Karajan - Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1 & 8 - DVD 1/24 - His Legacy For Home Video
Karajan - Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1 & 8 - DVD 1/24 - His Legacy for Home Video
Classical | DVD | with scans | 3,6Gb (DVD5) | DVD´s FULL No compression
All Videos of this collection (except one) are DVD5, yet complete, without taking anything from the original.
Release: April 2000 | Publisher: Sony Classical
At this point, Sony has released all of its von Karajan performances of the Beethoven symphonies on five DVDs. They are all very good performances, created for film (rather than concert performance) in the early 80s. Von Karajan conducts the Berlin Philharmonic, his personal orchestra, and the performance is as much von Karajan as Beethoven. Musically, these are very fine performances, with von Karajan in absolute control of the orchestra which plays very precisely. These are the performance as he wanted to present them – smooth, well thought-out, and note-perfect. This particular disk gives a chance to compare early symphony to a much later one and see how much the composer expanded the form.This is the first video consists of 24 DVD's from a collection of Sony Classical, dedicated to Herbert von Karajan called His Legacy for Home Video. The quality of both video and audio is very high even for being just 4 Gb videos available in PCM Audio and Dolby Digital 5.1 Stereo. Soon the rest of videos from the collection
There is probably no right way to put symphonic music onto film – these productions (made by conductor's own film company) spend most of their time focused on the conductor with cut-away shots to both individual and groups of instrumentalists (also singers in the 9th), usually focusing on the instruments themselves rather than the players.
It is fascinating to watch von Karajan – his authority in the music and with this orchestra are clear thoughout each performance. He conducts without a baton and uses his whole body to conduct, though not in a distracting way (I am thinking of Leonard Bernstein here).
The sound and picture on these DVDs are excellent; the sound is truly comparable to a well-recorded CD. The soundtrack is available both in stereo and also an excellent 5.1 Dolby mix. The disks have a set of program notes and a biography of von Karajan.
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