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Very good sound for the late 1930s

Alan Majeska | Bad Axe, MI, USA | 04/19/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Karl Bohm (1894-1981) conducted and recorded with the Dresden State Orchestra from 1934-1943. It was his last job as music director of an orchestra before his international career after World War II and many recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic in the 1960s and 70s made him the justly famous conductor he became and still is today (April, 2007), 26 years after his death.



Recorded sound is clear and balanced, and better than most Furtwangler recordings of the 1930s and 40s.



Bohm recorded Brahms 4 with the Vienna Philharmonic for DG in 1975, and the Reger Mozart Variations with the Berlin Philharmonic for DG in the early 1950s (also mono). Bohm's later Brahms 4 can be had in a DG budget box of all 4 Brahms Symphonies, and Reger Mozart Variations is discmate to a DG single of Brahms 2 in the "Musik an die Welt" series. Both are highly recommended.



Don't be afraid to pick up this disc unless you MUST have more recent sound."