cello concertos. I have a certain preference for his later version, with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Erato. This version has long been a prime recommendation, and in this new remastering at mid-price, it’s an even better deal now. Herbert von Karajan accompanies with his usual expertise, and the Tchaikovsky performance is quite simply the finest around. This concerto is one of those pieces of which you’ll want to have five or six copies. Just make sure this is one of them.“ –David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday
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Dennis Brain, Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan – Mozart: Horn Concertos (1954/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:48 minutes | 555 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Erato/Warner Classics
Extraordinary horn player Dennis Brain is joined by Herbert von Karajan and the Philharmonia Orchestra as the ensemble renders riveting adaptations of Mozart’s four horn concertos. His unmistakable and immediately recognizable tone has made Brain an ideal Mozartian. Dubbed by Boyd Neel as one of the finest Mozart players of his generation, this collection exemplifies Brain’s unworldly virtuosity.
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Herbert von Karajan – Holst: The Planets, Op. 36 by Herbert von Karajan (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:46 minutes | 874 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Herbert von Karajan (German: [born Heribert Ritter[a] von Karajan; 5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, and during the Second World War he conducted at the Berlin State Opera. Generally regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, he was a controversial but dominant figure in European classical music from the mid-1950s until his death. Part of the reason for this was the large number of recordings he made and their prominence during his lifetime. By one estimate, he was the top-selling classical music recording artist of all time, having sold an estimated 200 million records.
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Leontyne Price, Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Puccini: Tosca (1963/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:52:58 minutes | 2,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
The dramas of Victorien Sardou, in the last decades of the nineteenth century, were as popular in Italy as they were in France. French companies, therefore, could tour the Italian theatres and attract large audiences willing to ignore any language barrier. Giacomo Puccini knew hardly any French when he went to see Sardou’s La Tosca in Milan in 1890, and yet he apparently enjoyed himself. Actually, he may have gone to the theatre — like a majority of the Milanese public — not so much to see the play as to admire its star, the forty-five-year-old Sarah Bernhardt, to whom La Tosca is dedicated and for whom it was written.
The divine Sarah was Sardou’s Tosca, the heroic cantatrice, the unashamed mistress of Mario Cavaradossi, and the unrepentant murderess of Scarpia. The rest of the play was hardly more than an elaborate, carefully constructed frame for her singular, spectacular talents. But Puccini must have seen past her dazzling interpretation, arriving at the heart of the drama itself. Anyway, he returned to see Sarah and La Tosca in Florence in 1895.
But by this time the composer had an even more impelling motive for revisiting the play: a libretto was in the process of being fashioned from it for him. The first talk of a Tosca libretto had begun some years earlier, in 1889, when Puccini had been at the very outset of his career. His first (and least successful) librettist, the journalist and playwright Ferdinando Fontana, had suggested the popular Sardou play to Puccini, who wrote to his publisher Giulio Ricordi about it. Then he turned to other subjects, writing Manon Lescaut and La Bohme in the years between 1889 and 1895. If the vain, successful and money-minded Sardou had been reluctant to grant operatic rights of his play to an unknown composer in the 1880s he was more than interested, a decade later, in having the internationally acclaimed Puccini make an opera from LaTosca.
There was an obstacle, however, which first had to be overcome. Sardou had already granted these same rights to Alberto Franchetti, a friend of Puccini’s, and the composer of two operas that enjoyed some popularity at that time, Asrael and Cristoforo Colombo. Ricordi, who was also Franchetti’s publisher, had commissioned the librettist Luigi Illica to prepare a Tosca text for him.
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Pierre Fournier, Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra – Richard Strauss Don Quixote (1965)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 44:06 minutes | 1,50 GB | Genre: Classical
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Fournier’s Don Quixote with Karajan and the BPO in top form has long held its rank as one of the finest interpretations of this Strauss masterwork. With excellent sound this is warmly recommended.
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Maria Callas, Orch del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan – Verdi: Il trovatore (1956/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:09:39 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Like Norma, the role of Leonora in Il trovatore demands both bel canto finesse and considerable vocal and dramatic weight, but Callas sang it only some 20 times. This recording – in which she, Fedora Barbieri, Giuseppe di Stefano and Roland Panerai constitute a suitably impressive quartet of principals – marked her farewell to the complete role and also her final collaboration with Herbert von Karajan.
“Callas and Karajan took the world by the ears in the 1950s with this Il trovatore. Leonora was one of Callas’s finest stage roles, and this recording is wonderfully intense, with a dark concentrated loveliness of sound in the principal arias that puts one in mind of Muzio or Ponselle at their best. Walter Legge always managed to team Callas with the right conductor for the work in question. Often it was Serafin, but Karajan in Il trovatore is utterly compelling.
This opera, like Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, is one of music’s great essays in sustained rhythmic intensity; dramatically it deals powerfully in human archetypes. All this is realised by the young Karajan with that almost insolent mastery of score and orchestra which made him such a phenomenon at this period of is career. There are some cuts, but, equally, some welcome inclusions (such as the second verse of ‘Di quella pira’, sung by di Stefano with his own unique kind of slancio). Although the EMI sound is very good, one or two climaxes suggest that in the heat of the moment, the engineer, Robert Beckett, let the needle run into the red and you might care to play the set in mono to restore that peculiar clarity and homogeneity of sound which are the mark of Legge’s finest productions of the mono era. But whatever you do don’t miss this set.” –Gramophone Classical Music Guide
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Bruckner: Symphony No.7 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:06 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Warner Classics
The Karajan Official Remastered Edition comprises 13 box sets containing official remasterings of the finest recordings the Austrian conductor made for EMI between 1946 and 1984, and which are now a jewel of the Warner Classics catalogue.
For many, Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989) – hailed early in his career as ‘Das Wunder Karajan’ (The Karajan Miracle) and known in the early 1960s as ‘the music director of Europe’ – remains the ultimate embodiment of the maestro. The release of the Karajan Official Remastered Edition over the first half of 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the conductor’s death in July 1989 at the age of 81.
He was closely associated with EMI for the majority of his recording career (specifically from 1946 to 1960 and then again from 1969 to 1984). EMI’s legendary producer Walter Legge sought him out in Vienna just after World War II and the long relationship that ensued embraced recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Philharmonia (the orchestra founded by Legge), the Berlin Philharmonic (of which Karajan became ‘conductor for life’ in 1955), the forces of La Scala, Milan, and the Orchestre de Paris.
The Karajan Official Remastered Edition will feature primarily symphonic and choral music. The entire edition will comprise recordings remastered from the original sources in 24-bit/96kHz at Abbey Road Studios, the world’s most renowned recording studio.
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Herbert Von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Christian Ferras – Sibelius: Violin Concerto; Finlandia; Tapiola (1965/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:02:58 minutes | 1,85 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Die Musik von Sibelius l”asst sich nicht vergleichen oder in eine Schublade stecken. Sie ist wie ein Meteorit, der vom Himmel fiel.” (Herbert von Karajan)
“Meine Musik hat nichts, absolut nichts von Zirkus; was ich zu bieten habe, ist klares, kaltes Wasser.” (Jean Sibelius)
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