Track Listings (7) - Disc #1| All Artists: Strauss, Wagner, Karajan, Berlin Phil Orch Title: Karajan Conducts Strauss & Wagner Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: EMI Classics Imports Original Release Date: 1/1/1973 Re-Release Date: 10/17/2000 Genre: Classical Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Symphonies Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 724356610729 |
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CD ReviewsLovely piece of work&state of the art performance yasser sharaf | Egypt | 12/30/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "One of Strauss' most grand &controversial works.You may question his family values after listening to it.The orchestration is ornamental as usual&the themes are hair raising.Karajan,the greatest strauss conductor of our day,sets the standards,as usual for a brand opulant performance&the berliners set the adrenaline running as always.his stting of strauss' architecture & blend of the phrases with his care for details &sense of line is simply incomparable.The recording is not ideal,anyhow,&congested in the climaxes at times,but is one of EMI's best especially after the 1 bit transfere.a highly recomended recording." Karajan surpasses even his own great Strauss performances Santa Fe Listener | Santa Fe, NM USA | 09/11/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "The Sinfonia domestica stands as the embarrassing stepchild of Strauss's tone poems, and even though other former outcasts like the Alpine Symphony have moved into the standard repertory with a new affection, orchestras avoid this piece because of its rambling structure, lack of narrative design, and the inherited sense that Strauss shouldn't have employed a huge orchestra to glorify his petty family imbroglios. Karajan sweeps all those objections away, in one of his most amazing exhibitions of virtuoso conducting. The affection and detil of the phrasing, the stupendous playng of hte BPO, and the gorgeous recording--rare from EMI in the 70s where Karajan was concerned--bombine to make this the one and onnly recording of Sinfonia domestica to own--a total triumph. P.S. - Sept. 2009: Despite my unstinting praise, I must add that Kempe's equally classic account of Sinfonia domestica from Dresden (EMI) is more touchingly tender and less rhetorical than Karajan's. It's now my favorite." 'Big Music' sampler B. Marold | Bethlehem, PA United States | 04/17/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, and Herbert von Karajan oh my! This is 'big music' at its grandest, easily comparable to recently seeing George Lucas, Stephen Spielberg, and Martin Scorcese together on the recent Academy Awards stage. Oddly, it's the kind of album I tend to avoid, as it has bits and pieces of works from these giants' output. Why not rather simply have copies of 'Tristan und Isolde' and 'Lohengrin' on hand. But then, there is the lesser work from Strauss, the 'Sinfonia Domestica', which he wrote after the great 'Ein Heldenleben' tone poem, and which is not as often recorded. So, here we have this lesser work conducted by the great Karajan, a Strauss specialist, plus other goodies. Images of a candy store come to mind. So, if you can get this at a good price, and you don't have the Strauss piece on another recording, this one is a keeper!"
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