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Herbert von Karajan: The First Recordings
Search: Overture
from: Deutsche Grammophon
Release Date August 08, 2006
This 6-CD box set, a bargain reissue of a full-priced Kokumente series that DG released in 1988, will make some people angry. There is no getting around the fact that recordings made between 1938 and 1943 are Nazi-era products made while the conductor was a party member. For anyone who cannot stomach that fact, there's no great musical legacy that would be lost by skipping the whole batch. Various labels have put out each of these performances form the 78 era over and over, usually in awful sound. Here we get them in amazingly good sound, free of all surface noise, warm and full in range, and with rock-solid pitch.
So there are no revelations, simply a good deal of pleasure if you are an admirer of a great musician despite his flaws. ... Read More:
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