Herbert von Karajan – Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies by Herbert von Karajan (2024 Remastered, Berlin 1962) (1962/2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Herbert von Karajan – Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies by Herbert von Karajan (2024 Remastered, Berlin 1962) (1962/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 05:31:40 minutes | 6,43 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording

Herbert von Karajan was the most renowned conductor to emerge from Europe in the post-World War II era – and through fortuitous timing throughout his career, and in spite of controversy that dogged his early years, he was the most recorded conductor of the 20th century, and is likely to remain one of the most visible (and biggest-selling) conductors well into the 21st century. Born in Salzburg and descended from a family of Greek origin with deep roots in Austria – including scholars and physicians in Vienna and Salzburg – he was a music prodigy, playing the piano at three and playing his first recital a year later.

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Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Mahler : Symphony No.5 (1996/2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Mahler : Symphony No.5 (1996/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:37 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

GBAs time has gone by in my collecting of Mahler on cd I have often been guided by the well known music critic ‘TD’. Most of the time TD proves invaluable in pointing the Mahler listener in the right direction but, on occasion, I have found myself disagreeing with him – and this is now the third time in which I must disagree. Anyone who has bothered to read through TD’s guide to Mahler recordings will already be aware just how dismissive he is regarding this recording by the BPO under Karajan’s baton, and it was that dismissiveness which led me to seek out other recordings first, in preference to this one. But, now that I have finally gotten around to purchasing this disc I feel compelled to review it, give it the five stars which it deserves, and say that I think TD was utterly wrong in being so dismissive of this recording. It may well be true that it is not ‘the greatest’ Fifth ever to be commited to disc but this is, nevertheless, a very fine reading indeed and sumptuously recorded / remastered by the sound engineers. It deserves to be amongst the other Fifth’s which you own and I, for one, look forward to giving it repeated listens.

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Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan – J.S.Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (1980/2021) SACD ISO

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan – J.S.Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (1980/2021)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:46:22 minutes | 4.27 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon / Universal Japan SHM SACD UCGG-9200-01

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Herbert von Karajan – Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem by Herbert von Karajan (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Herbert von Karajan – Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem by Herbert von Karajan (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:18 minutes | 995 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording

Herbert 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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Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op.36 (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op.36 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:02 minutes | 872 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | 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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The Philharmonia, Herbert von Karajan – Jean Sibelius: Symphonies No. 2 & No. 4 (Remastered) (2016/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The Philharmonia, Herbert von Karajan – Jean Sibelius: Symphonies No. 2 & No. 4 (Remastered) (2016/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:55 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Praga Digitals

Two classic recordings by Karajan while he was in London as the imposed guest of Walter Legge, director of the Philharmonia Orchestra. The two symphonies form a lavish but unusual combination – Symphony no.2, the most popular of the seven created the composer of Valse Triste, and his curious Symphony no.4, a violent, arid, anti- Malherian dissertation infused with doubt and melancholy due to its baleful (augmented fourth) tritone interval, the hitherto spurned diabolus in musica. Two paradoxal masterworks.
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Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan – Stravinsky: Jeu de Cartes / Roussel: Symphony No. 4 (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan – Stravinsky: Jeu de Cartes / Roussel: Symphony No. 4 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:33 minutes | 403 MB | 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.

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Gundula Janowitz, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Strauss, R.: Four Last Songs; Orchestral Works (1995) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Gundula Janowitz, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Strauss, R.: Four Last Songs; Orchestral Works (1995)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:09 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Recorded between 1969 and 1972, this celebrated Strauss album from Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker includes what is still widely considered the benchmark version of the Four Last Songs, sung by Austrian soprano Gundula Janowitz. The centrepiece of the programme is coupled with Karajan’s glowing account of Strauss’s tone poem Tod und Verklärung and the late Metamorphosen. Janowitz’s ethereal performances of these most famous of orchestral songs written for soprano have challenged all comers for decades.

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Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Strauss, R.: Also sprach Zarathustra; Till Eulenspiegel; Don Juan; Salome’s Dance Of The Seven Veils (1995) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Strauss, R.: Also sprach Zarathustra; Till Eulenspiegel; Don Juan; Salome’s Dance Of The Seven Veils (1995)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:11 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Herbert von Karajan’s 1973 recording with the Berlin Philharmonic is so immovably etched upon the collective consciousness that this comparative essay feels almost redundant – why would you not want a part of this slice of history? When Karajan went for a remake in 1983, again with the BPO, the fire had snuffed itself out: textures and dynamics are homogenised and inertia hangs heavy. Karajan’s 1959 dummy run with the Vienna Philharmonic (the recording Kubrick plundered) is very much work-in-progress. With more patches than the cloakroom of a Mayfair gentlemen’s club – and with the organ part inelegantly dropped on later – this grimly determined reading is heavy going.

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Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Strauss, R.: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40, TrV 190 / Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll, WWV 103 (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Strauss, R.: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40, TrV 190 / Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll, WWV 103 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:27 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

This reissue combines a pair of classic performances from Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker spanning almost two decades. The tone poem Ein Heldenleben by Richard Strauss is a 1959 recording while Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll dates back to 1977.

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Robert Casadesus, Géza Anda, Clara Haskil, Nathan Milstein, Herbert von Karajan, Schweizerisches Festspielorchester & Philharmonia Orchestra – Herbert von Karajan – The Early Lucerne Years (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Robert Casadesus, Géza Anda, Clara Haskil, Nathan Milstein, Herbert von Karajan, Schweizerisches Festspielorchester & Philharmonia Orchestra – Herbert von Karajan – The Early Lucerne Years (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:44:53 minutes | 1,87 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © audite Musikproduktion

For the first time, this edition makes available Herbert von Karajan’s previously unreleased early live recordings from the Lucerne Festival, made in a decade during which Karajan was rebuilding his career. Included are legendary soloists such as Clara Haskil and Géza Anda, Robert Casadesus and Nathan Milstein.

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Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan – Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan – Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:47 minutes | 912 MB | 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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Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan – Sibelius: Symphony No.5; Finlandia, Op. 26 (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan – Sibelius: Symphony No.5; Finlandia, Op. 26 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:48 minutes | 789 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | 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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Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien; 1812 Overture (1967) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien; 1812 Overture (1967)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:59 minutes | 1,56 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Legendary conductor Herbert von Karajan leads the Berliner Philharmoniker on historic performances recorded in 1966 and 1967. The all-Russian repertoire contains some of the most famous and popular works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky, including the latter’s 1812 Overture. Violinist Michel Schwalbé is the featured soloist on Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade.

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Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan – Karajan conducts Respighi, Berlioz & Liszt (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan – Karajan conducts Respighi, Berlioz & Liszt (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:28 minutes | 972 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | 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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