Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: Franz Joseph Haydn, Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Title: Haydn: 6 "Paris" Symphonies Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Deutsche Grammophon Release Date: 7/18/1995 Genre: Classical Styles: Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Symphonies Number of Discs: 2 SwapaCD Credits: 2 UPC: 028944553222 |
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Late in his career, Herbert von Karajan developed an interest in Haydn, a composer whose music he had virtually ignored. Actually, Karajan wasn't much of a Mozart conductor either; his interests began with Beethoven. And... more » |
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Amazon.com Late in his career, Herbert von Karajan developed an interest in Haydn, a composer whose music he had virtually ignored. Actually, Karajan wasn't much of a Mozart conductor either; his interests began with Beethoven. And so when he conducted Haydn, he emphasized the connection with Beethoven, and it works very well. Beethoven owed a lot to his former teacher--more than he was willing to admit--and Karajan's interpretations are full of symphonic grandeur and performed with great enthusiasm. The music itself is glorious. Just listen to the trumpets and horns blaze out in the finale of Symphony No. 82, The Bear, and you'll be hooked. Promise. --David Hurwitz Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsA full-tilt, 110% artistic disaster anonymous | Los Angeles | 07/06/2009 (1 out of 5 stars) "About the only thing this set of performances is good for is for a laugh. And I regard Karajan as one of the greatest conductors who has ever lived. But listening to this set of recordings it is truly baffling to try to figure out what he was thinking, or hearing, when he committed this stuff to tape.
It's so bad, in so many ways, it enters the realm of parody: these performances are a parody of a certain kind of old-fashioned, big orchestra Haydn, made especially piquant by Karajan's penchant for a driving, humorless sound in the tuttis, and glacially slow minuets that together is so ridiculous in this music one hardly knows what to think or say about it. Not to mention the homogenized sheen of the orchestra and the constant, often inappropriate legato phrasing that is completely antithetical to Haydn's distinctly rhetorical style. All the lovely details of Haydn's orchestrations are completely buried in Karajan's famously mannered orchestral sound. Karajan made a similar disasterously mis-calculated set of recordings of Verdi Overtures at about the same time, with most of the same problems. The late 70s were not a good time for the Maestro, it seems. Karajan's Haydn is far more stylish, and more convincing, in recordings he made earlier in his career. If you must have Karajan in this repertoire, try some of those. Seems to me he's not really the guy for Haydn, though. Harnoncourt's Paris symphonies are very fine, if idiosyncratic in ways that might not bear repeated hearings--although I've had no problem there so far. The ASMF outings are serviceable and even enjoyable, if rather on the conventional side. Kuijken's Haydn is extremely good, but I agree with a poster elsewhere who pointed out that too many period bands make Haydn sound like Baroque music. It's a valid criticism. I still like the Kuijken though, if not as much as Harnoncourt. If you like big-orchestra Haydn Bernstein is an interesting choice, but I find most big orchestra Haydn, including Bernstein, nearly unlistenable now. It's very far from Haydn had in mind." |
