#NowSpinning Karajan’s Bruckner Symphony No.1. I have previously expressed my reservations about Karajan’s early Bruckner, but I can keep an open mind on this one. I have only heard this recording once and that was at least a decade ago. Will he allow the work to be ‘das kecke Beserl’?
#NowSpinning Bach, Handel and Corelli with Eugene Ormandy in Philadelphia. The C Minor Bach Passacaglia and Fugue starts with a dark and glowering outlook. I wonder what Bach might have made of this?
#NowSpinning Karajan’s Berlin Holst Planets. Another Karajan recording I have not heard since the early 2000s. My immediate observation is that Mars has an impressive power, but we have to try to ignore the dreadful, mangled sound that should have been much better.
This is definitely not that mastering!
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I don’t know which mastering they have used for the big box. But it’s very congested at climaxes. Gorgeous in the quiet music, though.
Certainly a unique take!
Thank you for this insight. I’ll listen with interest.
This is a mastering issue I think. The one they used in the complete box is not great.
Yes wonderful Saturn. Such an implacable tread. I also loved Mars and Neptune.
It’s the one in the big box. To be honest, I got over the sound and enjoyed much of the performance anyway. But not all of it. Mercury isn’t mercurial and Jupiter struck me as dogged rather than joyful. But loads to love in the rest.
