Product DescriptionThe Karajan Official Remastered Edition comprises 13 box sets containing official remasterings of the finest recordings the Austrian conductor made for EMI between 1946 and 1984, which are now a jewel of the Warner Classics catalog. In this 12-CD box Karajan conducts the Philharmonia and the Berliner Philharmoniker in Austro-German repertoire symphonies, symphonic poems, operatic music and other orchestral works, from the epic to the light-hearted. Among them are rarely-released stereo versions of symphonies by Brahms and Schubert.
For many, Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989) hailed early in his career as Das Wunder Karajan (The Karajan Miracle) and known in the early 1960s as the music director of Europe remains the ultimate embodiment of the maestro. The release of the Karajan Official Remastered Edition over the first half of 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the conductors death in July 1989 at the age of 81.
He was closely associated with EMI for the majority of his recording career (specifically from 1946 to 1960 and then again from 1969 to 1984). EMIs legendary producer Walter Legge sought him out in Vienna just after World War II and the long relationship that ensued embraced recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Philharmonia (the orchestra founded by Legge), the Berlin Philharmonic (of which Karajan became conductor for life in 1955), La Scala, Milan, and the Orchestre de Paris.
CD Listing:
CD1: Mozart Symphonies 35 Haffner & 39, Divertimento No. 15 K287
CD 2: Richard Strauss Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel, Tod und Verklärung; Wagner Tannhäuser Venusberg Music
CD 3: Brahms Symphony No.1, Variations on a Theme by Haydn; Schmidt Notre Dame - Intermezzo
CD 4: Brahms Symphony No. 2; Schubert Symphony No. 8 Unfinished
CD 5: Mozart Symphony No. 38 Prague; Brahms Symphony No. 4; Wagner Tannhäuser - Venusberg Music
CD 6: Weber Invitation to the Dance; Strauss Family Waltzes and Polkas; Suppé Leichte Kavalliere - Overture
CD 7: Leopold Mozart Toy Symphony; Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Strauss Family Waltzes and Polkas
CD 8: Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Schubert Symphony No. 5; Schumann Symphony No. 4
CD 9: Mendelssohn, Nicolai Overtures; Hindemith Symphony Mathis der Maler; Bruckner Symphony No. 8 - I-II
CD 10: Bruckner Symphony No. 8 III-IV; Mozart Symphony No. 29
CD 11: Wagner, Weber Preludes & Overtures