You could say Karajan's Mozart and Haydn were too much like his Beethoven and that his Beethoven was too much like his Wagner. You could say Karajan's Bruckner was too much like his Wagner and his Wagner was too much like his Strauss. But no matter what, you had to say that his Strauss was like nothing else but Strauss. What was Karajan's Strauss like? Check out these recordings with the Berlin Philharmonic and find out. His 1973 Don Juan is vigorous and decadently voluptuous. His 1973 Till Eulenspiegels is witty and ...
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You could say Karajan's Mozart and Haydn were too much like his Beethoven and that his Beethoven was too much like his Wagner. You could say Karajan's Bruckner was too much like his Wagner and his Wagner was too much like his Strauss. But no matter what, you had to say that his Strauss was like nothing else but Strauss. What was Karajan's Strauss like? Check out these recordings with the Berlin Philharmonic and find out. His 1973 Don Juan is vigorous and decadently voluptuous. His 1973 Till Eulenspiegels is witty and incredibly weighty. His 1974 Also sprach Zarathustra is lovely and enormously loud. His 1973 Dance of the Seven Veils is sensually and monstrously sexual. His 1981 Eine Alpensinfonie is so gargantuan that it sounds as if the whole mountain range was recorded live on location. His 1986 Vier letzte Lieder with Anna Tomowa-Sintow is not so much a farewell to life as it is the ecstatic embrace of death. The Berlin Philharmonic plays like the world's greatest Strauss orchestra. The remastered...
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