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Herbert von Karajan, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Singverein - Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9; Te Deum (2008/1978)

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Herbert von Karajan, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Singverein - Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9; Te Deum (2008/1978)

Herbert von Karajan, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Singverein - Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9; Te Deum (2008/1978)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Latin (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.15 Gb+6.07 Gb (2xDVD9) | 172 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Latin, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

In these priceless documents from the late 1970s, filmed in the Bruckner shrines of Vienna and St Florian, Herbert von Karajan conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Bruckner's Eighth - the symphony he revered above all others - and Ninth, as well as the towering Te Deum. "Massive, glowing, and infused with cosmic power" (conductor/scholar Denis Stevens on Karajan's Bruckner Eighth filmed with the Vienna Philharmonic).

Antonio Pappano, Orchestre de Paris - Verdi: Don Carlos (1996)

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Antonio Pappano, Orchestre de Paris - Verdi: Don Carlos (1996)

Antonio Pappano, Orchestre de Paris, Roberto Alagna, Karita Mattila, Thomas Hampson - Verdi: Don Carlos (1996)
PAL 4:3 (720x576) | Français (Dolby AC3, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 5 ch) | 7,57 Gb (DVD9) | 211 min
Classical | NVC Arts | Sub: English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol, Italiano

This is a 1996 all-star-cast version from Paris of the original French version of Verdi's epic five-act opera, Don Carlos. First produced in 1867, only Wagner would write musical drama on a grander scale, and due to the three-and-a-half-hour running time most subsequent productions have made substantial cuts. This is therefore a rare opportunity to witness Verdi's tragedy in its entirety.

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 [Fumonkan live 1979] (2003)

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Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 [Fumonkan live 1979] (2003)

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 [Fumonkan live 1979] (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 314 Mb | Total time: 68:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # UCCG-9396 | Recorded: 1979

The performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony by "Emperor" Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker on October 21, 1979 was broadcast live nationwide from the venue on NHK. was broadcast on FM. This recording is the first digital recording of NHK, a historic one, and was handed down as a masterpiece of the peak of both Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic. The tremendous concentration invites listeners into an overwhelming impression. This time, the world's first CD release of this famous performance has been realized! At the time of its release, the latest remastering technology that Deutsche Grammophon boasts has been used to improve the sound quality astonishingly, and it has been revived.

Herbert von Karajan, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Verdi: Il Trovatore (2010/1978)

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Herbert von Karajan, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Verdi: Il Trovatore (2010/1978)

Herbert von Karajan, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Verdi: Il Trovatore (2010/1978)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | 7.53 Gb (DVD9) | 151 min
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano, Chinese

Il Trovatore was always one of Herbert von Karajan‘s favourite operas. He conducted it at the very beginning of his career and his first studio recording in 1956 was made in Milan with Maria Callas and Giuseppe di Stefano, but „his“ Trovatore really made its mark in the legendary performances given at the Salzburg Festival in 1962, which formed the basis for this successful revival in Vienna. He once declared in an interview that what he loved about this opera was its archetypal human passions, its compression of highly dramatic situations into the smallest conceivable space and Verdi‘s genius for translating such situations into music.

Michel Plasson, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Natalie Dessay - Léo Delibes: Lakmé (2022)

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Michel Plasson, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Natalie Dessay - Léo Delibes: Lakmé (2022)

Michel Plasson, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Natalie Dessay - Léo Delibes: Lakmé (2022)
WEB FLAC | Tracks ~ 542 Mb | Total time: 2 h 22 min | Cover
Classical | Label: Erato | # 9029627909 | Recorded: 1997

For all its exotically tinged, trademark Orientalism, so fashionable in late-19th-century France, Delibe's opera Lakmé is at heart a simple story of tragically misplaced love. This marvelous and sensitively wrought interpretation renders the intensity of that love story with a surprising emotional credibility. Conductor Michel Plasson allows the music's arching melodies to breathe and unfold leisurely, like a lovingly cultivated floral display; he even discovers hidden nuances within the formulaic fluff that pads Delibe's score. And his vision is shared by the outstanding principals here. As the titular Hindu princess, Natalie Dessay gives a jewel-like performance, full of stunningly shaped phrases and tapered notes that sound like spun silk (and one that can favorably compare with Joan Sutherland's account on London).

Pierre-Michel LeConte, Orchestre Lyrique et Chœur l’ORTF - Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (2006)

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Pierre-Michel LeConte, Orchestre Lyrique et Chœur l’ORTF - Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (2006)

Pierre-Michel LeConte, Orchestre Lyrique et Chœur l’ORTF, Vasso Papantoniou, José Carreras - Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 723 Mb | Total time: 68:38+48:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gala | # GL 100.763 | Recorded: 1972

This live recording from Paris in 1972 has two main attraction: the chance to hear a very young - 25 years old, in fact - José Carreras at the outset of his career and, more importantly, I think, the opportunity to hear Vasso Papantoniou, an excellent soprano largely unknown outside her native Greece where she has made her career and who at times sounds uncannily like her compatriot, Maria Callas, especially in the middle of her voice and in her deployment of highly expressive downward portamenti. Her vibrato is faster and, like Callas, top notes can be shrill, be she is a complete artist who obviously impressed the Parisian audience. To hear her at her best either her opening or closing aria will do; listen to her from "M'odi, ah! mo'di" to the end of the opera, where she opts to use the virtuoso aria Donizetti wrote especially for diva Henriette Méric-Lelande and very good she is too.

Michel Corboz conducts Bach - Excerpts: Weihnachtsoratorium, Magnificat, Matthäus-Passion, Johannes-Passion, Mass (2022)

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Michel Corboz conducts Bach - Excerpts: Weihnachtsoratorium, Magnificat, Matthäus-Passion, Johannes-Passion, Mass (2022)

Michel Corboz conducts Bach - Excerpts: Weihnachtsoratorium, Magnificat, Matthäus-Passion, Johannes-Passion, Mass in B Minor; Concertos BWV 1052, 1055 & 1056 (2022)
WEB FLAC | Tracks ~ 1.05 Gb | Total time: 4 h 5 min | Cover included
Classical | Label: Erato

Nurtured by Sunday radio broadcasts of cantatas in his youth, Michel Corboz very soon developed a deep admiration for Bach, whose music was the guiding thread of his career. He approached every major sacred work, some more than once, always questioning the score and exploring new interpretive options. This album is a selection of the best moments from the passions, masses and oratorios, featuring beautiful vocal soloists such as José van Dam, Sandrine Piau and more. It also includes some instrumental tracks with keyboard concertos by Maria João Pires.

Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (2006/1989)

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Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (2006/1989)

Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (2006/1989)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Français | LinearPCM, 2 ch | 7.19 Gb (DVD9) | 134 min
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub.: Deutsch, English, Español, Francais

This live recording was made at the Royal Albert Hall during one of London’s famous Promenade Concert seasons. Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a magnifi cent performance of Berlioz’s concert cantata La Damnation de Faust. This feast of Berlioz launched Solti’s farewell tour with the orchestra he had directed for twenty years and was described by The Times as “the unsurpassable culmination of two decades of music-making…one that summarised all that has been most admirable about Solti’s long reign in Chicago.”

Riccardo Muti, Wiener Philharmoniker - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Da Ponte Operas: Così fan tutte (2002)

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Riccardo Muti, Wiener Philharmoniker - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Da Ponte Operas: Così fan tutte (2002)

Riccardo Muti, Wiener Philharmoniker - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Da Ponte Operas: Così fan tutte (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 781 Mb | Total time: 72:10+66:45+41:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 5 75535 2 | Recorded: 1982

Riccardo Muti had made a sensational Salzburg debut in 1971, and this Cosi fan tutte was his first Mozart opera at the festival. It was acclaimed by both the general public and international critics, who were virtually unanimous in their praise of the aesthetic quality of the production. Muti was praised for his authoritative approach to Mozart's music, while the remarkably homogeneous team of international soloists was equally applauded. The singers form an admirably cohesive ensemble and all of them are outstanding Mozart singers.

50 Years Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg [25CDs] - Mozart, Schubert, R. Strauss, Mahler (2010)

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50 Years Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg [25CDs] -  Mozart, Schubert, R. Strauss, Mahler (2010)

50 Years Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg [25CDs] - Mozart, Schubert, R. Strauss, Mahler (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 684 Gb | Total time: 03:24:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 477 9111 | Recorded: 1960-2009

The Grosses Festpielhaus in Salzburg has been the scene of countless memorable musical events - operas, concerts and recitals - for 50 years. Here is a unique chance to celebrate the glories of this distinguished era. In an exceptional collaboration with the Salzburg Festival, we have prepared a 25-CD box set - 5 complete operas, 10 concerts and 2 recitals - featuring many of the world's greatest artists, in recordings with classical status and others that are appearing on CD for the first time. Concerts (five out of ten are first-time releases): with Abbado, Bernstein, B hm, Boulez, Karajan, Levine, Mehta, Muti, Solti.

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral" (1986)

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Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral" (1986)

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral" (1986)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 294 Mb | Total time: 66:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 415 832-2 | Recorded: 1977

This is the second of Herbert von Karajan's three versions of this symphony for Deutsche Grammophon, and it's a very nice one. Karajan always did well by the orchestral portions of this symphony, playing them sort of like proto-Bruckner. In the finale, as in his 1963 recording, he seems to prefer a very light, backward-balanced choral sound that will not appeal to those who believe that Beethoven meant the words to be heard. That reservation aside, this performance can be recommended as typical of Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in top form.

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (2008/1978)

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Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (2008/1978)

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (2008/1978)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.12 Gb (DVD9) | 79 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

Herbert von Karajan conducted Brahms's choral masterpiece frequently throughout his long career, but only once on film and with both of these outstanding soloists. This unique document from the 1978 Salzburg Easter Festival was acclaimed by Diapason as "a magical interpretation, prodigiously realized … with a sublime fusion of timbres, a cohesion and, ultimately, a simplicity that are truly unequalled."

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Singverein - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (2008/1979)

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Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Singverein - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (2008/1979)

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Singverein - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (2008/1979)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR | Latin (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.11 Gb (DVD9) | 83 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Latin, Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

Karajan surmounted this pinnacle of the choral-symphonic repertoire - which Beethoven himself called "the greatest work I have composed" - no fewer than four times in the recording studio, but only once live and on film: in this unique document from the 1979 Salzburg Easter Festival. The atmosphere of Salzburg's Festspielhaus and festival audience adds a special frisson to this conductor's classic interpretation of the Missa solemnis.

Lorin Maazel, Orchestre et Chœur du Théâtre National de l’Opéra de Paris - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2009)

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Lorin Maazel, Orchestre et Chœur du Théâtre National de l’Opéra de Paris - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2009)

Lorin Maazel, Orchestre et Chœur du Théâtre National de l’Opéra de Paris - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 772 Mb | Total time: 167:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony | # 88697527262 | Recorded: 1978

Raimondi has advantages: the dark coloring of his voice, the vocal menace, the power of his bass." The three ladies - especially the Te Kanawa has become livelier, more insistent - Maazel has the singers and Mozart firmly in hand.
– Hermes Lexikon

Herbert von Karajan, James Levine, Rafael Kubelik - Mozart: Requiem, Great Mass in C minor, Missa brevis in C major (1998)

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Herbert von Karajan, James Levine, Rafael Kubelik - Mozart: Requiem, Great Mass in C minor, Missa brevis in C major (1998)

Herbert von Karajan, James Levine, Rafael Kubelik - Mozart: Requiem, Great Mass in C minor, Missa brevis in C major (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 571 Mb | Total time: 53:02+74:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 459 409-2 | Recorded: 1973, 1975, 1987

Two great recordings of two of the greatest choral works. Karajan and Levin swoops the standards of tempi, phrasing and intens music making. Karajan's finest recording of the Requiem. Levin sets the bar a milestone higher. Remastering of the Requiem is confidentional good. Sound quality of K427 is superb.